Waiting for band practice, it suddenly dawns on me that i have on clean clothes left for tomorrow. the only place i can think of to do late night laundry is my parents’ house. i’m only two towns away… guess i’ll visit them tonight.
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Monthly Archive for March, 2005
So, really, i’m just testing the ability to send a pic from my phone… Guess i have to wait until i get home to see if it worked
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I chronicled my hair for the day. It was inspired by the Day in the life… activity at ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
heavenly_dorks. I’ve been thinking about doing something different with my hair for a couple months now, but it’s been so long since I’ve cut it at all… in fact, aside from that crazy practice of shaving the sides of my head when I was in school, I really haven’t cut it in over 10 years. My dilemma is that I want a more modern rock n’ roll haircut, but I think I still need to be able to be presentable for work. I was leaning towards the “above the shoulder” idea, but I really worry about not being able to pull it back if I need to.
There are a couple things that I do that are probably construed as “rebelling against my father” by being the opposite of him. He was an economics major, I belive the entire monetary system is corrupt and should be destroyed. He’s fairly right-wing and I’m fairly left-wing. He’s bald and I have lots of hair…
But the real big one, the one that I think I actually do consciously, because of the way it affected my life adversely when growing up with my father… is that I am on time or early for everything. My father is always late. When I was young and dependent on him for rides, I was late to everything… late to practices for little league, late to litle league try-outs, late to band practice and always the last one to get picked up. Late to family functions (they still plan to have dinner on the table two hours after they’ve told him to be there). Late, late, late.
So today, my new band is supposed to play a show in somerville. The club and the website detailing the show say that it starts at 6pm… and yet, no matter how much I point this out to my bandmates, they insist that we’re going to get together at 6pm and go through our set and then pack up and drive an hour to the club when we’re done. This is heinous. Even if we’re not supposed to be there at the beginning of the show… I want to be there. I am going mad due to this. My brain may explode and my roommates will have to clean it off the wall.
If I never post here again, you all know what happened…
Yesterday’s attempt to make my car last through the whole day didn’t quite work. I got to work in the afternoon, but couldn’t start it afterwards. I had to get it towed… all the way to the mechanic around the block from my parent’s house, where it sits now. Actually, where it is hopefully being worked on, at this point. I’m driving my Mom’s car, which is ok… and I’ve got the MP3 player hooked up, so that’s fine. But, obviously, since I left my Sirius receiver in my car, my replacement antenna came today. Still waiting to find out if I’ll be heading out to get my car back tonight or tomorrow or whenever…
I’ve got to live on whatever cash is left in my wallet until Friday, when Tim’s check for the last two month’s rent and bills is safe to cash. I think I might have bought a coffee late last night in order to get home alive, but I can’t think of anything I actually need any money for, so that should be fine.
I really should’ve tried to nap this morning, I’m not sure I really got any sleep since yesterday. If I start crashing halfway through work, I’ll know for sure. I think today is going to be the day of the bubble-wrap contest. I’m gonna pick up four rolls of bubble wrap on the way to work, and then split my group into three teams… each team will have 5 minutes to plan the absolute fastest way for them to pop every bubble on the sheet. And then the winner will receive the fourth roll to pop however they choose… hopefully they will savor every bubble and enjoy it the way I would.
I love my car, I really do, but I hate my mechanic… unfortunately, he’s really cheap and I’m really broke.
A couple of months ago my headlights started dimming when I hit the brakes or the car downshifted or I turned the heat on… and I found it odd, so I mentioned it when I put it in for an oil change. The mechanic tested the battery and found it seriously discharged, replaced it and said that he had fixed it. Unfortunately, he had not fixed it. The lights still dimmed. Then some spark plug wiring went bad and the poor car was chugging up hills and bucking when under a load… so we replaced some wires and spark plugs and I mentioned that the lights were still dimming, and he said it was “too hard to diagnose.” This weekend the problem progressed a little further, every time I started the car, it was a little bit more sluggish to start… as if the battery was gradually getting more and more drained. And now it’s dead. Sitting in the back lot next to Drew’s car, in the hopes that a jump-start will get me to work.
Of course I’ll bring it back to the same mechanic again, tonight after work, for the sake of saving money. That is, if I can find someone to jump-start my car after work… if I even make it to work.
The work week has started again and today was a weird one. The State was supposed to come and check in on us today (I work for a state regulated program) and either they didn’t show up, or they avoided my section of the site the whole time… and then a co-worker’s car got hit in the parking lot. That was more stressful to her than I, but it added to the stress of the entire workplace, in a synergistic way… or maybe just a “we were short a staff member while she stared at the damage to her car” kinda way.
Then I bought $20 worth of groceries for the house… and watched a bunch of sci-fi. mmm. bed now? probably
my goals, specifically. This weekend, I had a chance to work at a Y Leaders Rally. Y Leaders is a teenage leadership and values development program. It made me realize that what I really want to be doing are more of these goal-oriented and theme-based programs, especially with middle school and older kids. The after-school day care stuff I’m doing isn’t quite satisfying enough. Thankfully, there will be more team-building come April… and I may run the team-building program this summer, though the LIT program was just as goal-oriented, but a little change might be good, even if it is with younger children. I’m sure the summer will be great, whatever I end up doing, but I should definitely start looking for something better to do in the winter…
