Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
I'm on Vacation...

I have two days off - so not so much vacation as a weekend off, but no need to bring me down here, people. I had a very good day at work - I guess I am finally in my groove, I like my coworkers and the job has just been one pleasant surprise after another. I worked a lot this week, but like I said, I've made it fun for myself. I've opened a lot of new credit cards (this is an in-house competition) so if nothing else, I think I've shown my proficiency. Tonight, I came home and ate pizza with the fam, drank a much deserved Corona, and then sat down to really catch up with emails and the like. I have a lot of grad school mail to keep up with and I think I am about caught up now. Katie and lots of other friends are in town, so hopefully tomorrow I can go do dinner with friends and enjoy the rush of company in town for Easter weekend. I don't have many other plans for the weekend, but I'd like to catch up with goings-on in this world, I've moved back under my rock as soon as I signed up for this job stuff. There are always plenty of things on my to-do list that never get done, but ideally, I'd like to finish watching some movies, read some, work out etc... instead, I think I'll just go shopping at Westfarms tomorrow to put the discount to use and maybe have a sinfully indulgent lunch. I'll be realistic here - but I am looking forward to a slice of a social life while friends are in town. Otherwise, I am content just to work day in and day out until I have my graduation week off in May and get to go back to Middlebury for a fantastic week of old friends and old habits.

This is a little troubling, that cyberstalking is on the rise. My sister had a clever thought on the topic: that we are all secretly stalking each other secretly- this is the likely consequence of tools like Google that make it very easy to hunt someone down and then frequently revisiting sites without much of a trace. Speaking of that, I need to contact our long since retired debate webmaster, a certain Mr. Sawchuk, to update the debate page and have my contact info removed. Also, I hate the fact that the first thing that comes up under my name in Google is a really unflattering photo from a debate party four years ago. Yeah, I know I just prompted you all to look at it - it's bad, isn't it? Take it off, already, Aaron... put up a disparaging one of Dan instead, it's my only humble request.

Oh yes, my newest addiction. I fully acknowledge that I missed the boat on this years ago, but I've been catching old episodes of Dawson's Creek on TBS in the mornings. That is one hell of a show - I wish that I had caught on sooner. Since I didn't watch much / any tv in college, this would have been difficult, but it's really good and wish that I had seen more of it. I hear a rumor that the series is being released on DVD - hopefully I can get my hands on this sometime, it's pure soapy trash, but pure soapy melodramatic trash at its best. Anyway, I need to be horizontal now after a long day running around and standing upright... maybe I can find a movie or make some progress in one of the ten books I am reading.
posted by lmjasinski at 10:01 PM