How are things? I have this problem where, while I like spring, the beginning of it makes me tired. Tiiiiiiired. Sleep all day, work no way, Calgon take me away tired. So I've had that going on, combined with having a spell of not being able to do the actual sleeping part, plus having way too many chores, with the addition of some yay! spring! giddiness. I've been a disaster, is what I'm saying.
But today! Today I finished a marathon of desperate, last-minute productivity: a bunch of ghastly paperwork - over with! Some household tasks - accomplished! Some crafty goals - met! And so forth. Also, sleeping has gone pretty well for the last two nights. And here, right now, it is sunny and in the high sixties and I am wearing an outfit that looks, if I may say so, slammin'. So today, I am bounce-off-the-walls, last-day-of school hyper. Please free me from the shackles of my desk and chair. I wish I worked at a picnic. I think I could be very useful at a professional picnic, all chocolate cake and potato salad and big hats and maybe some croquet. (Also, what a great idea for a roving seasonal outdoor eatery/event, huh?)
How are you? What's your mood? What environment would suit it best?
Posted by hilatron at April 13, 2006 02:17 PM | TrackBackI'm in a fine mood, now that it's sunny and warm and, thanks to what appears to be the beginning of the end of morning sickness, no longer feel like death warmed over most of the time. The environment that would suit me best is a chaise longue in the backyard, where I could eat frosted cupcakes and milk all day and watch the remaining episodes of the West Wing. Unfortunately, I have none of the necessary elements, except for a backyard.
Do you have allergies, or does spring make you tired for other reasons? It has the opposite effect on me.
Posted by: Jess at April 13, 2006 03:24 PMOh yuck - went to Ask.com to find out if there are scorpions in Kauai cause my husband thinks he locked one away today behind the drywall he's installing - found YOU instead! EEK! Have heard tales of the centipedes here, but,thank You Lord, haven't actually seen one, although my husband did find one in the bathtub at the house we're building - never really thought about them much - but sure will now - never again will I be able to blissfully drop into my bed at night - now I will obsessively shake my blankets, sheets, pillows, shoes, clothes and on and on and on - thank you so much.
Posted by: deborah at April 15, 2006 04:26 AMWell, it’s the end of the semester at the college where I work. It’s all about final assignments/exams/final grades, so it’s a little hectic. Word of advice to any student out there. If a school says “summer classes begin May 3, have all your paperwork done by May 2” that is what they mean. It does not help for you to explain to me in great detail that you were able to get an extension on your taxes, because you had moved and didn’t receive your W-2’s and now you are waiting for them in the mail so you can’t do your FAFSA paperwork. The government may be nice enough to offer extensions, but we are a private career college. We are not that nice. We just want your money, so unless you are able to hand it over in cash, then you will have no classes in the summer, which is a good thing, people!
Spring is nice, but it’s already humid. This makes breathing not so nice. Where I live, Spring is like a 2 day interval. We go from COLD, OH SO COLD, LOOK AT MY BREATH, to HOT, HUMID, CAN’T BREATHE, PASSING OUT...thunk! Of course, this has a third of the office out for summer colds, which I’m just getting over, so I may still be reeling from the drug filled stupor I’ve just crawled out of.
Wishing happier thoughts for everyone else.
Posted by: Joy at April 17, 2006 06:55 PMWe think the roving undead picnic idea is KILLER. They actually do have things like that in Amsterdam. So, there is a precedent, although what I'm imagining is a combination of the Flying Dutchman's picnic of lost souls and the Mad Hatter's tea party.
Posted by: tree at April 23, 2006 11:47 AM