1) My boss told me today
a)I was not allowed to have any contact with my replacement.
b)he’s resigned himself to the fact that i’m not going to get any work done.
2) Quote of the day
I don’t need huge quantities of ejaculate to take over the world, just a willing army of hippos.
I wish I had the time and inclination to explain this to you, but…I don’t.
3) I spent much of the day talking to Ireland. I was on the phone on 4 separate occasions with 2 different people in Dublin. I’d like to justify it by saying I was firming up travel plans for my trip, but…I can’t. p.s. Irish boys are drrrty boys.
4) When I have to yell at Ghengis he immediately drops to the floor, splays out his front legs and puts his nose down. He gives me giant sad eyes. It’s sad. I still continue to yell.
5) I’m supposed to go to the opening night party for Death of a Salesman. On one hand, free food and liquor and eventually being felt up by drunk gay boys. On the other hand, sleeping.
6) HAPPY BIRTHDAY, APRIL!!! If my sister had a website, I’d link to it and you could send her birthday wishes. She does not have a website, so you’ll have to leave them in the comments. You’d better leave her birthday wishes or I’ll hunt you down.
7) I picked a house in Baltimore, now I just need to sell my house. Buy my house so I can quit my job and move to Baltimore.
8) There’s a distinct possibility that I will be able to swing going back to school when I move to Baltimore. I have to decide between studying something I love (paleobiology with an emphasis on evolutionary modeling – bet you didn’t know I was a nerd, did ya) or something conducive to a career (something with initials that mean business something boring). Fun or responsible? Don’t know yet.
9) Can’t wait for east coast road trips.
10) Gotta pee. Later.

So lately I’ve noticed that for every sucky thing that happens Karma seems to hand me an event of greater happiness! (I’ve also noted that I start a lot of posts and emails and things with the word ‘So’. Pretty sure there’s some rule about not using that word when you write because it’s not terribly professional or something.)
The other day I wake up to find that the puppy had devoured my sunglasses, my $300 prescription sunglasses that I cherish completely. I love these sunglasses. I wanted to cry.
I tried to go without sunglasses, they seem extraneous, but after 12 seconds outside I realized I couldn’t. I went to Pearle Vision last night to see about getting them replaced. I fully expected to pay full price for them and figured it was just part of the cost of owning a puppy (a puppy that’s going to find himself traded for whiskey real soon).
I brought them up to the lady at the counter, a delightful woman named Ardiss. She’s helped me pick out glasses before and I love her, she’s responsible for these sunglasses. She looks at them and says, “There’ll be a 30% copay to replace these.”
I’m confused for a second, I tell her that my insurance doesnt cover glasses, just eye exams. Oh no! It seems Pearle has some sort of replacement guarantee! If your glasses break or need to be replaced for any reason you just pay 30%! I yelled, “OH MY GOD!! You’re my hero!”.
AND!!! And, they were having a sale, 50% off frames! Exciting! since my replacement sunglasses were way cheaper than I expected I decided to get a second set of regular glasses as well. I tried on a few, Ardiss asked me what style I was looking for. The reason why I love Ardiss so very much is that when I said “Funky, nerdy girl” she wandered off and came back with the absolute PERFECT pair of glasses. They were funky, they were nerdy, they were girly. I pick them up tonight.
Unfortunately, they don’t stock my sunglasses frames in house anymore so they had to be ordered, hopefully they will be here before I take off for Baltimore/DC next week.
Life’s been pretty damned sweet lately. I’m enjoying the ride.

Not that you missed me or anything. I had a long laz weekend at my mom’s (how this is different from the rest of my life is hard to tell). We hung out, went shopping, watched many many movies. I got to cook for her which was a lot of fun. She’s a high school teacher so I went to graduation on Friday not, reminded me why I don’t remember much of my own graduation, it was BORING.
Ghengis had a great time terrorizing her cats, playing outside, eating Frosty Paws and swallowing a dead bird whole.
Me, I’m back to sitting on the couch, already glad this week is a short one. Not much else to say. Hi.