miscellaneous

well, i can't say i'm not a little sad that no one has said anything about my last post.. i'd already talked to kate about it, and sam and i discussed it a little, and i know sarah & iain were winging there way across the pond to the ct, so they all have excuses, but where are the rest of you? help a girl out, ey?? it's okay, i realize i'm not the center of everyone's universes (although why, i don't know), but if you guys get a minute i really do want to know what you think.

i did discuss it with jon more, but i got a lot of "okay" .. "okay" .. "okay" .. as i listed my points of benefit and concern, and i had to ask specific questions -- ie, do you think i should do it? is this a good idea? will i be any good at it? -- in order to get more than "okay." but to be fair, he was having a cranky day.. i'd talked to him a couple times during the day and he was a little crankypants, and so i probably shouldn't have launched into the (heavy) subject shortly after arriving home friday night.. i thought he was feeling better, but he was a little more lackluster than i'd hoped for. if we're going to do this -- because it's not just my life that will be affected -- i want him to be excited about it, or at least a gung-ho supporter. so "okay" was better than "whatever" or "i don't care in the very least" but i could use a little more of a push, i think. but that's beside the point and probably just me being insecure about a life-changing decision, and when i did ask the specific questions he said he does think i should do it ("if you want to".. haha) and that he does think i'd be good at it. and he pointed out that i have done a fair share of thinking on this and there wasn't a lot he could add to it since i'd already thought of everything and thought of ways to combat all the concerns (ie, loans for money, us both working part-time, possible helping each other study, etc). which is pretty legitimate, i've been beating all the points to death in my head.

on a more random note, i finally saw pirates!! i won't use any specifics in case someone hasn't seen it, but i enjoyed it. i wasn't terribly thrilled with the ending, but aside from that it was funny and i didn't even notice how long it was (i was a little afraid it would be too long for my gnat-like attention span), minus the fact that i had to pee about 40 minutes into it and we were sandwiched in the middle of a full aisle and i didn't want to miss anything, so i held it, which wasn't the most fun part of the evening, haha. but i was pretty stoked to finally see it and i was pleasantly fulfilled. i was a bit irritated by the end, as i said, especially because they TOTALLY left it open for a fourth one -- which, according to my brother, is already being filmed, but i can't confirm or deny that -- which just irritates me because it makes me feel used. they know i'm going to watch another one if it comes out and i know i'm going to watch another one if it comes out, but you don't need to rub it in my face. i don't need a teaser to drag me into the next one.. if anything, it makes me less likely to go watch it in theaters just out of spite. damn the man! (..save the empire!)

on another random note, my brother called me friday night to ask when i was getting together with dad because he got scheduled to work later so he could do lunch (he's normally working), and i was pretty pumped so i told him i'd tell dad and we'd do lunch. so i texted my dad because i know he knows how to read them (doesn't seem like rocket science to us, but technology is hard for some older people). usually he runs to a computer (or just opens a new window if he's already on one, which is highly likely) and writes a reply from his email to my phone, but this time, he actually TEXTED me back! and then i wrote him back, and he wrote me back, and we proceeded to have a lovely little texting conversation, during all of which i was thrilled and amused that my father knows how to have -- and will have -- a texting conversation. how cool is my dad, honestly??

also cool about my dad is VACATION in july is coming up, when we all pilgrimage to my aunt's place on lake wentworth in new hampshire, for which i am TERRIBLY EXCITED!! i may or may not have the full week off work, but i may or may not quit and go anyway, so basically i am planning to be up there. they keep changing whether or not i'll have my vacation, cause one of my bosses is going to be on maternity leave somewhere around the end of june/beginning of july, and i get that she needs time for that (and her husband, who also works here), but i don't feel like it's fair that because she's adding to her family, i am missing mine. so first i got told it was gonna get denied, then i got told it was getting approved, then it actually got denied, but now it's been resubmitted by the exec editor (who outranks the baby-having boss) and on its way to the publisher to be approved, so theoretically i'll have my vaca. but this will be the first in a couple years that i will NOT be working for a FULL week. and jon has it all off (except wed & fri, which he assures me will not be a problem to get off, but make me nervous anyway), so we are both going up, AND! my brother and his gf (tiana) are also going to be up from i think sun-thurs, which is freaking awesome because i can't remember the last time he and i were on vacation together. last year, we literally passed each other on the highway.. they left wednesday and were arriving back in ct just as jon & i were about to cross the mass border on the way up, which was cool cause they left us some food & beer, but i'd rather have eric there than free beer. (and maybe i can worm free beer out of him WHILE he's there... oooh, new plan!) and i'm hoping enslin can come visit me, and we're trying to get jon's cousin & her husband (sarah & eli) up for the first weekend to play as well. but it's a lovely time of laying on a float on a lake, taking booze cruises on the pontoon boat, eating & drinking, relaxing, watching movies, doing puzzles, reading, whatever. just lovely. i'm sure my dad will take a million pictures, so i'll post some after ...and as soon as i know how, haha. vaca isn't til the last week of july anyway, but i am already pumped!

now, what's coming BEFORE the vaca that i'm excited for, you may ask. and i may answer, well! sarah & iain and i have a rendezvous planned for the end of june, although where i have no idea, haha, but i am super pumped/excited/stoked/thrilled (all being words i have already used. man, i guess things are good, eh??) to see them. i will not be bringing a belated wedding gift because i am poor, but hopefully my presence will be enough, haha. also on the list of exciting things is HARRY POTHEAD coming out in july -- the book AND the movie!!! i might pee myself, for pete's sake. umm.. i think that same week is the hawthorne heights show which i am excited to go to. i'm sure there's more, but those are on my list for now.

my plan for the rest of the night now includes reveling in fingernail-biting anticipation of the events to come, and to see if i can post a picture, cause i just saw a button that says "add image," so i'm going to try that. and then i'm going to go do some work (pffffft).

as always, oodles and oodles of love to you all.