Hooray for short workweeks. Tomorrow the week is half over. Yesterday, Justin and I grill kabobs on the grill. Steak, chicken, peppers, onions and mushrooms. They were quite tasty. Other than that, I didn't really do much yesterday. We just hung around the house and watched TV all day. And even though it was Memorial Day, there weren't really any good movies on yesterday. That was a little dissappointing, but all in all it was still a pretty good day.

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It's been quite the relaxing weekens so far. Friday I got off work an hour early, so Justin and I took a drive out to the lake. We didn't have our bathing suits with us, so we waded in in our clothes. We're idiots. We went back on Saturday afternoon with our next door neighbor. This time we were properly appareled. I got a little desperately needed sun on my arms. After we came back, we were planning to grill out, but we ended up eating a late lunch and then sleeping until 9:00.

Today is our would-have-been anniversary, so we went out to eat after church at a mexican restaraunt. It's a nice little privately owned place. The wait staff and everyone there are always really friendly (we've never eaten in before, but we've called in orders to go). I loved it and Justin said it was the best Mexican food he's ever has, so we'll probably go back.

And, I don't have to work tomorrow. I love three day weekends. They rock.

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Just killing time at work before I can clock back in after lunch. I'm typing on a laptop so it feels very weird to me. I have absolutely nothing to say so, I'm going to stop typing now.

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I got up and went jogging this morning. I always feel so much better when I do. The hard part is getting out of that oh-so-comfy bed in the morning. While I had planned to go to bed early last night, Justin and I made a Sonic run, and then stayed up late talking. But, it was nice and I'd rather have that than an extra hour or two of sleep.
American Idol finals are tonight and while I vowed to stop watching, I'll probably break down and do it anyway, as Justin will have it on anyhow. Well, I guess its off to work for now...

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*Sigh* Another Monday over and done with. The rest of the work week should be downhill from here. I don't really have much to say, as every work day is pretty much the same.
I finished "The Giver" this evening, and I must say it was quite an excellent read. Now I guess I must turn my attentions back to that southern lit novel I'm reading. It would be much easier if any of the characters were likable. Maybe it'll get better (I doubt it though).
At any rate, its early to bed tonight, so I can get up and run in the morning.

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I feel Much better this morning! I even got up early to run and everything. Yesterday was just a bad day. I woke up feeling crappy because I didn't take my allergy pill the day before, and then at work I had to do data review, which is a lot more exhausting than the work I usually do. So, by the time I got home, I was completely run into the ground. I feel very energized this morning after my morning run even though I had to run without music because, while the radio and cd player were in our running bag, the headphones weren't. That kind of sucked, since I don't have that many thoughts to keep me company when I first wake up. But all is well now, and I'm ready for the last day of work this week. Perhaps I'll even find the energy to do some grad school stuff tonight. Maybe even study a bit for the GREs (scary, scary, scary). Better get to work...

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I was going to do grad school stuff tonight (aren't you proud), but my head hurts and I feel like poo. So rather than being productive, I think that I'll lay around for a while and then go to bed early.

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Quick note before work. I did get up and run, but not at 6, I went at 8 by myself. Justin says he'll go later while I'm at work. That's not what I wanted to write about though. On my way back from the gym I realized something very cool. Justin and I live about 3 blocks from the only legal place to grow marijuana in the U.S.
They sometimes use students for study purposes in the experiments they conduct. We should try to get in on some of that action, No? ;)

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I love weekends! I sat around and did a whole bunch of nothing. It was lovely. Alas, now it is Monday, and the workweek has begun its dreadful cycle once again. I went to the Turner Center (the gym here on campus) and got a membership this morning, so I'm going to get up early in the morning (around 6...i hope) and go running with Justin tomorrow, because the gym is closed when I get off work. It sucks tremendously. If I want to make any use at all of my membership, I'm going to have to transform myself into a morning person.

