2004-02-18 - 6:44 a.m.
I am awake.
I had just showered when Shannon called asking if I'd rather clean the school at 10:00 tonight instead of 6:45 this morning. I of course said YES, and attempted to go back to bed. But I'm up. I'm tired, but not tired in a way that will allow me to go back to sleep. It's a curse. I'm like a Sim that is really active (in that they spring out of bed and start their day, regardless of how rested they actually are). I've missed the sleep boat. So I'm making coffee and readying myself for the Today show. I'm always kind of excited to be watching the Today show. I feel a little wordlier. And one day I will be Anne Curry. She's great!
Yesterday we washed all our clothes. There were a few exceptions, but the stuff that was overlooked never gets worn. Not the point. All of the clothes we like are clean. It's been SO LONG! since we've had nothing but clean laundry. I had forgotten about so many different shirts and pairs of underwear that I enjoy that were buried under our emergency load (the top layer of the laundry basket that we'd skim for "emergencies") I have a lot of underwear. I had planned to count them all, my beautiful vibrant undergarments, but I think doing that would actually be embarrassing. I have filled a drawer, that's all I'll say. Damn working with panties...
I've been watching too much bad TV and not hating it. Lots of reality television, Dr. Phil, and the like. Yesterday I watched Oprah because the cast of "Sex and the City" was doing a "farewell" interview. I cried at the show's intro, not to mention the first ten minutes of the show. And when the rest of the cast came out. I feel creepy and weird about being so attached to television shows. Not that there are many that would reduce me to tears. I was more insane about "Ally McBeal". Even though I realized that by the time they hit season five it was no longer an amazing show, it meant nothing. I wasn't there to be impressed by intricate plots. I tuned in every week to see how these characters who felt like friends were. (seeing that written in a way that admits my pathetic attachment is unfortunate.) But season two was magical! And clever and original! Just like "Sex and the City". Which is done. I have no such attachment to the Today show, however. Which I'm going to go watch.
