hodge-podge

Been driving Detroit leaning
No reason just seems so pleasing...

A little portion of "Brass in Pocket" by The Pretenders (the song most people think of as "I'm Special") and yes, that is me. I've been noticing my Detroit leaning today. According to the lead singer of the band, the Detroit lean is the way we tend to drive around with one hand on top of the steering wheel and then lean to one side--I happened to lean to my right and rest my arm on my console in my car. For some reason, that thought popped into my head as I drove around running errands during lunch. And then I started watching the other drivers, and lo and behold, the Detroit lean may actually be a cultural thing. Very few other drivers were doing it. Hmm.

Anyway, spring break life in this college town has been nice and quiet. I'm already afraid that it's going too fast, but I'm wanting it to go a little faster and then slow down for five days. Al's coming to see me tomorrow and he won't be leaving until Sunday. Wish we could have stretched that out a bit! I'm already realizing that it is going to be very hard to stick to a diet with him around. It's already hard enough on my own. And he'll (we'll) be wanting to go out to eat and socialize...I think this week, it's safe to say I won't make my goal of eating an average of 1,438 calories a day. I'll be way, way over that. But I'll still try to reign it in to still-not-gaining-just-maintaining calorie eating.

What else have I been up to? Buffy marathons (I own them, so I just keep watching them) and resorting to selling books on Amazon to make money. Al says not to worry about money, but I keep watching that student loan money dwindle, knowing how much he'll have to help me out this spring and summer, and wanting to do something about it. I won't even be able to work this summer, because who's going to hire someone for the month that I'll be home? Yes, I'll be home in May, but I'll be preparing for the wedding and doing landscaping and painting around the house, and then June's gone with the wedding and honeymoon (oh, yeah, I got my passport and I look like a double-chinned, 300-pound ugly she-ape). I've got some brand new textbooks sent to me courtesy of booksellers that I didn't ask for (they were trying to get me to use the books in classes that I don't actually teach, and never said I did), so I'm trying to sell them online, among other things. (Now that I've posted this, I'll probably be taken off their lists, but oh well. It could be worth the money to be black-listed for a while, and my name's changing soon anyway.) So far I've sold three books and made a profit of about $12. That number could go up quickly, though, because I've got enough shipping supplies for about fifteen more books and should make between $5 and $75 on each, depending on the book. Let's go, big money!

Now I've got to try to clean out my office while it's daylight so Al won't reconsider marrying me when he sees what a state it's in. I haven't used it all year (since August) because it's such a mess and I can't go in there at night without a flashlight since the lightbulb's burned out and I can't reach my ten-foot-high ceilings to change it. I tried standing on my tallest chair and I'm too cheap to buy a step ladder just to change a lightbulb. That goes on Al's honey-do list when he gets here (really, his list is very short, and mostly just wedding stuff). If he remembers to bring the step ladder, that is.

Okay, so enough of this miscellaneous ramble. Hope you have a wonderful day! I am--I'm enjoying a 60-degree weather day with my balcony door open. The ice that was on my balcony is almost gone!