bobbio, I don’t care what you say, that’d scare the bejebus outta me.
gt, I’m jealous you got to go to the flower show.
swampy, so near and yet so far.
Mr. Anachi sent away for a shade garden-inna-box. He set it up in a corner of the back yard that’s, well, shady. I’m not so sure about the plants and our Flawduh environment. They look a little puny and like our local bug-thugs will take em out in a heartbeat. We’ll see. (P.S., I think he got took for what he paid for this thing.)
I may go have a dip in the pool when I get home today. Water temp should be mid 70’s what with all the humidity and the high 80’s temp today. Just thought I’d mention that.
It’s hard to believe it’s only Tuesday morning. Yesterday it felt like three days worth of stuff happened, so I keep expecting today to be Thursday or Friday or something. I’ve officially entered Crunch Week, by the way. By 5 pm next Wednesday, I will be done with classes as an undergraduate. I will have handed in 4 homework assignment and 2 projects and taken 2 tests, finished my undergraduate thesis, and started work on another project. I can manage this somehow.
This morning I have to return my old laptop. I shut it down for good last night. It seemed very final. I’ve lived by that laptop for three years, through every single up and down of my time here at RPI, and just like that, off, gone. Now, don’t get me wrong - I’m very glad to have the new laptop, it’s better in many respects. I just can’t help seeing the change in laptops as very symbolic of the much bigger change that I’m about to make. In 24 days I’m going to pile all my stuff into my parents’ van, and just be gone. Just like that. I guess I didn’t realize how much I had grown accustomed to RPI.
I think after I return my old laptop I’ll celebrate with a free cone from Ben & Jerry’s.
Yeah, but what’s with the sign Nazis? Jesus-it’s a sign supporting her husband in Iraq! And what is with no trees? I thought that bit was hysterical.
(just so’s you know, I grew up in a community that doesn’t allow pick-up trucks to be visible from the street…)
At least TDS doesn’t pretend to be “fair and balanced”.
It’s cold here today, and that’s ok, I suppose. I wasted a perfectly lovely day yesterday on errands, doctor appt and housework, so here I am with crap weather and outside work that needs doing. It’s raining here, so no go there.
I have to tell you all about my horrible, horrible experiences the last two days. Please, remember that I came through it all okay, and despite the horrors you are about to read, I’m fine.
Yesterday, around 11:30 a.m., the internet crashed in my office. No surfing. No e-mail. No work. I was reduced to drawing pretty pictures on my notepad and then coloring them in. Only I just had a pencil, so I was really only shading, not coloring.
Then this morning … still no net. It just came up a few minutes ago, and it’s like Heaven itself showered us with gifts. Of course, our website was also down externally, so I don’t even have any new orders to process, and my day will be spent catching up on 24 hours’ worth of surfing.
In other news, last night my mother offered me the opportunity to quit working and go back to school, which I feel would be mooching, even though she pointed out that she offered it and I did not ask. I have declined, mostly because I’m not a fan of school in any form. My parents seem to be distraught over the fact that I’m thirty years old and still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. I spent the evening all depressed and thinking about it (thanks, Mom), and after a brief romance with the idea of becoming a pastry chef, I decided I’m already fat enough, and maybe I should just go see a career counselor. So now I need to find one of those. It’s mildly disturbing to me that my parents are so damn concerned about what I do for a living, but I know that deep down, they just want me to be happy. And I should stop complaining, because they just offered to support me while I went back to school to do whatever (Mom is seriously hoping I’ll decide to be a private investigator, just so she can come work for me), but that makes me feel like what I am now isn’t good enough for them. Hell, it’s not good enough for me, but they don’t have to point it out every time they talk to me.
Hm. Didn’t mean to bring the place down. sigh I know. Everyone should have my problems.
From the weekend’s MMP - 'cause I pretty much stop reading it after 5 pm on Friday, and have just now realized that there are some happening things to discuss.
Bumba how are you feeling after almost a week with the new med line-up?
VBob there area few more houses in my neighborhood up for sale. Just sayin’. And the first house I owned was a HUD home. Talking to the neighbors after we moved in, it seemed that the house was used for years as a Witness Protection place. A lot of official looking folks coming and going, and the families that lived there rarely came outside, and never spoke with any of the neighbors.
Dolores my GF has this idea that if one doesn’t get their tax return into the mail for whatever reason by midnight of the deadline date, then at 6 a.m. the next morning US Treasury agents are at the front door. I hope it didn’t happen to you.
Taters Yes, it would be nice to head up to DC that week, for at least a day or two. And I’d like to met you too. But I don’t have a lot of opportunities to get away from the office during the week. And it’s about 3-4 hours to get up that way.
Dorothy when I was younger than you, my best friend had a dalmation. But then it went crazy one Fourth of July, and it ripped my cheek out (I still can’t grow hair in that spot, so I have to grow my beard in an odd pattern.) The dog soon died (it hung itself, believe it or not. And I felt really bad, because it was a really good dog up until it attacked me), and they got a weimereiner to replace it. This is what I immediately thought about when you mentioned those two breeds of dog.
I understand Sean, that’s a hell of a drive. I was just musing, is all.
FCM, those were nice pieces. I liked the creamer/sugar set too.
I haven’t had a chance to look at the link for the news piece, but I will soon.
Bobbio, I’m glad The Stalker is leaving. Hopefully, she’ll have gotten the idea and not bother you anymore. I hope that’s the case anyway. I’d be freaking out.
I’m feeling kind of ucky today. I can feel a headache coming on and I’ve taken something to counteract it, but I don’t know how much success I’m going to have with it.
The weather is sunny, but not too warm. It’s certainly not swimming pool weather.
That’s all I’ve got for now. Time to do some work.
Also feeling better on account of drugs, and very excited about meeting welby this week! My first MMPer mini-Dopefest! Whee! All the high fat high sodium food we can eat!
Today I have to do laundry, then clean everything in sight. I was so tired from Thursday on that I did practically no household maintenance, and also I was sewing, so there’s bits of fabric and thread all over. Plus stacks of books.
Yeah, “Yo, I’m from da mean streets of Westchase, boyyyyyyyyy!”
No, I wish I’d known they were filming that. Have no idea how they get anybody to fall for these interviews. Also didn’t know that some of those rules existed, but I’m sure that they do. That’s about a mile or so from my house. They’re fairly strict on the lawn kitsch in our part of town, too.
Oooooh! I forgot about this. When I was planning to be out in Mpls, I looked up B&J’s locations so I could get my free cone out there, but with all the excitement of the job offer and canceling the trip, I just forgot! I’ll have to swing by the one in the Union after work tonight to get my free cone! Yay! Free ice cream!!
I did cancel the trip out to Mpls. I just can’t justify two days away from work when I’m going to be leaving my job next week. I have so much to finish up before I go! And I have to get quotes for moving companies and car insurance and do like 5 zillion other things. I just can’t go away! Stress!!
Thanks everyone for the congratulations and everything. Yay for a job!! And good luck to everyone who’s still looking. I talked to one of my guy friends last night and in quite the coincidence, his girlfriend got a job yesterday too! So now she can move to be with him. Cool for them too.
