first day of school

back from my three-day weekend.  :)

 

traffic was an absolute bear this morning!  it is the first day of school for all the little schoolboys and schoolgirls today, at all the local elementary and elementary schools as well as the colleges.  so the streets were just packed more than what i've been used to these past few months, with avid parents totin' off their young 'uns and eager-beaver college students trying to make it to their first classes on time for the day.  for them, the summer is over.

 

it just makes me shake my head when i encounter this kind of traffic.  i live in the boonies, virtually.  just ten years ago, my area used to be nothing but pure country side.  houses were separated from each other by at least a couple of acres.  in fact, there used to be a wide, vast field that covered most of the block that was owned by a slaughterhouse; herds of large cows with dull eyes would be rotated from one part of the field to another to graze before meeting their ultimate fate at the slaughterhouse. 

 

now, though, those vast fields on my block, which had been owned by that slaughterhouse, have disappeared, and most of what used to be empty land now consists of housing subdivisions built packed close together.  there are already four times as many elementary and secondary public schools in the are than there were when i grew up there.  bel air supermarkets and walgreen's stores now abound on almost every block.  so many people, it's obnoxious.

 

suburban sprawl.

 

not a fan.

 

:-T

 

so that was what i fought off this morning as i sludged my way to work.  while i technically still live in the boonies myself, i only have to go half a block north in order to encounter suburban sprawl where the housing divisions start creeping up into my neck of the woods.  each block is exactly one mile long.  i only had to drive one-and-a-half blocks up this morning before i encountered a long-assed line at a four-way stop sign, which took me about 20 minutes to be able to get through.

 

no complaints, though.  seriously.

 

:)

 

i got back from my three-day vacay yesterday evening at 7-ish.  i've got a lot of thoughts to share about my trip as well as some illuminations that are already helping to shed light on what the hell i should decide to do about this whole grad school matter.  but i'll save those thoughts for my next post because i want to be able to explore those thoughts in a particular way.

 

they are starting school over there right now, too, at my grad program.  classes start today.  do i feel like i should be right there with them right now, getting ready to attend classes myself?  or am i good with how things are right now, here at work?

 

i've got a number of different feelings, some of them conflicting.  but like i said, my next couple of posts will be dedicated to this whole issue.

 

:-T

 

anyway, by way of update, i just wanted to say that last week, in the first few working days after dimples and i recovered from our hot but drunken exchange on the dance floor at the local club, things were . . .

 

kinda awkward. 

 

:-P

 

i came into the office the following monday feeling mellow but curious about how she would react; and she acted kinda awkward and nervous.  i tried to put her at ease by just behaving normally.

 

the following day, she seemed fine and acted totally normal, but then it was my turn to feel all awkward and shy whenever i was around her.  i do not know why, really.  but so i tried to avoid her as much as possible.

 

then the next day, it was a split, and we both just kind of did our own thing and didn't really have anything to do with each other.  and that was just kind of that, because she was off on thursday and friday, and then i was off on friday.

 

this morning, i caught her watching me.  i was sitting at my cube, and she was talking to a couple of co-workers across the office.  i happened to look up over my cube wall in her direction, which is about shoulder-level when i'm sitting at my desk.  our eyes met for a few brief seconds before i turned kind of skittish and went back to work.  a few moments later, when she breezed by my desk to say hi, she called me by the new nickname she had affectionately christened me on the night we went bowling.

 

i know she likes me.  and i like her.  i think she's super cute.

 

but no, i'm not going to go there.  like, at all.

 

:-T

 

oh well.  anyway, lordy.  this morning here at work, i'm doing everything wrong already. 

 

*sigh*  fuck!

 

today's just going to suck.  i'm real tired from my little trip.  today's just going to be all about getting my bearings back and trying not to screw up everything that happens to cross my desk . . . .

 

happy monday.

 

:-T