hmm... I suppose I should only write something here if I have something to say and today, I am not sure I do. Had to wake up at 6:30 for the second day in a row to get to work at the bookstore by 7 a.m. both mornings I arrived almost on time only to be locked out with a couple other poor fools who showed up on time... The managers were both at least 15 minutes late. This morning, I got to put new cookbooks on the shelves which was fun because I got to see all the incredible meals I could make and eat if I bought the books. But then I remembered my weight loss effort and it got a little depressing...
this afternoon, once I escaped work, I played tennis with Neil. It was like 3:30 and must have been over 100 degrees. We played for a good 30 minutes before there was too much sweat dripping down my forehead for me to continue. My face was deep cherry red for a good hour after we came inside too. Neil was worried about me. I told him I think that's just what happens to me when I get really really hot... I don't really handle heat well at all.
tomorrow is the one year anniversary of my engagement to Neil...We are trying to come up with something cool to do to mark the day. I am amazed that it's been a year already.

Well, if I intended to make a regular thing out of this blog stuff, I was not successful. It seems that once my job ended and I didn't have to sit in front of a computer all day, I just didn't. I sat down at night to write for school and avoided this machine like the plague the rest of the time. Now I work at Barnes and noble which has been an incredibly humbling experience, but at least the people are nice... Actually I have met more intelligent people at the bookstore than at my previous job. But there is nothing like the way customers look at cashiers to make you feel small. I want to tell them that I have a degree from a good university and am working toward a masters and that they should stop judging people...But usually I just smile and ask if they'd like a bag for their books.

tonight it rained incredibly hard and despite the day's earlier temperature of over 100, for a while it hailed here. Huge hail that melted almost instantly once it hit the pavement. The streets were flooded and I loved it. After dinner it smelled like wet dirt and gardenias, that damp earth smell that I have always loved and is all too rare here. I feel refreshed.