Super fun at the Paris: Saying everything with a faux-French accent, which they totally encourage with their signs for things like "Le Registration." Hohn hohn hohn!

OMG I'm so sleepy and I don't want to write this stupid case study and I hate it and my weekend is mostly shot to hell wrt doing the stupid case study so I really need to be doing it now but I DON'T WANNA. Bah.

Calli, wrod. Maybe if we both do that, we can make it Real.

I would like it to be noon, and then I would like it to be five o'clock. Who can I speak to about accelerating the process?

Write it in a fake french accent.

True story: I had this one class that involved reading a ton of short but fairly dense political science pieces. It was interesting, but by the time I'd get to it in the evening, I'd have been reading gobbledeegook for my thesis, worked a 4 hour day, taught a class and attended three, so I was prone to falling asleep or skimming and not recalling a thing. I discovered if I read the stuff aloud to myself in different accents (each piece got a new one) I'd retain the material.

Man, I must've sounded funny.

Also, I love the Las Vegas Hilton, even though it's completely off the strip and back in it's own little world, because that used to be my mother's favorite hotel in Las Vegas and we always stayed there when my parents decided I was old enough to start going with them. Probably not a good place to visit unless you have fond memories of it from your childhood as I do. Huh.

You could do the rollercoaster that goes around the outside of the hotel at the Stratosphere,which is not scary at all so long as you're not afraid of heights and gives a beautiful view of Las Vegas. And the one theme hotel in Las Vegas that I truly, madly, deeply love is The Luxor. I've never stayed there and I think it would drive me crazy if I did, but I love it in all it's cheestastic glory. They have a nightclub called Ra which is one of the greatest tacky places I've ever been to. Good times.

So what are people going to do this weekend (other than play in Vegas and work on case studies)?

Tomorrow is apartment work day. I am going to do a mass of laundry, organize/clean out the kitchen shelves, and hopefully some other stuff. Sunday I'm doing something with Sparky1, but I don't know what yet.

I was just told by my boss that we can leave 2 hours before our normal time, which for me will be around 4:00. Also, I've finally got the last of the security deposit (required before they'll even do a credit check/approval for apartment) off to the hopefully new landlord. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll know if I have the place by either tonight or tomorrow. I still haven't contacted my current landlord to tell him I'm moving on 5/1, nor called back any of the movers I've got quotes for, and I won't contact them until I know for sure I've got the place.

I did just schedule Salvation Army to come over and pick up some furniture and books next Thursday, so there'll be less to move (new place is smaller than current one). I'm even getting rid of one of my bookshelves--a real accomplishment for me!!

As for Vegas recs, the only time I was there was back in 1993, but if you have a rental car, I definitely recommend a visit to Hoover Dam and possibly a side trip to the Ocean Spray bottling plant (a decent factory tour with free goodies at the end--that's where I first tried Craisins, a few years before they were available in Chicago) and at the time there was also a marshmellow factory and an Ethel M chocolate factory that were fun. (They were all part of our "Freebie" day, consisting of factory tours with the free goodies, and my friend who worked at Caesar's scored us comped breakfast and IMAX tickets as well.)

She's fucking cooing into the phone again.

I wish I had the cojones to just be blazingly inappropriate and startle folks. But it's just not the way I work at work.

My plans are small--assist, eat out, rest.

Tonight I'm going to Deepest Brooklyn for a birthday party -- should take about as long as it took me to get to Connecticut last night, ugh. Tomorrow is book club and trying to avoid being sucked into fun, in favor of stupid school work. Sunday is church and brunch and again with the avoiding fun and doing school work. We'll see how that goes.

Maybe I'll do my thesis in a fake French accent. The case study really calls for more of a Mexican accent. Which I can't really do.