Pathetic

Today we did a practice ice breaker thing to use with students on Tuesday. It was a fairly innocuous name tent with additional information on the inside. Around your name you were to put where you were born (half of the people in the English department were born in DC even though most of them moved away as children and returned as adults), a good book you read over the summer, a place you'd live to visit, and your hobby/interest. Three of those requests were easy to fill: Washington, DC; The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists, Alaska. However, I couldn't think of a hobby or interest. I would usually say swimming, but I haven't done that in two years.

I have no hobbies. All I do is work, come home, watch tv, read stuff on the internet, cuddle with my cat, go to sleep, repeat. It was a huge blow to my self worth to realize that I have nothing in terms of outside interests and activities.


Who am I?

I am not alone.

I am not alone. Really, he should look into the attic. That was my plan at home. My plan in the apartment is to get on the balcony and jump. However, due to the height of my apartment and the multitude of people below me, I don't think I need as much of a plan.

My new sub plans. F the SOLS, here's something students really need to know.

Cats and Ben

The cats like the fact that Ben sometimes has to bring home rolls of plans. These plans are paper and large. If you have cats, you know what they like to do when you put paper in front of you that you need to work on.

This is Jackson trying to help Ben by eating his engineer's scale. Spotty is embarassed by his bad behavior.

Spotty tries to help by holding the engineer's scale for Ben while he's working. Notice she is not sleeping on the actual plans, but the blank page next to them.


This picture is significant because Waffles never sleeps anywhere comfortable. She always sleeps on the carpet with her feet underneath her. As she drifts off, her nose comes closer and closer to hitting the ground. Here, she's sleeping on a blanket on a cushioned ottoman.

So, Waffles got that playtime with Ben was over. Jack missed that message and decided to plop right down on the plans and take a nap. Kindof like how he's sitting on my lap now and whacking me with his tail when I move my forearm to type since he's placed his head on it.
 

Goo

This is what happens when you leave a half-full bag of gummi bears in the car when it's like 100 degrees outside. All my gummi bears melted into one giant gummi snake. The first picture is of me holding the goo and the second is of the goo on the bag.


Also, the goo was delicious and after a while I could pull of hunks of individual melted bears.

I think they should sell gummi candies like this. 

Urgh

I spent the past week with Ben and his family in North Carolina. It was nice. I didn't realize how nice and relaxing it was until we got home Saturday morning at two and I put my head down on my pillow. Apparently I was able to forget all the things I needed to do while on vacation, because it all came back to me. I don't think I've slept well since I've been home.

Stressors:
1. Finish proof reading my paper, make my slides, and send it all off for the conference on Aug. 22nd (waiting for Ben to proof for me).
2. Finish my unit for honors.
3. Make a decision about the wedding. IE, meet with Ben's mom's friend, the travel agent, to figure out what the cost would be, how it would work, etc. (Waiting for Ben to set this up -- which he just said he wouldn't do today, or this week.)
4. If we are not going for the destination wedding, then I need to book some vendors for Newton White. If we are going with the destination wedding, then I need to have my mom cancel our reservation on Newton White so we don't have to pay my mom the $750 cancelation fee if no one else reserves the mansion for our date.
5. Clean up all the stuff from vacation and before.
6. Go to parent's house and clean up all my childhood stuff from the basement.

And it looks like I'm going to have to do this all on my own.