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Day 791: Shine
Jul. 20th, 2009 11:20 pmSo...Saturday was a pretty awesome day. I went to visit the optometrist, a very nice man with cool machines who was sympathetic to the fact that law school can, in fact, ruin a person's eyes. I ordered some new glasses, but I wanted to keep the old frames, which meant surrendering the glasses. Only I hadn't brought contacts, and my vision is lame-tacular without some sort of vision aide, so I had to trundle home and get my contacts - and run a few other errands on the way - before going back to surrender my glasses. I received a strange call from Nate of the pretty blue eyes, who apparently jacked up his sleep schedule and needed a cure.
I told him to come over and we'd watch movies, since my movie collection is much more extensive than his. We talked martial arts for a bit (his grandfather does kenpo karate, and I am still wildly enthusiastic about this ninjitsu thing), and then we decided to watch Advent Children. Only poor Nate kept falling asleep through it. Due to my own personal space issues and past experiences with trying to wake sleeping boys (*cough*Weber*cough) I wasn't sure whether or not it would be appropriate to jab him in the ribs to zap him back to wakefulness, so I let him drift in and out. Unfortunately for him, he fell asleep during all the lulls between the action, so as far as he knows, Advent Children is one continuous fight scene. An awesome, beautifully-animated fight scene, but a fight scene nonetheless.
After Nate left, I received a call from the Sister missionaries, which was cool - they invited me out for free dinner. They were having dinner with Keith (who is moving back to Montana), but they couldn't go over alone since he was a dude, so I agreed to tag along. And it was totally worth it, too - he let us drink cool sodas and he had awesome chicken-tomato-pesto pizza from Sam & Louie's. Plus Keith is just a cool guy. It's typical me, making friends with someone who's about to leave.
I was pretty beat when I got home, so I watched some Buffy and called it an early night.
Sunday was my first ever correlation meeting, and I was up bright and early because I'd gone to bed early, but...I was tired. I think it's the transition to 14-hour days of contact lenses. I got most of my letters written in the morning, and after church I discovered I was the only girl on the emergency preparedness committee (a rose among thorns, President Bartlett said when he poked his head into our meeting room to see what was what). I came back home and changed out of my church dress into some comfortable clothes (I usually wear church clothes all day Sunday) and went to sit on the deck. I read and wrote and eventually gave up and retreated inside for a nap. I made myself food and talked to people - Mom and Daniel and Ericka, who was stranded in Moapa due to a blown tire - and then went to bed.
Today I was up bright and early to turn in my car and get the rental. In typical idiot fashion, I left my garage door opener in my car (but none of the CDs, oh no) so I'm parking in the back parking lot, but at least I don't have to navigate the maze of pillars and corners that is the parking garage. The little Mazda Six beast does not accelerate as nicely as my car, but oh well. I read for a decent part of the day, and then spent several hours spazzing over charts in Excel. I also got some revisions done on the article - revisions on someone else's section, but revisions nonetheless - and then...well. I was just distracted all day, fretting because no one has given me feedback on my portions of the article, which always freaks me out. And then Shelly sent work, which helps. I stretched a lot, and took drum breaks, and worked essentially ten hours because it felt like I got nothing done.
I went to FHE fully expecting to back out once the lesson was done, but...we had a heck of a lot of fun, running around town for another photo scavenger hunt. It was raining and my hair is a wreck, but we had fun. The team was me, Nate of the blue eyes, Lorin, Liz (John's cool little sister) and Sabre. We took pictures with geese, got some random kids with ice cream to pose with us, pretended to throw Lorin off a bridge and into some water, got some random girls to pose with us on the slides downtown, and we even got a random couple to kiss for one of our pictures. After FHE, I went out to Blue with two of the Rachels, Matt, Dr. Nate, Nurse Janine, Alisa's sister from Arizona (I guess she used to be in our ward before she got married) and Seth, who is back in town. Seth sprang for my share of the sushi (which was so, so good) and I told him we could call it a date, and when he walked me to my car he asked if he could ask me out on a proper date. So I said yes. Why not, right? He's a cool guy who likes anime, has a good job, and is friendly. And funny. I did not know that Dr. Nate served his mission in Japan, so we plan on geeking out over Japanese music sometime together.
