A Soft Sigh and a Giant Smile

Things are going well out here in my portion of existence. Spring break was quite eventful, though not quite so relaxing as I had hoped. Having the burden of my honors paper off of my shoulders for a week was perhaps the ultimate highlight. Not enough sleep, plenty of fighting, and lots of time with friends were the others.

Thursday, Dawn and I took a road trip down to Athens to visit Jon. It was one of the best all around days I have had in a while. Dawn and I cranked the radio and belted out songs during the drive both ways. Jon was as charming and delightful as always. Athens is a really cute college town. It makes me sad that I didn't try harder to go somewhere small and intimate like that, but something makes me think that it might have proved more distracting that anything else. I mean, I really have been very well behaved throughout college, mostly because I didn't try to socialize on campus. I went to more college parties in high school then I have in college! ((good times, btw)) Anyhow, we talked and wandered and perused and reminisced and joked and had a general all around good time. The weather was gorgeous despite random sprinklings and I heard my first spring peepers of the year.

Friday I was supposed to work on my armor but this was complicated due to lack of functioning leather punch. Corey was amazing enough to lend me one of his and I made a ton of progress tonight. All that is left is setting the eyelets and lacing it up. It looks amazing now that it is tooled and dyed! Hopefully I will have time to pop out some bracers, greaves, and my helm tomorrow as well. I am terribly excited to show it all off!

Work this weekend was... Well... Saturday left me very tempted to cause a scene or quit or at least act very grumpy and spiteful. But I was a good girl and let it go. I am going to update my resume tomorrow and send it out to as many places as I can think of. I simply don't think that I can manage to fight this frustration all summer.

But that is all ok because today was gorgeous! A good portion of the day was spent bringing different animals out into the sun and sitting with them while they play. It is those parts of the job that tempt me to stay regardless. I love the animals. I love interacting with them, taking care of them, just being around them... If only all my co-workers could be so easy to co-exist with. Thank goodness for beautiful days filled with sunshine and warm breezes.

In short, welcome back spring! Please stay as long as you'ld like! And bring with you more starry nights filled with sushi dinners and flirting caresses. I have a feeling that this will be a good summer.

Huggles!