and i’ll be gone
Thursday, 28 August, 2003
day of randomness:
today is my last day at work!
my sister is the best sister ever.
i have a yummy sammich with tomato & provolone.
after today my email access will not be guaranteed, at least until probably tuesday. so if you are dying to reach me immediately you can send a v.short email to cell at laurenisms and it will go to my phone as a text message.
yay! last day of work! only three and a half more hours!! now must go train some more so i can go home soon.
(song: “don’t think twice,” the mike ness version, not the bob dylan version)
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just because i don’t feel weak don’t mean i feel so strong
Wednesday, 27 August, 2003
this afternoon my replacement is going to get here, and i will have to train him. this is a little weird, as i have no idea how to teach anyone to do anything, ever. even weirder is that i’m pretty sure it’s going to be my friend seth. this will be an adventure.
someone who’s thinking about majoring in french just came up to me and said “i heard you have a degree in french.” i was startled. yes! it’s true! i have a degree! wow.
last night i finally got to hang out with emily&karen, who i haven’t seen in months but who i will miss. have so many people to see before i go! and so much left to do! i have about 3/4 of one wall and 1/4 of another, and then one wall in the kitchen, too, but the kitchen is small. it’s just that there’s so much CRAP in my way. but tomorrow is my last day at work, so friday i’ll just throw all the random stuff in boxes & bags and put it in the kitchen so i can finish the other room. then saturday will be kitchen day. and sunday will be finishing & mopping day. and monday is moving day!
by the btw, i am going to rennie’s this weekend, and all y’all should come! (i hesitate to list the precise dates & times of my whereabouts here, so email me if you want to know.) and expect me to cry, as it will be my last rennie’s trip FOREVER! … or until i come back to visit, which will probably be within the next month or two. but never fear, i shall still cry!
anyway. must back to work. have things to do before *choke wheeze* training.
seriously, though, whose idea was it that i should teach something to someone? really.
(song: “come on nature,” by the proclaimers)
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am i headed for the same brick wall? is there anything i can do about anything at all?
Wednesday, 20 August, 2003
someone has brought a small noisy child to work. it is making sounds and drowning out my archived episodes of wait wait, don’t tell me on npr. this show is very funny. everyone should go listen to it. it has just informed me that “high achievers” and smart people are most likely to be phobic. which makes me feel better, since i hyperventilate when people jump out of planes in movies. it must mean i’m smart! or something. (apparently the italian prime minister, who is a scary bad man, is also arachnophobic. that’s why they were discussing it.)
last night i stayed up too late packing & painting. i have painted half the kitchen so now i can move the boxes into there, which allows me to paint the other parts of the room. painting while everything i own is still in the room is definitely a challenge. i also watched margaret cho’s movie, notorious c.h.o., which was extremely funny. i highly recommend it.
actually, this week has involved a lot of not sleeping enough. friday i stayed up until 3am (!) with next-door-katie. we were at the samurai duck to see station wag, and then we ended up staying to see the joshua james band (or something) and also the sawyer family, who have no web page, but who played “rave on,” which is my new most favorite song ever. i have ordered a buddy holly cd from bmg, but it is not here yet, and i am very impatient. anyway, katie got me really drunk — drunk enough to dance!! — and we stayed until 2:30, and we did gymnastics on the way back. well, really just cartwheels. but it was fun. then saturday and sunday i did ok with sleeping, but monday was sebastian’s last night here so there was a barbecue at his friend’s house. we were there until about 1:30. he played foosball and i talked to the other math girlfriends. yes, i realize the implications of that sentence. then i went home and went to bed and was grumpy. am still grumpy. gr.
but! i am done with work in one week! and i am moving in a week and a half! and this is exciting!
now i am going to go do some looking up of addresses. i think they like me here ‘cos i do all the work that everyone hates.
(song: “fuel,” by ani difranco)
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but i just want you to come figure me out
Thursday, 14 August, 2003
there is a total of 138 comments on all posts, as of right now. that’s a lot. (katie, it’s there IS a total, right? all those plural rules confuse me sometimes.)
last night we watched the first half or so of 2001: a space odyssey. and we drank some beer. and … i don’t know? life is boring.
on tuesday, a v.famous linguist, george lakoff, came to speak at plc. i think he was mostly here for the jesus linguistics people, but it was cool anyway. i only saw two uo ling professors and two gtfs, and one other person i recognized from the program. i’m sure there were others there that i didn’t recognize, being not actually in the program anymore, but still i was hoping to see more people who aren’t interested in linguistics for purposes of converting the natives. anyway, i went to see him, and sebastian came with me, which turned out to be ok ‘cos lakoff talked about math. and linguistics. and brains. it’s possible that sebastian ended up understanding more than i did. it was interesting, all the same.
yesterday i packed up three shelves of books. an empty bookshelf is a sad thing.
