01.06.04

With Mike gone all week, I had made up my mind that I was going to use my time alone to clean up and organize several rooms in our house. This was supposed to be a week long project but I didn’t actually get started until Saturday when I woke up at 5:30 and worked pretty much straight through until Monday afternoon when I went to pick Mike up from the airport (I did stop to sleep and eat). There’s still some things to be done but I’ll probably be doing this until the day we move out and move up to New York where we’ll get another house and I get to start all over again.
It was kind of nice having some time to myself this past week. I’ve always been a real solitude seeker. Mike’s presence is usually pretty quiet, however, we do require a lot of attention from eachother. We’re probably what most people percieve as clingy and lovey dovey but that’s just our personalities. Before we were married we were often seperated for long periods of time, over summer or winter holidays, that sort of thing, so I didn’t think one week would be that big of a deal. But I was surprised at how much I missed him so I was glad to have something to do to make the time go by faster.
My summer class starts tomorrow. I’m already frustrated with the whole process of buying text books and orientation, blah, blah. Our student store is crap and never has anything. I always relied on my student store as an undergrad an because we weren’t assigned readings until the second week of school we always had time to buy them last minute, which you usually had to not because you were disorganized but because the store always ordered things late and your professor’s understood this and planned for it. But alas, in grad school they actually expect you to read and prepare discussion material for the first day of class (can believe the nerve) so I’ve been scrambling to buy the necessary texts which our student store, as I said, doesn’t have so I’ve had to order them and pay a whooping $19 for Next Day Air. At any rate, I’m looking forward to the new class and the new experience of online learning.