Saturday, May 13, 2006

Nightmare on Romine Ave.

Not as good a title as the real movie title. I wonder if the movie started out with a different title. I wonder if they would have made so many movies if they had used a different street name.

So I’ve been having some weird dreams lately. Like last night I dreamt that Lori had 10 new posts on her blog that I hadn’t read. That’s weird because that usually happens with Dave’s blog. Though Dave’s posts are usually short and cryptic. I’ve also recently had dreams about waiting tables. They tend to be ones where all of my tables fill up in the first 30 seconds of opening and the first table I go to can’t even order drinks. They take forever deciding and then try to order their food at the same time without having even looked at the menu. I remember Dr Turner talking about Nightmares about Organic. I never had dreams about Organic Chemistry but this must be what it’s like.

I’m starting to despair. I know it’s only been a week since I sent in the remainder of my medical packet to the Peace Corp. But I haven’t heard anything. June is approaching quickly. I’m worried that I won’t be assigned to this project. Not so much because I don’t like anything else that they have (I don’t really know that much about the project at hand), mostly I just don’t know what I’ll do between now and the next project’s leave date. I better not think too much about it. I’ll probably just get more nightmares.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

"Yes it was all very exciting. Tomorrow we'll go to the zoo."

Well, Lori is back in India now. Actually I just assume that she made it. I haven’t heard from her. Her flight was on Saturday. I miss her already. I’m bored now; I don’t have anybody to do anything with me. Last week was so nice and busy. We went to the zoo last Tuesday. I hadn’t been for well over 10 years. It was much smaller than I remember. We also didn’t bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches like my family did in the old days. But it was fun none the less. We saw these really cool sea dragons. They were pretty funky. The brown bear was playing in the pool but most of the rest of the animals were sleeping. The petting zoo was a little disappointing. We got to pet a deer but the kangaroos all huddled in a corner and could only be reached from outside their fenced in area. We skipped the goat and sheep pen. The weather was turning bad at that point. The rain did hold off till we were on the way out.

We also went shopping for wedding dresses. Our friend is getting married in October and both of us are hoping to make it back to the country for it. Lori is going to be one of the bride’s maids. So she was trying on a dress. I was just along for “the fun”. The woman at the shop wasn’t very nice or helpful. She couldn’t be bothered to tell Lori about how long it would take to do alterations on the dress. She couldn’t even tell her what size she should get. I’ve walked into Kaufmann’s and had the guy know what size pants I would take. Seems to me this woman should have had some insite or thoughts about weather she should go to the next size or not. We were looking spending a couple hundred dollars for the dress and alterations. One would expect to have some help from the staff. The dress and colors have now been chosen. I’m sure the decision was made largely due to my input on color schemes and dress designs. The rest of the afternoon we went to various shops getting things that Lori wanted to take to India.

But now she’s gone and I’m bored and lonely. I’ll probably have to get a job while I wait to hear from the peace corp. Last week I did what should have been the last medical test for my incompetent Doctor, whom I will never go to again. Of course I’ll probably have to call them everyday for the rest of the week to make sure that they mail in the forms; using the pre-address, postage paid envelope. Also the Dentist took the last X-rays last week. So now I just have to wait and see if I got it all done in time to go in June. Though for me to be able to go I have to find my passport. I’m not sure where it is since the move. That has me a little worried, as it will expire before I’m supposed to return. I want to renew it before I leave. Plus not finding it will only make it more difficult to get a visa for whatever country I end up going to.

Elephants

Where'd he go!?!

mmm, Loriiiii


The deer liked lori's hand. She must have smelled like hamburger from lunch.

Sea Dragons



These were pretty cool. I'm disappointed with the picture quality though.

What do you say to a Giraffe?

The Cheeta, or Lepord, or...



People would walk up to pens and name the wrong animal. I wasn't sure if I should correct them in front of their own children.