The albatross

Lately I was feeling a bit blah - blah as in kinda down and I didn't know why. I had a nice talk with Haydee and she reminded me that I needed a vacation. Just the reminder helped a lot I think. I was ready for a vacation back in August, but never got around to it due to my fun filled bout with chicken pox. Financially I am unsure if I can take a week off, but mentally I know I probably need it.

So anyway...back to my sucky mood...last night Merima wanted to meet up at the Albatross. I was tired and I knew I needed to work out, do some work at home, etc. etc. But I decided to go anyway and something odd happened. As soon as I arrived, was greeted by Merima, and sat down, I felt a wave of calm and happiness wash over me (it's always good to see Merima, but this time she had popcorn, too!). I then spent the next 20 minutes or so finding out about what Merima does at her work. I hope she didn't get bored explaining it to me, but it was absolutely fascinating! Maybe it was because it's so different from what I do, but I've always been interested in science - I just didn't have the wherewithal to do it. So anyway, while I was rifling through Merima's lab book and soaking in all the cool images and numbers, she went off and got us the pool table. We then played pool for a bit before Amit showed up.

I'm sure he was happy to see us, but I knew he was really looking forward to the hot serving wench that works there (she's actually really nice and sweet, and as far as I know - not a wench - but since I cannot recall her name I will refer to her as "the hot serving wench"). Amit keeps calling her by name, but I keep forgetting (translate: not paying attention) about what he's talking about. So between watching Amit hit on the wench, throwing popcorn at each other, using pool cues inappropriately, and sucking horribly at playing pool, I had a GREAT time and felt more relaxed than I had in weeks.

Too bad my neck is still a little tweaked, but I think that'll remedy itself soon enough. I keep stretching and popping my neck and every day it gets a bit better. Speaking of relaxing, I better get on top of getting tickets for Portland soon. Maybe by then I can add my "what I bought at Target" section!