I went dancing last night, which was exactly what I needed on the one weekend separating "the summer of insanity" and "the semester that may kill me". A friend from my cohort emailed a bunch of us saying she'd put our names on the list and come have fun while we still could. Count me in!  I've said it before, I'm hardly a denizen of the Gaslamp, ( Read more... )

Work has been crazy but exciting this week.  I stressed and stressed about how I was going to juggle work and the first week of school with my boss gone on vacation. Somehow I missed that for the first time in years and years the university is kicking off the Fall semester *after* Labor Day. Yeah, I showed up. The building was all quiet and dead, ( Read more... )

There's this furniture store commercial that plays around here advertising the Vera Wang mattress. Furniture man says "What happens when a top designer sees the need for a supreme mattress? She designs one ( Read more... )

Today  I did something that required a little planning, a little preparation, but totally paid off. I packed my workout clothes, shoes, ipod, and gym towel, took them to work, packed a lunch, and readjusted my meal/snack/caffeine schedule a little bit so I could exercise after work. I realized about eight days in that I was actually four blocks ( Read more... )

Lovely evening! Today after work I  made plans for an early dinner and drinks with a high school friend I hadn't seen in about 12 years. I know that doesn't sound too rare for people who've always been in the general region of their friends and family, but wow, reconnecting with someone you were close to after that much time is crazy!  I had such a ( Read more... )

Woohoo! I finished my final summer internship deliverable earlier this evening and spent a couple hours fine-tuning the thing and printing out materials for the appendices (there are NINE). Holy damn! I will be so freaking happy to hand this thing off tomorrow! This means the big-ass deliverable is out of the way, the work for my first internship ( Read more... )

Of course, when you have the most to tell, you have the least time to LJ. Good thing tomorrow is Friday!

Wow, you know what? Skipping that delayed movie this morning was the way to go. We're having a little dinner party tonight and have spent the day in a cleaning frenzy. There's no way I'd have had that energy after sitting on my ass for 2+ hours. At least I got the carpet shampooing done yesterday, I'm beat!

Justin and I got up at 4:50 this morning to drive up close to his work and meet his peeps for the 6am Batman showing. I really like everyone who was going and figured it'd be a fun way to see the movie. We get there and there's already a huge line, but spirits are high and we spent the time in line cracking up over random stuff. Where's Triumph the ( Read more... )

How I love summer! Something about it just gets me motivated to get the most out of the weekends. I do feel a little behind on it, though. Already halfway through July and we haven't gone camping ( Read more... )