Lay offs and Internships ...

So as some of you know, Evan got laid off this week. WTF mate?! That sucks balls. I mean, financially we can be okay for a while, but who wants to use their savings to pay rent? I certainly don't, and I know Evan doesn't.

His parents are being cool and they would give us money if we need it, but I don't want to feel dependent on them. I mean, if you are over 25 and you have the money, you should just take care of it, even if it means dipping into your savings now and then. Right?

So he's at home chillin', I hope, and having a grand ol' time. Except not really. Really he's doing a lot of work to get a new job, and that's great, but I hope he uses the time to relax a little bit.

In other news, I got word from the dude at Humboldt about the internship this summer. So here's the deal:

1) it pays $10.00 per hour - a pretty significant pay cut for me.
2) it's in HUMBOLDT
3) I'd need to find a place to sublet or something
3) I would have to take 5 weeks off my current job
4) I'd have to miss a term at school
5) I'd be away from my sexy man for 5 weeks
6) I'd have to take vacation pay from my current job to help pay bills

What do you all think? I think it's a good opportunity, but probably not good enough to justify all of the above.

Let me know.

Sonofabitch...

This week's been really hard. I was kicking so much ass to before I got completely inundated with my school work and then decided to have some fun!!

Stupid stupid stupid.

Will I ever learn?

So here's the summary:

Friday, 1/16 - DAY OF REST -
Slept most of day. Couldn't get out of bed actually. I was surprised at being so tired, but I figured I was worn down from school.
Instead of doing homework like I was supposed to, I took a break and watched If These Walls Could Talk. It's excellent, but really hard to watch. It's about abortion and it's graphic and disturbing at parts, but very well done.

Then, Evan and I had date night at the Taqueria and went to see Tim Burton's new flick, Big Fish. It was a great story and very imaginative and fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Saturday, 1/17 - SKIING -
Went up to Northstar for some kick ass skiing. It was fantastic. I had the best time ever and my personal best day of skiing ever. (Which isn't hard to do) I idid all the hard runs and actually enjoyed them this time. I did two 360's (not iin the air, but still it's scary to do going down hill) and two jumps. I wasn't too afraid of anything but I stopped before I let myself get too crazy. The snow was decent ... a bit on the icy side, but for the most part it was great. And the weather was GORGEOUS. Sunny and warm! It was a lot of fun.

Came home and can't remember what I did, but I'm betting it had to do with looking at homework and going to bed.

Sunday, 1/18 - SICK DAY -
Did homework, studied, whatever. Wrote stupid memo on doing business in Germany. Ate some cheese ravioli and thought they made me sick. Weird how they didn't make Evan sick though.

Got worse and worse as afternoon wore on.

Monday, 1/19 - SICK DAY -
Not a holiday for my office but regardless I didn't make it in. I was sick. Sick in bed most of the day. In fact, I can't honestly say I remember what I did. Slept a lot I think.

Tuesday, 1/20 - SICK DAY -
Thought I was feeling better. Moved on to solid food only to be reminded (for an hour and a half solid) that my stomach was not ready for that. Reverted back to broth and water.

Wednesday, 1/21 - SICK DAY -
Came in to work. Left after half the day. Went home and studied for my quiz that is today.

Thursday, 1/22 - NORMAL DAY - UGH
Returned to solid food again and so far no troubles. Evan talked to my stomach today (really, he did) and told it to stop hurting me and I think he actually influenced it somehow. Too bad he didn't do that on Sunday when it started. Here at work hanging out. Bored and bored. Studying for my quiz. Worrying about my presentation on Monday. Thinking about how I really do need to write my paper soon. An ethical dilemma paper. It shouldn't be hard, but for some reason I can't come up with a topic. I suck.

Evan's 'rents are coming down tomorrow night and taking us to dinner!! yay.

On Saturday, while everyone goes and plays at museums and stuff, I will be working on Power Point and researching my paper. Then we are going to dinner again!! yummy!!

While I don't enjoy being sick, I really did like hanging out at home in my pajamas all day. It was cool to have no obligations and to just relax. It's sad that I only relax when sick. I need to work on that. Someday.

Probably after my heart attack.

