snow, oof
It's snowing in Seattle. Everyone is freaking out. I'm just like "whatever, get back to me when it's five inches".
This morning was my first orientation session at the Pacific Science Center. It was just the standard employee policies and form-filling-out stuff. I got out and I just felt really physically drained and I thought "huh, I guess I really need lunch." So I walked over to the Center House foodcourt and ate lunch.
First I stopped by the restroom and realized: how fun, I forgot what day of the month it was! This then lead to a frantic search of the bathrooms in the Center House for a tampon/pad machine, of which there was none. So I desperately decided to ask at the information desk. Thankfully, the lady at the desk said "oh, I think I have those here". And rummaged around in a drawer until she found the Very Last Tampon and the Very Last Pad. It was almost like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, or the Matrix. Except both pills are red and those Choose Your Own Adventures never turned out very well whichever you picked.
So, I chose the tampon but I really should've taken the pad. Whoops. I forgot just how much I hate tampons. I haven't used them in about 2 years now since I bought a Keeper. Ugh, I really really hate tampons. They're so uncomfortable and hard to deal with. I'd forgotten just how frustrating the normal kind are with the stupid applicators that still manage to get my fingers bloody. Also, they're always too long. I mean, the o.b. brand tampons are small and actually fit but the normal kind... either it feels like I have an uncomfortable stick of cotton wedged sideways up my... you know, or it's just plain too long and sticks out. argh. I hate tampons. And, anyways, why's it so hard to find a tampon or a pad when you need one? I know it's an odd emergency situation but there was only one pad and one tampon left at the information booth. yipe!
After that crisis was averted I walked over to the Exhibition Hall and went to the Urban Craft Uprising. I went last year and decided to go again and it is still very cool. It's still a bit pricey, though. I bought one thing: a cool shirt that was in a 50% off bin. Otherwise I resisted the impulse to buy very awesome, but very very expensive cool items. Because, really, an ammonite necklace is great but there are lots more things I can do with $96; and a green and blue wool hat is very nice but I already have nice hats and $42 is not cheap.
Either way, it was a good craft fair. Very neat stuff. I need to get motivated to just sit down and work on my own crafty stuff. Some of those things, I could do something like that. And I also have other ideas that would be really cool that I need to just do.
This morning was my first orientation session at the Pacific Science Center. It was just the standard employee policies and form-filling-out stuff. I got out and I just felt really physically drained and I thought "huh, I guess I really need lunch." So I walked over to the Center House foodcourt and ate lunch.
First I stopped by the restroom and realized: how fun, I forgot what day of the month it was! This then lead to a frantic search of the bathrooms in the Center House for a tampon/pad machine, of which there was none. So I desperately decided to ask at the information desk. Thankfully, the lady at the desk said "oh, I think I have those here". And rummaged around in a drawer until she found the Very Last Tampon and the Very Last Pad. It was almost like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, or the Matrix. Except both pills are red and those Choose Your Own Adventures never turned out very well whichever you picked.
So, I chose the tampon but I really should've taken the pad. Whoops. I forgot just how much I hate tampons. I haven't used them in about 2 years now since I bought a Keeper. Ugh, I really really hate tampons. They're so uncomfortable and hard to deal with. I'd forgotten just how frustrating the normal kind are with the stupid applicators that still manage to get my fingers bloody. Also, they're always too long. I mean, the o.b. brand tampons are small and actually fit but the normal kind... either it feels like I have an uncomfortable stick of cotton wedged sideways up my... you know, or it's just plain too long and sticks out. argh. I hate tampons. And, anyways, why's it so hard to find a tampon or a pad when you need one? I know it's an odd emergency situation but there was only one pad and one tampon left at the information booth. yipe!
After that crisis was averted I walked over to the Exhibition Hall and went to the Urban Craft Uprising. I went last year and decided to go again and it is still very cool. It's still a bit pricey, though. I bought one thing: a cool shirt that was in a 50% off bin. Otherwise I resisted the impulse to buy very awesome, but very very expensive cool items. Because, really, an ammonite necklace is great but there are lots more things I can do with $96; and a green and blue wool hat is very nice but I already have nice hats and $42 is not cheap.
Either way, it was a good craft fair. Very neat stuff. I need to get motivated to just sit down and work on my own crafty stuff. Some of those things, I could do something like that. And I also have other ideas that would be really cool that I need to just do.