quite the day. art ended early this morning so got to go to breakfast in the dining hall where, in addition to the usual nifty omlettes there were *coconuts.* took one and nabbed one for fatespawn too. was oddly full after a breakfast of omlette and apple crisp and coconut, but i'd inadvertantly drank three glasses of water with it all (it'd been there on the table and i just wasn't paying attention) so that explains that. sadly, for all their novelty and splendor, eating even a real live coconut isn't so grand. it's a colossal furry bowling ball that sloshes when you shake it, a thing that you have to apply some violence to in order to eat, a thing with white meat and clear milk, for crying out loud - it ought to taste so very much cooler than it does...
watched anime and then set off for work, where i nabbed two cookies that looked like little bird's nests (coconut again, dyed green and mixed with lots of sugar and squeezed into little nest shapes with jelly bean "eggs." with the proper amount of sugar added, coconut starts to taste the way it should). ate them too. worked and worked, got good stuff done both business and personal-wise via email. drank more water, was hungry enough to eat a bit of orange and felt more healthy. also had an orange-flavored tootsie roll pop.
and then, well, they went and had this faculty appreciation thing upstairs, and served all sorts of glorious desserts. i'm a faculty now (like vision, or smell!) and so i tagged along with my betters for expensive ice cream and baklava. so good, though i wished i hadn't eaten anything else that day. didn't feel so much full as a little off. then had to stay late for silly database stuff. then walked home partway only to have my eyes, already bearing their plastic disks without much complaint, blasted with grit by the wind, at which point they began to complain in earnest. wearing contact lenses may make me more tough about matters of the eye than the general public, but it has its taxing downsides. fumbled my way across the street in the midst of a near-traffic-jam with tears flowing freely down my face, practically blind and squinting painfully, and wandered wobbling across the parking lot also only half-aware of cars into U Hall. was a shelter from the wind but no relief at all. lurched down the curved hallway trying to distinguish signs with room numbers from the blessed blessed "women" sign, peering into offices with athletic people behind desks to whom i cannot guess how i appeared. found the women's room and took the contact out, washed it, popped it back in - PAIN! - popped it out again, washed my eye, washed the contact, popped it in, sat on the bathroom floor for awhile. walked back out where the wind was still whipping about and turned and headed for the enclosed bus stop. sat there and read for awhile, and ate an orange - all of this somewhat helping me to ignore the pain of whatever chaff the wind had now blown into my other eye. yay for sheltered bus stops directly across the street from dusty construction sites, wooo.
bus came, rode home, got in, took out contacts, declined dinner as stomach feeling distinctly unhungry. fatespawn and andrew went off for dinner. kneeled on bed to look into fish tank before taking a nap. contacts out, so have to put face up close to glass to make out anything in focus. neurotic fish is sitting back in the corner. where is upside-down fish? range of nearsighted up close eyes is not great, so it's like a lift-the-flap book or something. peek in the cave - no upsidedown fish. peek up by plants - no upsidedown fish. then, suddently, the bright and lidless eye of upsidedown fish staring blankly out of an overly pale fishbody. it is very much an unhappy thing to be confronted eye-to-eye, up close and personal with your dearly departed fish, especially when one is already feeling ill due to overindulgence on coconut, ice cream and baklava. deeply queasy tried to take a nap and luckily fatespawn came back fairly soon.
*sigh*
upsidedown fish probably already had problems - his blind eye was probably the beginning of the end for him. so we'll go back to the pet store and maybe we'll be able to get more neurotic fish all in different colors to play with neurotic fish the first.
i am still sick. two nights of nyquil and two days of children's triacting chest congestion medicine (yay cheap "name-brand" medicine knockoffs) have helped, but i still keep falling back into a hoarse whisper, blowing my nose damply and hacking coughing. and although my ear feels entirely better, i now have a cold sore hanging albatross-like off the side of my face (if you've had a cold sore you probably know the feeling). i feel altogether like a sorry and disgusting sample of humanity.
however: i am now going to take a shower, and then i'm going to hang out with fatespawn. he's put dead upside-down fish in two plastic bags (for which i am undyingly grateful, as i did not feel up to it at the moment at all). we'll keep dead fish in the freezer until we go back to the pet store, when we can bring him and a water sample so they'll give us a refund and we can get the multicolored neurotic friends. and i know that after i take the shower and hang out for a bit i'll feel much better. plus, i need to find something not at all sugary to eat that will ease my queasiness. oddly enough, i'm kind of in the mood for sushi.
