Birthday!

Jul. 10th, 2002 01:56 pm
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Today I turn 27, although not till dinnertime. I got cake and a card from work, which was nice, and I got a VERY silly email from Hillary. Yay!

Usually on my birthdays, I think about what happened to me over the last year and what it all means. This year I feel like I have a good foundation to stand on now, so I should go follow my dreams for a while and not feel guilty about it. The short version is, I should apply to grad school.

I really don't want to go back to figuring out how many people said what about which lectures. It would keep me busy, but I don't really want to be busy. I want to be enjoying myself.
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Having had yesterday off, today must be Monday, right? Wrong, because if I had yesterday off, today must be Sunday, except it isn't, because it's Friday. In short, I'm confused.

I find myself wanting sleep mostly after I've slept reasonably well, but not if I've been up all night sweating. Last night I dragged the featherbed downstairs and slept on that, on the living room floor, with the fan on. For the first time in what feels like ages, I woke up cold, so I stole the blanket out of one of the papasan chairs and went back to sleep. It actually worked better than I thought it would, although I wish somebody would invent a feather bed with an impermeable bottom so the feathers didn't all start coming through when you sleep on it. I suppose if I had the time or the inclination, I could stuff all the feathers that are sticking out back in again, but I've got better things to do.

I forgot, until I was walking from the T to work, that I have dinner plans tonight. Oops. At least I didn't go and book something else. I wonder if that's still on, and if so how many people are going to show up?

I wish somebody would invent something new to have for breakfast. I'm getting tired of muffins, and donuts aren't good for me (not that the muffins from Dunkin Donuts are much better), and eating bagels at my desk is almost impossible because nobody around here can wait for anything, so by the time I get around to actually eating the bagel, it's usually congealed into a hockey puck with cream cheese on it. Yech.

I really should think about what I want for my birthday.

It's HOT!

Jul. 3rd, 2002 10:16 am
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The only way I've been able to sleep for the last couple of days is to be tired enough that it doesn't matter how hot it is. Unfortunately that means I stay up later than is good for me. I hope we get a really good thunderstorm soon.

My room is an absolute disaster area. I'd like to set up the sewing machine downstairs, but there's no provision for music downstairs and that means I'd have to move the table down there too, and it's too hot to move furniture. Even if it is about twenty degrees cooler in the stairwell.

Tomato Nation rocks. I read the piece about heat yesterday and had to answer the phone immediately afterward, and was trying so hard not to laugh that the person on the phone thought there was something wrong with me. I should have just let the phone ring and gotten the ten minutes of laughing out of the way. I laughed so much it made all my stomach muscles sore. That's supposed to be good for you, though.

Speaking of sore, I think I'm finally over being sore from going climbing on Sunday. Except for my right shoulder, which I think I hurt. When I came off the first wall, I felt like I had pulled something in it, but the pain went away and climbing for the rest of the day was fine. It's been not exactly sore, but lingeringly stiff, since. Now it only hurts when I stretch it.

It was so hot last night that I never had any dinner. I just finished breakfast, but I'm still hungry. I knew I had to have breakfast because I get grumpy when I don't eat. Maybe if I turn on the rice cooker the minute I get home, the rice will be cool enough to eat by the time I want to eat it. I wanted sushi or Vietnamese spring rolls or something like that for dinner last night. I had salad for lunch, and I suppose I could have gone out to get salad from Bread & Circus for dinner, but there's only so much salad you can eat in a day.

I have no plans whatsoever for tomorrow, other than going up on the roof and watching however many fireworks displays there are between Brighton and Belmont. I love the fact that I can see that far from the roof. Besides, I hate crowds unless I'm in a crowd I know, and I really don't like the new security rules for the Esplanade anyway. Talk about irony; we get to celebrate our freedom under rigidly controlled conditions.

That's enough of that. I'll get mad if I keep thinking about it.
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