I feel a little ADD today
Please excuse the distracted jumping-around. I had lots of work to do tonight and only finished half of it. I think it’s because I was trying to work outside on a restaurant patio, and it was too cold to concentrate.
My apartment is a MESS. If my new furniture were to be delivered tomorrow, there would be no place to put it on account of all the bags of crap lying around.
Sam is apparently strongly pro-chaos. While I’m gone during the day, he’ll go into the open bags, pull out random things, and strew them across the floor in various conditions of chewed-upness. He has a particular fondness for shoes, cardboard, and anything with ink in it.
It seems all I do these days is drive back and forth across town. I usually only teach one lesson or class per day, but it’s usually in some crazy suburb out in BFE. Combine that with the fact that school, the office (I still drop in once or twice a week), and my apartment are all in different parts of town, and it adds up to a lot of time behind the wheel. On Sunday I drove about 150 miles.
The bad thing about driving so much is that it takes forEVER, and I can’t get much done in the meantime. I’ve been meaning to get an iPod so I can listen to podcasts while I drive, but so far I haven’t. I’m an impulsive sort of shopper, though—one of these days I’ll just up and buy it. If I were at all budget-conscious, I would probably notice that I shouldn’t buy an iPod and a roomful of furniture in the same month, but I’m going to spend that money (on the iPod) eventually, right?
The good thing about driving so much is that I can put good chunk of it on my expense report. Speaking of which, I should write one of those up and turn it in. I haven’t submitted an expense report since the beginning of the year, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I’d accumulated close to a thousand dollars’ worth of expenses (mostly mileage) since then. Work is gonna love me.
My mom brought me back a jar of Harry and David spinach artichoke dip from a trip to Colorado. I’ve eaten the whole thing in about two days. Mmm, I love me some spinach artichoke dip.
I had a dream last night that it was my birthday and someone threw a big surprise party for me in a mansion. All the movie stars in Hollywood were required to come—I think there was a law or something. Or I won a contest. All I remember is that I was just an ordinary person, and they were only there because they had to be. I remember being embarrassed that I didn’t know any of their names.
At the end of the night I looked in a mirror for the first time and saw that I was wearing a beautiful deep red full beaded skirt . . . paired with a black and blue lycra jogging top. Ugh. I wandered around the mansion by myself and found a pretty blue sweater in a heap of clothes on the floor. I couldn’t take it with me because it belonged to someone else, so I just sat and stared at it. I still kinda want that sweater, even though it was that shade of medium-blue that clashes with denim.
Man, I’m sleepy. Sleepy to the point of near-incoherence. Perhaps I’d be less sleepy if I stopped staying up so late.
Tags: miscellany