As usual, still alive. Barely.

[quidditchgrrl]

I'm not avoiding you...I'm just...avoidant.

No access to social networking sites at work.  It's kind of nice, though, to be expected to actually accomplish something at work and not just tool around posting random crap.

Learning more about hydrogeology and petrocarbon chemistry than I ever thought possible.  I guess those two years of organic chemistry weren't altogether wasted.

Avoiding politics.  Hate Obama.  Hate Biden.  Hate McCain.  Hate Palin.  I'm on a 100% news hiatus, aside from snippets of NPR or the headlines on Fark.  Not even TDS or TCR.  No.  I can catch up later, when I may be able to laugh rather than rage.

Good news?  I can run on my lunch break and have lost nearly 10 pounds since I started work.  Which is nice.  Paid off my car and several credit cards, hiked up my student loan payments to where they *ought* to be (ouch), and will start socking away a larger portion of my pay into savings.

Have been going to concerts with friends, and alone.  What?  You thought my husband would go with me?  You kid.  My friends are le awesome, though, and humor me whenever possible.

I saw John Green speak last week.  He's kind of awesome.  And if you haven't seen Hank Green's "Accio Harry Potter," well.  Get on that.  :)

He reminded me that in order to become a real person, one needs to read, and write, in order to complete the process of thinking.  Spending too much time in one's own head is not good (and don't we all know that).  I tend to get lost in there.  My emotions fled a while ago, maybe sucked into the hinterlands of my amygdala.

Aaaaannd.  It looks like I've missed smutty_claus signups.  *cries*  *goes to email r_becca*

Last, but not least, I've not been very good about keeping up with ElJay, but I'm thinking of the whole flist muchly.  *huggles you all*

Comments

[ladybug-rjc.livejournal.com]

Spending too much time in one's own head is not good (and don't we all know that).

The only problem with this is that lately, spending time in my head makes me emo, and therefore I end up listening to slightly emo music, and buying slightly emo teenage books. Which only throws me right back in my emo wasteland of a head.

I can only imagine what it would be like if we all spent too much time in our own head. Oh. Wait.

But...am actually reading Jarhead at the moment which is bloody amazing writing (if you like that sort of thing)and good at getting me to think about things other than the emo in my head.

How 'bout you?

Oh, and congrats on losing 10 pounds since you started work. That is fun.

*hugs*

[midnightcircle.livejournal.com]

Hey sweetie, was wondering about you. Glad to hear the job is going well, at least. And you're getting out.

Still here, don't want to be. Trying, interviewing. If yesterdays' don't pan out, I'm seriously thinking of taking my soon-to-be MIL's advice and just getting a job at Kroger...

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

:) I'd love to hear more about what you are learning at work.

I'm taking you off my political list and leaving you on all the others.

Give me a few minutes and go read my latest entry for a good laugh (at me).

*huggles back*

[harpinred.livejournal.com]

Good for you on the 10 lbs! :D

And hi! ::waves::

[kirixchi.livejournal.com]

Thanks for updating :D I've been wondering about you!
I am in awe of anyone who can run at work!

I'm with you on the hating *sigh*