Scribbles in the Dark

i eat chocolate. ^/__^ work is fun; i get to color things. i have something like 325 prismacolor art pencils on my desk. mike came over to my cubicle yesterday after lunch and asked me to start designing the vct and wall tile for the high school. he told me: "no red, b/c it's expensive. no blue, b/c that's the school colors of the other high school. we're leaning towards green. have fun!" and oh boy, am i having fun. *grins* also, tracing paper is the gift of the gods. all my work is on one roll so i don't have to shuffle through things, and i don't have to print off a bajillion copies of the floorplan or use up my whole sketching tablet. it's nice....

in other work-related news, bill from the office across the hall grows watermelons in his abckyard, and he brought about thirty of them to work today in his pick-up. so everyone's going home with a watermelon under each arm. i lo~ove watermelon!!!! they look like giant pickles, it's funny. we had a little assembly, passing watermelons through the back door like a fire brigade bucket line. except giant pickles instead of buckets. ^/__^

mm.. went swimming yesterday. for the first time this summer, no less. it was nice.... and i got to hang out with melissa. i leave in like 2 1/2 weeks, zomg!!!! *weeps* i'll miss people.

kay, back to coloring now. *smirk* bye!!!

guys, i am getting paid to surf the internet!!!! (admittedly, i have to search for certain things, but still!!!!) i love my job, so much. ^/__^

kind of a busy weekend planned for me. today is work, obviously, but i also need to get gas and buy a gift for knives, and sga s3 premieres today; must go to caitlin's house to use her cable connection. (bugger all.) tomorrow is tae kwon do in the morning, then work at the clairmont. (last shift? dunno.) then knives' party is in the evening. sunday is church, duh, 8.30 to 12.15. after that me and chari go to the container store to by dorm stuff. then it's monday, back to work! but i get to do punch lists for mms on monday, so i'm not complaining.

there's only like four weeks of summer left, guys!!!! *wails* i'm moving away!!!! i'm gonna miss everyone so much!!! but i do get to come back every second or third weekend, so, keep saturdays open for me if you wanna hang out. bri, sav, i haven't seen yu two in forever! and we haven't talked except for when you called caitlin's cell while we were up in wisconsin. i miss you! *pouts* see, bri and sav are in the same city even, but i still never get to see them. what will i do when i'm three hours away?!?! *weeps*

..hokay. now i'm gonna actually do work. bye!

ps. new icons!!!! some of them, anyways.

...and a bottle of rum. i feel kind of in a singing mood. but a silly, 'wow i'm really tired, i think i'll lay here and sing atrociously, just because' type of mood, too. hmm.

work today was very fun. i finally got to go to the sites!!! i was gonna do that two weeks ago, but then there was this dog... ^/__^ anyway, i finally got to go visit the manor sites today. every time i turn my head i smell smoke in my hair, because jt's the one who took me around the sites, and he smokes like a chimney, no lie. but i got to go to the project meetings for mms and bmes, and then me and jt went to lunch with the casings guys, and then we did a partial punch list for bmes, just the a wing. i got my laptop from my desk and pushed it around on a cart while jt called things out- the punch list, fyi, is when the architect gets to walk around the building during its final stages and write down all the mistakes that the builders made, then (in jt's case) he gets to submit the list and very 'nicely' go tell them to fix it and do it right this time- or else. "the REALLY cool thing is that because i helped, my name is on the punch list records. for forever. i can look back in the records and show people, look, that school, i helped when they were building it. here's my name." jt's name is on it too, of course. (caitlin: jt GUTHRIE; he sadly does not have any relation named paige. actually, he reminds me of wolverine, if wolverine were a gainfully employed cowboy instead of a canadian bar-hopping cage-fighter. also, jt is visibly really old. really, really old.) i was also surprised today at work; it was my second day back from a two-week break. a lot of people in the office (ie, everyone), when they first saw me, asked how i was feeling, and looked at my scars, and said they were glad i was back. this frankly amazes me. i barely know anyone's name in the office, but they all know me and heard about the accident and were sympathetic. i feel... really flattered.

tkd tonight. i am exhausted. actually, i forgot to ask dr gadaria if i could do tae kwon do, but he's released me from all my other restrictions, so i'm assuming it's okay. unless master jung sends me home. hmm... i'd better bring a book along then, just in case.

well, i sadly have oodles of stuff that need to be done still tonight. i find new respect for my mom, as i realize that a full-time job does not mean that you get to relax when you get home. you're just putting down the work you get paid for and tackling the work you have to do regardless. *whines* i wanna read.... ah, well.

( jenny gushes about work. )but i'm having a great day at work, even though i'm gonna be falling asleep at my desk in about two hours. and i've got tae kwon do tonight! *groans* i so need to take a nap when i get home! i was up reading late and didn't even realize the time. last night i went to a sleepover with all the other girls who graduated from my middle school with me and have just graduated high school. it was me, gracie, steph, lori, sarah, alli b., rachel, and sarah's mom, who's our small group leader in youth group. we're a pretty tight-knit group, and it was lots of fun. i'm gonna miss them this fall!!!

kay, i'm really leaving now. bye!