but i did it just barely.<\/p>\n
so, here\u2019s the good thing that happened – well, last week i lost my stapler. i know it\u2019s somewhere, but i kept looking in my office, and i got more and more mad, mostly because i have WAY too many pieces of paper in there, and i couldn\u2019t find my stapler anywhere, and i NEED MY STAPLER. i printed out some critical articles for the paper i need to write, and i needed to STAPLE THEM TOGETHER.<\/p>\n
so today i had to go to office max to buy a printer cartridge, because this morning i tried to print out more critical articles and first the printer jammed, and then it was out of ink, which was a very annoying way to start the week. <\/p>\n
but i bought my printer cartridge, and decided i\u2019d just buy a new stapler, even though i figured if i did that, my old stapler would drop right down out of the sky and land on my head. or my toe, which i broke last year and was very pissed off about because it took forever to heal.<\/p>\n
anyway, i decided i wouldn\u2019t buy a stapler if it cost more than 10 bucks. <\/p>\n
office max had LOTS AND LOTS of staplers. some cost upwards of 50 dollar, i believe, although they were electric or something silly like that – who needs electric staplers??? how much stapling could a person do, anyway?<\/p>\n
i got a stapler that was a STAPLER PACK. it included a stapler that\u2019s nicer than my old stapler, which i\u2019ve had forever and have no memory of buying, plus a box of staples, plus a staple remover! and guess how much this sweet deal cost me – FIVE DOLLARS! <\/p>\n
i mean, how could they make something that cheaply? <\/p>\n
this made my day.<\/p>\n
i also had lunch at the new Qdoba mexican restaurant, right by office max, with my friend kurt. we had GIGANTIC burritos, but somehow we managed to eat all of them. they were pretty good, but the tortillas weren\u2019t so great. a good tortilla is key to a good mexican restaurant. maybe they\u2019ll improve. they were a little bit…i don\u2019t know…sort of rubbery? not exactly rubbery, but the texture was more like a spring roll wrapper, almost, than a tortilla.<\/p>\n
why do so many mexican restaurants in spfld have such unpronouceable names? Qdoba, is that short for something that i just can\u2019t figure out? it\u2019s near xochimilcho mexican restaurant; maybe qdoba felt they had to match the unpronouncability. <\/p>\n
kurt\u2019s son ben is in kindergarten, and he has to go from 8:30 till 3. doesn\u2019t that sound like a very long day? AND, they take no naps! isn\u2019t that crazy, no naps? <\/p>\n
and sad, too.<\/p>\n
speaking of naps, WHY AM I STILL AWAKE, IT\u2019S ALMOST ONE IN THE MORNING!!!! very very bad. i won\u2019t be able to run, because by the time i finally roll out of bed, i\u2019m sure it will be swelteringly hot.<\/p>\n
i just have to mention the TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE tonight. i left work at 5:05 and i figured it\u2019d take me 15 minutes to get home, grab a quick bite to eat, and rush to class by 6:00. i roared down I-72, but then traffic slowed, then stopped…weird. we don\u2019t have this kind of issue in spfld.<\/p>\n
other cars were illegally crossing over to the other side of the highway and heading back, and i finally decided to follow them, because the traffic clearly wasn\u2019t going anywhere. i headed back to veteran\u2019s parkway and roared through westchester and down wabash and up sixth street…and suddenly MORE TRAFFIC NIGHTMARES! up ahead, there were cop cars and clearly traffic was being diverted. WHAT WAS GOING ON???<\/p>\n
i made a u-turn and cut through that business area in back of hollywood video, and ended up on 11th street, where i figured i\u2019d be able to quickly head over to stevenson…AND MORE TRAFFIC NIGHTMARES! up ahead on stevenson drive, even though our light was green, semis were hogging up the lanes, blocking the traffic. finally, finally, after about a million years (approximately), i got onto stevenson drive, and it was very weird, because semis lines the street, on both sides, crawling along. i just didn\u2019t realize how many trucks are on the highway usually.<\/p>\n
i guess I-72 was closed, as well as I-55, it was a two-car accident, and on the news tonight it looked very grim.<\/p>\n
it was just so weird, being caught in a traffic jam with no way to take a shortcut.<\/p>\n
it ended taking me 50 minutes to get home, and i had to be late to class because i was STARVING as well as mad. <\/p>\n
i didn\u2019t miss anything important in class.<\/p>\n
he said a few pithy things that i\u2019d like to share with you, and my notebook is actually right across the hall in my office, but i just can\u2019t get out of bed. BECAUSE IT\u2019S ONE IN THE MORNING.<\/p>\n
must sleep.<\/p>\n
crazy, crazy girl.<\/p>\n
boy, i\u2019m glad i don\u2019t live in LA anymore.<\/p>\n
ok then,<\/p>\n
grace up too late yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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