La Belle Vie

what a day

so i'm at the news office for an extra day today, and somehow was labouring under the misperception that that would be less stressful than being downtown. HAHAHAHAHA Here are some of the things that happened today, in chronological order:
1) Becky (the instructor) was late to kickboxing today, so she made it extra-hard and ran over, making me a little late to work.
2) Spent a good portion of my morning scanning the newspapers for mentions of the UofC and got NOTHING. Not really my fault, but i tend to misconstrue random things as personal failings.
3) Got a call from my mother informing me that her best friend, who's like a second mother to me, is in the hospital with a tumor in her uterus. Subsequently called my "second father" and completely neglected my news office duties to talk to him.
4) Ate lunch for Habeas Corpus with Nancy and two reps from a test prep company. One of whom has communicated with me by e-mail numerous times, met me once, received multiple e-mails from Nancy with my name in them yesterday and today, and proceeded to call me Molly for half the meal. At least a) i got to hang out with Nancy and b) they picked up the tab.
5) Had to walk from Noodles to 56th and South Shore and back to the news office (for anyone who's not from HP, that's 25 minutes-ish each way) wearing khakis and super-uncomfortable shoes in the 90-degree heat to pick up photos of the man i'm writing the obituary of.
--update--
6) On relieved way home from work ran into one now-graduated object of unrequited affection who informed me that he's supposed to be hanging out this evening with my most recent now-graduated object of unrequited affection, who i had thought was gone from chicago, and who is in fact leaving chicago, and the country, this weekend. As if today hadn't fucked with my head enough already

I guess that's it. Basically, everything has been physically and emotionally exhausting. But here are two good things: 1) I came up with something really cool to give Silpa for her birthday. 2) Today i'm going to kick back and drink a PBR and watch The Incredibles for free on the quads. in shorts. You should come watch it with me.

love y'all

posted by Monica @ 3:37 PM