So Close and Yet So Far

I'm at post 99. That's right. Go back and check. It's true. I'm almost there...and by almost there I guess I mean at 100 posts. There's not going to be anything exciting that occurs because of that fact, but I thought I would share. I'm all about sharing. Not recently. Recently I'm not at all about sharing. But that's just because I've been busy and it turns out that writing 80 pages worth of scholarly work (not including figures and references because that would just be silly) is a bit draining. And by a bit draining, I mean, "sucks the life right out of you and all those you love". But sometimes that's how life is I guess. I'm also working on the wedding plans.

In reference to the wedding plans, thus far, no one at the wedding has any idea what they will be wearing. Maybe I'll just tell everyone to "dress nice" and see how coordinated we end up being. That would be pretty awesome. I'll just passive aggressively make everyone wear what I want..."oh, you know what I like, just wear whatever you think would be best." And then when they get there I can just get all angry and sullen. Yeah, I guess if we're honest there's about an 80% chance of that happening anyway. Whatever. Some of us are good at being nice, some of us aren't.

I'm trying to think of exciting things in my life to mention, but I'm really coming up with a blank. Here's some highlights in list form. Because as I've rediscovered while writing my comps papers, I'm not good at transitions. If you can't fill in for yourself where I'm going and how I got there, too bad.

• Zach and I had plans with two different groups of people last Friday. We went to a bar with our neighbor and his niece and her husband. It was fun. We drank and ate bar food and talked. Then we went to a poker party with some people from work. This was still fun, although less so. It would have been super fun if everyone had been there to just have a good time and not "play some serious poker"-emphasis on SERIOUS. Some people feel that if you are not playing the game the "right way" then it's not worth playing. I'm not really one of the people. We weren't even playing for actual money. I hate competition. I just want everyone to be happy. The wedding should include board games. That would really make it the best day ever.
• Zach and I worked on Sunday and we took yesterday off. It was pretty fun. I did a bunch of wedding invitations and we watched Dan in Real Life. I thought it was pretty good. Sort of expected, but I do like Steve Carrell. He's good even in dramatic roles. And we watched some Bad Girls Club. Just a little bit. Zach's sort of enamored of that show. I think it's just so much of a train wreck. I know that they cut reality shows to present the craziest stuff at all times, but still I wonder how crazy these people are in real life. If I was on one of those shows, I wouldn't yell. I would just quietly walk around the house scowling and sighing as I cleaned up after people. Actually, I wouldn't be able to use a bathroom that 5-7 other strangers were using. Come to think of it with all the gross nasty sexual stuff that seems to happen in that show, I wouldn't be able to sit or stand anyone in the house. Oh, God, I have to go wash my hands now.
• Today I suppose I should work on the conclusions for my papers. In addition to being really bad at transitions, I'm bad at conclusions. You know what? You just read the whole paper, what did you think it was about? Why do I have to boil it all down and recap it for you? Huh. Now that I think about it, I hate "the recap" too. Both Jesse and Zach love the recap. Always wanting to recap. Me, I'm not really into it. It's sort of a shame that I've got another 50 years of recapping ahead of me then.
• I'm supposed to meet with my advisor in 5 minutes. I'm currently rocking out to Elton John and writing this. I guess I'll see if he comes up here and if not...well, maybe I can be bothered to go down there. We'll see.
• I really appreciate the lies the Weather Channel chose to tell today. "Sunny". Sunny? Hmm, I forget is sunny the one that is all dark and gray and there's not a lot of light and it looks like rain? Is that "sunny"? I'm bad with weather terms. At least they got the windy right.
  
• Our recent electric/gas bill was $.85. That's because last month we paid $276.83. I called last month and spoke to a customer service representative. I told her that I thought a mistake had been made because we've never used that much electricity/gas before and even though I know it was cold, it wasn't that cold. I also mentioned that our meters were changed out to automatic ones and maybe that was the problem. She assured me repeatedly that that was not the case. I was wrong. The last month was an estimate and when they got the actual reading they had to increase the amount. Just pay the damn bill. Well, this month a big ol' credit showed up. I called again because I'm not going to pay $.85 and then have them bill me $400 next month. This time I was told, "yeah, well, we messed up." When I explained what I thought had happened last month, she said, "yeah, you were right." Ha! Eat that Customer Service Representative #1. I WAS RIGHT! Burn!
• An as one final note, what happened to the cents sign? I miss that. I was I could type that easily. Oh well.

Hope you are all having a good day. 100 is almost here. Get excited.