David & Goliath

The discovery channel is so fricken cool! Last night I decided I couldn't study any more. I needed a break from school. So I'm sitting on the futon and flipping through channels and nothing is on. Or at least nothing I'm willing to watch, which of course makes me turn to my default station The FOOD Network. And they have Emeril on who I think is boring.

So I flip to my second defaul, Discovery channel. And they are doing a historical perspective on the biblical story of David and Goliath.

Many of you know I'm not super relgious and was raised Ba'hai, so as you might imagine, I have very little experience with the Bible. But Discovery gets these historical experts and super duper anthropologists to come up with the following story.

1) Yes, a flint stone hurled out of a slingshot can kill you in one blow. They estimate that a stone thrown could attain a speed of 80mph. Also, slingshots were a weapon of choice back then.

2) Yes, Goliath could have been a human giant, measuring 9 feet in height. He would have had a chromosonal defect that causes the growth hormone to be massively produced. I can remember the exact name, but it is 'something- giganticus'. Also, they think that because he was so large and such a proud warrior that he wore about 120lbs of armor for battle. David rocked him.

3) David wielded his musical ability to gain the confidence of King Saul. When Saul started feeling suspicious of David (because everyone loved David for killing Goliath and stopping the battle), David went into a self-imposed exile. There he started working with the Philistines (his supposed enemies) and gaining power.

4) The bible makes it very clear that Saul was killed during battle against the Philistines and that David was not there at the time, and lamented his death publicly and profusely. Historians think that's bunk and although they don't know what exactly David's part in Saul's death was, I think he hired Philistine assasins to make it look like a war crime.

5) David is king. He's pretty good, but he doesn't unite all of Israel. In fact, his son stages a huge revolution against him, and tons of people in his kingdom want to throw him out of power.

6) He knocks up a very pretty woman who's husband is fighting in his army. He then kills the husband because the husband won't come back and take care of the illegitimate baby he's created.

All in all good show.

Stinky is making me go to lunch now.

umm...

i'm bored.

it's wednesday but i swear it must be friday already with all that i've gotten done this week. i've been hyper-productive and even have most of my homework for my class next tuesday already complete. wahoo.

and i think i'm going skiing this weekend which should be a blast. good fun for me to try to my new boots that ericka (bless her) gave me. free. she's rad.

my boss is discussing politics (and michael moore) with a patient right now instead of doing an exam. that's the kind of wacky guy i work with.

see ya.

Water

I always knew drinking water was good for you, but i never had factual data to support my claim.

i love water. i drink about 3 liters, or 96oz, a day. and that's just straight water from my nalgene bottle, not what i consume in tea or juice, which does in fact count as water intake even though i've been arguing it shouldn't for years.

about six years ago i came up with a theory that water prevented cancer because it filters your blood. you know, helps dilute all the carcinogens and stuff. nobody believed me for years until they started posting study after study about how drinking water helps prevent colon, kidney, a gall bladder cancer. These are the obvious ones. I'm still waiting for the studies to catch up with what I already know: water dilutes the carinogens in your bloodstream and thus filters your blood and helps prevent cancer.

This does not mean that you won't get cancer; pretty much all of us will get it by the time we are 80 anyway, I think. But drinking water could help prolong the inevitable.

So get to it people! Drink your water already.

It's all over and done with ...

Ringing in the new year was mild but a lot of fun. Unfortunately I did not get to go skiing because the resort was closed while I was there. A bit sad, but I guess that just means I have to go hang out with Brennen some more and really I'm okay with that. I really like the guy and it's kind of an unexpected surprise. (Not surprised that I like him, just that my assumption(s) of him were completely wrong and I'm surprised to find that I like him so much.

I got everyone to write in my journal for the second year in a row! I think that makes it a tradition, but maybe that takes more than two years. I think I can keep it up and it's pretty cool to see what people write. Looking back on what my goals were I realize I had a pretty good year and achieved most of the stuff on my list.

I really missed Ryan and Amber and both Liz's. (And duh, sam, but that bugger doesn't even write me back anymore - he's a butthead) You were all in my thoughts even as I sat around drinking wine and hanging out. I love you guys.

So now the party is over and I'm back in my "normal" routine. My classes start today and based on the syllabus they are both going to be a lot of work. I probably won't see many of you for the next little while. Kind of makes me sad, but I guess it's for the best, right?