Life is better in the turn lane (yea, I made it up)

     Smoothed out a lot of ruffled feathers today and straightened up my mental to-do lists.  Finally heard back from the professor, got lab keys and the information I actually need to do my job.  It was a bit unexpected, that.  I only expected the keys really.  Sent mom a Mom's Day card and bought an umbrella.  Rainy season here in FL started.  Also, it is going to take 5 separate forms of ID to change my driver's license.  That is so absurd.  Aarrg.  Oh well, I'm going to change it Monday since it took me five hours to determine that I do have a second form of acceptable ID that puts me at my parents house.  Yea. 

     This is for Brickney who graduate tomorrow morning: I love you guys and I'm so glad I can be there to watch you wear gigantic robes and silly hats.  Man, you don't even get to keep them, sucks to be you.  You put a lot of effort into a degree people will always be surprised to hear.  To you, my friends.  Hurrah.

Mostly ranting

     So I felt good for a while today.  I went and got a cute dress, shoes and a purse.  For the first time probably since my wedding I felt feminine and strong.  Now I'm looking at our accounts for everything and we are running on empty.  This is not good.  We've just taken out money from bonds and we still have no money.  Heck, we seem to have less money than before we took everything out.  I have the research job but that will cover barely anything.  Should I try and make more money?  But I'm doing a lot here.  Tad and I are looking into loans for summer so he can go to Hong Kong but how much do we want to take out?  Just enough to cover or enough to have some money ourselves?  That's not greedy, right? Right?  I hope not because we don't have enough for car insurance and him eating and all.  I hate looking at these things.  We were OK for a while but his school is expensive and I keep regretting that we have to use this money every. single. month. for his schooling when we could just feel comfortable about ourselves with it.
     I'd rather he get this degree though, I think he needs it.  Arg.  Hopefully he'll get the scholarship from his school and we can just take out the same amount of money and actually get some.  It's bad when you max out loans and still have to pay for tuition from your own pockets.  Just some venting.  I'm worried about going to the lab tomorrow and it failing to work out again.  Also going to get my pesky driver's license changed, I suppose.  I'm in this odd transition between names and should I go everywhere and change it or do it slowly?  I dunno.

     In summary, ignore this.  Please.

Lab Day 1

I showed up for my new research job to find that I can't get in the lab.  Chow was proctoring some exam that lasted at least 5 hrs.  I know this since I arrived at 9ish and gave up waiting around at 2.  ::sigh::  There's day 1. 

In better news, I have read A Handmaid's Tale and might talk about that soon.  I bought a cute dress to go to lunch with a friend's family in, new shoes to match.  I now own three pairs of shoes.  I'm proud of this third pair as they are trendy and cute.  Tired.  Might talk tomorrow?  Maybe soon enough.

Florida Haiku

Cicadas' soft call

I dream jasmine's sweet scent yet

My touch goes through you

Life happens

So my in-laws are stuck in England until that damn volcano stops spewing ash all over the world.  I am currently trying to get a group of people who are in multiple continents to coordinate for a vacation.  I pinched a nerve in my back and exams are sneaking up.  Despite all that things are going well.  Even better, I've gotten back into real reading as I haven't really been for the last month or so.  I've been reading Zelazny's books, including This Immortal and Eye of Cat, which I will finish this afternoon.  ::deep breath::  I've also been doing a lot of thinking and will probably cut my hair, you know, lop the whole damn thing off.  I'm thinking about getting something at least 15 inches shorter, so I mean maybe a few inches past my shoulders.  I've been debating it a lot but I'm feeling held back and frustrated by my hair.  I just want something a bit more modern and maybe something not so defining.  I'll try writing more but we'll see how it goes.  No more knitting recently just getting through life like the dream it is.