Mountain Clams

A Full Day

I woke up early this morning, with plenty of time to shower, get dressed, eat breakfast and drive to work in plenty of time. An hour of cuddling later, I finally pulled myself out of bed, late as usual. I rushed out of the house without having showered or shaved, realizing only as I turned south on I-25 that I forgot to grab anything for breakfast. I can't believe I did that! I even reminded myself before I went upstairs to at least grab a shake or something. Traffic sucks, but the HOV lane saves my ass. There were two stalled cars: one in the left lane and one in the center lane.

I got to work about ten minutes before my morning meeting, hungry and a little stressed. I made a couple packets of instant oatmeal, figuring I could eat them quickly enough. As I ate, I opened my email to see that the morning meeting had been canceled. Hurry up and wait! Okay, on to the usual tour - email, MySpace, IFGS boards and blogs.

Meeting time rolls around, and we made a valiant effort at covering the topic the meeting was scheduled for. Instead, though, we were interrupted by a fix that needed to go through as soon as possible. This is the same fix I worked on last Friday, but that didn't work because the software we have to work with is crap.

We moved to another meeting room where we spent from then until about 9 PM working through a series of failed possible solutions. For my trouble, I got a Chipotle burrito lunch (1,400 calories easy) and a chicken Caesar salad dinner. Many cookies were passed around, but I didn't eat a single one. Yay me. That totally makes up for the sour cream, guacamole and dinner roll I did eat. I only took one break at 7:00 to run Rick to the store for more syringes (he's diabetic). I was originally planning on meeting a friend for dinner, but those plans fell through due to a death in his family.

After work, I drove home listening to a podcast on my iPod. The person doing the podcast actually warns me about the horrible sound quality, but I try listening anyway. That was probably a mistake, since it gave me a slight headache.

At home, I did an inadequate amount of cleaning up, then started some laundry. I watched an episode of America's Funniest Videos (I don't know how some of those videos earned that moniker) and the local weather forecast before helping Erika with her German homework.

Oh, yeah - homework! My classes started today! I walked into the bedroom, which is probably 10 degrees colder than the rest of the house. Sitting down on the bed, I glanced over at my neglected dulcimer. When will I have time? Must make time. How does one make time? Hm...

I logged into my class to review the syllabus, get the assignments, and submit my class introduction. After this, it was a little reading, then back to the usual web sites and a quick read-through of newsgroups before writing this and getting ready for sleep. Maybe I can sleep, anyway. My mind is still racing.

Good night!

/glances over at the stacks of folded clothes at the foot of the bed...

Damn it.

Labels: life

posted by Brett @ 1:53 AM