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Today is Illini vs Eastern Illinois. Its one of our first homegames this semester. As i was coming to work at 8a, i saw bunches of people up and out. I kept thinking, why the hell would you get up now if you didnt have to? Football. Namely tailgating. The DNSers have been tailgating since about 7:30a . I dont think i could make myself drink that early in the morning...unless i was in Vegas with my best girls. it didnt seem to bother me there....
We get pigs in today. goodbye not-so-existent social life....
sometimes i wish i knew how to speak sports lingo. When people tell me scores of things, I usually have no idea what they are talking about...i dont know who is winning and who is losing. I always get confused when people tell me 'such and such team is 4-0" what does 4-0 mean? they scored 4 pts and the other team scored 0? whatever. im good with sports like running... it usually just distance measured, which i can handle.
I went to lunch yesterday with my 2 bosses and my other senior clerk. We went to Applebees in Savoy. We sat there and talked and discussed policy and procedure and our lives for 3 hours. It was an interesting lunch. What i thought was most interesting was the conversation that we had on the way back to campus. The other senior clerk started talking about her bf adn how much of a pushover he was and how the only way she would marry him is if she had a ring so big that her hand would fall off. She said that she actually told him that if the ring was too small, she would say no. whats funny is that she was dead serious.
How could you do that? someone that obviously loves you, bends down on one knee and presents you with a ring that symbolizes eternal commitment, that he prob scraped to save for, and you say no, because the carat size is too small? i don't get it. how can someone be that overly materialistic?
the coversation then continued to carry on with her saying about how she is going to become this huge corporate lawyer and is going to be making 6 figures and have a huge house with multiple cars and all this bullshit. All i kept thinking was "are you listening to yourself?" I kept quiet and just listened to the list of materials grow larger and larger.
it got me thinking though. What do i want? i dont want a huge ring because i think its impractical. I would be scared to wear it around mostly because ti would attract so much attention. Im not a princessy type of girl. I like things simple. I also thought about what i want in the future. i guess it would depend where i ended up. If it was in a city: a nice house that was close to public transportation. a smart car or a mini cooper and a whole foods nearby. If I ended up more in a rural area: then a farm house with some land and a place to grow my own veggies. I would also want to own a pot belly pig. I have been thinking about this more and more. I dont have time for a pet now, but i am looking in to adopting a pot-belly int he future. The most important thing that i want to do in the future is travel. I dont travel expensive. I like staying in crappy motels and hostels. It adds character and more stories to a trip. It makes the experience more real.
I guess in the end, its 'to each his own'.
I have an hour and a half left of work. I need more coffee.
We get pigs in today. goodbye not-so-existent social life....
sometimes i wish i knew how to speak sports lingo. When people tell me scores of things, I usually have no idea what they are talking about...i dont know who is winning and who is losing. I always get confused when people tell me 'such and such team is 4-0" what does 4-0 mean? they scored 4 pts and the other team scored 0? whatever. im good with sports like running... it usually just distance measured, which i can handle.
I went to lunch yesterday with my 2 bosses and my other senior clerk. We went to Applebees in Savoy. We sat there and talked and discussed policy and procedure and our lives for 3 hours. It was an interesting lunch. What i thought was most interesting was the conversation that we had on the way back to campus. The other senior clerk started talking about her bf adn how much of a pushover he was and how the only way she would marry him is if she had a ring so big that her hand would fall off. She said that she actually told him that if the ring was too small, she would say no. whats funny is that she was dead serious.
How could you do that? someone that obviously loves you, bends down on one knee and presents you with a ring that symbolizes eternal commitment, that he prob scraped to save for, and you say no, because the carat size is too small? i don't get it. how can someone be that overly materialistic?
the coversation then continued to carry on with her saying about how she is going to become this huge corporate lawyer and is going to be making 6 figures and have a huge house with multiple cars and all this bullshit. All i kept thinking was "are you listening to yourself?" I kept quiet and just listened to the list of materials grow larger and larger.
it got me thinking though. What do i want? i dont want a huge ring because i think its impractical. I would be scared to wear it around mostly because ti would attract so much attention. Im not a princessy type of girl. I like things simple. I also thought about what i want in the future. i guess it would depend where i ended up. If it was in a city: a nice house that was close to public transportation. a smart car or a mini cooper and a whole foods nearby. If I ended up more in a rural area: then a farm house with some land and a place to grow my own veggies. I would also want to own a pot belly pig. I have been thinking about this more and more. I dont have time for a pet now, but i am looking in to adopting a pot-belly int he future. The most important thing that i want to do in the future is travel. I dont travel expensive. I like staying in crappy motels and hostels. It adds character and more stories to a trip. It makes the experience more real.
I guess in the end, its 'to each his own'.
I have an hour and a half left of work. I need more coffee.