My body hates all things SPRING

It's official I'm sick. One week before I leave for France and I'm sick. I have never been to France without getting sick before or while I am there. Perhaps it isn't spring, perhaps it is just France. Anyway, I'm exhausted from taking the antihistamines, I'm aching because I keep forcing my body to move. And I really just want to go to bed, unfortunately I am five hours till the end of class and five hours of driving to get there. Oh, and I know you are dying to know this....a side effect of the generic Claritin D is a constant, incessant need to PEE! Annoying at best, and yes I thought it necessary to share!

Small intermission in writing there to watch the Columbus Drive bridge go up to let the sail boats out into Lake Michigan from the Chicago River. Been going to school here for almost two years, never saw that before today.

So the trip this last week to Lexington KY and St. Louis was interesting. My new boss is awesome. He is fun to travel with and pretty laid back. I haven't had a boss this good since Rippe left. We had some extra time so we went up in the St Louis Arch. That was fun. Another test of my fear of heights but this one wasn't difficult at all. I'm fine as long as I am enclosed and without windows. It is more challenging with windows and it is damn near impossible without enclosure. I think my boss would have stayed up there all day. You can see right into the new Busch Stadium. The egg-pod tram ride up is the tiniest bit disconcerting, but not bad. I imagine someone who is claustrophobic would have a hell of a time in there. It is only four foot high inside the pod. Bumped my head a couple of times. It is a worth while experience.

I saw the Calumet Farm in Lexington. It is the white fenced farm you see every year if you watch the KY Derby. It is pretty. I was hoping to see it from the plane on the way out but we hit the clouds too quick. I was asleep moments after that.

Well, I'm home for this week and leave on Friday to come to Chicago and Saturday leave for Spain. Tuesday I will head for France and then back on Friday for school on Saturday. Ain't life grand?

It's that time of year again

Yes, it is spring. And to many this means love is in the air, blah blah blah...you know how that one goes. To me it means this is one of the two times a year when the windows are open for a few weeks. Trees are starting to bud which means the flowers aren't far behind and I will be closing up again and turning on the air before the pollen infiltrates and makes my nose run for the Arctic. So the windows are open, to most this would be a pleasurable thing they would not think twice about, not at my house. This is the time of year that my neighbors whom I adore! get a peek into my life.

The other day I was walking around my house giving some song, I don't remember which one my best lung filled harmony...in order words I was belting it! As I walked into my bedroom with the open window that faces Richie's yard and realize there's Rich! I did a u-turn so fast out of that room. He is so kind, he hasn't said a thing but I know he heard me...and no I didn't stop I just went into the office instead.

Today I left work early because I was not feeling well and I wanted to take a nap before leaving for Chitown. I slept til 4 PM which was much needed and the headache was gone when I woke. But sleeping felt really good! I got up and was on the road by 5 PM but not without a verbal lecture to myself about sucking it up and remember you got yourself into this whole MBA mess. I am positive if my neighbors heard any part of my self lecture that yes was an outloud monologue with myself they would have been chuckling.

C'est la vie!

I know I'm a slacker

The reason I haven't posted in so long is...

Investments! This class is a royal pain in the....

I have not had to work this hard at a class before in my life! Here's the kicker. I'm so completely unsure of myself in this class that I almost skipped out of my team discussion of the homework because first I only had the first two problems done and I was relatively sure I had them wrong. My pride said don't make a fool of yourself in front of four guys. After a little encouragement and finding out they were struggling as well. We talked. I actually had the first two problems correct. The sigh of relief heard around the world!!! I get this class under my belt and it will be smooth sailing to the sheepskin.

So I gave up sugar a while back now. Saturday on the way home from Chicago...all I wanted in the world was Culver's Frozen Custard. And by some painfully cruel joke I pass by four on the way home...five if you count the one that is a mile out of the way! I am happy to report..I did not indulge my craving however, my cheery disposition was out the window by the time I got to an hour from home and still had one more to pass.

