we're heading to eastern ky this weekend, which had worse flooding than we have apparently. but, the subaru can make it anywhere, and i'm not worried since i'll be in the other seat asleep. which brings me to a fun new adventure we've decided. any weekend that we're home we're going to throw the dog, a change of clothes, and some blankets in the car and just take off. maybe we come home, maybe we stay in a hotel, maybe we sleep in the back of the car. but just go somewhere, find neat things to photograph, and eventually make our way home. this excites me to no end since i do frequently like to run away. and we bought a tripod for the camera since 85% of the pictures i take are blurry bc i have no attention span.
and also, apparently i like to eat your face off.
we really take the most unattractive photos possible.
in other news i had to bring the wrath down on an intern yesterday. in my defense, he had it coming. hopefully he'll walk away from this and realize he has to grow up. but probably he'll just remember me as a bitch. oh well.
one thing i like about the company i work for is the frequency of 'social hour' paid for by the boss. not just for the free beverages, but for getting to hang out with people i dont get to see very often anymore since we moved to the research branch. we had our quarterly meeting yesterday followed by the social. followed by all of us going to brew pub until all hours of the night. and it was the perfect weather to be out on the deck. i'm just incredibly thankful for the work environment, friends, and the actual job i do here.
i've been doing more planning for our vacation to Charleston even though it's still five months away. i've made a list of the top five places i want to visit while there. number one is obviously fort sumter because i am a nerd. i tried to explain to the stranger while we were lost in MD the other day about how anytime i'm out someplace on those backroads i always try to imagine what things looked like during the civil war. sure, most of what i see was just woods then. but some places, especially places near to the rivers around here, those were important trade routes and marching trails and camps and skirmishes and and and and (as my nerdy heart flutters at the amazingnessness). so to actually see ft sumter, thats for me like what it would be for a 8 year old to go to disneyworld. or for me to go to disneyworld, really. i guess what i'm trying to say is i'm excited.
on a completely different note, Mmmbop just came on the radio and i am taken back to 7th grade in the lunch room, sitting with my then boyfriend adam and sending ashley gibson messages on the Secret Sender (holy shit, those things were the first text msngrs, weren't they?) and listening to that song on someone elses little cd player with those sticky rhinestones on it. and wearing my adidas tennis shoes with color matching socks. and being excited that i dont have to wear glasses anymore AND that i finally got something similar to boobs. and thinking kickball in gymclass was stupid, and that the health class was soooo embarassing when she demonstrated with a banana how to work a condom. and how we had a photo of whats his name from the x-files in our locker. wow. just wow.
also, it smells like bologna in our office which is unacceptable. UNACCEPTABLE.
i ordered the stranger's bday gift finally because i forgot that some things dont have amazon's two day shipping. i had my geek brother pick out a laptop that will be good for all his photoshopping and stuff like that. it's supposed to get here the day before his bday, but i've got my fingers crossed that it will show up before then so that i can go hide it and pretend like i forgot to get him anything. and if he doesnt like it, i will chuck it at his head. bc thats logic.
it's been a weird day and i haven't decided how i feel about it.
love and rainclouds.
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