Saturday, September 13, 2003
 

I need to make friends with some nonsmokers. Our annual department party was last night, and I'm still congested and coughy from all the smoke (English grad students = chainsmokers). Normally, I handle it okay, but the sheer volume of smoke last night seems to have finally pushed my allergies off the deep end. ::haaccck::

Charming, ain't I?

The party was fine, though. It's a face time experience. The Margarita Lady (Loni Anderson lookalike, as Holmes points out) was there again this year; there were plenty of people to talk to; and Holmes did a drunken rendition of "Oklahoma."

I didn't get much done yesterday, though. I teach until 10:00, and then we have a required teaching meeting (complete waste of time) at 1:00. That's not really enough time to make it worth walking back here to my apartment, but it's a lot of time to kill over in the offices. And then the party started at 7:30, after me not getting back here until around 2:30. I didn't get as much done today as I'd hoped, mainly from sheer lack of will. Some days, you just don't wanna read theory.

I did, however, get my hair cut, and I no longer look like Cousin Itt's twin sister (height, hair, and all). I'd trimmed my bangs several times, but the overall effect was still Chewbacca-esque. I can see clearly now, my hair is gone . . .

Time to go curl up in bed with the PMLA.

Elvisette philosophized at 11:02 PM