the exciting life & times of J.L.A.

last week at work, one of the newbies was looking for some drywall mud. i escorted her to the appropriate area & suggested she open the bucket & make sure it wasn't all dried out since it was leftover from a job 6 months ago. i then went about my business elsewhere, noticing from afar that it sure was taking her a long time to choose a bucket of mud. a short time later, she came & told me she'd driven into the garage door & it was broken... yikes! (this door is my nemesis. you may remember from an insomnia inspired post from Oct '07.) the following day, she told me the first bucket she opened was full of poop... old, smelly human poop.

also last week, dan woke me up in the middle of the night whine-yelling, "do we have a cat?!?!" it freaked me out & i thought a cat had somehow gotten into our apartment & our bedroom. then i went back to sleep.

the end.

it was me

i cut the fart in yoga class

sorry...

highs & lows

my day's been a bit bizarre, mostly due to an exchange i had w/ my boss. i rarely see the guy - our offices are on different floors & we don't work together or anything... anyway, he consulted my advice on plunging one of the toilets & was really embarrassed about it. the fact that he asked me for help even though he really didn't want me to see his toilet-clogging poop was kind of endearing in a way. he was completely human for that few minutes. everybody poops.

the shoulder seems to be getting better. i may be done in a few more weeks, which would be great!!

thinking of signing up for voice lessons this semester... i feel kinda excited about it.

i close w/ a few final pics from 2008.

(katie showing off her mad milking skills)

(our visit to see katie on the farm)

(dan's folks on our trip to the jersey shore)

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i've been waiting & waiting for my final physics grade thinking they surely still send them in the mail, right? cuz that's the only way your folks know if you're flunking out. not that my folks care about my physics grade, but i do, dammit!! i wised up today & found 'em on the internets. i think this is the first time i've ever sported a 4.0.

i just went back to work after a 5-day break. thought i'd have plenty of time to do a nice long end-o the year blog post but somehow that didn't happen. i got all caught up in baking & goofing around & reading books about real estate. good times...

my first roasted veggie recipe was a dud. it was so beautiful! ...until it slid off the baking sheet into the bottom of the oven (i FREAKED OUT). we rescued it & reassembled everything as best we could. in the end, it got a little over done & dry. alas. it sure was pretty though.

not much else to say.

stank on my hangdown

it's been a long & somewhat stressful week here in balto. started out with the unexpected death of a good acquaintance. really sad news. we saw him just a few weeks ago, when we were out to dinner celebrating our anniversary. it's a reminder that life is fleeting & we're totally not in control no matter how hard we (i) try to be. is this the age where more & more people we know, in our age group, start to get sick & die? if so, i advise you not to leave your mid-twenties, if you can help it.

the remainder of the week was a mixture of mostly sleepless nights & lots of drama & nonsense at work. i was glad to see the work-related baloney come to a close today when the new folks received their work assignments. jeez. i know, my life is incredibly exciting... (seriously though, i was pretty excited about it - & a bit stressed.)

enjoyed a tasty meal this evening in celebration of the departure of a friend who's relocating to the west coast. i had hoped we would hang out while she was here but it didn't turn out that way at all. alas...

that about wraps it up for me, folks. sweet dreams to all (including me).

i know it's bizarre, but i feel kinda sad to finish physics... now that i've done the one thing i procrastinated for 10 years, i'm not sure what comes next...

i'm a miracle

i don't know where you were at 2:45 this morning, but i'll tell you where i was: at work. that's right. actually, i probably didn't get to work until closer to 3... i woke up at 2:45 in a state of panic when i realized i'd left a truck out of the garage with a bunch of unsecured extension ladders on it. what the hell!! i knew i wouldn't be able to go back to sleep if i didn't check it out. sometimes i'm real glad work is 2 minutes away. so i went to work in my jams, pulled the truck in to the garage (after i noticed everything was securely cable-locked to the ladder rack) & i went back home, to bed. couldn't get to sleep after that anyway...


when did i go insane?