A Murder of One June 21, 2006

I just had the best nap ever. Well, as great as any nap can get when it's spent dreaming about work. It was actually, kind of a nightmare. Here's what happened.

I was scanning papers and every time I finished a stack, I'd turn around and there'd be more (oddly familiar to reality). And when I finally got off work, it was 11:30 PM and I was ready for food. I went over to a Thai restaurant and put my name down on the list. "Angela, 1." I remember in my dream thinking how depressing it was that I was eating at a Thai restaurant by myself. I grabbed a chair to wait. It was awkwardly sitting by itself in the middle of the restaurant so I had tables of people eating all around me. I'm watching this lady who was being rude to the waiter and she's trying to take her water home, but as she's pouring it into a take-out cup, the cup isn't really there and it's just the take-out lid. Water spills out and floods everywhere. Two things cross my mind. 1) What an idiot. 2) Oh God. Is my Coach tote on the floor?! Lol. Even in my sleep I have the sense to protect the things I love. I frantically look around and my bag's safely hung from the chair (which is actually something I'd never do in real life because the weight of the bag would pull on the straps and ruin it). Anyway, I'm sitting there waiting to get a table. Everyone else who's waiting gets a table and I figure I must be next, and last, on the list. More time passes and I'm getting really hungry. There's empty tables everywhere, but I'm just sitting there still. I don't want to be rude or seem pushy so I keep sitting there…waiting. Eventually, a hostess comes over and asks if I'm waiting for someone. I tell her I had my name on the list and was just waiting for a table. She smiles and tells me there must have been a mistake because my name wasn't there, but she'd be happy to seat me if I'd like. "Yes, please," I respond. I glance at the time on my cell phone. 1:30 AM.

Analyze that.

This Is The Countdown June 21, 2006

Frick! It happened! I must've jinxed myself with the post. To make it worse, it wasn't even one of the people who usually come into my cubical, but a complete stranger who needed to use the scanner. And then the computer froze but I didn't want to point that out to him. I said, "Hm…this is taking a long time." And he goes, "Slow I can handle. At least it's working." Um..hardly, but how do you tell that to a man who you don't know that just saw you dancing? Anyway, it was the most awkward 10 minutes in my cubical with a man whose name I didn't even catch. We did talk about Matt Franks though. Lol. Crazies.

Cocoon June 21, 2006

When I'm at work, it's usually nice. I don't bother anyone and no one bothers me. I'm in my own cubical, ipod on, scanner going, while sipping coffee and browsing facebook.

Usually, no one really pops their head into my cubical except maybe a handful of people. Even then, it's at most twice a day by whichever one of them. That's enough to keep me on my toes though.

I have this great fear. See, when I have my ipod on, sometimes I start "dancing" in my cubical. You know how that is. When a good song comes on, you can't stop dancing even if you want to. Mind you, it's not full on, bust a move, knocking things over kind of dancing. Hahaha. Regardless though, I'm dreading the day that some one walks in on me rocking out to a song, and at the rate I've been going, I'm pushing me luck.

Anyway, I should go. This post is slowing me down.

The Adventure June 21, 2006

I found this picture on my computer, and for some reason, it still makes me happy.

It was back in the summer of 2004 when I was on my second mission trip down in Ensenada. I was holding this little boy in my lap while he was coloring. He kept playing with my sunglasses and eventually took them from me to wear himself. I had Irene come over to take a picture cuz he looked so cute. This picture is him being camera shy and me laughing at how adorable it was he didn't want to be "caught" on camera.

I'm sad I'm not going with the youth this summer. I'm sad I'm not going again until 2008.

Steady As We Go June 21, 2006

This basically sums up finals week. It was stressful (as expected) and painful (first time I felt physical pain this year from tests), but all the same, it was surprisingly fun. Multiple late nights full of food, laughs, palm readings, angurritos, and post-it attacks.

I already found out what I got in Hum and although I'm not completely happy with it, I guess it's what I deserve. Just gotta keep working harder. Math grades were supposed to be posted Tuesday night but that didn't happen. I hate waiting. It's dreadful.

I like wordpress. I was getting bored with blogger. I've had the same layout for nearly 2 years I think. Wow. I used to change it daily. Lol. Anyway, the features wordpress has to offer is much more exciting for a closet nerd like myself. So, for all you loyal readers out there, I'll be posting a lot more since there's so much more reason to now.

Hope you all have a beautiful day!
(Yes, I'm still nocturnal. I'll change soon enough.)

Beating Hearts Baby June 21, 2006

Well, there we have it. I finally broke away from blogger and moved on to wordpress. This could be the start of something wonderful.

–Bonus points to whoever can figure out what the title of the posts are.

–Extra bonus points if you know where the subhead (up top under the title) is from.