between now and june, and a surfer boy run-in

it’s a little weird to me to think how much is going to happen between now and June (my birthday).  in the time that will pass, i will graduate (hopefully!!) from my master’s program, i will have (hopefully) gone out of the country (south america in december, and possibly go to China, Japan, Korea and Thailand in May-June), i’ll possibly switch to enbrel, and i will come to almost a year in my current job.  june seems so far away, but there’s so much that will happen in the time in between that it’s kind of mind-boggling.

is it the RA that makes me focus on significant events and the marking of time passed, or is the tunnel vision just a result of age?  i guess i’ll never be able to tease out the real cause…

anyway, moving on…

today i ran into surfer boy at the super market, and it was nice to see him.  i always kind of hope to run into him at the store, especially because i know we both live equidistant from that particular market, but it’s never actually happened until today.

of course i didn’t stop to think that i looked like CRAP since i had just come out of a heated yoga class before i opened my fat trap and shouted “surfer boy!”

oops, too late to take it back now!  he moseyed over and gave me a hug (a one-armed, side hug…he might as well have punched me in the face!) and we made small talk.

this was when he glanced down and was completely embarrassed because of my overhaul of junk food.  i mean, i had fruit and healthy stuff in there…they were just hidden by the top layer of junk!

moral of the story: i think i win the award for the most perpetually awkward impressions made over the length of a friendship.

short thought bubble

i just found out that one of the faculty in my program has something similar to MS.  That makes two people in my life now who have MS-like afflictions.  it’s so strange.  you know how when you first hear a word, the next several days, weeks, months you hear it ALL the time?  i feel like that about MS-like disorders.

my days are blurring together so badly.  yesterday we had a midterm (in grad school!  who the heck has those past undergrad??) where we were allowed to make a half-sheet of notes, but because i had no time to make one, i went into it completely unprepared.  i have never done more horribly on a test than i did on that one.  i’m cringing just thinking about the results…so this is what it feels like to fail!

is anyone else ready for the winter holidays??