good/suck list: week in review

a great majority of these things happened this week (is it really only Thursday?) but a few didn't. meh.

GOOD

• snow day on Monday!


• getting my car successfully inspected--the last one expired in March 2005. way to stay on top of things, parents. but good job, little automobile! i'm so proud!


• still being friends with Shahrzad.


• how Violet Temper calls me (well, everyone) "sweetheart". it's adorable.


• deciding on a derby name. just call me...Minority Whip.


• starting a "nursebob.rtf" file of quotable quotes. like
  [mr. p is looking at the mlk day schedule]
  mr. p: bob, are you doing the health screenings?
  bob: no, i'm going to get high in the parking lot
  


• site visit from Bill today, where i tried to persuade him to switch to Mac and he told me wild stories about his deathly fear of mice


• being missed and asked about by all the kids at school, making me feel needed and noticed and appreciated. Shahrzad is right, my job certainly does give me a sense of belonging and purpose. how many of you can say that? (not many, i bet) but then again, how many of you are making more than $10,000 this year? (yeah, everyone except for me) i'm going to bake cookies for them tonight, since i bought all the ingredients to make them for George recently, but then item 3 on the Suck list happened.


• getting hit on via email by PBT Daron. funny and cute. now i know who to call if i "want to hang out with an old guy that isn't very thin".


• staying at work until 6 pm, which might not sound very late for you 9 to 5 folks but keep in mind that school lets out at 3. why? well, A) i talked to Saroj on IM, which was an LOL-ingly good time, talking about making out with girls AKA sticking it to the patriarchy, making fun of mtoups, and the ever-popular subject of Charlie Smart. and B) walking to the trolley stop, i see TWO separate white-people scooter gangs and hear the corner church tolling out a four-minute bell song and see lit kitchen windows filled with the sound of bustling families. it's neat and strangely comforting how the same street i walk down every morning at 8:30 am can be so much more vibrant and humming with domestic activity at 6.


• having this upcoming Monday off. i'm going to ride the whole Schuylkill Trail for the first time, with Faith Hawkwoman for company


• potentially starting cognitive behavior therapy, if it doesn't cost a million dollars


• discovering the HipsterPDA which, despite its stupid name, is actually a brilliant concept and i'm gonna do it, once i procure some unlined 3x5s. if nothing else, it'll coordinate my multi-store, multi-priority grocery shopping lists.


• and finally, not breaking out like mad despite having been off hormonal birth control for over two weeks now

SUCK

• showing up for work anyway on said snow day. i dug my car out and drove to Camden on Sunday and people couldn't take their kids to school a whole day later? weak.


• losing my debit and credit cards out of my wallet this week. GOOD THING i disregarded the stern reprimands of Mr. US Border Customs Official Man and did not start carrying my newly-acquired green card with me last week.


• getting dumped on Valentine's Day.

so yeah, i think i still came out ahead in the end. i may not have realized it late last night when i was panicking in "oh god, I have no friends and no one to turn to. I am broken and incapable of maintaining friendships like a normal human being" mode as Shahrzad describes it, but there's nothing like bulleted lists to bring me back to my senses.