Fell Asleep @ MindSay

I fell in love about 87 times this past weekend.

I fell in love with Chicago, definitely.  I got off the plane, and it was all I could do to not bend to the ground and kiss it, the way I'll do when I finally get to Eretz Yisrael, or maybe the next time I get to New  York.

I fell in love with the sailor who was on standby while I sat and knitted, waiting 5 hours for my friends to show up.  I know that's really shallow, and I've neeeeeeeeeever been 'man in uniform' crazy, but I couldn't look away from this gentlemen.  I really think it could have worked out between us :).

I fell in love with our hotel room.  It was bigger (and nicer) than my house.

I fell more in love with Val, Dan, Em, Veronica, Bree, and Symone.  I am so blessed to have these people in my life.  Next  year, I feel like C.I.P. will not be as intimate, since we're doubling in size. Even though it's a great group of people joining, I can't help but thank my lucky stars that this trip was with the original bunch.

I fell more in love with Anne Marie for having us over and making us dinner.  After not getting to really eat the whole weekend, she was her usual amazing chef/baker and we all ate like GODS.  And their apartment is gorgeous, and David remembered me (which is important, in my mind).  We miss them SO much.  I love that I can look at Bree and Anne Marie and not see a neon, flashing sign overhead that says PROFESSOR! PROFESSOR!  Instead, I see FRIEND! or AMAZING PERSON! or MENTOR!.  Feelings like that make me feel like all the money I spent at NYU was worth more.  I could have gone to a million different schools, but I wouldn't have this.

I fell more in love with Natlija.  Natlija is Anne Marie and David's 5 (a week away from 6) year old daughter.  I cannot believe how tall she got, or how smart she is.  I mean, when we got there, she sat us all down on the floor in the living room to give us a presentation.  Most little kids who do that will present a sillly dance, or sing a song.  Do you know what Natalija presented?  A TRI-FOLD SCIENCE BOARD, ON WHICH SHE HAD A SCIENTIFIC QUERY.  She actually posed the question, "Which kind of gum lasts the longest?" and then did a hypothesis, trials (2 for each kind of gum, to make sure), a summary of her results....  did I mention she's 5!?!?  And she presented to a room full of elementary school teachers.  We were all FLOOOOOOOOOORED.  She also gave lessons about being 'FANCY'.  For instance, yellow is plain, but gold is FANCY. Leather is plain, but patten leather is FANCY.  Glasses are plain, but sunglasses are FANCY.  She also labeled EVERYTHING we ate, or ate with.  I'm sure she got SOME help spelling the word 'knives', but on her own, she was able to spell 'Veronica'.  The only help she got was we told her it was verOnica.
At dinner, she decided I was her favorite, so she smushed onto the table with me to eat.  And I tricked her into eating her vegetables AND I taught her a math word.  I think Anne Marie was proud (she was our math teacher at NYU).  I taught Natalija about estimation, and then I asked her to estimate how many bites it would take to eat her salad.  She actually got the salad, and the cornbread guesses right, and was one off on the black beans.

I fell in love with the bartender at the club we wound up at.  I truly feel that would have worked out better than the sailor would have.  I mean, he blew me a kiss (mainly because I signed him 'thank you' after he gave me my water, and it SORTA looks like I blew him a kiss, but when I went back for a refill, he blew me one...and that's the only part of the story that matters ;)).  It could have been PERFECT.  w00t.

I fell in love with conferences.  My group did soooo well, and we had a big turn out considering that in the 2 other sessions, there were some big name people.  I also got over my fear of public speaking just enough to participate in discussions in 2 of the different break outs (there were only 4, ours included and I HAD to speak at that one!).  I thought what I was saying was really obvious, but apparently, it wasn't.  Bree made a huge deal out of it.  She said she was proud of me.  That means a lot.  I think it was good that I shared.  I don't know if I'll ever be comfortable fully talking in a group like that, but I think I'm slowly starting to trust myself more.  To believe that I'm not an idiot who has nothing of substance to say.  During Edwin's NYCoRE presentation about the Camouflagged book, I was able to point something out I noticed, and it started this long conversation, and I got really happy that it started from something I said.  I generated it.  I know not EVERYTHING I say is going to be that good, or cause that much talk, but this did.  Even though I don't think I did that much for my actual presentation, I did help.  I WAS part of this.

Dixie currently feels:

Sick

 

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I came home today, baked myself a chicken and bacon stuffed crust pizza - and ate it whilst I watched The Weakest Link.

 

I shouted out all the answers I knew, and I never got one wrong.

I felt rather intelligent, especially when the dimwits on the telly got wrong what I'd shouted out right.

 

Anyway, I think I've either ate too much pizza, or drank too much Sprite.

Maybe it was the dodgy ice cubes I put in the Sprite?

 

We buy bags of ice - dad likes to have ice with his cider on his nights in.

But the ice smells like seafood.

I have this really awful feeling that the ice is recycled, having already been used in seafood displays...

 

Eeewww...

I really hope not.

 

I fell asleep on the sofa at half 6.

Dad came in and fell asleep on the other sofa.

 

When I woke up, I turned over - and I rolled into a nice warm patch where I'd been laid.

I have a really high core body temperature - I'm ALWAYS warm.

I'm sat here in a room with no radiator on, in a towel, with wet hair - and I'm still warm.

 

It's not fair - I'm on a heavy flow period, and I've leaked a little on the front of my jeans when I was asleep.

Oh how the feminine cycle radges me so.

 

I fell asleep because of my lack of sleep.

For the past week, I've been satying awake until 5-6AM, talking to Emily or playing on my DS.

I'd wake up exactly 8 hours later, either at 1 or 2PM.

 

Last night, I couldn't sleep.

I laid awake with my DS, listening to some Fire of Glory recordings Emily had done.

 

Not that she has a boring voice - but when people read to me, I always nod off easier.

When I was little, I listened to stories on cassettes.

 

I still like to. :)

 

 

Ah, the sleep habits of some people. :D

F for Frustration

Last night, laying in bed, I was thinking of doing something really cool once I woke up.  But then I fell asleep, and now I can't remember.

Then, to make things worse, the goddamn mattress cover (the waterproof kind in case the kitties pee) makes Shane and I both ridiculously sweaty.

At 3:30, I woke up to find that my nose was basically pouring blood down my throat.  I got up, pinched the bridge of my nose to stop blood flow, and realized that yet again, a blood clot was going down my throat, but still stuck in my nasal cavity.  So it just stays there, in the back of my throat, making me gag.  I went to smoke to cauterize the wound.

Now, I feel compelled to do the dishes, but I really don't want to.

Poo!

    Whoops! I fell asleep last night when I was writing that last entry!
    To conclude my list of yesterday's happenings:

1. Jess, David, and I were the last ones to swim back to shore, and we had a long talk about...well, stuff, I  guess!
2. I fell asleep thinking about the Jelly Belly fruit snacks that my mom bought at Costco...

    I'm probably going to end up writing a journal starter tonight and tomorrow because I'm not doing anything that I know of except getting my hair layered at the Basement Salon.

ummmm well there was camp i think i've already blogged that.... :'(((((( MY COMPUTOR DIED!  I've lost all my files including animations and webpages that i spent so much time on i'm @ the school computor at the moment D,: i new it would happen though coz  it blue screened on me THREE TIMES! that hasn't ocurred since win95
D: last weekend i fell asleep for half an hour IN THE AFTERNOON! O_o; T_T the end is near lolz
it my last week at athena X'( errr...what else...?.... new palm games ^____^