WHEN WILL IT ALL END!!?

You'd ask yourself this question too if you had to blow your nose every 5 f*cking minutes too...

I actually end up tiring myself out and feel the need to take a little nappy time in my cubicle, but I think they frown on that. You know, you have to keep up with appearances and all.

But I can taste things again which is a sense that always comes back with a vengeance if you do lose it temperarily. I was eating a Cobb salad last night and needed to restrain myself. The flavor of everything was almost too much. Thank God I was sitting down.

I have a new cat.

Bask in Snowy's cuteness!

Where'd all my money go?

:-(

Ouch, my wallet is still hot from the friction generated from all the money leaving it yesterday. I can probably cook an egg on that thing, good Lord!

But, that's what happens when you haven't been paid since mid May and most people were kind enough to let you slide until you did get paid, so I can't complain. However, now that I get paid on a very rigorous and regular pay schedule (every other week) I'll be able to budget a lot better and actually be able to start saving my money again. Rather than have it all disappear in one day.

That was probably one of the largest paychecks I ever got, but damn that was probably the quickest spent check at the same time.

Office Clothing and Awkwardness

You know what I've noticed from all this wearing of professional clothing lately...that when you go outside you end up looking and feeling kind of awkward.

I have no explanation for this other than it has to be the summer's fault. Seeing all the non9-5er's out and about in their comfortable jeans and shoes just makes me feel "too dressed up" to be out and about.

It's probably the fact that I've gone through 3 years of just bumming it to work and now that I'm consistently wearing professional clothing I'm feeling a bit out of place with my old self. I know in time I'll get over that feeling of awkwardness as I go out for lunch or for coffee and frolic in the summer sun, but for now I only feel really comfortable wearing office clothing in an office.

Nutella...LATTE!

Oh that's right, the genius barristas at Koffee on Audubon have figured out how to put Nutella into a latte. Well, they probably just shot it with some hazelnut flavoring, but whatever. It still tastes like heaven.

OMFG...David the Gnome

I love you YouTube, especially for reminding me of all the TV I watched growing up.

I <3 Bruegger's Bagels

Oh man, there's nothing like a huge bagel sandwich to pick you up at lunch.



Especially one that has layers of meat and veggies plus a perfect combination of some type of cream cheese and condiment to go with it. I love my new office's location.

Top 10 Paranormal Book List

My friend is awesome.

You will buy her books! Look at the top right of this screen and click it!

Partyin' in the Suburbs

Well, it's always interesting to remove yourself from your normal environment and throw yourself head first into another one. That is how I tend to do things: first flight ever was across the Atlantic, first hike ever we were practically repelling off of a rock face, I think you can get the picture. Sometimes I don't do that critical "middle step" that one should do in order to get to that higher point, but like a teacher of mine said before to my parents "well, your daughter dances to the beat of a different drum." CONGA LINE TO THE COPY ROOM, WOOOOOO!!

So anyway...this weekend I got invited to a party up in the sticks of Connecticut, well, one of the many "sticks" that are in Connecticut. This is better known as the "valley" since it is, in fact, valley lands. This is also very suburban and also very white (to borrow from Borat, yes, there are many vanilla faces around). Now for me, I grew up in a very urban area and I live in a slightly less but still urban area, hence I feel more comfortable around different cultures and tend to feel better if I have at least 5 different cultures of take out food available for me. Any less, I get scared and start thinking I hear banjo music.

Needless to say, it did remind me of how college dorm parties used to go: drink, eat, drink, talk, drink, play beer pong, drink, play cards, drink, order food...and so on. Mostly because there's nothing really to do in the suburbs especially past dark which reflected on the similar lack of things to do up at my former alma mater. Oh, the memories...

All in all, it was nice to: not have to pay $10 for a drink, be able to not wear makeup and get all gussied up, plus it was nice to talk to some really nice people and meet with others that I probably wouldn't have otherwise if I hadn't of walked out of my neck of the woods, or rather neck of the cityline.

Engineer: Half Angry Old Man, Half Child

Now that I'm in this bigger office I get to interact with way more engineers than I did previously and I've begun to notice similarities that we have especially in how we work and interact with other humans in the office.

When we are busy working away, we end up turning into these crotchity old men and women. "Get out of my cubicle, MEEEHHH!!!" *waves cane* "What do you want, I'm busy!!" "I'm so busy I can't be bothered to look up from my paper as I'm walking back to my desk, so you better watch yourself walking by me, sonny!!"

Then, once that fog clears, we'll poke our heads up from our desk and start actually talking and joking around with the other humans in the office. This is the child like stage, because once you get us going, all bets are off. We may fling a rubberband at you or just whack you with a paper towel tube, WHO KNOWS! You've now engaged our social nature that has been asleep for most of the day. Now it has been awakened, and you will listen to it's nerdy jokes and insane recants of the previous weekend.

YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!