2/26/09 - Official Best Day Ever

Despite Green Bubble burning down to the ground on 2/25 (alex, I'm sure, with eulogize), Thursday was a totally awesome day and I'd like to tell you about it. The blog is dying anyway so I might as well use it for self-congratulations.

Chronological Bragging:
6:30-7:10 Awesomely great run
7:10-8:15 Breakfast etc. with Lee - including walking to 5th and 34th holding hands etc. This is part of my yuppie dream and very fulfilling.
8:45-10:30 - FINISH INFINITI - this partnership deal has killed me at work and now it is done. I feel so satisfied.
the day slips by...much chocolate consumed
2:30-3:30 Business update. (snooze) Cookies (yum). I WIN AN AWARD!! I get the Recognition Award for "Will to Win" see also: going above and beyond. They read this lovely nomination and I awkwardly listen trying not to beam like an idiot (a lot of hand-wringing is involved)
4:00 My boss returns from her spot on CNN and suggest I may be able to be on camera next time online does some television pr SQUEEE
5:30 Leave for tutoring, the best, most pleasant, most focused tutoring session since october. The kids suggest I become a teacher and/or guidance counselor. I try not to choke. Also, I brought salad from work so I wouldn't gorge myself on pizza - excellent plan.
8:45-10 Stop in with parents, get free food, pick up mail.
10:30-11:15 America's Next Dance Crew with alex, bed.

6:45 am Last session with personal trainer. sore.


So that's my awesome day. One more thing that didn't have an appropriate time frame: the woman on my team who I would say is most like my peer as far as responsibility level is leaving in may. She is a great coworker and a lot of fun but by leaving she opens up some funds in the budget and allows me to do more writing. Pretty much awesome.

Today I move a whopping two cubicles over. Should be awesome. Dinner with Joe Pirro tonight at lever house. Tomorrow lunch with parents, volunteering, and sunday facial, brunch at pastis, and an evening in brooklyn.

I'm concerned the other shoe is going to drop BUT I will say that my ears have been stuffed/bleeding lately so it's not like my life is totally perfect. Yay ears!

if one thing can save this blog ...

... it's bubblegum pop. below is "three day weekend," my first and probably only excursion into the wacky world of songwriting.

http://www.mediafire.com/?q3mmygvanzj

greetings from Prague

If I were pretentious(er) I'd start this with AHOY! which, in some other spelling (maybe) is the czech greeting. Also pivo means beer and I have been drinking far too much of it which is why I'm home at the tame tame hour of 11 tonight. One-drink *redacted* is in way over her head.

As an overshare - fiber is scarce in this city and I am paying that price as well (thank god I packed back-up)

I have a bit of traveler's guilt about not seeing everything on my list but to be honest, the city itself is the attraction not, say, the extensive taxidermy collection at the national museum (pleasantly free on the first monday of the month).

Things are cheap except for clothing - I am very close to buying a fur hat except it would be over 200 bucks (5,000 crowns) and I just can't justify that. In order to appease my intense desire to spent 4 figures of currency, I toyed with the idea of buying a vintage fur coat instead - but I just looked crazy - photo to come.

Mostly prague can be summed up as such:
stale cigarettes, pork, and communism

2 Things

1-i have a silly assignment where i have to write a response to a writing about writing styles?  dammit i just wanna write my thesis draft.  sedgwick and moten and freaking adrian piper aren't gonna really overhaul my ideas/ways of writing at this point.  also i have like 4.5 inches of coursepack (1 coursepack sheet=4 book pages), 13-15 books, other online readings, a bish of a routine, and a severe case of being a hermit already.

while i wasn't actually doing my silly assignment, i was thinking of 2 of my favorite things, debussy and cats, which leads me to number 

2-The Debussycat Dolls.  What would they be like?  Would they be awesome? Ironic? Fierce? Or is this just a sign that when I have cats of my own I will inevitably name one Claude?

Yo ho, February approach'th.

Imagine how unstirring Caesar's soothsayer would have been, had Caesar been murdered in early February?

Soothsayer: "Beware the kalendae of February!"

How poetic of the Muses.

Note: mayhap there is a correlation between a declining Japanese population and an obsession with plush gimmicks?

G'day.

And now John Updike's dead. Before my obsession with Wallace, there was my obsession with Updike. (An unlikely combination, but, eh.) My two favorites from the past five years, dead in the past five months.

What comes to mind is very un-Updikean: Man. This sucks.

Woof.

Ok, at this point I want a dog not just for the standard furry canine companionship but for those sweet little puppy booties, too.