real writing

its been a long time since i've actually written anything here.
unfortunately, i don't have anything particularly meaningful to write at this moment, either - but its been so long i figured i'd better do it while i'm in the mood.

4-day weekend! i'm taking monday off as my personal holiday, becuase coming in that day at all seems lame, especially with veterans day being on tuesday. i need to grade about 5.5 fps packets tomorrow. that'll be fun. usually it really would be, but they're kind of atrocious this time, to the point of them being unusually difficult to grade. which makes them not fun.

work is good. still not particularly busy all the time, but learning some good new things. i now have 4 or 5 new reports that i'm in charge of on a weekly basis.

ooh! i'm also getting better at not spending so much money eating out at lunch. the key: soup. soup is cheap, and once i bought a bowl with a handle, it was easy to eat. and i like spaghettios. and potato soup. probably not all that healthy, but not bad, for me. especially if i bring a banana to go with it.

i cut up one of my credit cards! go me! i'm giving the other one to a friend to stick in her freezer, too. i feel the need to have one for emergencies or something, but it will be much better if its not in my own house.

i like music. i always like music, but i like music an extra lot the past week. i like a lot of people, but overall i definitely have two favorites. i like everything they do: Peter Gabriel and Lyle Lovett. in 5 years John Mayer might be on that list, but his discography isnt big enough to really impress me the way the other two do. I also started listening to Phil Collins a lot - i always like him, but only knew his songs from the radio, so hearing all of the albums has been great. And i get blown away once or twice an album to the point of going "wow! this is amazing! amazing like peter gabriel amazing!" and then i listen to peter gabriel.

anyway. thats probably sufficient writing for now. babble babble babble.