"Please, no gang signs. No, throw it up. I'm kidding."

Already the middle of May.  Seriously, 2008.  Slow the fuck down.

Today one of my friends texted me to say how bored he was at work and how he didn't want to do anything.  Man, I felt the same way.  I had a "case of the Mondays" this morning, but then work picked up this afternoon and I was busy again.  I texted him back on how jealous I was of the stupid college kids and their summer breaks. Enjoy it while you can, assholes.  I have to say that even though vacation time is severely shortened out here in the "real world," I'd much rather have the 8-5 days, guilt-free evenings, and no tests :)

Today I was working on a problem at work, and I figured out how to do it fairly quickly (I'm not trying to be a show-off, because the problem was pretty easy).  But even though I knew I had the right process, I couldn't make intuitive sense of it.  So I doubted myself and spent awhile trying out other solutions.  Nothing.  I put the problem away and went to run an errand at the TCEQ office.  I came back, looked at the problem, and figured out in a minute where I'd wrong: my original math was right, just my justification for it was off.  I was frustrated at how easy the problem actually was, and I how I'd made it so much harder by overthinking it.  Two lessons: I shouldn't doubt myself when I know the math is right, and I should just put the problem away next time and let my subconscious work it out. 

The run today was good.  5 sets of 400/200s.  The 200s kick my ass.  I like running as fast as I can for the first, but it gets harder with each successive one.  The weather was cool, so that was nice, at least.  (Well, the weather was probably around 70 degrees.  Living in Texas for 14 years has warped what my sense of cold weather is.)

This weekend I went home for Mother's Day, of course.  How can I spend Mother's Day without seeing my mama?  I got my mom some lotion from Victoria Beckham's line.  My mom loves Victoria Beckham so it was an ideal gift. (My mom is really bad with remembering names, so sometimes she'll call her "Rebecca Buchman." Hee.)  It was nice to be home, and I had a good time with my family.  My mom always makes me a nice Italian sauce, and my dad will usually make some sort of barbeque dish, and I take the leftovers from that too.  See, I don't even live at home anymore, and I still manage to eat all the food.  Ha!

This weekend I went to see Iron Man with Pat.  The theater was so packed (at 11:45 am on Saturday!) that we had to sit in the 2nd to front row.  (Obadiah Stane's head looked extra huge from that view, let me tell you.)

Iron Man

I really liked this movie.  It had a great plot, really good acting (except for Gwyneth Paltrow's apparent inability to act in front of a green screen, but she was tolerable in other scenes), the sarcastic humor that I like, minimal romance that would otherwise suck the life out of an action flick, and good eye candy for me (seriously, this movie makes you see RDJ in a new light).  I like the character's name too ;)

Um so I have three days to finish my two stories before the writing contest's submission date.  Hey, it's just like college!

Wow, I have written entirely too much for one post.  Time for me to call it a night :)