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Jan. 22nd, 2010 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogSome people spend years trying to find themselves. It only took me a few days.
My graduation occurred in 1998, it seems. So, my transcript should be on its way to me today. Progress.
In the meantime, I'm trying to be a useful, productive employee. Every day, I sit down at my desk in the morning and think, 'I'm going to do a good job today'. I wish it was possible for me to feel like I really did. Instead, I feel like a leech. But I'm trying.
I had a lovely evening out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moiracoon last night. We tried out the Mongolian grill place here in town, something called huHot. It was good; it reminded of the good BD's franchises we went to in Michigan. On our second trip, we each made a bowl for the other. The one I made was too bland for her. This is probably because I can't cook for squat. But I tried! The one she made, kind of a creole-ish thing with spicy sausage, fake crab meat, beans, and lots of heat, was nummy!
And then I took her out for a kid-size ice cream at Coldstone. I wasn't going to have one myself, but the smell changed my mind. I forgot how intoxicating the scent of all that ice cream and candy is! I also decided that, for my birthday, I need to have one of every cake and cookie in the freezer there. Except for the strawberry and coffee ones. *woofs*
I've picked up my Rubik's Cube from last Christmas again and have reminded myself how to solve the first two layers, which is actually pretty easy once you know the steps. I now know just enough to borrow kids' cubes, solve all but the last layer, and hand it back to them, saying 'I left the easy part for you!'. *giggles* Why does that sound like something from the David Sedaris book I'm reading?
Speaking of which, I'm most of the way through When You Are Engulfed In Flames, the first of his books I've read. (My dad got me a signed copy on one of his trips with his theatre department! Thanksbarton_fender!) I know a lot of people think Sedaris is hysterically funny. I think I probably don't have the right background for the proper appreciation. He's amusing generally, and there were one or two bits that stand out as really damned funny, but for the most part it wasn't an experience that stands out in my mind. Good, not great.
Mechanic Juan should be looking at Moira's car, and maybe even mine, this Saturday. Currently, hers won't run at all, and mine needs a tie rod and a tire before going anywhere outside of town. Well, we'll get it taken care of, one way or another. I know I can supposedly do a tie rod myself, but it makes me nervous and I'd much rather have Juan work his magic on it.
I've got all the decent pictures from my trip to MCS in 2004 up. I think I'll post some from my trip there withrileybear67's husband, D. I was certain that I had some from a trip there with posicat too, but I couldn't find any! I was worried I'd lost or misplaced them somehow, but as I kept thinking about it, I realized that maybe I didn't have a camera that time. I'm so used to carrying one with me all the time that I just assume that, if I've gone somewhere interesting, I have pictures of it somewhere.
Me, a little over five years ago
I remember this guy!
Yes, that's me, a little over five years ago at this point. I look mostly the same still, though I have better glasses now. I was in here alone, but I just had to have a picture of myself on my first excursion into a big abandoned building. I found a ledge to rest the camera on. I'm crouched over a bit out of fear that someone would see me on the roof and call the police or something.
The clouds were so beautiful that day!
My graduation occurred in 1998, it seems. So, my transcript should be on its way to me today. Progress.
In the meantime, I'm trying to be a useful, productive employee. Every day, I sit down at my desk in the morning and think, 'I'm going to do a good job today'. I wish it was possible for me to feel like I really did. Instead, I feel like a leech. But I'm trying.
I had a lovely evening out with
moiracoon last night. We tried out the Mongolian grill place here in town, something called huHot. It was good; it reminded of the good BD's franchises we went to in Michigan. On our second trip, we each made a bowl for the other. The one I made was too bland for her. This is probably because I can't cook for squat. But I tried! The one she made, kind of a creole-ish thing with spicy sausage, fake crab meat, beans, and lots of heat, was nummy! And then I took her out for a kid-size ice cream at Coldstone. I wasn't going to have one myself, but the smell changed my mind. I forgot how intoxicating the scent of all that ice cream and candy is! I also decided that, for my birthday, I need to have one of every cake and cookie in the freezer there. Except for the strawberry and coffee ones. *woofs*
I've picked up my Rubik's Cube from last Christmas again and have reminded myself how to solve the first two layers, which is actually pretty easy once you know the steps. I now know just enough to borrow kids' cubes, solve all but the last layer, and hand it back to them, saying 'I left the easy part for you!'. *giggles* Why does that sound like something from the David Sedaris book I'm reading?
Speaking of which, I'm most of the way through When You Are Engulfed In Flames, the first of his books I've read. (My dad got me a signed copy on one of his trips with his theatre department! Thanks
barton_fender!) I know a lot of people think Sedaris is hysterically funny. I think I probably don't have the right background for the proper appreciation. He's amusing generally, and there were one or two bits that stand out as really damned funny, but for the most part it wasn't an experience that stands out in my mind. Good, not great. Mechanic Juan should be looking at Moira's car, and maybe even mine, this Saturday. Currently, hers won't run at all, and mine needs a tie rod and a tire before going anywhere outside of town. Well, we'll get it taken care of, one way or another. I know I can supposedly do a tie rod myself, but it makes me nervous and I'd much rather have Juan work his magic on it.
I've got all the decent pictures from my trip to MCS in 2004 up. I think I'll post some from my trip there with
rileybear67's husband, D. I was certain that I had some from a trip there with posicat too, but I couldn't find any! I was worried I'd lost or misplaced them somehow, but as I kept thinking about it, I realized that maybe I didn't have a camera that time. I'm so used to carrying one with me all the time that I just assume that, if I've gone somewhere interesting, I have pictures of it somewhere. Me, a little over five years ago
I remember this guy!
Yes, that's me, a little over five years ago at this point. I look mostly the same still, though I have better glasses now. I was in here alone, but I just had to have a picture of myself on my first excursion into a big abandoned building. I found a ledge to rest the camera on. I'm crouched over a bit out of fear that someone would see me on the roof and call the police or something.
The clouds were so beautiful that day!
