Moment of Happiness

Yesterday morning I awoke for a few minutes in the early morning. I had fallen asleep the night before on my couch while watching TV. I awoke to find my cat sleeping soundly at my side. I can't put into words the feeling of waking up for just a few seconds and feeling the warmth of a sleeping cat next to you. If you've never experienced it you really should.

New Year New Job

So I started working for the school paper. Having never worked for any type of journalism establishment, I felt very under qualified. But what the heck they took me anyway. My new job is the opinion editor, which is great for me. I love strong opinions, and I'd hate to have to assign people to do random news stories. This way everyone writes about what they want to write about.
Probably the best part about this job so far is that I get my own desk. My own desk, my own chair, my own computer, access to a printer. A large collection of office supplies as well. And more notebooks than I know what to do with.
I think this job will inspire me to stay even more up to date with news and the world around me.

Pills

At work, whenever I have to clean the aisles after a movie, I'm amazed at how many pills I find on the floor among the popcorn and napkins. I would expect to see one or two every once in a while, maybe they fall out of someone's purse. But I'll usually see 4-6 on a given day. It makes me wonder who these women are that are going to movies with purses just overflowing with various pills.

My bread story

Yesterday at the grocery store I was checking out my favorite aisle, the discounted foods section, and came across a loaf of french bread. The bread, only 89 cents by the way, had this motto printed on the side: "Time to Eat Bread Again." This raises a lot of questions. When was it not time to eat bread? My first guess is that this is in reference to the Aktins no-carb diet that took America by storm. But that was what, 7 years ago? Are we just now getting back to being a bread-friendly country? That's a long time to recover. Perhaps it took that long to cleanse America's colons of all that beef, since that is apparently the only thing people eat on the Aktin's diet. This makes me wonder what kind of damage the Aktins diet did to the bread industry. Maybe it ran some of them out of business? Is that why this bread is only 89 cents? I just picture some bread factory shutting its doors as its owner stands in the parking lot, fist waving towards the heaven, cursing Robert Aktins and his carb hating habits.

File this under W for Well Ain't That A Bitch.

So yesterday I woke up to my alarm going off only to realize I was supposed to be at work RIGHT THEN. "Idiot!" I said to myself, "Why did you set your alarm for right at 10 and not earlier?" So I raced around like a chicken with my head cut off, brushed my teeth, got dressed, skipped breakfast and was about to race out the door when I looked at the clock once more. I realized it was 9 o'clock, not 10, and that my alarm was really just a reminder that I had to be up in an hour. "Oh how silly", I thought as I jumped back into bed, "At least I'm not really late." I quickly fell back asleep and continued sleeping for 2 whole hours, missing my REAL alarm plus 2 phone calls from my boss, wondering why I where I was.
The really silly thing was that I was only scheduled to work one hour, 10-11, and I had volunteered to come in and help the other person who would have been working alone. Luckily my boss was cool with it, and even seemed to see the humor in the situation, so no real harm was done.
But still, it was a quintessential "Well ain't that a bitch?" kind of moments.

Observation

I was watching a bird wander around campus yesterday and noticed he had something sticking out of his mouth. My first thought was that I had caught him mid-meal. I realized it was actually a giant leaf and a few twigs. This is when I came to my realization: birds don't really have hands. Thus, anytime they want to pick something up to move or carry it, they must use their mouth. Sounds kind of shitty to me. Think about all the things you pick up in a normal day, for all the various reasons one might pick something up. Then imagine putting them in your mouth. And on top of that, if you were a bird, it should almost go without saying that you wouldn't have any pockets, so forget about using those to carry things.

Party Time=Excellent

Some bands played on campus tonight in Kellogg Circle. It was a great mix of good people and great weather. I consider today the Official Start of Summer. Start spreading the word nationwide.

The last few days have been filled with anticipation as I wait to hear about a possible internship for with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. I'd be pretty stoked about it if I got it, but we will just have to hold our breath for now till they make a decision. If I don't do the internship I'll move back to wichita and work for Borders again. So if worse comes to worse, I'll spend my time in a bookstore making delicious smoothies. Not a shabby way to spend my time.