10/15

Sickish from trying to quench thirst with Arizona iced tea (the non-green kind.) My presentation so far consists of Ernie & Bert, plus Kermit the Frog (hi-ho) representing John Locke & someone named Claude Helvetius, plus a racist hereditarian named Jensen. Respectively. Poor Kermit.

Had class today, but Power Point failure = 20 minutes of class. glad I've long since stopped parking in the structure. $3/day? I ask my two-years-ago self: how the hell could you afford to be that stupid? Mentally berating myself for past financial frivolity -- so this is what it's like to be old.

Damn gecko is back in the printer. Good thing I'm done printing.

10/17

My presentation sucked. But at least it's over. Next one's on the 30th. (It didn't pay off the first time to rush blindly into the fray, so why am I doing it again?)

Running off to 2ndJob now.

2ndJob doesn't pay the bills but it does support the habits I choose not to try quitting. Nice sentence. Nevermind. Speaking of habits, I just had my first coffee pee of the semester. You know, the kind where the bathroom smells like Starbucks after.

Brother Mart called this morning. The group has settled in at the hotel and has already begun touring Beijing. I miss him. Thank God for cell phones.

Have another 2ndJob stint tonight. Last night's was pretty good ... Bella had a date with a French musician; they went to see an Italian film and had dinner at Sistina (y'know, even her kids know how to count to 10 and swear in Italian), so I watched the little ones till about midnight. They went to sleep at around 9:30 after we dug into the Halloween box and tried on all their costumes, and read the choicest chapters of "Beezus and Ramona" (read it and see if you can get "bingle bongle by" out of your head.) It was easy, and I fell asleep on the couch. I'm so thankful that we're getting along better than before, or at least that I am not having gravel thrown at me anymore. And Bella, like Kat, is a rare Kiddiepark treasure. 2ndJob may not pay the bills but I definitely have better employers, and no stupid coworkers.

Oops, 2ndJob cancelled for tonight. Which kind of works out because I have class at 8 tomorrow morning.

Scones are odd creatures. Dry, crumbly, bland, oddly shaped. Why am I so attracted to them?

And last update for today (barring a really exciting crossword puzzle or a milkshake attack): Zac and family are home at last. Yay!