So this has been a crazy weekend.
Friday I worked from 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (which means I get up at 8 am) and the
"tire low pressure" light was on in my car so I drove to work in fear and trembling one of my tires would go but I got there fine.
Work hurt my feet per usual.
I get out, go get my tires filled at some tire place my gps directed me to, and finally get home (normally a 14-20 minute drive) an hour and ten minutes after I left.
I went home and passed out, woke up at 8, ate, put on makeup, get dressed and went to my girlfriend's Halloween party (my first time out since the last date I had in August), partied til 2 am, got home at 2:30 am, went to bed at three and was stuck in a non-REM vegetative state ALL NIGHT so I wasn't rested at all, and was consequently feeling very ill Saturday morning.
Here's my costume:
The party was a LOT of fun, I talked to a lot of people, ate a lot of candy, ate Judy's delicious tacquitos, drank some beer, and even had a Sexy Lady Nerd teach me how to dance. Everyone said I did a really good job, and I'm quite proud I didn't trip and fall considering my sari kept slipping. I have to give Indian ladies a hand, how they can wear saris every day and get stuff done is beyond me. Well done ladies, well done!
Saturday morning I felt like hell, so I took dayquil, dragged myself to work, suffered through 7 hours of directing people to the bathroom and to turn the flash off of their cameras, rushed home, took off my uniform and went straight to bed. I had to get up again at 6:30 so I could eat dinner and put on some makeup so I could go see War of the Worlds (the Orson Wells radio version) at the Richard Goad theatre.
Their website:
http://www.lbshakespeare.org/
I went to see it last year and loved it so much I decided I had to do it again this year. This year was a little different though; for one thing they accidentally oversold the theatre so there was a huge scramble to get seats for everyone (it like comfortably fits thirty, I guess at least 40 people showed up), and also this year they had an expert on Mars come in (he used to work for CSULB, and now works for the Planetary Society - and is friends with/works for Bill Nye the Science guy!!) and give a little lecturette on what people have known about Mars through the ages.
Then there was the actual performance of Orson Wells' radio rendition of The War of the Worlds, which was even better than last year with more actors portraying the voice characters, and live sound effects (it was so cool seeing them do it live) and one of them was playing the piano too...I loved it. I got chills - ones totally unrelated to the fact that I was sitting under an air conditioning vent.
But if you guys follow that LB Shakespeare link they're going to broadcast the performance live on the internet at 7 pm PST on Monday night (they've actually done it for every performance - I hope they keep it up even when I move away, because I LOVE it so much!). I think you'll like it :)
So I got home, utterly exhausted, took off my makeup (I looked SO pretty and I'd spent two seconds putting my makeup on! What does it say about me that the more time I spend on makeup, the worse I look?) and showered before collapsing into bed.
I had work today, and my right foot was so sore I finally took a good look at it and I have a GIANT blister right on the end of my pinky toe which Dave (one of the heads of security) helped me bind up with a supersized band aid to provide some padding. I was in so much pain though, I had to keep stopping and crouching to take the pressure off my foot (I was in the TerraCotta exhibit from 2-4 pm, and you really can't sit down in there, which sucks), and then my muscles were so tight from the fact I didn't work Monday-Thursday but I DID work Friday-Sunday that I managed to pull a muscle in my knee and THAT is why I am in so much pain right now.
Sitting down and standing up are NOT comfortable right now. That is the ACTIONS of sitting and standing are not comfortable, being in either state is okay. And my toe still has that honking blister on it.
I'm going to get up earlier than I want to tomorrow (read: before noon) so I can go shoe shopping. I'm going to get squooshy skateboard shoes at least a half-size too big so I can wear big socks and won't get blisters!!!!
I have a lot of stuff to do tomorrow...yuck. I emailed Dr. Lipo tonight about my thesis proposal. I'm praying I have finally absorbed the finer points of theory so my proposal can be approved, I can get my measurements, run my statistics, and get down to writing my thesis and miraculously be able to turn it all in February and defend in March and graduate in spring and go on to a PhD program that I still need to start applying to (but that costs so much money argh!) and just everything needs to fall into place so I don't freak out and go crawl under a rock and just stay there until someone drags me out.
I think it's bedtime...night all!
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