Monday, Apr. 04, 2005 - 7:10 p.m.
My (ahem) supervisor tried to file something today. Filing is not her fort�. If she was a singer and the alphabet was a song, Simon Cowell could be digging his own grave so that he could shoot himself in the head in order to roll in it.
Now that I take the train to work, I surreptitiously watch people while standing on the platform. Most people do the same thing every day. They stand around, alone or in groups, talking to one another or minding their own business. When we hear the train whistle from the other side of Kent-Kangley road, they stop, step toward the tracks, and look to see the train. Um� Why? Do they not know where it will come from? About half of them plug their ears as the train brakes, rather than just stepping back 5 feet, which cuts the noise level drastically. In protest of this ludicrous behavior, I make a point of just waiting until the train stops to acknowledge its existence.
This weekend, my plans consist of the following activities: fun, fun, and fun! I get to go drop off books at the library, gas up my lawn mower, have my septic tank pumped out, do homework, wash laundry, wash my car, clean my bathroom, cook, some real food that will provide leftovers for a few days, and a bunch of other fabulous time killers that I have written down in a notebook on my dining room table. I so cannot wait. I actually ache with anticipation. Alternatively, perhaps that is dread. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.
I have peeked at a few of the local hiking resources lately such as http://www.nwhikers.net/ to check out the hiking conditions. I do this to torture myself, knowing that I do not have time for the next 19 months to go hiking. Apparently, there is almost no snow left anywhere, and hiking season will begin very early this year. That also means that wildfire season will begin early. I feel for the firefighters who will have to deal with it. In addition to the high number of fires we will probably have, there will not be much water to use for fire fighting because of our unusually dry winter (see http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html). It will be interesting to see what happens with that.
And now, I�m off to harass my cat and/or do homework. I have to depreciate a truck over two years using the straight-line method. Yay!
