The Coffeehouse

So you kinda guessed I'm not around eh?

I left good ole Canada on Monday, and it was very hectic the couple days before that. I mean, so hectic that I packed for a month-long trip on Monday....

Now, I'm somewhere among hills and valleys, and getting lost in the alleyways of the old cities.

See y'all in a few weeks!

This is my last week at work, and I guess I'll tone it down a bit, but YEAY!

It's been an overall good experience, learned lots of new things, met great people, but there is such an air of bureaucracy here. I can't stand it. Is it always like this? I hope not.

This past year, I just couldn't wait to grab my degree and hit the ground running. But the problem was, to where? And now I'm finishing up this job and I've gotten some great ideas, and again, I just want to take off running. I want to do something.

None of which might be feasible at the present moment due to things I'd like to take a chainsaw to.

I tried to do those long-term goal thingy-majingys, but what if I can't wait? What if I want to do it now, and may possess the capability, just not the support?

And what if I obtain the experience and capability, but the support might never be there?

Who loves the "cached" option in search engines? I do! It makes the world go 'round.

Html Hell, is becoming a bit heavenly, if I do say so myself. There's still some weird things to sort out though. Check it out, lemme know what you think! Je voudrais le feedback, s'il vous plait.

Speaking of gift-giving...

Having a large extended family is a blessing, right? In disguise? If so, mine's got some great costumes.

In two weeks, we're going on a family vacation (God willing, as we say) to visit family and possibly attend a cousin's wedding (the first cousin-wedding I'd be going to). And as I imagine would be almost every culture's tradition, visitors come bearing gifts in exchange for free room, board, and food. Although there is no guarantee of the last part of the business deal, in case the gifts just plain suck.

I have about 30+ first cousins. *gasp*

But we won't be seeing them all. *phew*

But many of them have gone off and gotten married and produced offspring. *yikes*

You see where this is going? Do you realize how much of our luggage won't be actually ours?

I've spent the last couple of days at the mall, trying to pick out age and size appropriate stuff for relative. It's really difficult. For every person on our list, we conduct an indepth analysis of age, height, weight and other physical characteristics, and personality traits. We count back to figure out their age, and squint in an attempt to try and remember and/or predict their height, weight, and sense of style.

If we end up wrong about anyone, I know I'll just breakdown and cry.

Don't laugh, okay?

I dream of bathrooms. Like, a lot…

Most of the vivid dreams I end up remembering have to do with public bathrooms. But I've stopped paying attention to them because they're a common occurrence and not out of the ordinary, for me anyway.

And no, I've never actually, physically needed to go to the bathroom, just in my dreams I do. And I never seem to find an appropriate toilet, for various reasons including co-ed bathrooms, small stalls, half stalls, no locks on doors, no privacy, and sometimes, there are just no bathrooms around. Often, there's lots and lots of stalls in a public bathroom, but I can never use them. It's all quite irritating. And there's never an end to my search for a bathroom, no happy ending.

Just last night, I dreamt I was at work and needed to go to the bathroom (of course). The bathroom near my desk was closed under construction. And I see a lot of my coworkers going to a bathroom in a new section of our building, but I decide to go to another one on my floor, and it turns out, it was just converted into a daycare (you can laugh at this part ONLY). So I end up going to the new bathroom and it turns out to be "inappropriate", go figure. Then I woke up. Well, it was a tad bit longer than that because I was looking for my missing bag at the same time and I was meeting up with friends along the way.

And you know what, I'm not surprised...