It's october 14th. I have a sunburned face, a nice shade of hot pink that only barbie could love. my ankles are covered with about oh 20 mosquito bites. and I was greated at my door this morning by a neighbor who was very concerned b/c my car door had been open for the last 45 minutes and they couldn't get ahold of me. well actually, i think it may have been open all night.
welcome to a day in the life of moi.
the sunburn is from a really great weekend of campin and canoeing in the northern neck of VA. the skeeter bites i attribute to a free loading hitch hiking blood sucking, no, not an ex boyfriend, a skeeter that sneaked into the car when we were packing. and feasted upon the oh so tasty ankle blood. it must taste fabulous, judging by the size and amount of bites. god only knows how fat the skeetr is now...i think i saw the skeeter later try out for the redskins. i'm surprised the damn thing didn't die from my veneous bitter boiling blood. but whatevs. hey, at least parasites still want me.
so my morning started like this:
I'm in the shower and I hear the phone ring repeatdly. my home phone which aside form god only knows how many non profits and other surveyers i think maybe 5 people actually call this number. so who the hell is calling me at 8:30 am (yes, i was running late shutup). my answering machine (yes old school shutup again) is full, so no message, but i see that my neighbors have called my cell phone. oh shoot they must really want their sander back..they called about it on saturday and oh crap, they're probably staying home from work to work on their project that requires a sander and ok umm where'd it go. so i rush to the door to answer the knocks, hair dripping wet, in my bathrobe. and there is my awesome across the hall neighbor apologizing and saying.' i think i've seen too many episodes of CSI and we saw your car door has been open for 45 miunutes an we couldn' get ahold of you and we just thought something was wrong. ' well soemthig is wrong. i'm a friggin dumbass.
so my morning started like this:
I'm in the shower and I hear the phone ring repeatdly. my home phone which aside form god only knows how many non profits and other surveyers i think maybe 5 people actually call this number. so who the hell is calling me at 8:30 am (yes, i was running late shutup). my answering machine (yes old school shutup again) is full, so no message, but i see that my neighbors have called my cell phone. oh shoot they must really want their sander back..they called about it on saturday and oh crap, they're probably staying home from work to work on their project that requires a sander and ok umm where'd it go. so i rush to the door to answer the knocks, hair dripping wet, in my bathrobe. and there is my awesome across the hall neighbor apologizing and saying.' i think i've seen too many episodes of CSI and we saw your car door has been open for 45 miunutes an we couldn' get ahold of you and we just thought something was wrong. ' well soemthig is wrong. i'm a friggin dumbass.
there is a very good possibility i left it open. that's how my days have been lately. I had worked over 12 hours and had a lot on my mind. It doesnt' seem like anything is missing from the car. there is so much crap in it right now it's kinda hard to tell. but all the important things seem to be in there. so..moral of the story, if there is one..is a) I'm becoming an abscent minded idiot b/c of events in my life b) my neighbors across the hall are friggin awesome and I'm beyond lucky to have ppl like them c) I either have some really honest neighbors or I have so much useless crap in my car no one would want to bother taking any of it. and d) my gurdian angel is working overtime. last month it ws the brownies burning in the oven and how the door to my balcony magically blew open in the middle of the night so the place wouldn't fill with smoke.
so here I am working full time and going to school full time. getting a degree in arts education. and I live in virginia. and guess what? yeah we have a budget shortfall. so there are going to be cuts. and guess what they're going to cut? yup ding dig ding. arts education among many many other programs. I could go on about this. and I might in upcoming posts. mark fisher of the wash post said it fairly well when he said:
"In a government jam-packed with unnecessary programs and foolhardy supports for businesses that can't seem to make it on their own, the state chooses instead to take out its budget woes on children, who, of course, can't vote. So despite all the rhetoric about how schools still care about teaching kids how to learn and how to love learning, the grim focus on rote basics continues apace, as Virginia eliminates its grants for art education for public schools (savings: $90,000), savages arts organizations with an 85 percent cut in second-quarter grant awards (savings: $604,000), and eliminates financial assistance for programming by local arts coalitions (savings: $114,000.)"
welcome to virginia. where they spend more state funds/tax dollars on training bingo callers than they provide for arts grants.
and also a state where Palin mistakes a group of supporters for a group of protesters...I hope tina fey somehow covers this... http://www.wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1496465
and also a state where Palin mistakes a group of supporters for a group of protesters...I hope tina fey somehow covers this... http://www.wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1496465
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