In Which Hump Day Nearly Breaks Me
My foul mood today was not helped by working late, or by tripping over three large boxes containing roommate H's new HP desktop when I got home. (I am mad jealous of H.'s life as an impending bio grad student at Hopkins and the beloved daughter of two sets of parents who paid for her car. Also she is two years younger than me, making me incidentally feel like a total slacker. How "jealous of supportive family" and "me = slacker" align is an exercise left to the reader.) I have been looking at shiny new computers, but I don't need one until the baby laptop gets unreliable, so this was the moral equivalent of an accidental job to the solar plexus. I should be focusing on how this is all character-building and will make me a better person, and you know what? It really takes a community of like-minded people to make that sort of thing stick. Eventually I called hourglasscreate and caught up on her life until I felt better.
For a month and a half I hoped summer would bypass DC, but no joy: high heat and humidity arrived in force over the weekend. This did not deter my Sunday ambitions to go hiking. It turns out I do not object to scrambling around mountainsides when my family is absent. So I will try to get involved with a hiking group or something; it'll be good for me on multiple levels. For one, without some external push, I'm not leaving the house until the heat index drops below 80. Tonight is obviously the night to load Muse, Pink, select Christina Aguilera and selected albums of my high school years into tomorrow's playlists.
For a month and a half I hoped summer would bypass DC, but no joy: high heat and humidity arrived in force over the weekend. This did not deter my Sunday ambitions to go hiking. It turns out I do not object to scrambling around mountainsides when my family is absent. So I will try to get involved with a hiking group or something; it'll be good for me on multiple levels. For one, without some external push, I'm not leaving the house until the heat index drops below 80. Tonight is obviously the night to load Muse, Pink, select Christina Aguilera and selected albums of my high school years into tomorrow's playlists.