eyebrows

there is a woman who i sometimes see on my bus... she has these really evil looking eyebrows. pointy. she always looks like she's scowling. i have never spoken to her but i imagine she's actually quite nice, yet people assume otherwise.

rental car

every time i have to rent a car for work (for a site visit) it's some kind of saga... all things considered, this morning was not so bad. i had to wake up and walk to the car rental place. the only annoying part was the fact that there was no sidewalk for part of the route since a large pile of dirty snow had not been plowed, so i had to walk IN the main street... not so great... but i arrived and the workers were nice and actually had my reservation on file! my office had reserved a compact car for me but somehow the only car they had at the rental place was a PT Cruiser. it was fine, but i felt sort of funny driving it. i think that people judge you based on what kind of car you drive... whether they want to or not, they make some sort of assessment... i wonder what they thought of me today...

relief.

yesterday i had a great day to myself... i knit a hat and went to yoga! i forgot how wonderful yoga is... i used to go often to a bikram studio, then i fell out of it... when i arrived yesterday i purchased myself a 10 class pass and i am already thinking about going back!  i was intending to go to an earlier class, though, and did not make it until 6 because i was working on this:

yeah, kind of a silly picture.  whatever, deal with me.

day off

i decided i needed a day off... so here i am, at home in my pajamas, enjoying some coffee... i'm even going to go to yoga during the day! i can't wait!   semi-strange thing, though-- i woke up to see the time on all of the clocks flashing.  apparently the power went out.  it's strange though because it's as though someone was trying to tell me that i didn't need to get up right away... mind you, this was 8:45 though (when i looked at the time on my phone) so while i felt relieved that i had peacefully slept in, i realized that it was still pretty early... and i'm kind of happy about that; i get the whole day!

shanalines on deadlines

sometimes deadlines are really annoying... the ones that don't really end, that is. i feel like my project deadline [today] isn't really going to be over today...

another weird outfit. this time, not mine.

what a ridiculous ensemble. i decided not to take a picture of her face for fear she might find me.

hm.

i'm trying to decide whether or not i could pull of wearing a knit beret.

thoughts?

sometimes

sometimes something really cool happens... something you've been waiting for, and anticipating... and then somehow the pieces don't fall into place. that just happened to me. and... i'm feeling kind of strange-- as though i did something wrong. i'm a little sad... i will get over it.

ridiculous

i wore a ridiculous outfit to volleyball.

strangely, so did tobias.

missing pen

this morning when i reached into the outer pocket of my bag to work on the metro sudoku puzzles, i realized that i have a compulsive habit of putting these pens in my bag and jacket pockets. i am then shocked to discover i no longer have any on my desk.

january at the gym.

get ready people, it's new years resolution time and everyone has decided to go to the gym! tonight we arrived at our climbing gym around 7:45 PM to find the place packed to the brim-- many of the people there were new climbers, also, which... is annoying.  i'm sorry, i support people learning to climb, but too many new climbers just gets in the way.  people think they can climb harder stuff than they really can, and consequently get in my way.  

i can't wait until february when most of them give up.  ooh, i'm mean....

quiet.

so, it's really quiet in my office today. we went through a large round of layoffs, and it's holiday time... but MAN is it quiet in here! and cold. and apparently some people have no work to do... i just witnessed someone knitting a scarf.

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i'm going to post a picture every day. this is the first one.