My flight for this afternoon has already been delayed by 11 minutes. With delays coming out of O’Hare and NYC, hopefully my plane’s departure time will stay where it is! I mean, if worse comes to worst, I can drive to MI. The weather is supposed to be great today; later in the week, not so much. I am positive though and believe I will make it to Detroit this evening!

My friend S. is going to check in on the boys while I’m gone. Since I moved, she’s further away but she chastised me for not asking her first to watch the cats. She’s a good friend. I was picking up a bit - because really, who likes to have someone in their home when it’s messy?! - and I realized I have an excess number of bathroom rugs. I have one (teensy) bathroom in this apartment. Right now, I have two rugs in there; both are the same multicolored striped pattern and match the shower curtain. I also have two big fluffy blue bathroom rugs that match another shower curtain I have. That shower curtain is plastic, not cloth, and I can’t remember if I got rid of it when I moved. Hmmm. I guess I will throw these blue rugs in the closet and deal with them at a later date, just like everything else that’s crammed in there.

I went out this morning to grab a cup of coffee from Speedway, mainly because, well, I’m addicted to caffeine, but also because the only cash I had was a $20 and I needed to break it so I had singles to tip the shuttle bus driver at the airport parking lot. This Speedway is kinda scary. I’ve never felt unsafe there but there are always lots of creepy men. Then when I was driving back, I drove past the homeless mission and realized it’s less than a mile down the street from me. Lots of men were congregated outside; guess I won’t be walking down there this summer. Clearly I am still getting used to my more urban environment … but I suppose it’s better to confront an issue, like homelessness, and think about my feelings on the subject than pretend it doesn’t exist.

I was going to go to church last night, to the “longest night” service, but when I got home I was crabby. CRABBY! No idea why either. We got to leave work at 3, I ran a few errands and was home by 4. I ended up taking a nap from 5-6 p.m., which lessened the grumpiness (part of the reason why I wrote a positive post last night), but I still didn’t feel like doing anything.

Crap. I just remembered I have two assignments due tomorrow, my last two for this semester. Fuck! Guess I’ll shower and get working on those …

∗ Posted by Monique on 12.22.2007
∗ My life