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.

In the short run it works out great for everyone

I'm not sure this is true w/r/t adjuncts. I certainly know a lot of people who adjunct as their job (I'm in academia), but they don't get any health benefits, etc., and that seems like a huge short-run problem.

Yay! Perkins is going to ignore two major holidays with me on Sunday!

I'm going climbing, and tomorrow night I'm seeing Rita Moreno in "The Glass Menagerie". Which I hear is very good (although Williams is often too grim and depressing for me). And on Sunday I'm having some friends over to watch a bunch of Buffy season 6.

Today I will file. And sort things. Which means I should get off the computer, I suppose...

Is it me, or is it pretty quiet around here today?

I'm going to something at a book store tomorrow - not sure if it's a signing or a reading or what. I might do some weeding if the weather cooperates.

Tomorrow, I'm going to see a friend perform. He has this spoken word/poetry/performance art show that he does once a month at different venues. It's somewhere in lower Manhattan. Other than that, I have no plans. Maybe if it's nice out this weekend, I'll go to the park.

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.

My uncle worked there when I was a kid. I think there was some kind of mechanical Buddha or tree or something he manipulated. Maybe it was at a Benihana.

Even so, it is pretty far off the strip and kinda shabby these days in comparison to the other places. The Star Trek themed gaming area is hilariously hokey, but the sports book is huge.

Tomorrow is laundry, dishes, and cleaning out the refrigerator (including scrubbing it out) day. Also, I'm going to make a last effort to weed out my closet before SalArmy comes. Tonight, I'll be picking up some boxes at the bookstore I used to work at to finish boxing up donations and start boxing up books I'm moving (I'm guessing I'll end up with about 20 boxes before I'm done). Sunday, it's Easter at Dad's.

Today is fittings, and tommorrow and Sunday are alterations and trying to come up with preset lists.

No Easter for me...