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June 23, 2005

Where Have You Been?

What was this about "as soon as I get done with school I will be more active and
more organized and get some neat things added to my blog?"
Well school ended last Thursday, Friday I went to work relieved that I didn't
have to go to class again until July 11th. But always sitting in the back of my
mind was those stupid research papers.
Well, Friday at work, while I was remotely connected to my home computer I got
my first warning of what this week would be like. That warning was the you are
running out of space on your harddrive warning. Oh fun!
Saturday I slept late, woke up and the flight of the bumblebee... yeah, you
know.. that dance you make frantically cleaning up your apartment when you
realize your parents will be there in two hours. My parents showed up, brought
me my bridesmaid dress for my cousin, OfficerB's wedding. Then we went shopping.
I had needed to go shopping since I started working in April for a few nice
shirts for work but this was the first chance I had had to go. I also needed a
couple of pairs of shorts, since it is now officially summer and 100 degrees in
Dallas, and I needed a new lamp for my living room. I don't know how anybody
expects me to write to research papers in this dark apartment. Ok Ok .. I know,
excuses excuses excuses.
Monday, after work I went to the library in Downtown Dallas. I dont know if any
of you have ever been there, or attempted to get there using their website's
directions, but one of the streets they have you turning on no longer exists.
The streak continues. What streak you ask? The streak where I continue to get
lost every time I attempt to go somewhere new.
After the library I was driving home and I could tell something was wrong. I had
that distinct feeling that I was fixing to have a flat tire. It made perfect
sense, since I had just driven down a few streets full of construction. Well, in
Houston, or in "TheArmpitOfHell".. when I knew I was going to have a flat tire.. I would just
get off of the freeway and get on a side street and drive slowly until I got
someplace to fix it, or home, whichever came first. That is a great plan in
Houston... in Dallas? Not so good.
I made the mistake of thinking I knew where I was going and got off of I75 one
exit too far south and somehow ended up way on the other side of White Rock
Lake.

As you can see from the above map, I started out at point A, the library in
Downtown. I was trying to get to point B, my apartment, and ended up somewhere
round about point C.
It was about 9:00pm, which in 1920s-Texas-lingo is called "Dark-30", or about 30
minutes after it starts getting dark. And wouldn't you know it.... blub, blubl,
blubb.. damn. Flat tire! No, not that kind of flat tire... get your mind out of
the gutter, I'm trying to tell a story here. It's dark, I have on one of my new
shirts, I don't know where I am, and I have got a damn flat tire.
This is one of those times I thank God my grandfather, Peep, never treated me
like a girl and made me learn how to do useful things like changing my own tire,
my own brakes, my own oil, my own lightbulbs and Lord-forbid how to kill my own
spiders.
Well, a donut tire on my SUV, two bloody fingers (I somehow managed to detach
two of my nails from my nail beds while unscrewing the bolts), hungry, and
nearly out of gas.. I got back in my car and became even more determined to find
my way home. SHHH! Don't tell my MOM!
I made it home, bandaged up my fingers, washed my pants and new shirt before the
blood and tire grime set in, and went to bed. The next morning I got to go find
some place to fix my tire for me because I wasn't about to drive to work on 635
with the world's worst drivers on a donut.
I finally got to work that Tuesday morning about 9am and had a hard time typing
most of the day. Have you ever noticed, that those of us who know how to type
correctly, have a extremely difficult time trying to "hunt and peck" when we
have two damaged fingers? Oh you haven't, ok, must be that damn OCD again.
Tuesday night, I was definitely in need of a change from the ordinary evening..
you know, the one when you go home and sit in front of your computer reading
blogs and playing online games until your butt goes numb? So, I enlisted the
help of my favorite computer geek, and the geek took apart my computer... most
of which is still spread across my living room floor, and started installing XP.
No use sitting here waiting on a computer to do its thing, so we went and ate
dinner and walked around Central Market (kitchen geek heaven). By the time we
got back, XP had done its thing and we hooked my old harddrive back up so I
could work on school work.
Wednesday night, I came home and foolishly decided to watch the College World
Series. Baylor was playing UTexas for the 6th time this season, and I was under
the impression that our record of 4-1 could be extended. Boy, was I wrong. The
rest of the night was filled with laundry and a severe case of procrastination.
I finally sat down about 11pm and started working on school work.
Today, I turned in all 13 of the missing journals I was missing for my two
classes and am now procrastinating starting my papers by updating my blog. I
hope you feel special!
Grades were posted on Monday, I made As in both my Menu Management and
Restaurant Law & Ethics(online) classes. The grades that were posted for
Regional and Southwestern are just temporary until I get all my work turned in,
and then they should be As too. Hopefully, I will be on Dean's List again after
this week.
Ok, It is now 9:52 pm and I'm going to finally break down and start my papers.
Wish me luck. I'll be back later when the paper hell is through.

Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at June 23, 2005 09:52 PM

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