all I need is a good defense...
I can't believe it's already Monday! Why do weekends go by so fast?
And it's 3:45am, and here I am. I have a feeling it's actually due to some late night excedrin taking (not a late night Starbucks trip, for once). I had a massive headache around 1am or so, and excedrin is the only thing that ever works for my headaches. So, despite its caffeine content, I took some. Sadly the headache is still here (but considerably less horrible) and now I'm wide awake. C'est la vie.
I actually had a really unexpectedly good weekend. Finally hung out with someone I've known for ages but haven't seen in awhile, and when we first hung out it was with huge groups of mutual friends. Sadly "Borat" proved too popular and sold out quickly, so I'll have to see it next weekend. We saw "Running With Scissors" instead, which was incredibly disappointing. The acting was well done, but the overall plot was just depressing and I felt the story didn't really go anywhere. I can deal with depressing storylines, but for whatever reason in this case it just didn't work for me. This is probably a case of the book being better than the movie, but I haven't read the book so who knows. After the movie we talked for a few hours about just about everything. And he was awesome enough to both take me to Target to buy new sheets and come over and fix my TV earlier tonight. Yes, I've lived here since August, but until tonight I survived primarily on fox, nbc, abc, and cbs (despite the apartment complex providing like a million channels plus 4 hbo's). It's nice to have more than 12 channels. All in all a good weekend :) AND the Gators beat Vanderbilt, AND LSU won their game, so off we go to the SEC championship.
Tomorrow I just have classes and then hopefully heading to Lenscrafters for an eye exam and to get new glasses/contacts. I haven't gotten an exam since December, and sadly I think my prescription has gotten wrose. Plus my glasses broke awhile back, and I'm sick of tripping on things after taking my contacts out at night. Sometimes I wonder how people had to deal with vision problems back in the day. I'm at the point now where I can't really see anything without my contacts/glasses. It actually kind of scares me when my contacts are out and I realize just how bad it is. It's correctible though, so it seems to be all good.
Boston this weekend! So psyched. I'm just crossing my fingers that the flights go off without a hitch. My dad decided that instead of letting me get to Jax airport at the crack of dawn (the shuttle bus doesn't run that early, but I could've drove...but of course, that was not really ok with him), that I would fly out of the tiny Gainesville airport. The problem is, flying out of Jax would be a cheapish direct flight. Flying out of Gainesville has two connections (Tampa and Cincinatti, OH). I think I have ample time in Ohio, but the Tampa connection is under an hour. So while driving to the Gainesville airport takes all of 15 minutes (possibly less), if one of my connections is messed up, or if another flight is late, I'm screwed. And the fact is I'll be in Boston for all of like, a day and a half anyway. Oh well, hopefully I'm overthinking things and all will be fine. That does happen once and awhile.
That's about all that is going on in my oh so exciting life. Boston this weekend, Dad visits the weekend after. I think he's staying for about a week. We're going to the Western Carolina game, and then he was able to get tickets to 3 or 4 basketball games too. Should be fun. I still can't really believe how much closer I am to my dad these days. It's obviously a wonderful thing that I've wanted for the longest time, it's just different. Then Thanksgiving I'll be at my Mom's which should be relaxing. We're going to see Judy Collins in Sarasota, which is awesome! My mom has seen her a few times before, but I've yet to see her in concert. Should be good, and I'm glad I'll be able to share that with my mom. I can remember driving around Long Island listening to Judy Collins in the car, just me and my mom. And I remember watching her Christmas special on PBS on cold nights in Sayville, it would usually be on right around the time we'd be leaving for Florida to see my grandmother for the holidays. My mom would be doing late night last minute packing, and we'd both watch the Judy Collins Christmas special. Good stuff.
Alrighty, this seems to have gone on for awhile. Maybe I should go read some of my German textbook, as I can imagine that would put me to sleep pretty fast.
And it's 3:45am, and here I am. I have a feeling it's actually due to some late night excedrin taking (not a late night Starbucks trip, for once). I had a massive headache around 1am or so, and excedrin is the only thing that ever works for my headaches. So, despite its caffeine content, I took some. Sadly the headache is still here (but considerably less horrible) and now I'm wide awake. C'est la vie.
I actually had a really unexpectedly good weekend. Finally hung out with someone I've known for ages but haven't seen in awhile, and when we first hung out it was with huge groups of mutual friends. Sadly "Borat" proved too popular and sold out quickly, so I'll have to see it next weekend. We saw "Running With Scissors" instead, which was incredibly disappointing. The acting was well done, but the overall plot was just depressing and I felt the story didn't really go anywhere. I can deal with depressing storylines, but for whatever reason in this case it just didn't work for me. This is probably a case of the book being better than the movie, but I haven't read the book so who knows. After the movie we talked for a few hours about just about everything. And he was awesome enough to both take me to Target to buy new sheets and come over and fix my TV earlier tonight. Yes, I've lived here since August, but until tonight I survived primarily on fox, nbc, abc, and cbs (despite the apartment complex providing like a million channels plus 4 hbo's). It's nice to have more than 12 channels. All in all a good weekend :) AND the Gators beat Vanderbilt, AND LSU won their game, so off we go to the SEC championship.
Tomorrow I just have classes and then hopefully heading to Lenscrafters for an eye exam and to get new glasses/contacts. I haven't gotten an exam since December, and sadly I think my prescription has gotten wrose. Plus my glasses broke awhile back, and I'm sick of tripping on things after taking my contacts out at night. Sometimes I wonder how people had to deal with vision problems back in the day. I'm at the point now where I can't really see anything without my contacts/glasses. It actually kind of scares me when my contacts are out and I realize just how bad it is. It's correctible though, so it seems to be all good.
Boston this weekend! So psyched. I'm just crossing my fingers that the flights go off without a hitch. My dad decided that instead of letting me get to Jax airport at the crack of dawn (the shuttle bus doesn't run that early, but I could've drove...but of course, that was not really ok with him), that I would fly out of the tiny Gainesville airport. The problem is, flying out of Jax would be a cheapish direct flight. Flying out of Gainesville has two connections (Tampa and Cincinatti, OH). I think I have ample time in Ohio, but the Tampa connection is under an hour. So while driving to the Gainesville airport takes all of 15 minutes (possibly less), if one of my connections is messed up, or if another flight is late, I'm screwed. And the fact is I'll be in Boston for all of like, a day and a half anyway. Oh well, hopefully I'm overthinking things and all will be fine. That does happen once and awhile.
That's about all that is going on in my oh so exciting life. Boston this weekend, Dad visits the weekend after. I think he's staying for about a week. We're going to the Western Carolina game, and then he was able to get tickets to 3 or 4 basketball games too. Should be fun. I still can't really believe how much closer I am to my dad these days. It's obviously a wonderful thing that I've wanted for the longest time, it's just different. Then Thanksgiving I'll be at my Mom's which should be relaxing. We're going to see Judy Collins in Sarasota, which is awesome! My mom has seen her a few times before, but I've yet to see her in concert. Should be good, and I'm glad I'll be able to share that with my mom. I can remember driving around Long Island listening to Judy Collins in the car, just me and my mom. And I remember watching her Christmas special on PBS on cold nights in Sayville, it would usually be on right around the time we'd be leaving for Florida to see my grandmother for the holidays. My mom would be doing late night last minute packing, and we'd both watch the Judy Collins Christmas special. Good stuff.
Alrighty, this seems to have gone on for awhile. Maybe I should go read some of my German textbook, as I can imagine that would put me to sleep pretty fast.