beauteous curves

No, I'm not talking about me... I'm talking about my beautiful graphs that I am very proud of. I'm going to try and post them here, not because they will be of particular interest to you, but because they represent my first true TRIUMPH at work. :)

BREAKTHROUGH!!

So, there has been a serious positive development in my work environment this morning. The ladies who work in my department invited me for breakfast/coffee at the Grind. So we sat for 15 minutes and chatted and it was nice. And they told me to join them every morning if I wanted to. So, I'm glad, even if they are 30 years older than me. What's funny is it came out that I'm *significantly* older than what they thought. They thought I was 21. That's like the cute little girls I met while camping who thought I looked 19. They were in awe when they found out I'm actually 26. Ha.

On another note, I made a new friend at the bus stop. He's this older man, Polish, and so nice. He laughs all the time. Half of the time I can't even understand him, his accent is so thick and his English not so great. But this morning he asked if I was married. When I told him no, he was clearly shocked "What??! A beautiful girl like you?!?" (I'm paraphrasing for your convenience - his English is very broken). And when I told him "maybe" sometime in the future I would get married, he was like, "Listen, I know you don't believe me [because I was laughing him off], but to be married and have a family, that's what makes life wonderful. To be alone - not so good." It's too bad I believe him deep down. My counselor thinks I'm messed up in the head when I say "my ideal scenario" would be to be 500% content being single for the rest of my life, NOT to find the man of my dreams and settle down. I never thought of that being weird until he mentioned it. Shows you how damaging my prior relationships have been on my psyche. But just yesterday I was ranting at God for giving us stupid humans a deep-seated desire for a committed, intimate, long-term relationship. Why not make us complete on our own? Grrr.

Ok, I'm definitely babbling. And I have a thousand pretty graphs to make about age-of-onset inicidence rates for the major mental disorders :)

I'm so charming :-p

Apparently when I was at a party last week this guy (a co-worker of my good friend) was interested in me and trying to flirt with me. I had no idea - apparently he's pretty shy. He seems to be cute and nice, too bad he's into the FSM and not Jesus. BAH!

Oh well, at least I still have my irresistible charm. I guess HB may be right after all that every time I go out with her I get hit on... I just might not know it. :)

A day without pessimism... feels weird :)

I'm inexplicably perky today. And this day started off all wrong. I had really bad dreams and overslept. I got out of bed 1/2 an hour before I was supposed to be at work, and still made it there on time. Maybe it's the beautiful weather. Or having lunch with a friend. Or the farmer's market. Or getting my new book in the mail - I picked it up down the street because I accidentally shipped it to my old work - oops! Anyway, I was waiting in line to get my TB test read (good news: they finally decided that I dont have TB!) and I was having a hard time controlling my glee just from reading the table of contents. What is this book you might ask? Well, it's PURE AWESOMENESS. The Complex Infrastructure Known as the Female Mind. If anyone can guess who it's written by from the title, I'll buy them a drink. :) And as I write this, I'm just remembering I owe Ben a gold star...

Nothing but Boringness

Oh, and I was also thinking while reading one of my friends' blogs that I am actually a very boring blogger. I cannot hold a candle to her style, her wit, her spunk. In person maybe, but not with the pen (or the keyboard, if you will). So I apologize, because reading hers makes me feel like I should go back to journaling..... perhaps.

Migraine + Stupid Boys = Crappy Day

Yup. Woke up with a migraine. Then I had an annoyingly deja-vous experience by being kind of stood up for a date. It just really sucks when you know that the reason the current experience is really bothering you is not because you care a lick about the current boy or the current plans, but that that is brings flooding back all the painful memories of the prior boy and the prior experience. But fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, right? No second chances to a flake - that's my lesson to apply to the current situation. Because in the end, they prove to be a flake, regardless of how much time passes. I'm too low maintenance, I let people (ok, just boys) walk all over me. Yet I don't know how to be high maintenance. It's quite a conundrum. What I need is an upstanding gentleman who actually appreciates what he's got (low maintenance is just a bonus!) so that it never occurs to him to walk all over my low-maintenance self. *sigh* haven't found that yet.

But, not to be too down on life, I want to give a quick shout out to one of my most favorite guys with whom I went kayaking today. Because that was definitely the highlight. :)

More Things I Miss

I came up with a few more things today:
I miss the super casual dress code (read: jeans and flips were ok)
I miss readmes (I never thought I would be saying that)
I miss my old supervisor
I miss user-friendly data, consistent data, blah blah basically I miss MACS data

Unfortunately I haven't come up with any other silver linings since yesterday.