I woke up this morning to find the toilet so clogged that I couldn’t even fix it with the plunger, even though I spent a good five minutes trying. Lovely imagery, right? I swear, I don’t know what my roommates are feeding the thing.
Anyway, I can’t even worry about it now because I’m off to class. Hopefully Kate will handle it. It’s gray outside again this morning…I guess gray has just been the trend for the past week. I’m not surprised — I mean, everyone has been saying that we haven’t really had a normal rainy season this year — but I was really starting to get used to endless sun. Nice to know that the weather isn’t ALWAYS nice, not even in California. But still, I want the sun back. Hopefully it will reappear soon.
(8:15 p.m.)
This is a great quote (stolen from Chris): “University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” Henry Kissinger. Very true.
I just got to talk to the kentmeister for an hour…finally, after wanting to call him for the past month, but letting school and the time difference get in the way. He sounds reasonably content with school for now, though it is not his favorite thing to do, and he is still keeping an eye open for jobs. But oh…it was so nice to talk to him. Kent is the person I miss most of all. It sounds somehow mean to say that, because there are many, MANY people that I miss…but whenever I need a boost, it is always Kent that I think of. He can always make me smile. Other people are good for other things…Chris and Christina both make me feel loved, Carter gives me pretty good advice when I have problems, Jen is a great source of motivation, Becca and Karen are good for crazy foreign stories… but for pure smiles, it’s Kent.
(11:40 p.m.)
I was just watching headline news while I stretched after running, and heard a blip about how a security person at the Louisville, Kentucky airport — a guy who watches the x-ray machine — was fired after a National Guardsman noticed that he was asleep. They rescreened over a thousand people, and 12 flights were delayed. This struck me as extremely ironic, because I have vivid memories of entering the Philadelphia airport a few years ago for a flight back to Houston and passing through the security checkpoint where not one but TWO of the people supposedly watching the x-ray machines were sound asleep. My how times have changed.
