I Take a Couple Days Off

and no one notices. I have a good reason for Saturday's aborted post, but no reason whatsoever for last night except that I didn't feel like writing an update. It's my first full day off since I started back with these updates, so no one better say a word. But, on to updates:

Saturday

Lunch with family at Huey's. Good cheeseburger. After lunch, I pretty much wasted the afternoon in a ground-beef-and-heat induced stupor, sitting under my ceiling fan in front of my box fan, playing Sim City 3000. I ate with my parents and returned to the stupor until around 9 when I decided I'd go clean up and spend the rest of the evening clean and sitting in front of my fan. At 9:20, my well-planned evening of fans and stupor was ripped away when Melissa called and propositioned me. What she said was, "I have a proposition for you." That's propositioning, right? I'm pretty much in another stupor right now, so we're going to assume I'm right. Melissa propositioned me. To go bowling with some people from high school at Cordova Bowling Center. I think I'd seen one of these people (besides Sheena and Melissa) since high school, and it was 4 or 5 years ago when I saw him. I knew them all back then, but we weren't great friends or anything - some classes overlapped, Honor Society, that kind of thing. But I went. Because even though I knew I was being manipulated, it didn't matter. So bowling. Again. For the second time in less than a week. And I'm not that fond of bowling to begin with. It's fun about as often as I usually go - once or twice a year and when it's cheap, but I'd already run out of the fun times while bowling at Lee's party. I talked to the people I hadn't seen in 6 years. I was probably more social in that one night than all through high school. I didn't have a bad time, and I would have enjoyed it more had it been earlier, but I was tired before I got there, and staying up until 1AM just took all the fun out of me. The things we do.

Sunday

I got to sleep in a little. I slept amazingly well all weekend in my old bed. I haven't slept that well there since I moved to Tullahoma. I don't know if it was exhaustion or what, but it was noticeably the best sleep I've gotten at home in a long time. I woke up to breakfast, ate, wandered around the house for a while, ate lunch, watched parts of the Braves game, loaded up my travelling gear, and headed back to Tullahoma. The drive wasn't too bad. A little more traffic than usual, and a ton of U-hauls on the road. I assume both are due to the move-in dates for colleges across this great country of ours. Not much to talk about after I got unloaded.

Monday

Got up about 9, wasted most of an hour playing on the internet, took a shower, and got to school around 10:30. I talked to Dr. Schulz about my thesis approval, gave him the updated draft, and he signed the form and had everything back to my by lunchtime. At 11:56AM Central Daylight Time, the twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord 2007, I officially finished my Master's thesis. And there was much rejoicing. In the form of slurping Jello cups with straws because we're out of plastic spoons in the office. All that's left now is to send the form in to Knoxville, and I think I'm going to need to go to the post office to handle that. The thesis consultant said to send it by priority mail or FedEx, but I think that was just to meet the Friday deadline. Regardless, I'm out of stamps, so I'll have to go to the post office to get more stamps to mail it. I'm probably going to have to go somewhere and get a 9" x 12" envelope, too. They don't say not to fold the form, but I'll pay a little extra and not worry about it.

While at school, I received a call from Huntsville about some questions the local HR person had regarding my information. I called her back, but she was gone for the day (I assume), so I expect she'll call tomorrow morning, and I'll clear up whatever questions there are. Hopefully, I'll have a start date soon. Maybe even a convenient one. Finish my thesis one day, finalize arrangements on my job the next - that's a nice start to the week. At that rate, Friday would be a party with the top 7 hottest Jessicas of all time (well, maybe only the 5 who aren't really old and / or dead). THAT would be a good week.

Now then, that should be a good enough summary of the past few days. I might get motivated in the morning and write an opinion post. I watched the news tonight and heard some interesting things that might make a paragraph or two of editorializing. More tomorrow.