april showers bring may... snow bunnies?

It's April 12th, and it's snowing. What the f*(K, Mother Earth? To be honest, I'm actually okay with the snowiness of Christmas Island, because on Wednesday, I'm leaving for Nashville, TN, where weather.com predicts that it will be sunny and warm... with isolated thunder storms. Dammit. I just can't win.

So I went to Kohl's this morning to buy some clothing items for said Nashville trip with a gift card I got for Christmas (saving gift cards for long periods of time is one of my favorite things to do). The store was packed and I stood in line to check out for a good fifteen minutes (in Christmas Island, this is an eternity). The woman in front of me purchased FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS worth of clothing. FIVE-THREE-FIVE! She was with two smallish girls and all the clothing was clearly for them. I couldn't tell if this was a run-of-the-mill purchase or a we-haven't-bought-clothes-in-a-year-and-won't-for-another sort of thing. But either way, Holy Crap(!) If I spent that much on clothing in one shopping situation, I'm pretty sure that my heart would screech to a halt in a mixture of happiness and horror.

I'm eating subway and rocking the Pandora, two things that have historically been indicators that I will get-a-lot-of-crap-done. Which is good because in the next 87 hours i need to: do a bunch of grading, plan my oral comm. class, write an annotated bibliography, write critiques of three articles, do my laundry, run to the store, make nats packs for speechies, pack for nfa, draft at least 25 pages of thesis (I've given up on the original goal of 60 having recognized that not even I, with my above average last minute skills, could pull it off), and if possible get a little sleep. Sounds like quite the party, doesn't it? I'd invite you, but I think it may be a little too hot to handle.

buelsy (party hardy)