Daydream Believer

Or, as Jessi would put it, “Not Dead.”

We’re going to give this whole update-your-blog thing a try once more.  It was all well and good when I was living alone in Virginia with no social life and a powerful desire/need to procrastinate on my research, but then I came home and had real people to spend time with, who I could just TELL things to instead of typing them into the great void that is the Internets.  But, after some consideration, and an impassioned plea from Rich, I decided to try this out again.  It might not work.  I might poop out on it, but for now, we’ll see how it goes.

The newest thing to happen in my life of course is that I just spilled coffee down the front of my shirt.  Thank goodness I’m still in PJ’s.  The next newest thing to happen to me is that Grant and I found an apartment in Oak Park, so we’ll be moving in together sometime around July.  This is very exciting, but also kind of strange, because I’ve never lived with someone in the romantic sense.  Also, I have no idea how living in Oak Park will affect the frequency with which we see friends, and the relationships we have with our parents.  I predict former remains fairly steady while the latter will improve with distance.  Plus, I think I’m secretly hoping that others who would like Oak Park might also move.  Hint.

Slightly less newer is the fact that Grant has a job downtown, which means that the tables have turned.  Whereas he would always be the one who could hang out earlier than me, who had to wait for me to get out of work (and sometimes didn’t wait), now I am the one who gets home before him.  I wish our schedules were more in sync, but I figure once the speech season starts at the high school, I’ll be getting home much later, so what does it really matter?

Even more slightly older than that is the news that my computer is possessed.  Well, ok, that’s not true.  But what is happening is that something is wrong with the power source - like, the little jack that my power cord plugs into.  I think.  I don’t know.  My screen flickers pretty frequently and pretty drastically.  It always does a major flicker when you move from being plugged in to running on batteries, but it does that like all the time now.  And my little Battery Widget will indicate power/no power/power/no power…../ok, power agai/NOPE NO POWER!!! over and over like the jack isn’t connecting correctly to the cord.  I tried substituting the power cord from my work computer, which lessened the issue but did not completely eradicate it.  I should call Dell, but I’m lazy and unsure of when/where I should have them come out to fix the thing.  So right now I’m just putting up with it, but I am a bit concerned that it will eventually give me seizures.  Hmm.

I think that’s the majority of the news in my personal life right now.  I’m debating the merits of talking about work here, and I think in general I’ll have to avoid it, because any of the really good stories or whatever that I could tell would make it pretty easy for some random reader to find out where i work, and that’s something that I’m not sure would be a good idea.  Not that I write about anything scandalous or anything.  But still.  Peace out!