soccer game at noon, it was super windy and I came home exhausted, so I went to bed. why so tired the day before vacation? I have stuff to do.

ugh, anyway , up now. We need to leave shortly to get the dog to the sitter's house.

Then must finish packing while the stinky boy showers. Then to bed early since we lose an hour.

I don't know, I might be able to match you at waffling. Regardless of that, right now I'm "taking" a Harvard class, The Hebrew Scriptures in Judaism and Christianity, for 6 more weeks (it seemed appropriate for Saturdays). It's been interesting, but wasn't exactly what I wanted. I think I will go further afield from stuff I know anything about for the next one, just pick a title that sounds interesting.

But that will have to wait until after I brush up on my accounting. I got a letter this week saying I was accepted to take the Financial Institutions Examiner Exam (it looks silly, but that's what it's called). This has been a big week for employment/potential employment news for me!

Yay vacation, msbelle! Have fun!

Oh, hey, in sometimes people are really nice news: I stopped for gas on my way to have dinner with my parents before counting stuff at the 99-cent store near their house on, uh, Wednesday and apparently dropped my gas card. Somebody found it, called the customer service number on the back of the card, talked to the attendant, and eventually googled my name (from the front of the card) and luckily found my parents phone number and reached me there to ask me if I wanted her to chop it up or mail it to me or what. Since she offered, I opted to have her mail it to my parents' house (since she had that address from Google) and it arrived today. I didn't even get her name, though I did thank her profusely when I talked to her.

Wow, I am talky meat today.

Yay, people are sometimes awesome.

-t, what are you studying with iTunes U?

Not -t obviously but do you enjoy art history?

I promised myself I was going to be productive today.

I seem to have lied.

I read the hotel information book. What? That's what it's there for! I also look at the evacuation map. I KNOW! But that's the kind of person I am, right there.

So we can't afford to go anywhere for spring break, and we've been having a motherfucker of a time lately, so we really need the break. So we've decided to pretend we were on vacation. We're going to go to a hotel and pick up all the local tourist information and then go to a local grocery and buy just what we need for the week and then we're going to go romp around our town like it's a trip. We have an awesome little rural town and lots of people actually vacation here, so why shouldn't we?

Oh, I look at the hotel book, too!

You'll be productive some other time, Lee.

Staycation, woo! I think being a tourist at home is awesome.

I don't actively look for the evacuation map, but I do study it when I come across it, even while thinking that I will probably not remember what it says in an emergency. never needed it, so that's nice.

BTW, Liese, my parents were telling me about a book that might interest you, A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque by E B Held, a former CIA agent carefully using declassified documents to cover Trotsky, a bunch of atomic bomb intrigue, right up until it's too recent to talk about. Apparently he gives talks sometimes in the area, too.

Oh, I totally read all the hotel info, too.

Today was basically a wash, so here's hoping we actually do stuff tomorrow.

Also, that's an amazing nice person, -t!

Took a break from cleaning and packing. That was possibly a mistake, as I don't ever want to move again.

I only read enough to find out what this hotel offers that most don't, how do I get food, how do I get internet.

Cass, Art History was the only thing I chose easily--I'm signed up for two with Coursera, one May and one in the fall. I only really plan on taking one--we'll see. It's all the rest--the film studies, psychology, computer science, philosophy...what do I actually like enough to apply discipline to?