I know some awesome people out here.
I did fully plan on working out tonight, but I totally failed at that entire business. Hopefully it'll work tomorrow, ne?
In the meantime, writing and bed.
Maybe some Buffy.
Most likely bed.
I told him to come over and we'd watch movies, since my movie collection is much more extensive than his. We talked martial arts for a bit (his grandfather does kenpo karate, and I am still wildly enthusiastic about this ninjitsu thing), and then we decided to watch Advent Children. Only poor Nate kept falling asleep through it. Due to my own personal space issues and past experiences with trying to wake sleeping boys (*cough*Weber*cough) I wasn't sure whether or not it would be appropriate to jab him in the ribs to zap him back to wakefulness, so I let him drift in and out. Unfortunately for him, he fell asleep during all the lulls between the action, so as far as he knows, Advent Children is one continuous fight scene. An awesome, beautifully-animated fight scene, but a fight scene nonetheless.
After Nate left, I received a call from the Sister missionaries, which was cool - they invited me out for free dinner. They were having dinner with Keith (who is moving back to Montana), but they couldn't go over alone since he was a dude, so I agreed to tag along. And it was totally worth it, too - he let us drink cool sodas and he had awesome chicken-tomato-pesto pizza from Sam & Louie's. Plus Keith is just a cool guy. It's typical me, making friends with someone who's about to leave.
I was pretty beat when I got home, so I watched some Buffy and called it an early night.
Sunday was my first ever correlation meeting, and I was up bright and early because I'd gone to bed early, but...I was tired. I think it's the transition to 14-hour days of contact lenses. I got most of my letters written in the morning, and after church I discovered I was the only girl on the emergency preparedness committee (a rose among thorns, President Bartlett said when he poked his head into our meeting room to see what was what). I came back home and changed out of my church dress into some comfortable clothes (I usually wear church clothes all day Sunday) and went to sit on the deck. I read and wrote and eventually gave up and retreated inside for a nap. I made myself food and talked to people - Mom and Daniel and Ericka, who was stranded in Moapa due to a blown tire - and then went to bed.
Today I was up bright and early to turn in my car and get the rental. In typical idiot fashion, I left my garage door opener in my car (but none of the CDs, oh no) so I'm parking in the back parking lot, but at least I don't have to navigate the maze of pillars and corners that is the parking garage. The little Mazda Six beast does not accelerate as nicely as my car, but oh well. I read for a decent part of the day, and then spent several hours spazzing over charts in Excel. I also got some revisions done on the article - revisions on someone else's section, but revisions nonetheless - and then...well. I was just distracted all day, fretting because no one has given me feedback on my portions of the article, which always freaks me out. And then Shelly sent work, which helps. I stretched a lot, and took drum breaks, and worked essentially ten hours because it felt like I got nothing done.
I went to FHE fully expecting to back out once the lesson was done, but...we had a heck of a lot of fun, running around town for another photo scavenger hunt. It was raining and my hair is a wreck, but we had fun. The team was me, Nate of the blue eyes, Lorin, Liz (John's cool little sister) and Sabre. We took pictures with geese, got some random kids with ice cream to pose with us, pretended to throw Lorin off a bridge and into some water, got some random girls to pose with us on the slides downtown, and we even got a random couple to kiss for one of our pictures. After FHE, I went out to Blue with two of the Rachels, Matt, Dr. Nate, Nurse Janine, Alisa's sister from Arizona (I guess she used to be in our ward before she got married) and Seth, who is back in town. Seth sprang for my share of the sushi (which was so, so good) and I told him we could call it a date, and when he walked me to my car he asked if he could ask me out on a proper date. So I said yes. Why not, right? He's a cool guy who likes anime, has a good job, and is friendly. And funny. I did not know that Dr. Nate served his mission in Japan, so we plan on geeking out over Japanese music sometime together.
I know some awesome people out here.
I did fully plan on working out tonight, but I totally failed at that entire business. Hopefully it'll work tomorrow, ne?
In the meantime, writing and bed.
Maybe some Buffy.
Most likely bed.
