I am Working on Mars

Remember how yesterday it was so cold in my office. Well, I complained and boy did it get fixed. Yesterday afternoon the room temperature started climbing. By 9 pm it was 82 degrees in here and I even had my door open. When I came in this morning it was 87 degrees. Why these extremes!? The maintenance guy came again today and I think he fixed it. The temperature has been slowly dropping. This building is crazy. You can't even open any of the windows. I think it might be bullet proof.

Hot Chicken Curry in a Cold Office

The title of this post pretty much says it. Right now I'm eating my hot chicken curry (mmm...) lunch in my really cold office. It was 58 degrees in this room when I got here this morning. My nose started running so I hung out in the library instead. I came back for lunch and the temp. is up to 65 degress. Supposedly there is a work order out so someone should be coming to fix the problem, whatever it is.

This whole thing reminds me of when I worked at the Pettigrew Home & Museum last winter. The heating budget had already been exhausted the winter/spring before so in order to save money the temperature had to be kept around 65 degreees. That doesn't sound too bad, but when most of my time was spent sitting at a desk, not moving around, I got really cold. I used an electric blanket and wore gloves. Brrrrr....

No TV!

So I have been living in the new house since last Friday. There are boxes all over (empty and full) and some cleaning that still needs to be done. We don't have TV or Internet yet. I didn't think I watched that much TV, but it feels really lonely and quiet without it. It's like I'm Amish. No, not really because I'm using electricity in all kinds of other ways and I did rent some movies because the DVD player is hooked up. The radio also works so I guess I'm not really Amish at all. Ha, nice try Amber.

I feel really displaced too. It takes me a long time to get used to and be completely comfortable in new places. Just when the Maize Ct. apartment was illiciting that "homey" feeling I get up leave it. You know what I'm talking about, when you get home after a long day and have that sigh of relief when you walk in the door of your home? Yeah, I don't have that at the new digs now, but I'm sure I will get there.

I Had a Hunkerin' for a Donut

Mmmm ... I just had a delicious raspberry filled donut for breakfast. I figured I needed some heavy and sugary brain food because I'm about to start writing a paper. But before I go wash off my sticky fingers I thought I'd do a little blog postin'.

We are closing on the new house tomorrow at 3:30 pm and we have to be out of the apartment by this Monday so it is going to be a crazy couple of days. Apparently, someone is waiting to move into our apartment so Jeremy opted to move out early to save $400 on rent (how nice of him NOT to consult with me). I have a paper due today and a test on Monday, plus Reed and Sue are coming this weekend for Fall Fest activites at Bethel. I told Javers I probably cannot help move at this point. I really do hate moving, but I still feel guilty I won't be able to help. He got some football player friends to help load and unload the moving truck on Friday so at least Jeremy's not moving furniture all by himself.

Kellie, I wanted to tell you I saw a Race for the Cure (fundraising event for breast cancer research) in Wichita. It happened this weekend and I signed up for the 5K. I actually ended up getting third place in my age category (25-30) out of 45 or so people. That's pretty cool - I didn't realize I was so speedy. Plus they had a bunch of booths there giving away free things like bananas, lotion, scarves, Starbuck's coffee, etc. It was like the fair!