whatever mom-on-roof had the other day, someone appears to have slipped some in my ice cream today. it's probably just the residual effect of three days in bed, because the whole whiny hurty thing turned out to actually be something that i'm thinking was probably the flu. and that wasn't fun. AT. ALL. anyway, one of my most strenuous resolutions is against online whining (i just made that up, but it sounds like a good plan), so nothing about the whole debilitating tiredness and gut-wrenching pain that was my last three days, or anything about missing three days of work, which is gonna SUCK for my paycheck. nope, not saying it.

anyway. tonight i fixed up my foyer. which is actually a stairway and the four-foot space that opens up into both of my other rooms. since i took the tree down the night i got sick, i didn't do a damn thing for three days. so tonight i wrapped up all the ornaments, and i put a little table from my mom in the corner next to the bookshelf, and i put jack kerouac poster back up AGAIN with tacks AND duct tape. he's not moving again until i move out, and he will NOT be falling off the wall. then i hung pictures up the wall by my stairs in a little photo collage. of course, i haven't done all my dishes, or swept the kitchen, or put away my laundry. because it's so much more fun to decorate than it is to clean!

i'm going to miss staying up late, watching late-night episodes of crossing jordan, malcolm in the middle, and old movies on TCM. i'm going to miss staying in bed until i damn well feel like getting up, and only having to do a few hours of work a night. this entire vacation, i am slightly proud and a little ashamed to say that i've barely picked up a book. or a pen, although my thumb has a permanent divot in it from hitting the space bar on my keyboard. but in five days i'm back to three books a week, research papers, and writing assignments. i'm not saying i don't love it. i'm just saying spending three of my last days sick in bed surprised i'm not dead yet is NOT the way i wanted my vacation to wind down. so i guess crazy organizing and making things pretty is a better way to go.

before school starts, i need to get my hair cut, do all my laundry, buy notebooks, and finish cleaning and organizing the apartment. hopefully when school does start, i can have a party one night, and people might actually show up, unlike the last disaster. maybe i'll have a "yay, my student loan check is here!" party, whenever the hell my student loan check shows up. i've been checking the mailbox twice a day, even though the mail only comes once.

oh, and the mail is driving me crazy! suddenly, the mail carrier is stuffing the mail for all the apartments into my mailbox. what, i'm the new sorter? am i getting paid for this service? is it too hard to see which apartment number is listed on the mail? because it only takes me about thirty seconds, and if the whole job is that easy i should so be taking the civil service exam.

ok in the time elapsed since beginning this entry, i've finished putting away the laundry, made my bed, and watched entirely too much television. oh, and jezebel just threw up because she got into my dried flowers, so i'm about to go clean up cat puke too hooray!

seriously though, if anyone knows how to keep your cat from eating plants, please de-lurk and sign the guestbook?

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