Veterans

The other day someone told me that his friend, after obtaining her doctorate in psychology, will be going to work for a veteran's association.

I sat in the car as he continued, saying how she would be moving in the next couple weeks. I wasn't really paying attention, though, to what he was saying afterwards. You see, I was stuck wondering why veterans needed psychologists. Was working with animals really that stressful? Or perhaps the psychologists are for the pets. Do animals need therapy, too?

And then I realized my mistake.

March In One Post

First of all,

I apologize for the lack of posts. I've been really caught up in my work recently....but now that Easter is about to roll around, I've found some time to post.

Some random things that are going on in my life as I think of them:

(1) I had a job interview recently. I should find out later this week whether or not I'll get the job. I'm pretty excited.
(2) A miracle happened last Thursday. I had an 8am appointment so I set my alarm for 6:40. I woke up the next morning before my alarm; I looked at it and it said it was 5:17am. I figured I had an extra hour and a half of sleep to burn, but by some miracle I happened to turn on my phone...and my phone said it was 7:20. I sprang out of bed and barely made it to my appointment on time.
Later, I think I hit the time-zone button in my sleep and caused the alarm to pop back two hours.
(3) I watched Skyfall, the James bond movie that came out a while ago. I also saw The Prestige. Both very good plot lines. Very enjoyable.
(4) I found a $20 on the ground the other day. I asked around to see if it belonged to anyone, and it didn't, so I claimed it :) Made me happy for a little bit.
(5) Here's a picture of Great Falls, Montana.



Anyway, here are 10 songs running through my head, in no particular order:

1. Come Home - One Republic
2. Kyrie (Op. 16) - Louis Vierne
3. 50 Ways to Say Goodbye - Train
4. Crucifixus - Antonio Lotti
5. Young at Heart - Mr. Frank Sinatra
6. Home - Michael Buble
7. Love the Way You Lie (Pt. II) - Rihanna ft. Eminem (much, much better than the first one, I think) [the clean version, preferrably]
8. Girl on Fire - Alicia Keys
9. Sixteen Tons - T. E. Ford ("Sixteen tons-- What do you get? / Another day older and deeper in debt")
10. Skyfall - Adele (I suppose that's because the opening credits scene of Skyfall was simply delightfully produced and arranged. A wonderful work, and while I haven't jumped on the Adele bandwagon yet, I think it was wonderfully fitting to the movie.)

Have a great Easter!

This.

This Week

This week hasn't exactly been the best.

Wednesday night/Thursday morning I was working from 8pm to 2am, at which point I decided to go to sleep...so I could wake up at 6:30am to finish my work (around 9:30, which is about the time the rest of my day starts). But I finished, so I can't complain much there.

Last night, I was doing laundry. I moved my clothes from the washing machine to the dryer, put in my dollar, and went back to my room to do a workout. The dry cycle took about an hour to finish, so I set a timer on my phone for an hour so that I could go to sleep as soon as it ended (around midnight). At 11:55 I went to go check on my clothes and saw that they had stopped spinning. I opened the door and reached in to grab my clothes and...they were still wet. I realized that while I'd paid for the dryer, I didn't actually start the machine. The money in the machine was gone (did somebody use it?) so I was stuck paying another dollar and waiting another hour.

But guess what? Laundry's done, work and paperwork are done, and I took a 2.5 hour nap today, so I am a happy camper.

Happy February and hope you had a nice Valentine's day!