The antichrist got a new job and is no longer working in my building. People asked me if I was going to congratulate her and considering she will not even say hello to me when we pass in the hall anymore I thought that would be a rather one-sided conversation. And since while I was saying congratulations what would be going through my mind and written all over my face would be "don't let the revolving door hit you in the ass on the way out." I thought it best to let sleepy dogs lie. We don't like each other and both of us are well aware of it. And some day when she works for me I plan to fire her. :)

I like pizza

Have you seen the movie "Multiplicity" with Michael Keaton? Basically he is so busy that he keeps cloning himself and then the clones are making clones, and well the last clone made is this complete moron that sits on the washer and dryer eating pizza and all he says is "I like pizza." A friend of mine who moved away a long time ago coming up on three years now :( Because I am in school I don't get to see her very often, well at all more like it. We keep in contact via phone and such, but yesterday I got a text message from her that said "I like pizza" I had been studying or reading the most boring and frankly 1984 scary book for class called Search. The message was well timed and had me laughing for a good five minutes. Only thing was I got it about five hours after she had sent it, and had just happened to move into the room where my phone was and heard the tones.

Study break yesterday: I watched the movie "The Wedding Date". Loved Dermot in this movie. He has this line in the movie though, that had to be written by a woman, ok, maybe it was written by a man, but if it was, then that man needs to come to my door today!!!! He said "I think I would miss you even if we had never met." It was a puddle of human ooze moment. Definitely a chick flick but a good one for Sunday afternoon to curl up with.

Grey's Anatomy - disappointing in that it was a rerun...hmmmpphhh.

The end of last week was fabulous at work. I had a major win, and the kudos came rolling in from all sides. It was awesome. Even had a thank you voice mail from the factory manager - got to bask in it while I can. Cause you know...100 attagirls are blown away by only 1 oh shit.

I'm off...time to shower.

Maddening

Its 3 AM and I'm awake! I can't seem to get my body to understand what time zone it is in. After the little time change on Saturday night, I was up the first half of Sunday night. Talk about tired at work on Monday. After work last night, I had dinner, went to go for a walk and ended up talking with my neighbors for a while before I went next door to Richie's to snag Casey, the big tan dog to go for a walk. We walked a few miles before returning home, passing the most stunning man that I didn't know lived in my neighborhood. Dang when he smiled and said hello, I had an Ally McBeal moment as I disengrated into a puddle of human ooze only to recover smile and say hello back. All the while Casey dragging me along behind her. He was so fine! If you saw the movie, The Truth about Cats and Dogs, when Janeane Garafalo is on roller skates getting pulled by the dog toward the very hot guy who kisses her. This was the thought that went through my head, first of how ridiculous I looked getting dragged by the dog and second that it was a tradegy that I didn't know the man's name and that he didn't kiss me. Anyway, I finished my taxes last night, got some homework done, and exhausted from lack of sleep last night went to bed at 10.....so why? why am I awake at 3 AM? Only answer - God doesn't like me very much!

Check out the Pics of China

Click on the flickr link in the side bar to see my set of pictures from China. Enjoy!

It's April Fools Day!

I deem it appropriate that the first day of the Spring Quarter of school falls on April Fools Day. Also I find it appropriate that we turn back our clocks one hour on April Fools Day, mostly because I am having enough trouble adjusting back to central time, now we are going to go mess with it some more!

Coming back from China every flight was delayed. The first two hours, the second four hours. Now I have said before I don't know much about the inner workings of the airline industry, but come on, how hard is it to get a plane off the ground at the time you say you are going to get it off the ground. This doesn't seem like rocket science to me. Obviously I am wrong because not a single airline can get it right. By the way, I was flying United this time. So I have this theory that since none of the airlines are actually good at what they do, and that it takes an incredible amount of capital to get an airline up and running that not a single airline in the business has any motivation to improve their incredibly poor performance and thus I will have to just grin and bear it.

But I have a question for all my friends who travel a great deal for work...How much extra would you pay to be guaranteed a flight you are booked on would leave on time?

See when I got into Chicago, but some freak coincidence, I ran into my friend Jeff in the Red Carpet club for United. Jeff is the friend I stay with on Friday nights in Chicago...So truly this was a freak occurrence. Especially since I haven't flown United in a couple of years. Last night, I stayed at his house. Guess who wasn't here...Jeff! Stuck in LA at the airport. So he missed an evening with his wife and kids when he travels more than I do. I would think for a traveler like him, this would be an ideal expenditure to be assure getting home for the weekend. Someone out there with more capital than I will have to put that theory to the test.

Ok, it is 8:04 here and I am off to school! Dolce Beijos!