Tuesday

It’s been awhile!  When I don’t write, later I just chalk it up to how my life is just so busy (and awesome) I don’t have time for writing.  Or something.

Anyway, this weekend was camping with a few friends.  I like the idea of camping a lot more than I like the act.  It was hot, really buggy, and a lot of work.  We arrived on Friday and barely got a campsite.  We had to walk about a half mile to get there, which is a good little walk (especially when carrying camping gear).  I joked that with all our stuff, we looked like we were staying a week.  It’s true, though.  You need personal stuff, tents, and food.  So then we spent around 3 hours trying to get our damn fire to start.  The wood was all wet (plus I’m a bit skeptical that my friend D. even knows how to properly build a fire.  Oh well.) and things just weren’t going well.  Finally it started, but by then we’d given up and were making burgers on a gas grill.  Afterwards it was dark but we still made s’mores.  And then we were exhausted and went to sleep, but it was really hot and humid.  On Saturday we got up and went to the beach.  It had rained overnight so some of our stuff had gotten wet.  The beach was nice but the water was freezing and we all ended up with sunburns.  Stupid pale skin.  We threw the frisbee a bunch and just laid on the beach.  Also we climbed up a dune and ran down, which was fun.  That night we had a little more fun than we were probably supposed to, and I got a bit scared when one of the pseudo-rangers came over and asked us to quiet down.  Oops.  There was a little drama with my friends, which made D. and I again appreciative of how normal we are.  On Sunday we got up and drove home.  I have the worst bug bites and sunburn now.

Resolved:  A hotel and food made indoors is highly preferable to camping.

It just always sounds like such a good idea.  Until you realize that after you finish setting up the campsite and making your food, you don’t have a lot of time to actually do what you want to do.

Yesterday I was at work from 8-5:30, then had tennis from 6-7:30, and then D. came over and we watched Sin City.  At work we had the city tournament ladies’ lunch, and then we had to turn that around for bingo.  Today I went in at 10 and got done early at 3:30.  I talked with my boss about when my last day would be, and she was really flexible and nice about everything.  She was like, “It’s completely up to you.”  Which is good because I was fretting that she’d have a problem with me leaving kind of early and/or asking for a more flexible schedule.  We haven’t completely worked it out yet, but at least she is giving me a lot of input.

This Thursday (ok, technically Friday at midnight) is the opening of Batman.  It will be really cool to see it in Imax, and having a mini-getaway with D. will be fun, too.  Then D. leaves for around 3 weeks, and then I go to Michigan for a few days.  When I get back I’m on my (possibly very) reduced work schedule, and then S. visits and D. and I see DMB. The end of the summer is shaping up very nicely.

Ok, that basically summarizes my future month and last few days.  Laters!

Em