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My Life Needs a Soundtrack
Dec. 29th, 2008 09:45 pmI watched half an hour of CSI: Miami with my roommate, and not so coincidentally guzzled the last half of a hard lemonade in the first fifteen minutes. (I can't play "cliff, marry, shag" with this cast. There's so many candidates for the cliff and so few for the shagging.) Sunday I was watching Farscape, and Monday night I stayed up watching Farscape: the Peacekeeper Wars and now I'm longing to see justice uncovered with a pulse pistol.
But my boredom with freakishly fake and white Miami is beside the point. Two things occured to me today:
1.) the pound to dollar dollar exchange is now 1.44 pounds to $1.00, a nice change from the days it was pushing 2-to-1. How long can this last?
2.) I'm rolling over two full weeks of vacation time from 2008, and will accrue another three weeks (plus comp time) if I work a full schedule in 2009.
Therefore, I think it's time to declare Road Trip 2009. Tentative outline:
Memorial Day weekend: Wiscon!
Some time in summer (or not):
1.) BEACH!
I miss the Outer Banks this much.
(pre- and post-season also acceptable; in post-season the water will be warmer)
2.) EUROPE!
(the economy has crashed, the dollar is falling - I'm making hay)
(actually, the date on this is pretty flexible too)
Any time I feel like it:
3.) American road trip?
By "road" I mean "travel" and by "trip" I mean "where I can get crash space cheap or free". Though buying/renting a car and driving sounds really appealing - for about an hour. That doesn't even get you to West Virginia. The "American" part is pretty flexible too. Basically, my travelling feet are itching.
I'm, um, actively soliciting crash space, if anyone wants to offer? All plans are contingent on not sobering up and freaking out about my savings balance. But yeah, I need to get out of Dodge and preferably off the East Coast, or out of the country.
But my boredom with freakishly fake and white Miami is beside the point. Two things occured to me today:
1.) the pound to dollar dollar exchange is now 1.44 pounds to $1.00, a nice change from the days it was pushing 2-to-1. How long can this last?
2.) I'm rolling over two full weeks of vacation time from 2008, and will accrue another three weeks (plus comp time) if I work a full schedule in 2009.
Therefore, I think it's time to declare Road Trip 2009. Tentative outline:
Memorial Day weekend: Wiscon!
Some time in summer (or not):
1.) BEACH!
I miss the Outer Banks this much.
(pre- and post-season also acceptable; in post-season the water will be warmer)
2.) EUROPE!
(the economy has crashed, the dollar is falling - I'm making hay)
(actually, the date on this is pretty flexible too)
Any time I feel like it:
3.) American road trip?
By "road" I mean "travel" and by "trip" I mean "where I can get crash space cheap or free". Though buying/renting a car and driving sounds really appealing - for about an hour. That doesn't even get you to West Virginia. The "American" part is pretty flexible too. Basically, my travelling feet are itching.
I'm, um, actively soliciting crash space, if anyone wants to offer? All plans are contingent on not sobering up and freaking out about my savings balance. But yeah, I need to get out of Dodge and preferably off the East Coast, or out of the country.
