tired.
i just got back from washington dc tonight. good times, good friends and good eating--a great trip. the weather was gorgeous, except for the one day when it rained.. but every other day was 80 degrees and sunny. the museums were fun and the monuments were beautiful.. but the best part was that most everything was free!

now i'm trying to regroup and get ready for work tomorrow. on top of that, i'm leaving for ANOTHER vacation to new orleans just a week and a half from now. kinda crazy, i know.

oy, time to sleep.. good night.

how does bad turn into worse?
so i go out to my car for lunch today. and i find out that i left my lights on, so my car battery's dead and it won't start. so i flagged down a guy, who's nice enough to let me jump start my car with his. i put my car in neutral and backed out my car a little bit, just so we could get the cars connected. anyway, the car gets started and i'm really happy. UNTIL i find out that i had closed my car door and the doors are locked. you see, my car has a "wonderful" feature--once the car gets started, the doors automatically lock. ah, the joys of automation.

anyway, so my car's still running, halfway sticking out of the parking space and the doors are locked. so i call roadside assistance and a tow truck comes by to save me. the first thing he says to me is, "i have one question: how did this.. nah, nevermind."

and you know what the funniest part is? this is the second time that this has happened to me.

ugh.

i'm going to dc tomorrow.
i still haven't done any packing, preparing or anything. after all the drama that's gone on with me and travelling, it's not something i go crazy over anymore i guess. anyway, i want to get a scanner. i just updated my photos page (it looks a lot better!) it makes me sentimental when i look at all of those old pictures again. i've taken so many pictures since but i can't add any new pictures since my dad got rid of the old scanner/printer we used to have. wah! somebody.. buy me a scanner!

oh by the way...
something exciting: i got a credit card! after years of being "anti-credit" i finally got one! heh, and with a $5000 credit limit too! woohoo! time for a shopping spree baaaaaaaby..!!

um. or not.

time to paaaaaar-tay!
my parents are away.. they're going away to las vegas until thursday or so. one thing is that it's QUIET when my parents aren't around. when they're here, there's so much constant noise in the house.. with my mom's constant nagging and the tv which is almost on all times of the day thanks to my dad.

i'm not the type of person to do crazy things while my parents are gone. anyhoo, it's not like i'm going to be around to enjoy the freedom of being without my parents, i'm going off to washington dc on wednesday night on a red eye flight. hehe, looking forward to that actually, i think it's gonna be gorgeous in dc.. or so i hope! i heard that they have this row of cherry blossom trees near the washington memorial and it's around the season. it's definitely not japan, but i think it'll be pretty great just the same.

happy bunnyegg day.
it's easter today. guess what? i went to church! after my mom's unending lectures about how i should go to church to meet a "nice boy" i finally went. maybe it's just a sense of obligation.. it's easter, after all... so i went today, and i nearly fell asleep during the service. went to church for the first time in about three months, and nearly fell asleep during the service, greeeeeeeat...

maybe i should pray more.

agh!
my ears are burning.

oh! i didn't mention..
the other day, just last week my bank got robbed. somebody went up to tracy (who happens to work at the window right next to me), handed her a note asking for all of her money, took the money and then walked out. i was on my break when it happened, so within the span of 15 minutes, the robber came and left and once i started coming downstairs from my break, the police were already there and securing the area. tracy was pretty shaken, but she took it really well, i think. we closed for the rest of the day, and passed time talking and speculating about what happened while the police around us took fingerprints and examined the area. afterward, we went out for drinks.. to make tracy feel a little more normal-ish, you know?

i just thought it was really odd--really random. i hope this isn't an everyday occurance from now on. even though the guy didn't whip out a gun or anything like that, it's still pretty nerve wracking and it puts us all on edge.

anyway, just thought i'd share.

tired.
my.feet.hurt.. my.head.aches.. i'm.so.freaking tired.. welcome to the working world. have i ever mentioned just how little of a life i feel like i've had since i've started working? today i "did lunch" (haha.. sounds funny, even to me) with nessie. it was wonderful, it was great.. and it made me realize just how little socialization i've done out of work lately. sure, it pays the bills and makes me money.. and goodness knows that i need more of that. but really, i don't feel "satisfied" with what i'm doing, you know?

it's hard not being in school. i like having a set path of course requirements and having graduation as a goal. but what am i working towards now? retirement??? jeez, that is just too sad. i see a lot of that, working at the bank. older people coming in, asking whether their social security or interest payment's come in. i don't want to live like that.. i really don't. i want a job that will satisfy me emotionally, where i lose track of time doing something i love, and where i can be happy feeling that i made a difference and did something that i felt was important. i don't want to be another cog in the machine.. please don't let me become another cog in the machine...

there was a documentary on the history channel the other day.
it was on pablo escobar in the 80s and early 90s. the type of things he did were absolutely crazy. things like killing all the supreme court justices and assasinating three out of five of the presidential canidates. just the thought of one man having such leverage against an entire government like that is almost impossible to comprehend. i know that in this day and age, similar things still occur in other nations, but in our sterilized lives here in the united states, we hardly hear about it.

maybe it's just because i'm not very well informed, or it could just be that i'm showing my age.. when this all happened, i was only in sixth grade. i doubt that drug cartels were high on my priority list back then.

crazy stuff. i'm sure we could garner a lot of lessons from history, but that never happens, so whatever.