Nothing stresses me out more than people telling me how not stressed I look. “are you nervous? You look so calm! I’d be so freaked out right now! HAHAHAHA!!”
Hahahahahafuckyou.
I’m on very good drugs, OK? And for once I think I have things ALMOST under control. Except that the ditz limo guy still hasn’t faxed my mom the payment form, and I still have to pay the cake guy - I’m probably going to have to drop it off in person…SWELL…and there is much confusion at the church office about wedding protocol, as my pastor told me they would use the deposit that they weren’t supposed to cash that they DID cash anyway towards the fees for janitorial services, the organist, etc, but apparently no one told the office manager this and OH MY GOD I hope they get that straightened out, otherwise we are going to owe a lot more money…even though we’d get some of it back..
AND ARE YOU CONFUSED YET, BECAUSE I SURE AM!!!
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depressing stereotypes
I sat behind a girl who happened to be african-american on the shuttle today, and noticed her studying a notebook of her handwritten asian writing of some kind. I asked her what language she was studying.
“Japanese”
“wow. I’m really impressed!”
“hehehe thanks! It’s really hard.”
“I’m sure it is!”
I had so much respect for her, trying to learn such a difficult language. I suck at languages - I can’t imagine learning one that’s not even romantic/germanic based.
1 minute later I lost my respect for her as she answered her cell phone.
“hey! where you at?”
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
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geek nostalgia
The contents of the lab are officially moving off to Duke next week, and the lone post-doc and I are scrambling to get things ready. We need to hoard away the stuff we’re keeping, and get everything else cleaned up and ready to move that’s going.
I’m going through the shelves above my bench, pulling out half-empty bottles of media, old no-longer-sterile water, and no-longer-used buffers…when I find…
Buffers I and III. Old school miniprep buffers.
They were also the very first buffers I made in the lab. Probably on the first day - the date on the bottles is right around then. We don’t use them anymore - we have the miracle of pre-made kits. But still…it was a little hard to dump those down the drain.
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*twitch*
For some tradition which origins are unknown to me, and probably are non-existant, Kev and I are…”refraining” for this week leading up to the wedding. Some people do a month, some do two weeks…we think we might make it a week. This is some kind of stupid idea thought up by people like us who have been living IN SIN and think that by abstaining for a few days before the wedding, our virginities will magically reappear and our wedding night can be super duper special.
Which is not only bullshit, but also some kind of cosmic joke, because just when you’re at your MOST stressed and need some kind of outlet…NO SEX FOR YOU!
We kind of cheated last night, but not really. We just…uhhh…made ourselves happy in the vicinity of each other. Bwaha! how’s THAT FOR WORDING!
Anyway…this is going to be a rough week all around.
oy.
bwahaha. baahwhwhahaha. bwahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I can so relate to the “you look so calm…” comments. We have pretty much everything done. DONE til February or March even, yet people still ask me over and over what I’m doing with wedding planning. THE SAME PEOPLE.
deep breaths, refrain from killling people…
Uh seriously, “refraining”. I have friends that have had their priests tell them to do this, even though the priest knows they are living together and have been doing this all along. How does it make a difference? It’s still the “first time” as husband and wife… whatev.
Have a good week!
My mom was all “You should spend the night here so you and E aren’t up all night stressing about the next day”, which I think was her way of disguising actually saying “no shenanigans”, which was ridiculous since we had been together 9 years already, and holding off a night wasn’t going to kill us or fool anyone.
Besides, there was no way I would have been able to sleep anywhere but my own bed the day before my wedding.
I will be in a hotel the night before the wedding. Because no way am I going to attempt to get ready with Kev hanging around.
Plus most of my bridesmaids will be there, too, and we can be all girly and have nekkid pillow fights*
*this is what guys think happens when girls get together. it is not true. sorry guys. Maybe I’ll buy some spa stuff and we’ll give each other facials** and just relax.
**no, not that kind of facial, you dirty pervert!
Oddly enough, semen is said to be very good for the skin…
huhhuhhuhhuh… you said facial.
I recall being very proud of many of the chemicals I made back in my mad scientist days. Cause my shit always came out RIGHT!
I think the only real reason to abstain is so that there is sufficient, if not perhaps more than normal, lust saved up for the wedding night. First time married sex is very special so the hornier you are, the better the sex, right?
The Wife and I abstained for a few weeks prior to the wedding, but then again, we weren’t living together and had no “target of opportunity” before then. In my defense, I didn’t really consider myself a Christian back then so my sense of morality was skewed. Though it may have not fully recovered, either.
And might I say you don’t sound stressed?
Should have just visited the plastic surgeon and had him reconstruct a hymen for you…would’ve been easier.
And anything involving money confuses me. That might be why I’m currently so screwed on my budget.
Good luck with the lab clean-up! It sucks moving a whole lab and with a wedding thrown in for good measure.
Oooh, you said “buffers”
Makes me all tingly in my fun parts.
Scuse me, I gotta go make soap now.
I’m Jewish. Apparently you’re not even supposed to see or speak to your intended for the week before the wedding.
Standing in Publix, on my cellphone, passing messages through my phone to her mother to her, then from her to her mother to me… that was so very much fun.