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| Air-conditioning!How long have I lived in my current apartment? It's been about 11 months. Guess what I just discovered about it - my apartment is AIR-CONDITIONED.
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My apartment manager came by today to fix my jammed window, and he also informed me that he needed to change my air condition filter. I nodded my head and smiled, just happy that he was coming by for my window that's been stuck for the last three weeks. And then my brain finally processed the words "air condition." I stopped in my tracks and turned to look at him, hardly daring to hope that I'd actually heard him correctly and that there was indeed an AC unit in my apartment. "Air conditioning? My apartment has air conditioning?" I asked him incredulously. He walked me to the thermostat on the wall.
"See, there's a 'Cool' nob as well as the 'Heat' nob. That's for air conditioning," he pointed out to me. He looked at me as if I were asking him a stupid question.
"I didn't realize it actually works!" I watched in amazement as he flipped the switch and cool air started filtering out of the vents. When he pulled out the air filter to change it, there was not a speck of dust on it... since I hadn't used it all year! I suffered through those hot, lethargy-inducing nights for nothing. *sigh* So stupid. 
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| Sometimes I really long for the old dorm environment where I can just walk down the hall and find someone to hang out with whenever I feel lonely and am in the mood for company. Living out here on my own kind of sucks. Most everyone that I would like to hang out with lives too far away for me to just bounce on over, and I can't just ask people over because my place is a terrible mess at the moment; I'd be so embarrassed to have company at this point. Ah, what's a girl to do? Clean up, I guess. 
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| Heading out on the morrow!Yes, oh yes - it is time for Diana and her mom's mini-vacation to Tampa, FL! Why Tampa? It just happened to be one of the first flights I found that was under 200 bucks roundtrip from Houston, AND I've heard good things about the beaches there. I'm looking forward to a couple of days of rest and relaxation away from the drudgery of work. Yes, oh yes, oh yes! I'm also spending a couple of days before and after the Tampa trip just hanging out at home, though I suppose the latter couple of days post-Tampa will be working from home. Bleh to that. Speaking of which, I should probably figure out when I get in on Wednesday so that I can ask around for a ride from the airport. Want to pick me up from SJC, anyone? I'll take you out to lunch/dinner in exchange. 
I'm actually feeling quite tired tonight. My little cousin Marissa totally wore me out from our day of hanging out. We did some shopping in the morning where I picked up a big bucket of sidewalk chalk for her. We stopped by for my cousin Cindy so that I could take her out for a make-up graduation lunch of sushi. (This was definitely not as good as any of the sushi places in the Bay Area... boo to that.) We then went to the Children's Museum for the afternoon where I discovered that my idealized images of the museum are just that - most of the exhibits are completely outdated, in a state of disrepair, or just kind of gross smelling/looking. However, my little cousin is too young to know any better and to be picky about things, so she had a blast. She especially had a great time at the self-service face painting station where Cindy drew all sorts of things on Marissa's face, arms, legs - all upon her request! (No, we weren't mistreating our dear, younger cousin!)
Alright, I think I better wrap things up here so that I can finish my pseudo-packing for tomorrow. (Most of my stuff's still in my suitcase anyway from my arrival in Houston on Sunday.) Then it's time to go to bed so that I can get up by 5:30am to catch my 8am flight. I hate having to drive all the way to IAH. They really should expand the Sugarland airport so that commercial flights can land there. ARgh...
Y'all should feel free to drop me a line via comments/emails/etc. I'd love to hear what y'all are up to, and seeing as how I'm on vacation, I can answer all of my personal emails lickety-split! 
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| It's too hotI'm feeling so lethargic. My apartment is too hot. I can't bear to move away from my fan; the heated air in my apartment presses uncomfortably against my skin. It's so hot that I am unable to go to sleep. I think I might have to just camp out on the floor tonight with my fan blowing full blast at me. It's not even blowing cold air; it's only blowing slightly cooler air than the rest of my apartment. And that's ever so slightly. If only California homes believed in air conditioning... For the rest of the year, it's fine, but come summer... It's just miserable. Maybe once upon a time several decades ago it might have been such perfect weather that homes could do without air conditioning, but nowadays with global warming and all that crap, it's just too miserable an existence to survive without in the California heat. Dear lord, it's not even summer proper yet. Argh... I might have to resort to spending my after work hours in an air-conditioned pub/bar until it cools down sufficiently in my humble abode. Better (worse?) yet, I should hit the mall, and then the watering hole. Heh. Else, I suppose I could make use of my apartment complex's swimming pool. At this time of night, everyone's asleep so I can just wade around undisturbed. That is a distinct possibility that I'll have to ponder on some more...
In other news, I think I'm going overboard with my event-planning craze. This weekend alone, I'm organizing a trip to see a comedy cooking show in SF on Friday night, a beach outing to Santa Cruz on Saturday, and - I haven't sent off the email yet - a dinner and movie night on Sunday. What's wrong with me? I'm just wearing myself out. Add to this the planning for my trip to Florida with mother dearest as well as a murder mystery dinner party AND a girls' day outing - I think it's an avoidance thing. Something is bothering me, and instead of trying to get a grip on it and yank the niggling splinter out, I'm merely ignoring it and trying to engage my attention elsewhere.
It's too hot. The "splinter" requires too much thought. I'll think about it later when it isn't so hot and my mind's not feeling so weary.
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| Rise and shine!Isn't the sunlight streaming in through your window in the morning oh-so-wonderful? You perhaps are thinking, "Is she being sarcastic?" Actually, I am not. I absolutely adore this time of year when the sun wakes me up naturally a bit past 7am, and I feel so energetic and ready to begin my day the second I open my eyes. It's very motivating to feel this - the sunbeams are warm on my face, and the air is fresh and revitalizing to breathe in. One can't help but smile upon waking up because life is so good, and it just couldn't be better. The day stretches in front of you, full of unlimited possibilities and latent promise for better things to come. I bound out of bed, fueled by the desire to make the most of my day and to make the most out of everyone else's day. Something inside me wants to infect everyone with the exuberance I feel for the day and for the sheer bliss of being alive and healthy to experience a day like today. It's true - California weather is like this all the time, but it never fails to fill me with this exhilaration every sunny day that dawns on me. Ah, life - how sweet it is!  | | |
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