i feel crappy. when i am sick, it is usually in the half-sick sort of way, where i don’t really want to go to work, but i don’t really want to stay home. at work, there’s at least something to do. at home, i’d just be sick and bored. so here i am. i actually feel better at the moment than i did this morning. becca must be feeling worse than she did yesterday, because it’s 10:00 and she still hasn’t shown up for work.
i’m foggy though. ray came in about half an hour after me and informed me that i left my headlights on. so i headed back out to the parking lot in the drizzle to turn them off. the weather is nasty, and depressing. i haven’t seen the sun in the week since i got back to houston, and it’s getting old.
yesterday i went to get my hair cut and dyed. i had considered cancelling because, duh, i felt crappy, but i went anyway. it turned out well. the guy i used to go to no longer works at the salon (i didn’t ask why, so i don’t know if he left, or was fired, or what), so i went to a new girl named amanda. i really liked her, and she did an awesome job with my hair. when i told her i’m trying to go back to my natural dirty blond, she had a great suggestion to lighten it up from its current dark brown. so three hours (yes, three hours, good lord) and about ten pounds of foil later, my hair is lighter, but not fake-looking. happy me. hurrah.
i was reading yesterday about a continental flight from tokyo to houston that developed an oil leak in one engine and had to make an emergency landing on midway island. now, mechanical problems on a plane over the middle of nowhere in the pacific ocean is nothing to joke about, but i do think it is sort of cool that the people on the plane got to stop at midway island! i mean, how often does anybody have a chance to go there?? random.
so the hour and a half run on tuesday night was probably not such a good idea. it certainly didn’t help me get rid of this cold, or whatever bug i have. and my legs have been really sore ever since. odd. my legs don’t get sore from running anymore, or so i thought. maybe it also has something to do with climbing on monday after not having worked my muscles for three weeks.
well. i think i’ll try to get gavin’s parameterized footprints ready by lunchtime, then maybe take the afternoon off. in the meantime, my ipod and complete lord of the rings trilogy soundtracks will comfort me.
