wild times

whoa.. and i thought mondays are bad! but i think i have mentioned tuesdays have also had issues with me in the past.. this tuesday started off like all regular days, and little did i suspect it was going to do a Jekyll/Hyde and haunt me!

was up till 4 writing up the thesis draft for the first couple of chapters.. then finally passed out cos i had to submit that at 9 in the morning.. but when i got up at 8.. the faucet was dry! apparently the blokes upstairs had bust a pipe.. gah! showered and stuff at our new apartment (yes, we're moving.. more on that later!) luckily the meeting with the advisor went off very well.. he seemed quite impressed, it is a skill i have been developing over the years: making a little work look like lots!

the new semester has started, and since the weather has been decent (how i will regret those words later in the day!) all the girls are back from summer break in their teeny weeny clothes (can they really be called clothes when they seem to be made of random pieces of string?) showing off their suntans (you can really tell the ones that came out of a bottle!).. but before i can get carried away with oggling the eyecandy at the library, i have a million people asking at the Circulation Desk for books and papers and what not.. gah! alas, good old summer days when the campus is deserted like a strip mall on a weekday morning are gone..

hey! i got promoted to Student Co-ordinator! and a measly raise of $0.25 per hour (no snide comments please!!).. but here's the catch, because of a goof-up with some of my documents, i can't work after tomorrow! and the wonderfully efficient (note the sarcasm!) Kenyan embassy in DC haven't made my new passport and it's been two months now since i sent in all the papers!

so got home at 8 and we were working on finishing all the remaining packing and stuff for the move.. and then ka-bam!! Hurricane Katrina rolls into town.. actually this is her fading away, so she only brings strong winds and buckets of rain. prayers go out to all those in the South ravaged by the floods.

anyways, we did manage to move out all our stuff and clean up the old apartment last night.. just that we got soaked to the skin.. and only barely managed to keep everything dry while we moved it using tarps and plastic sheets! the house looks like an evacuation zone with everything in boxes all over the place.. i think i'm gonna use the whole Labor day weekend to sort the place out! and then i woke up in the morning and found that all the stuff we'd left out in the covered porch almost drenched cos the tarp on it got blown away.. *sigh*