Lazy Bum

That's me. I was worthless today. I slept in, awoke to a ready-made breakfast (it's great visiting home), wasted a few hours between TV and the interweb, ate another meal I didn't cook, and wasted a few more hours. Life is good.

I do need to post about yesterday and explain the title before I get injured for it. Yesterday morning, I met with Dr. Vakili about my last edits to my thesis for him. He made some suggestions, then signed off on my final approval form. I made his suggestions, then met with Dr. Moeller. He had a few more suggestions, which I made, and he signed off on my approval form. That leaves only Dr. Schulz who hasn't approved the final edits on my thesis. See earlier for the reasons why. So I have 2 of 3 required signatures, and the last person won't be in until Monday. It's now about 11 to 11:30 AM. I ask Dr. Moeller if they have any critical work I need to do for their project. There isn't. I decide I'm coming home.

I leave campus around 11:45 and drive back to my apartment. I put my lunch in the toaster oven to warm a little, pack a bag, take out the trash, clean some dishes, eat as I'm finishing all those tasks, and head out the door. Lee needed me to unlock his deadbolt so that the apartment manager could show the place, so I did that. Then, it turns out, I need to unlock the whole place so that the guy can see it. I was just about to hit the highway back to the interstate, but I turned around and went back to Lee's apartment. Guy took 5 minutes to walk around, make some notes, comment that Lee had made his bed, and leave. I locked back up and made for the highway once more. I was headed out of Tullahoma at about 1:30.

The drive was mostly uneventful, with a single exception. North of Murfreesboro on I-24, I was in the left lane, going left-lane speeds, when the truck two cars in front of my swerves into the paved area off the road to the left. Then the car in front of my starts to swerve over, and I see a large round object in the road. It was probably 2 feet in diameter, 8 feet long, mostly in the left lane of traffic, just slightly in the next traffic lane to the right. I swerved (going a little too fast for such a maneuver, but not so fast as to be dangerous) and missed the object. I still couldn't really tell what it was (I was trying to stay on the road, I wasn't looking at it). The car behind me swerved left and made it. The car either one or two behind him continued straight. The car won, but may have been somewhat worse for the battle. By this time, I was well down the interstate, but I saw in the mirrors that a car plowed through the object (which I believe was a roll of carpet or possibly carpet padding), and chunks of the object were airborne. I really couldn't see much else - I was still trying to drive, too. Scary moment, though, when I was approaching something solid-looking in the road while travelling at a high rate of distance.

I got home safely about 5:30, unloaded my stuff, stretched my legs after the drive, and about 6:30 drove over to the location of Lee's birthday celecration. The typo is Jennifer's on the facebook event, but we all embraced it. Facebook won't let you go in and change the names of events, so it stuck. Lee said the extra "c" was for "cash" as in "give Lee cash." Back to the actual event - I'd let Jennifer know I was coming and left the option to her whether or not to tell Lee. Remember, I had talked to him about unlocking his apartment after I decided to come home. So he wasn't expecting me to be there. Maybe not quite a surprise like having him a birthday present of Jessica Alba, but it was all I could manage on short notice. Not that any notice would have allowed me to arrange Jessica Alba, or that I would have done so for him even if I theoretically could.

Mexican food, then bowling. Most of the people I knew from CBU were there, mostly with appropriate spouses / girlfriends, which meant I also got to surprise Sheena (who was there with Garrett). Her response on seeing me was unrepeatable. I'd decided I was going to not tell either of them, since I knew both would be there, and just see the reactions. I emailed Sheena right before I left Tullahoma, and thought I had a chance that she wouldn't notice if I didn't email her back all afternoon. She didn't notice, didn't have a clue I'd driven back until she saw me. I am eeeevil (only 4 e's, none capitalized for this particular act).

Now, finally, the title from yesterday: on my drive home, I'd called Melissa inviting her along to the celecration (I got voicemail, as usual). With 20 people there, no one was going to care for an un-RSVP'ed +1. She called me back right before I left my house. She'd been cleaning her house, and was dirty, and was finishing her second glass of wine, so wasn't sure she should be driving. Therefore: filthy, drunk. I told her I'd drive if she wanted to go (I had to drive within a mile of her house anyway), but she bowed out. I think she just hates Lee. That's the ticket.

I bowled well the first game, rolling a 120-something and winning out of our five. I then became my normal self and bowled in the 60s for the other two games and came in dead last for both of those. Good time, though. And $7 for three games plus shoes ain't a bad deal.

I guess I'm going to be a lazy bum tomorrow, too. I'd play a round of disc golf, but it's going to be way too hot. It's probably going to be hot next week, too. I'll be in Tullahoma then, but I like the course we play in Murfreesboro. I'm on vacation, and I can't even enjoy a round of my preferred pseudo-sport because it's over a hundred degrees outside. Lousy Smarch weather. More tomorrow.