Slow... Day...
Jul. 30th, 2003 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackofallgeeksWow, this is the longest day in the world. It's only 10:30. That means a full 90 minutes yet before Lunch... I find it marginally sad that I spend the balance of my work day waiting for lunch... arguably, if I had something more engaging to work on, but...
First thing of note, I'm getting rather... irritated by the whole carpooling thing. See, I drive my dad into work in the morning, and then pick him up in the afternoon before going home. Now, this IS a good thing, and it was fine in the beginning. We would leave at 6:30, I'd get to work at about 7:30 or 7:45, pick him up around 4:00 or so, and we'd go home. Now, I don't know if that's slipped or what, but... Well, it just seems to add a full HOUR to my commute, both ways, now. We don't leave at 6:30, we leave closer to 7:00, which means I arrive closer to 8:00, which means I need to stay later in the afternoon, which I don't enjoy. Then, when I go to pick up my dad, and let him know at 4:00 that I'm waiting for him, he doesn't come right down. He routinely waits a good 15 to 30 minutes before he comes down, so it's about 4:30 before we leave his work, and then it takes us roughly an HOUR ust fighting traffic back to where my work is, and then we still have the full commute home (which is only about 30 to 45 min). So we're leaving later and getting home later and, being a creature of routine and schedual (hard as that may be for some to believe), this really starts to grate on my nerves after a while.
Other things of import:
It is now 90% assured that I'll be spending a week up in Ohio with my Cousins, which, I'm sure, will do me a world of good. -grins- Now, Rachel's going to be packing and stuff for College at least a bit while I'm there, but I'm sure I could bring one of the dozens of books I've been meaning to read, and/or play with Kate and Mere, so that's no biggie. I also expect to be seeing my friend, Elizabeth, who's going to be in the same area around that time visiting a friend of her own.
Unfortunately, I think this means I'll miss Stacey stopping by Maryland, which isn't cool. And, with Claire comming home on the 10th, me leaving on the 13th, and then BOTH of us going to college right as I get back, I fear i'll miss seeing her before the end of the summer, too. And that's not cool.
My little sister, Becky, just had her birthday yesterday. She's all of six years old. My other sister, Emily, is the cutest thing in the world. She's about 2 now, I believe, but she thinks for all the world that she's 8 or something.
Emily from Virginia is, currently, on a retreat with my old Church (Saint Matthew's) up in Michigan of all places! It sounds like something I would enjoy, what with Appologetics and the like. -nods- She said that she'd tell me about it when she gets back (in a week, I think), and she also promised to reply to me emails sometime.
There was something else to say... But what was it...?
Oh, Gene's insane. Well, we knew that, but... He's been staying up and doing his work through the night, then going to bed about when I get up for work and sleeping until early to mid afternoon. apparently my family's a bunch of nigh-owls, stemming from my great grandmother, who was a Nurse. He's actually been getting more work done this way, too, which is good, as he needs to be done Senior year in ten days. But anyways, last night he started his work at midnight, an hour after I went to sleep, finished reading his book for Literature, and was writing up his book review when I woke up.
I lost my train of thought...
Resistance is Infantile
First thing of note, I'm getting rather... irritated by the whole carpooling thing. See, I drive my dad into work in the morning, and then pick him up in the afternoon before going home. Now, this IS a good thing, and it was fine in the beginning. We would leave at 6:30, I'd get to work at about 7:30 or 7:45, pick him up around 4:00 or so, and we'd go home. Now, I don't know if that's slipped or what, but... Well, it just seems to add a full HOUR to my commute, both ways, now. We don't leave at 6:30, we leave closer to 7:00, which means I arrive closer to 8:00, which means I need to stay later in the afternoon, which I don't enjoy. Then, when I go to pick up my dad, and let him know at 4:00 that I'm waiting for him, he doesn't come right down. He routinely waits a good 15 to 30 minutes before he comes down, so it's about 4:30 before we leave his work, and then it takes us roughly an HOUR ust fighting traffic back to where my work is, and then we still have the full commute home (which is only about 30 to 45 min). So we're leaving later and getting home later and, being a creature of routine and schedual (hard as that may be for some to believe), this really starts to grate on my nerves after a while.
Other things of import:
It is now 90% assured that I'll be spending a week up in Ohio with my Cousins, which, I'm sure, will do me a world of good. -grins- Now, Rachel's going to be packing and stuff for College at least a bit while I'm there, but I'm sure I could bring one of the dozens of books I've been meaning to read, and/or play with Kate and Mere, so that's no biggie. I also expect to be seeing my friend, Elizabeth, who's going to be in the same area around that time visiting a friend of her own.
Unfortunately, I think this means I'll miss Stacey stopping by Maryland, which isn't cool. And, with Claire comming home on the 10th, me leaving on the 13th, and then BOTH of us going to college right as I get back, I fear i'll miss seeing her before the end of the summer, too. And that's not cool.
My little sister, Becky, just had her birthday yesterday. She's all of six years old. My other sister, Emily, is the cutest thing in the world. She's about 2 now, I believe, but she thinks for all the world that she's 8 or something.
Emily from Virginia is, currently, on a retreat with my old Church (Saint Matthew's) up in Michigan of all places! It sounds like something I would enjoy, what with Appologetics and the like. -nods- She said that she'd tell me about it when she gets back (in a week, I think), and she also promised to reply to me emails sometime.
There was something else to say... But what was it...?
Oh, Gene's insane. Well, we knew that, but... He's been staying up and doing his work through the night, then going to bed about when I get up for work and sleeping until early to mid afternoon. apparently my family's a bunch of nigh-owls, stemming from my great grandmother, who was a Nurse. He's actually been getting more work done this way, too, which is good, as he needs to be done Senior year in ten days. But anyways, last night he started his work at midnight, an hour after I went to sleep, finished reading his book for Literature, and was writing up his book review when I woke up.
I lost my train of thought...
Resistance is Infantile
