more random thoughts….i’ll get back to my vacation blogging in a bit…still thinking about what to write
so - this is what I added to ediets, a while ago…thought it was interesting.
i just got back from some “cabining” in the calveras area…i know my buddies and i did a mess load of drinking….but thank goodness that was just one night for me. we did a great 15-20 minute hike, towards the upstream area of the stanislaus river. it was beautiful, sunny, and warm (at least 96 degrees). we also did some splashing around in some seriously cold river water.
i had a near brush with death (it seems that extreme to me since i have this intense fear of drowing) - the current was pretty strong and the folks encouraged me to use that to swim over to the other side of the river - where everyone was sunning out on some rocks. i figured, why not? so I paddled over. What i didn’t realize was that the river dropped quite a few feet (according to one guy - at least a 10 feet drop, if not more) I felt myself dipping under - which kinda freaked me out since I was wearing contacts. I tried to touch my feet on the ground and I didn’t feel it. Not a thing! So, I was in full blown panic mode. Luckily - several guys jumped in and dragged me the few inches i needed to hit some solid rock. Everyone told me I already made it, I was just panicky towards the end.
I saw my boyfriend on the other side of the riverbank. Mark doesn’t know how to swim, so he just watched. I realized how this was kinda similar to what I will soon experience, when I leave California for Chicago, in a few months (I’m heading over to Northwestern for grad school). I’ve never lived outside of the state before and well, heck - I won’t know a soul over there. I’ll also leave Mark behind.
so..that’s that.
i fell asleep and dreamt about work
i made it to the gym last night!!!!!!!!!! yeah! yeah! yeah! I feel awsome! I feel great! It’s so amazing to have this back in my life again. I’m glad I didn’t give up….and I’m also quite happy they (the gym management) banned his sorry ass from the facility. So, I didn’t freak out, break down into tears…in fact, I think I passed as normal human being, through the gym doors and on my way to the locker room. yeah! yeah!
mark and i went over to the parkway to catch Charlie’s Angels: FULL THROTTLE. don’t expect an oscar masterpiece, people! This movie is all about the babes, the action, the kickbutting and smack downs, fashion, and girl power! Pizza and a glass of chardonay, topped off this evening.
it was like being on top of the world.
i also had a wierd dream last night. i was at work, doing laptop office hours. i guy brought in his “laptop” - it consisted of a yellow crate, with a hard drive, a video card, and a cd-rom (couldn’t tell if it was a CD-RW….but that’s beside the point) - somehoe attached with glue and duck tape. he wanted me to get this downloading tv and music software working on his machine. he said “i will be very disappointed with haas computing, if you can’t get this done.” remarkable, that insult didn’t bristle my skin, like it usually did in real life. so i got to work. i ejected the software from his cd-rom. he had several cd’s, stacked on top of each other, inside the drive. I asked him if he knew what he was doing and he said that’s how his system worked. he seemed so proud of this rag tag mess he lugged into the lab - as if it were state of the line. he also had a monitor with his “laptop” - i tried to browse the file system - but the monitor kept flashing tv images. apparently, he had his TV/video card plugged into a cable outlet. he said i should be able to work with the tv images - apparently, he did it all the time. i gave up working on it - and started asking him some technical questions. he didn’t read the manual for the software, didn’t care if it was illegal, and he got stumped when i asked him if he ran a compatibility test (i was actually talking about these tests with my co-workers, yesterday - apparently one of them installed xp on an old laptop, without checking for compatibility). he felt sheepish and said he’ll check with the manufacture of his “laptop”
dreams | queenkv @ 9:32 pm
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