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February 27, 2000
Taking a break from writing a stupid $#@&%$#! paper...
I'm not having any fun at all. The sun is shining, it's almost 60 degrees, the birds are singing, the fresh air is intoxicating... and I'm sitting here in the house, writing a paper. The cat is lazily snoozing in a sunbeam on the windowsill, raising her head every now and then to sniff the breeze. I'm getting a headache, trying to figure out proper citation styles for electronic sources. Barry went to play video games at the arcade -- partly, I'm sure, to get away from me snapping and snarling at him every time he tried to talk to me. I'm almost finished. All I have to do is the bibliography, and clean it up a little. By now, I'm hating Friends of the Library groups. I don't care in the least about public library funding. I just want to go outside and play.
Yesterday was very and rainy and raw. We went to a local mall that we haven't been to in a long time, and remembered WHY we hadn't been there in so long -- it's hideously depressing. There are very few stores, mostly nail salons and all-for-a-dollar shops. There is an Old Navy; Barry bought me a nice vintage-looking denim jacket. I hate Old Navy's ads, but I generally like their clothes. I just wish they made women's clothes that actually fit women. I don't think I would have fit into any of their clothes when I was 12, much less now. I get tired of shopping in the men's section.
I want to finish this up so I can work out. I don't own a scale (I did, but I threw it away in a fit of pique a few months ago. Silly me.) so I have no idea how much I weigh at the moment. I do know that the jeans that were too tight to wear three weeks ago are now almost too loose. That's a good sign.
Back to work now, alas...
Posted by Mary Ellen at February 27, 2000 10:43 AM