Slow Internet + Chiggers? = Unhappy Em
Tuesday
The title basically sums up this post, haha. But yeah, I’ve been getting an ungodly amount of bug bites recently. Immediately after camping, ok, it makes sense. But it’s been over a week since I’ve so much as set foot in the woods. I’ve been outside but not more than necessary. And bites keep popping up all over, itching and driving me crazy. I think it might be chiggers, which lore says to put clear nail polish on. So on the really itchy ones I’ve been doing that … then, not only do I itch, but I shine. Sweet. Other suggestions, made by my mom and my coworker B., have been that the bites are either bedbugs or fleas. All of those sound swell, yes? I washed my sheets yesterday and put on new pjs, so along with the nail polish and trying not to scratch will hopefully clear up my itchy condition. My DAD suggested I might want to go to the doctor. The man who doesn’t go to the doctor unless he either is required to or is seriously sick. (Like, pneumonia. And then only maybe.) We both sort of think doctors are quacks. Not that they aren’t trying to do their best, but a lot of their recommendations just don’t help. If I went, they’d probably tell me not to scratch, to wash my sheets, and to apply some cream that is basically the same as anything you can buy in the store (or nail polish). So yeah, I’ll wait it out, at least for awhile.
Aside from that, my internet is going really really slow. Which would normally be annoying, but now that my boyfriend is out of the country and posting pictures, it’s even more irritating. So hopefully the net “warms up” or something and gets its ass in gear.
Last night I played tennis for at least 3 hours. After work I had class from 6-7:30, and then played with my friends M. and S. Well, hit it around more than played, since they are both tons better than me. After feeling like da bomb in my beginner class, hitting with them really puts it in perspective. Tonight, we’re getting together again to exchange money for camping and go bowling. That should make my friend S. very happy, since he’s always trying to organize bowling extravaganzas. And maybe if I prove I’ll hang out with him sober, he’ll invite me to some parties thrown by people he knows. Tehe ulterior motives. But bowling is fun so I’m excited.
Tomorrow I have a day off, and then Thursday and Friday are normal days. I’m not sure what’s going on Saturday yet. This week has been pretty chill, with us interns working on office stuff. Today I put together promotional folder that we can take out into the community to promote the event spaces. I’d already written a lot of the copy (which my boss loved, she said she could tell I was a writer or something 
. I promise I actually can write a lot better than I do on here.). I also just printed off more copies of a lot of documents. Yesterday I updated our pricies and policies page. My last(ish) day is Tuesday, and then I go to Michigan on a family vaca from the 30th to the 3rd. After that, my work schedule is going to be pretty reduced. I asked for that since I want time to myself and to just have a summer, along with preparing for school to start.
Which I’m super excited for! Just to see everyone, to go to classes, to not have most of my day blocked in with work, to party every weekend, to alternate spending time between my campus and D.’s. With our relationship having endured so much more now than a year ago, I think we will be a lot more comfortable with the smaller distance. It’ll be really easy to see it as less of an obstacle. Last year, he was just going to college for the first time and I was concerned about him growing apart from me. I thought that might happen because of all the new people, living on his own, new activities, and just being really busy. While all of that happened, we managed to stay close through all of it (not without some fights and problems, of course). I still have insecurities and we still have our minor issues, but at least this year, neither of us is jumping into anything entirely new. Him starting college one semester and me moving to the city for the second – just the distance thing was a major concern. (And hell, I wouldn’t have wanted to be in a relationship my first year of school. Yes, I am the “older woman” haha.)
Anyway. Hopefully he’s having a blast on his “international experience” right now. (But not tooo much of one … no passing out drunk, now …)
In other news, my brother got his first cell phone yesterday. He’s 13 years old. While I agree it sounds a little ridiculous on paper, in real life it will be handy for him to have one. And I was only 15 when I got mine, and times are changing. So yesterday he was playing with ring tones and programming numbers into his phone and all that fun stuff. Annnnd my contract is up in like 2 days, so no more RZR. While I thought I would be glad to be rid of it, the thought of throwing all my priceless phone pics and texts down the drain kind of scares me. But my phone is so damn slow I’ll probably do it anyway.
Ok, sorry ’bout the long post. Have a great night!
Em
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