|
August 14, 1997 I have a strange feeling of antsyness married with fatigue today. Don't get me wrong, I slept plenty. Mostly because Sabs stole the covers on me again and I had another one of those Arctic nights. I got up sometime last night and put on my nightgown so I would be warmer. And I stole the covers back. He made off with them again and I remember hanging on the verge of sleep, shivering for along time, too sleepy to grab the covers back and too tired to reach for the comforter. When the alarm went off at 8:30 I was dazedly awake and exhausted, so I told Sabs I was staying in bed. I slept and slept and slept after he covered me up and snuggled me back to warmth. I woke up vaguely at 10:45 when the alarm went off again. Reached over slapped it off and curled back up, fully intending to get up in a few minutes and catch the 11:15 bus. HAH! said Beth's body, you think so, but I've got better ideas. I'm going to put you back to sleep until you've had enough and you won't know it until I say so!. Next thing I know it's 12:11 and I have 4 minutes to get dressed grab my bag and walk to the stop for the 12:15 bus. I don't think so. I caught the 1:15. I got to work at 2:10pm. One of the Editorial Assistants had been looking for me. They were going to publish the piece (if you really want to read it, ask me for a password) I wrote in tomorrow's issue. But I didn't get there in time to finish editing it. So it won't run until Tuesday. Damn. That was stupid of me. But I didn't really expect that they'd want it so soon. This is after all the first piece of journalistic writing that I've ever done. But I think I'll try harder to get out of bed in the future. I'm still excited that I'm going to be published. In fact, it quite takes my breath away. It's like ... who me? really? Oh WOW! I can't wait to show my mom. She'll be so excited. Anyway. That's the most exciting thing going on right now. I still haven't registered for that class I was saying I was going to sign up for. It turns out I have to write a proposal and give it to my boss to get it approved if I want to get reimbursed for the class. So I'm procrastinating on that one. Another something scary. See I didn't want to bring that much attention to myself. I just kind of wanted to go take the class, do well and slip the forms into a stack to be summarily read and approved. Yeah, nice try Beth, of COURSE it doesn't work that way. DUH. Sabs and I got the cable modem hooked up on Tuesday. Wow. It's FAST. It's beautiful to see everything coming up that fast, just POPPING right up on the screen. Sometimes it takes a bit longer but usually it's almost instantaneous. If you've got some extra cash and it's in your area, it's well worth it. |