(song: “another mystery,” dar williams)
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i feel a little unsteady
Monday, 11 August, 2003
i have reversed my previous opinion on virginia woolf. i enjoyed orlando a great deal. (hee! if only that sentence really did have a double meaning.) now i am starting dune, which apparently as a sci-fi fan (of sorts) i am supposed to have read years ago.
oh my gosh. tennis is So Fun! lovely heath is teaching me to play. we went yesterday and it was great! also i am proud of myself for learning new things with lots of people around, and not being mortified to the point of immobility when i hit the ball into the court of the boys with no shirts. now i want to play tennis all the time.
saturday travis and i went to portland, he to see friends and go do rave-y things, and i to do five (!) loads of laundry at my mother’s house. this is only the second time i have brought laundry home in my five years of college. isn’t that good? but mom made fun of me anyway for doing it this time. i also took up a bunch of stuff that i won’t need for a while, just to make the moving in september one trunkful easier. it was good to get started thinking about the order in which i actually need to move stuff. i think next to be boxed up will be extraneous clothes and kitchen supplies, and all books. relying on library card to keep me busy after that.
anyway i got to show my small sister all the france & scotland pictures, and i made her watch ten things, because she hadn’t seen it and it’s the best teenybopper movie ever. we made peach cobbler and we giggled a lot. that’s about it. nothing new.
anyone going to seattle within the next three weeks who wants to haul some giant bags of clothes and shoes and maybe some boxes of books should let me know.
(song: “untouchable face,” ani difranco)
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to praise a soul’s returning to the earth
Wednesday, 6 August, 2003
small frog has died. this causes me great guilt as i was not the most exemplary of frog mamas. however, i had her for a long time — almost two and a half years — and she had stopped eating, so she must’ve been unwell. poor froglet.
also, the sweetest bunny in the world died too … she was really sick, i guess, so mama put her down. she was such a nice bunny. but she was old too; we’d had her for almost eight years, and i guess four or five is the general bunny life expectancy. so it is sad but it is ok too.
tomorrow i have a phone interview for an assistantship position at uw. i have never had a phone interview before. for some reason it worries me more than a regular interview. this doesn’t really make a lot of sense. but i’m very excited, because if i get it, it’s a full tuition waver plus benefits! which is really cool!
tonight i’m going to watch home movies with kilian, and on thursday going to rennie’s with heath, and saturday watching movies with emily. also, starting to pack. oh, so eventful.
(song: “the coast,” paul simon)
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a lot of trouble was a brown-eyed handsome man
Tuesday, 5 August, 2003
thwarted in my plans to run this morning by a lovely loud rumbly thunderstorm. it made my house shake! unfortunately by the time it was done raining it was too late to go running, so i slept in a little instead.
in other news, oh my god. johnny depp has Absolutely No Right to look so amazingly hot in eye makeup.
however, everyone knows why i really saw that movie, and yes, even the eye makeup and the drunken staggering and the funny faces do not distract me. i must find a way to marry orlando bloom. immediately.
(song: “brown-eyed handsome man,” paul mccartney)
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i can’t get through, my hands are tied
Friday, 1 August, 2003
i did not mention that i bought a 2003-2004 august to august calendar organizer. i love these things. i don’t know how i survived without one last year. they have a lovely new black one this year, which i purchased; it is shiny and the letters on the cover are grey, which is always pleasing. grey is my favorite color. but only if it’s spelled grey, not gray.
right.
today i moved cubicles! it’s not clear why, exactly, since the girl who was in this cubicle has been gone for a whole week, but today they decided to move me. it’s just about four feet away, but i face a different direction now, so it feels new and different. also, one of the real-people, which is the opposite of temps, got fired. it’s not clear why that is weird to me. i didn’t know her. but it feels kind of strange.
yesterday was day of sloth. tho’ i did run in the morning, i made up for that activity by slothing around all over my house all night. as soon as i got home from the video store and the daily looking-for-people-i-know-at-campus-bars tour, i sat around in as little clothing as possible watching tv and finishing the last of the alexandria quartet. (the people are still stupid. no one stays in love. they are totally at the mercy of whatever this “Love” thing wants to do to them.) i ordered pizza and watched “friends” and started “a tree grows in brooklyn,” which makes me cry about three times on every page. it’s such a good book. it’s going on my favorites list. everyone else should read it, too. now.
but: today is friday! this fact makes me happier with every successive friday. i don’t know why this is different from school fridays, but it is, somehow. two days off work means SO much more than two days off school ever did.
apparently bill is unsure about his ability to drive the u-haul for me, since family n things are coming from all around to see his new niece. so if anyone out there is just dying to drive me and all my stuff to seattle on september 1st, please do let me know!
yay, time to go home!
(song: “you won’t see me,” beatles)