Bullets
I feel like a bullet point entry today, so here we go (:
- I hate feeling annoyed very first thing in the morning. Work is having our front courtyard repaved (they paid some company to do it last year and it was already all cracked after this winter and we barely had a winter this year!). This means that we have to use a side or back door depending on what time we get here. I showed up after the ‘front desk’ girl so I figured the side door was opened; nope. So, I had to trudge my way along our back wall and the grass was soaking wet after yesterday’s rain … so my feet got soaked (didn’t think I’d be walking in grass today) …and now my tummy hurts *pout* LOL. So yeah, I was quite annoyed. Especially since that back door is such a FRELLING hoe to open. *mumble*
- Sleep? Yeah, that’s been almost non-existent for me the last two days. Last night though, it was totally my fault. I was so tired by 11pm, which even shocked B*. I went to lie down for the night and decided to read and hopefully finish a book I was dying to get over with (it was just … bad). I finished it and instead of going to sleep I pulled up another book thinking I’d just start a new one. Nope. I totally read the ENTIRE book from around midnight until 5am. It was that good. When I heard my brother get up ten of 5, I as like WTF it’s already that time? I was in utter shock. Of course, it then took me another half hour to actually fall asleep my brain was reeling from the book … so I got about 2 hours of sleep again (: GO ME! *cheer*
- The good news is I am still a legal “alien” (resident alien, lol) and it doesn’t expire until 2014. The best news? I may actually get a chance to meet one of my long-time blogging buddies who happens to live in Chicago. I am very excited about this-she is totally my ninja hero! *squee* So, I will make every effort to at least have coffee with her … I am already SUPER excited about Chicago and its months away, ha-ha! I am so glad Lorraine is going, because if she wasn’t there is just no way I could go on this trip with K* alone, and this is such a great opportunity. *dance*
- Tomorrow has been set as “girls’ day out”. Trisha, Erica, Cassandra and I are going to go down to the outlets and do a little browsing (for me) and shopping (for them). Then, we’re all meeting back at Alexa’s place for a late lunch; not sure what we’ll order but we’ll figure it out tomorrow. I am excited… I love hanging out with the girls - especially Cassie because she is so damn hilarious. She can always make me laugh, no matter what mood I am in. So yes, that should be fun. I don’t have any set plans the rest of the weekend and am kind of glad. I did a lot of ‘socializing’ on my vacation, so I need a good “winding down” weekend…but knowing my friends/family, some type of activity will come up this weekend. The only thing I would consider actually doing is going to go see The Dark Knight Rises.
- Today I’m getting a free lunch; well, our team is. The interim dean wants to have our first ‘team meeting’ over lunch, and he’s offered to foot the bill. So, he sent around a menu to a local Chinese food restaurant called Butterfly (that’s actually pretty good). He’s even ordering it himself then picking it up. (: I decided to go with the chicken and broccoli over white rice (I am not a big fan of the pork fried rice). That will be around noon… I am already hungry just thinking about it. He’s actually a pretty good/cool guy. He’s a professor and he’s holding down the fort for a year while they do a search for a new permanent dean. In the 6 years I’ve been here we’ve been through 3 deans … not including this interim (so 4). That’s … bad. Lol Hopefully the person we find will stick around for a while.
- Speaking of reading; with the two books I finished last night putting me at 48 total books read, I may have to increase my goal of wanting to read 60 books this year… but I am not sure what I want to raise it to. Maybe I’ll do 75 and see how that goes, ha! BUT, once I hit 60, I officially met my goal for the year, so w00t! I’m going to wait until I read 55 books before I decide to up it to 75 on goodreads… yeah, I’m a chicken *sticks tongue out*.
- I am dragging major tookus today. I have been plugging away with a data entry project, and I was so ‘into it’, I really had thought time was flying. I just looked at the time and noticed it wasn’t even 11am yet. What the FRELL man?! This is going to be such a long day … and after a ‘Chinese food lunch’, it’s going to be way worse *headdesk*.
- Writing. It’s good. I am glad my brain has been feeling creative, finally. I hate writers block with a passion! I have this chapter stewing in my head and I really want to write it, but the last few days it’s been near impossible with enjoying the last days of my vacation and then coming back to work. Hopefully tonight or this weekend I can plug myself into the laptop and write it up; I am giddy. I know, I know… HUGE dork. *Innocent smile*