Yesterday was a busy day. I started cleaning up the computer for John so I can mail that over to him. Not sure if I wrote about that because I can’t remember half the things I do, hence the journals. But basically John is buying my old laptop and because of that I wanted to make sure it was cleaned up for him.

It is –still- deleting files. I secure empty the trash, which goes through and legit puts zeros on the hard disk, so it’s been going literally most of yesterday, and all night. Only 1000 more files to go.

I would like to get that mailed off today, but we’ll see what happens.

I played with Seth a bit which is the first time in a while that I’ve done that. He was surprisingly chill and I feel that we got some good bonding time in. I’ve never been close with Seth because I felt he was more Warren’s snake than mine. At least I associate him very strongly with Warren. I’m trying to alter that, and I think yesterday was a good first step.

I cleaned his tank up so I’m sure he’s happy about that.

I had lunch with Grace since she is in town again. She doesn’t know when she will be back. Things are going well in her corner and it was great to spend time with her.

I got through most of the exercises in chapter five. Only one more to do, which that one is only altering the previous exercise slightly. I ran out of time to do it before work, and then work was all sorts of crazy so I wasn’t able to do it there.

I had to go in a little bit early because yesterday was the PROPS ceremony. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I got my certificate and a bunch of pictures taken so I should have those before too long. Apparently I was in the top 10% of my department since those were the only people who got awards.

It’s crazy to think of it that way. I mean, I know that I do stuff, and I know that part of me does want my time and effort to be acknowledged, but at the same time, that’s not why I do the things I do, and part of me feels bad and awkward for receiving the award.

Knowing that people care about the things I do sort of gives me a charge though. It’s nice to know that people see me, my actions, and think that I’m doing a good enough job to say something about it. It makes it feel worth it. It’s not unnoticed.

And I guess really it’s more the students that I should thank because if it weren’t for them I wouldn’t do the things that got me recognized. I do everything I do because I know when I was a student, I wanted these things and no one was doing them. I thought it would be worth it and would have loved it if someone took the time to invest in me. I do it because they’re awesome and deserve the time and effort I give them.

Sadly after PROPS I had to go to lab. I was so fried. Between the social dinner with Sammi and Josh, lunch with Grace, and then the ceremony the only thing I wanted to do was curl up under a rock and have the world fall over and die. Or at least not bother me.

Instead I had to go to lab and deal with Mr. Hand Holdy, though he wasn’t all that bad last night.

Bre was super awesome and brought me a plate of strawberries and was talking about how she was so bad that I had to come to lab, and how it wasn’t right. I love Bre so much. She’s always in my corner.

I still had my discussion post for my Art History class to rush through, which actually came out pretty well. I’m happy with it at least. Just would have liked to have not been so stressed over it while I was writing.

John is going to be taking leave from December 8^th – 19^th. I think I wrote about that since that was super early yesterday morning. I talked to mom and we’re going to try to figure out a way for us to travel together.

I’m short 3 days worth of vacation time to take off right at the 8^th. I emailed Clavan to see if there was a way I could get those 3 days or if it would be taken from my pay. I really want to take both weeks off. And I’m pretty sure the 19^th is when winter break starts, so basically I would have a whole month off. I don’t know what I would do with myself if I had that much time away from work and school. x.x

I think I got the boarder figured out for the Gem Stone dragons. I’m going to be stitching a boarder around Sam’s cross stitch first though, since I want to give that to her before too long.

I had the flake steak with garlic toast for dinner, which was fantastic. I also watched the first two episodes of the new season of Korra. It’s soooooo mind-blowingly amazingly good. So angsty over there only being two episodes out.

I also started trying to figure out how to get to North Carolina for Joey’s wedding. It looks like I can do the trip for roughly $300. I would be taking the train, that way I don’t have to worry about driving. There’s a hotel about two miles from the bus station that I would be taken to from the train station, which to me is walking distance, especially since I only plan on having my book bag with me. And the hotel is only about a 5 minute car ride from the church.

So I think I’m going to do it.

I also talked to Rob since he lives in Raleigh. He said to keep him posted so we can try to do lunch or something. When I mentioned that I wouldn’t have a car he said that since I did all of the driving last time that it was only fair that he drove this time. It’s so awesome to still be able to consider him such a friend even though we haven’t really kept in touch on the day-to-day level of our lives. I really hope I am able to see him. That would make the trip totally worth it.

So a lot of happenings the past few days, which means I’m pretty spent.

Today is SAL, and I’m hoping that it is quiet. I need some space. I plan on doing a bunch of nothing aside from some cross-stitching right now. Go to work. Come back and continue doing a bunch of nothing. Most likely sleep super early because I’m drained.

I know I should work out. My legs are getting sore because of the acid build up, but I really, really don’t want to. Normally I’m good about motivating myself, but I think I need a legit down day.

There’s still a bunch of emotions to get through this week. Sammi and Josh leave soon so that’s going to suck, and honestly I don’t want to think about it right now. I know that’s going to be rough.

I’m going to finish off chapter 5 and get through chapter six in my programming book while I’m at work hopefully. While I’m stitching right now I might listen to chapter 18 in my art book so I can say I did something for school, and as far as personal tasks I’m just going to take it as I feel like it.

I woke up and had breakfast. I think I’m doing pretty awesome today already. Anything I do on top of that is just solidifying the notion that I’m a bawce. Away I go to do nothing. : D