In good news though, I thought Justin was going to be off all week between the end of spring semester and the beginning of summer, but it turns out that he's started classes today. That's not the good part; the good part is that I took Wednesday off to spend with him, so even though he has classes, I have an entire day off...Yea for free time. I've forgotten what its like to lie around and do nothing on a weekday. I'm sure it will be very nice.

Oh, one more quick thing. Don't watch "The Ice Harvest." It sucks, but if you find that you must, don't pay any money to watch it. Justin and I watched it last night and it is by far one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. Watch Psycho instead. Its a clasic, and for good reason. Very good movie. Guess that's all for now. I didn't mean to go all Ebert and Roper on you, but I feel very passionate in my dislike for "the ice harvest" and I didn't want any of you fine people to waste your time or money.

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Just a quick note. Riding home with Justin from the video rental store we heard "Incomplete" on the radio; and what with the anniversary of graduation coming up next week, I couldn't help but feel a little homesick for Emily and The Kristin. Man, I miss those chicks. Those were some seriously good times.

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American Idol is rigged. Chris went home and talent-less shows-off-her-boobs-to-get-votes Katharine is still there!?!?

I'm officially not watching the show anymore this season.

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I guess I should fill everyone in on all of the exciting events of April, since I didn't bother to post at all that month.

I got a tattoo of a magnolia on the 28th. It looks pretty good if I do say so myself. It's on my hip and as of right now it is rather itchy as it is not quite done healing. The tattoo artist that we went to was a lady. She was quite good. She shaded it and everything (I didn't want color b/c Justin is going to get a matching one and he'd just look gay with a colored magnolia - not that a magnolia is over masculine or anything).

The double decker festival was the weekend before last. Basically, the town of Oxford is transformed as best as possible into its British namesake. They have a british phone booth downtown on the square year round and for the festival they have a...double decker bus that they drive people around in. Hence the name. I checked out some of the local artwork, but didn't buy anything...perhaps I should have though. Some of it was actually quite good.

Hmmm...what else? I've seen about a million dead armadillos on the side of the road. Poor things, they don't seem to have very good luck when it comes to crossing the highways. I feel sorry for them.

I'm sure there are other things, but for now that's all I can think of. I'll be sure to post anything else I remember from April.

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*Sigh*
I don't like Monday's. Work is always about the same, so I'll save you the boring read about that. I started the Two Towers today. It was my favorite of the movies, so I'm sure I'm going to like the book too. Nothing very interesting to report for today. Just that another long work week lies before me. Bah.

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Just a quick post before bed.

Justin and I went to the Beale Street Music Festival yesterday, where we spent way too much money, but had a blast. We saw quite a few bands, but the best by far was Three Days Grace. They put on a hell of a show. We wanted to see Jerry Lee Lewis, but the bastards made a switch in the performance times, so we missed him entirely.

Went to the library today and checked out "The Giver", so I'll probably read that this week. I'm also in the middle of "The Heaven of Mercury" by Brad Watson, one of the many, many Mississippi authors. I'm not a fan of southern lit, but I figure I should probably work to develop and appreciation for it while I'm down here.

Speaking of which, "they" are tearing down The Village Apartments in May of '07 to make way for the new law school. Bastards. So, if I want to do grad school here, we're going to have to find a place off campus which will be a pain in the ass as far as transportation, since we only have one car. Not sure what we're going to do then. Perhaps LSU or Alabama, though I'd really like to go to grad school here. I don't really want to live in Baton Rouge (it's grown by leaps and bounds with all the displaced hurricane victims, and I don't think I'd like a school as big as LSU anyway). I guess it depends on what we can work out with housing.

And I started listening to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy at work. It's taking a while to listen to it a work b/c its rather denser than the smut I usually listen to at work that takes absolutely no concentration. I have to keep rewinding b/c I'll be focused on my job...I know, what am I thinking, right? and I'll completely miss an entire paragraph. But I should be done with all three in the next few weeks or so.

...and I am honestly going to try to post more often. I promise. (its truly sad that I have no archive for the entire month of April).

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