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so, a weekend. drove home friday night (dear pennsylvania turnpike: DIE[1]), hung out for about half an hour with the 'rents and the brother and sister-in-law, went to sleep, got up early saturday and drove to the grandparents' place.

( my grandmother is, actually, doing really well. )

so we drove home the same day, got home late, went to sleep. sunday morning, hung around a bit, then my brother and i went up to the computer place to get flash drives and laptop cases, and i dropped him off at his mother-in-law's before i (realized i only had $6.00 in my wallet, and therefore took $10 from my brother to cover the $11.50 in tolls i was about to have to pay, then) hit the road and came back here. (dear pennsylvania turnpike: DIE.[2])

that's right: i spent the whole weekend, pretty much, in the car.

back to work today, and i just spent $45 to get a bank check in pounds sterling with which to pay my first month's rent and security deposit, and i have to get plane tickets to detroit, and i have to pick up my right contact lens, and i have to take the car to the dealership about this recall notice (still haven't done that!), and notice to vacate at my current building is sixty days, not thirty, which means i'm going to owe rent for the entire month of october, which sucks. so, in the eleven days that remain at this job: more overtime.

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speaking of plane tickets

anyone want to drive me to/pick me up from IAD on the following days:

september 9 (thursday) - departs 10:20a
september 12 (sunday) - arrives 7:31 3:48p
september 21 or 22 (tuesday or wednesday) - arrives 5:51p

?

[bats eyelashes fetchingly]

blah blah blah olympics

my co-worker said to me the other day, My roommate and I were trying to figure out why NBC is manufacturing this huge rivalry between the US and Australian swimming teams -- like, they always focus on the Americans to the exclusion of other people, but what's the deal with Australia?

and i pointed out what someone in programming at NBC must have focused on: young, good-looking guys who speak english.


i'm not actually complaining. :-)