Do you also know how hard it is to concentrate or have any kind of motivation on one’s last week of work?
Archive for April, 2007
30
Apr
Ensnared
I went through a few months of literary slump — never finding books that really engaged me, sometimes setting them aside and looking for something new, then later regretting it, wondering if my continued failure to find books that thoroughly caught my interest was vengeance exacted by abandoned novels, angry to have been started and never finished.
I had forgotten how all consuming a book could be.
I am currently reading The Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop…and it is taking up all of my time. It is a big, long book (three books, in actuality) that I find moments to sneak in snippets of, that I linger over and draw out my lunch hour a bit closer to what it is by definition. My butt and fingertips go numb sitting on the porch at night reading in the cold, wanting to finish one more chapter before returning inside and retiring for the night. I resent the time demands that work, school assignments and the various engagements and obligations I have place upon me and I hover at the edge of neglecting them.
At the same time, I curse myself for hurrying through it–I long to draw it out and make it last, but I am desperate to know see the how finished patterns of the lives the tales follows will look at it’s completion, and I despair, sure that I will continue at this pace, and all too soon they will be revealed to me.
How I love a good book.
30
Apr
The last Monday
…that I will have to come here.
Today marks the beginning of my last week at Shikai.
I was running pretty late today, but I didn’t really care. I mean…it’s my last week.
Ugh.
I have the rough draft of my essay due for my English class tomorrow. Guesses as to whether I’ve started it—place your final bets—the answer is NO! This is the stupid essay that we are supposed to do research for. I hate research. I might call out tomorrow so I can work on it.
I wanted to call out today, but I have to finish that stupid warehouse project for Helen, and I don’t think I’ll get much of a chance to work on it tonight, ’cause it’s Robby’s 21st birthday and I PROMISED that I’d go out to the bar for a little while. So, if I call off work tomorrow, I can use up some of my sick time that I have left *and* try to get my essay rough draft written. Stupid class.
Went to the city yesterday. Had fun. Bought Pockey. Took photos (but haven’t processed them yet). Watched Fooly Cooly and slept on the way home.
Not a lot else to say.
Wow.
I passed out so bloody hard last night.
I made dinner — home-made skettie sauce with ground beef and Italian sausage, garlic bread and zucchini boats in quantities that were beyond ridiculous for 2 people There is SO much left over pasta. Not even funny.
We watched Lost — WICKED episode last night. Or, at least….the end.
We watched DS9.
We did one of those things that we could do since mom was gone.
And then I passed out like a rock, mid-Star Trek. It was one of those ‘just gonna close my eyes for a minute’ things. I closed them until around 6am, when I got up and brushed my teeth then went back to bed.
Briggs, Heather and I are going to the City today — Japantown. 
Gonna get some more Pocky, some Pretz and some of these chestnut mochi candies that I got last time I was there. They were AMAZING.
(I don’t know what it is about this stuff…it has like, crack in it. Cheezy/pretzly cracker sticks. Amazing. My cat is addicted to them too. She’s actually all cuddled up in my lap right now, and I think it’s ’cause she knows I’m gonna try to get some Pretz today.)
(also containing crack)
Wow…this blog has really been mostly about food….
Well…we are also going to get Briggs’ suit altered:
And…check out hot asian people.
<– for Briggs
<–for Ra
