Valentine's Day Take Two!

Yesterday was a pretty rockin' day aside from the frigid cold. (I am such a winter wimp it is not even funny.)

I got an e-mail from my boss that he was taking a sick day yesterday, and then I got into the office and pretty much immediately went back out through the snow and slickness to meetings across campus. When I got back, my other coworker and the one work-study that was there were gone. Empty office. So lonely.

So after a while of sitting by myself, hope_persists was lamenting that there was no one around to eat sushi with, so I conned her into bringing the sushi to my work! I called it in, she picked it up and brought it over. It was my second lunch of the day and it was YOM. While waiting for Jessica, a couple more work-studies came in and they were watching some awful lesbo movie and taking care of menial tasks. I have been desperately trying to jazz up this un-jazz-up-able powerpoint presentation but Jessica came and saved me from it. And brought FOOD. <3

On the way home from work I took one of our work-studies to her second job (it was dang cold out there) and it was nice having someone to walk all the way out to the frickin' athletic fields with. I dropped her off and stopped at the grocery store for some milk (we've been going through a whole lotta milk up in the crib) and scored some heavily discounted Valentine roses that I wouldn't have been able to afford otherwise and also some solid chocolate lips. Mmm, lips. So I got all of that home and Jen and I ate some lips and then made dinner. It involved rice-a-roni so it was very processed and tasty. Then a little more eating of the lips and of course there was Survivor watching and even ER wasn't terrible. Then bed.

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In "pregnancy is fun!" news, Jen got a little Valentine's Day gift from the Frankinator when she got to feel a good, hard *thump* on the belly. Frank must have moved out of position again, though, because it hasn't happened since.

In "pregnancy is ow!" news, I think I am starting to get sciatic pain. After a while of sleeping, my left buttcheek just /hurts/. Nothing in the world makes it comfy for very long until I get up. Phooey.

A little music meme

By way of siercia, smurfbrother, scirocco, and jost:

From the multitudes: When you see this in your friends' page, post some 1980s lyrics in your journal!

Swan Swan H - R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant, 1986

Swan, swan, hummingbird
Hurrah, we are all free now
What noisy cats are we
Girl and dog he bore his cross
A long, low time ago, people talk to me

Johnny Reb what’s the price of fans
Forty a piece or three for one dollar?
Hey captain don’t you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks?

Night wings, her hair chains,
Here’s your wooden greenback, sing
Wooden beams and dovetail sweep
I struck that picture ninety times,
I walked that path a hundred ninety,
Long, low time ago, people talk to me

A pistol hot cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
Marching feet, Johnny Reb, what’s the price of heroes?

Six and one half dozen the other,
Tell that to the captain’s mother,
Hey captain don’t you want to buy,
Some bone chains and toothpicks?

Night wings, her hair chains
Swan, swan, hummingbird
Hurrah, we are all free now
What noisy cats are we
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot cup of rhyme,
The whiskey is water, the water is wine.