ah, life.
watched anime and then set off for work, where i nabbed two cookies that looked like little bird's nests (coconut again, dyed green and mixed with lots of sugar and squeezed into little nest shapes with jelly bean "eggs." with the proper amount of sugar added, coconut starts to taste the way it should). ate them too. worked and worked, got good stuff done both business and personal-wise via email. drank more water, was hungry enough to eat a bit of orange and felt more healthy. also had an orange-flavored tootsie roll pop.
and then, well, they went and had this faculty appreciation thing upstairs, and served all sorts of glorious desserts. i'm a faculty now (like vision, or smell!) and so i tagged along with my betters for expensive ice cream and baklava. so good, though i wished i hadn't eaten anything else that day. didn't feel so much full as a little off. then had to stay late for silly database stuff. then walked home partway only to have my eyes, already bearing their plastic disks without much complaint, blasted with grit by the wind, at which point they began to complain in earnest. wearing contact lenses may make me more tough about matters of the eye than the general public, but it has its taxing downsides. fumbled my way across the street in the midst of a near-traffic-jam with tears flowing freely down my face, practically blind and squinting painfully, and wandered wobbling across the parking lot also only half-aware of cars into U Hall. was a shelter from the wind but no relief at all. lurched down the curved hallway trying to distinguish signs with room numbers from the blessed blessed "women" sign, peering into offices with athletic people behind desks to whom i cannot guess how i appeared. found the women's room and took the contact out, washed it, popped it back in - PAIN! - popped it out again, washed my eye, washed the contact, popped it in, sat on the bathroom floor for awhile. walked back out where the wind was still whipping about and turned and headed for the enclosed bus stop. sat there and read for awhile, and ate an orange - all of this somewhat helping me to ignore the pain of whatever chaff the wind had now blown into my other eye. yay for sheltered bus stops directly across the street from dusty construction sites, wooo.
bus came, rode home, got in, took out contacts, declined dinner as stomach feeling distinctly unhungry. fatespawn and andrew went off for dinner. kneeled on bed to look into fish tank before taking a nap. contacts out, so have to put face up close to glass to make out anything in focus. neurotic fish is sitting back in the corner. where is upside-down fish? range of nearsighted up close eyes is not great, so it's like a lift-the-flap book or something. peek in the cave - no upsidedown fish. peek up by plants - no upsidedown fish. then, suddently, the bright and lidless eye of upsidedown fish staring blankly out of an overly pale fishbody. it is very much an unhappy thing to be confronted eye-to-eye, up close and personal with your dearly departed fish, especially when one is already feeling ill due to overindulgence on coconut, ice cream and baklava. deeply queasy tried to take a nap and luckily fatespawn came back fairly soon.
*sigh*
upsidedown fish probably already had problems - his blind eye was probably the beginning of the end for him. so we'll go back to the pet store and maybe we'll be able to get more neurotic fish all in different colors to play with neurotic fish the first.
i am still sick. two nights of nyquil and two days of children's triacting chest congestion medicine (yay cheap "name-brand" medicine knockoffs) have helped, but i still keep falling back into a hoarse whisper, blowing my nose damply and hacking coughing. and although my ear feels entirely better, i now have a cold sore hanging albatross-like off the side of my face (if you've had a cold sore you probably know the feeling). i feel altogether like a sorry and disgusting sample of humanity.
however: i am now going to take a shower, and then i'm going to hang out with fatespawn. he's put dead upside-down fish in two plastic bags (for which i am undyingly grateful, as i did not feel up to it at the moment at all). we'll keep dead fish in the freezer until we go back to the pet store, when we can bring him and a water sample so they'll give us a refund and we can get the multicolored neurotic friends. and i know that after i take the shower and hang out for a bit i'll feel much better. plus, i need to find something not at all sugary to eat that will ease my queasiness. oddly enough, i'm kind of in the mood for sushi.
ah, life.
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thanks!
...and sorry to hear about the fishie...
[Edited on Apr 22, 2004 3:27PM]