Heavy
First off, somewhere in horse heaven, my Legend and Barbaro are match racing across an endless green pasture. When I got home Monday I cried for half an hour after hearing Barbaro was put down. I wasn't optimistic they were going to be able to save him but I was hopeful because sometimes life sucks so much that it would be nice if something good would happen once in a while to let humanity know that life is worth living. That it's not all death and destruction and high gas prices and unemployment. Oh well.
I'm really beginning to suffer from Winter lately. Especially this week....we've been plunged into a deep freeze that has no end in site. They're saying we MIGHT see more normal temps in TWO WEEKS! It snowed a little today, not the beautiful snow of a couple of weekends ago, a crappy snow that munged up the traffic and turned a 20 minute drive into a 50 minute drive. I need to take steps to curb this depression. Sure I still love my new laptop but the pure excitement of it has worn off. I'm not getting nearly enough sunlight. Oy.
Yesterday we had a meeting at work in which the powers that be explained new practices in hiring and firing which left everyone a little shaken. I'm really beginning to understand how my sister has felt working for Sprint for the past several years. Anyway, so I was depressed after that and figured I would work late and have sushi for dinner because sushi makes everything better. The Kabuki doesn't open for dinner until 5:30 or so. After I was done eating, most of the mall (http://www.crowncenter.com/) was closed so I couldn't walk back through Hall's to get to the garage and had to walk around the outside. It was cold, that didn't make me happy, but walking down the stairs I got to the level where there is a door the opens out to the skating rink and to my delight there was about ten nuns in full habits sakting....they were the only ones out there. It was completely awesome. I wanted to take a picture but I didn't think it would be very polite to stand out there with a camera phone. Oh well...I still have the memory.
I learned a hard lesson of myspace today. A few days ago I got an e-mail that someone named Alexandra sent me a friend request. I'm always suspicious of things like this especially since the day before some guy named Fred did the same thing. After looking at Fred's profile and friends I found out he was some totally weird freak pervert. So I examined Alexandra's profile, the typical page that looks like Las Vegas puked on it, but otherwise normal and her friends appeared normal. I couldn't figure why she wanted me to be her friend but I decided to take the gamble and added her. Today I got an e-mail that Alexandra had left me a message. I was so excited...until I read her message, which was in fact a cleverly disguised bit of spam. Tonight Alexandra will be removed from my friend list and anyone who doesn't send me some kind of message with the friend request that sounds genuine will not be added in the future. Oh well, you live and learn. I am at myspace.com/sierrawave if anyone is interested.
All of my paragraphs tonight ended with some kind of "oh well" sentence. I really need to get some sunlight, I'm turning into Marvin the Paranoid Android.
I'm really beginning to suffer from Winter lately. Especially this week....we've been plunged into a deep freeze that has no end in site. They're saying we MIGHT see more normal temps in TWO WEEKS! It snowed a little today, not the beautiful snow of a couple of weekends ago, a crappy snow that munged up the traffic and turned a 20 minute drive into a 50 minute drive. I need to take steps to curb this depression. Sure I still love my new laptop but the pure excitement of it has worn off. I'm not getting nearly enough sunlight. Oy.
Yesterday we had a meeting at work in which the powers that be explained new practices in hiring and firing which left everyone a little shaken. I'm really beginning to understand how my sister has felt working for Sprint for the past several years. Anyway, so I was depressed after that and figured I would work late and have sushi for dinner because sushi makes everything better. The Kabuki doesn't open for dinner until 5:30 or so. After I was done eating, most of the mall (http://www.crowncenter.com/) was closed so I couldn't walk back through Hall's to get to the garage and had to walk around the outside. It was cold, that didn't make me happy, but walking down the stairs I got to the level where there is a door the opens out to the skating rink and to my delight there was about ten nuns in full habits sakting....they were the only ones out there. It was completely awesome. I wanted to take a picture but I didn't think it would be very polite to stand out there with a camera phone. Oh well...I still have the memory.
I learned a hard lesson of myspace today. A few days ago I got an e-mail that someone named Alexandra sent me a friend request. I'm always suspicious of things like this especially since the day before some guy named Fred did the same thing. After looking at Fred's profile and friends I found out he was some totally weird freak pervert. So I examined Alexandra's profile, the typical page that looks like Las Vegas puked on it, but otherwise normal and her friends appeared normal. I couldn't figure why she wanted me to be her friend but I decided to take the gamble and added her. Today I got an e-mail that Alexandra had left me a message. I was so excited...until I read her message, which was in fact a cleverly disguised bit of spam. Tonight Alexandra will be removed from my friend list and anyone who doesn't send me some kind of message with the friend request that sounds genuine will not be added in the future. Oh well, you live and learn. I am at myspace.com/sierrawave if anyone is interested.
All of my paragraphs tonight ended with some kind of "oh well" sentence. I really need to get some sunlight, I'm turning into Marvin the Paranoid Android.