The Day Off Adventure Continues

First, let me start by saying I do not actually have the day off. So control your jealousy. Rather, I only worked an hour and a half this morning because I am set to be over my hours this week and I do not want to be. I am a 30-hour employee; I have a salary but no benefits. I have been pretty good about sticking to just 30 hours a week, and that's not because I'm a slacker who's not giving my work my all, but rather a strategic workplace move. If I work fulltime at a part-time salary, why would they ever make me fulltime? So, alas, I make myself only work 30 hours a week. Tomorrow is going to be a busy and long day, so my usual "leave early on Friday if I've worked too many hours" won't cut it tomorrow. Thus, I have the afternoon off.

I am supposed to be using the afternoon off to write a paper. Instead, I am doing everything BUT writing a paper. (To my credit, I did write an outline. But I'm not feeling it.) This means that I ended up finally putting my summer clothes in the storage unit under my condo, which is timely since it is now 20 degrees outside. It also means that I finally got around to putting up my new "Merry Christmas" door sign. Here's how that went, Mastercard style:

- glittery red "Merry Christmas" door sign: $1 at "If It's Paper" store closing sale.
- number of weeks said sign has been in my car: 3
- number of cuss words I said looking for my hammer: 6
- number of rips I made in the sign in the first 30 seconds of handling it: 1
- number of holes I put in my door: 2. Note that it was supposed to be 1. However, that "wow this hammering just got a lot easier" feeling was apparently due to the fact that I busted through the back of my door, so now there is a nail back on the inside of my condo door.

I'm feeling so MERRY!!!!!!!!! Not.

It's no secret...

... that the best time to catch up on blogging is when you have an actual paper to write. It's just plain true. You're all set to write write write, but then you think, "Oh wow I'd rather write a blog than an educational paper on the benefits of volunteering through school." So, thank my professors for their many assignments, almost all of which coincide with a blog post.

So, who's ready for Christmas? I will not include other religions here since I'm pretty sure I only have 3 readers and you all celebrate Christmas. If I'm wrong, then "happy holidays." I myself have only bought two Christmas presents for my big-ass family so far. However, I found out this week that I have off allllll of Christmas break that the students have off, which is great for a procrastinator like me! Have I mentioned I love my job? Right when I finished freaking out about that awesome surprise, I got an email saying that our staff meeting tomorrow is actually a bowling party. I think Santa finally got around to checking my list!

Bad sign?

I am making an outline for a paper that was due yesterday. Yes, you read that correctly. What has happened to the Lauren you once knew? She was taken over by a very demanding job, three grad school classes, and uncountable personal issues. So, this week when she had an exam followed by three papers being due the next day, she simply did not have time to do the third paper. Thankfully, this was okay because Third Professor is quite nice and flexible and really could not have cared less about the details of this dilemma. Hence, Lauren is writing Third Paper today.

I don't know how I got in 3rd person but I'm not going to try to re-do that. That is ALSO a bad sign for me trying to write a paper right now, but that is not why I started this post. In my outline, I was writing "Conclusion" and accidentally wrote "Confusion." This is humorous to me because it is sooooo true.