excitement, guilt, and pain

A big hearty MAZEL TOV to E who graduated COLLEGE today!

The Cubs won their THIRD game in a row today! I don't want to jinx it, but World Series, here we come! Awww...poor Cubbies.

excerpt from an email I got today from BB (I started the class email list last night):

I didn't make clear yesterday that I wanted to passalong some job leads for you, but felt a bit awkward doing that in front of everyone, being that this might have embarrassed you.

So I feel a little bad, except that he had plenty of opportunity to make his intentions clear without "embarrassing me" and I'm fairly certain having a palsy does not necessitate a complete lack of social grace. Maybe that makes me insensitive, but I generally expect people with any sort of handicap to be able to function in the ways not directly effected by said handicap. I'm happy to have patience with his physical difficulties, it's the regular ol' annoying guy stuff that pisses me off. Like if a blind person was also a complete airhead, the physical handicap doesn't really work as a valid excuse for the stupid.
Anyway, I had a much better time going out with the larger class group, and I don't think I'm looking for another teaching gig right now. I'll be nice in my response, and I do feel a little bad (and maybe I'm just saying all this crap to justify my actions), but whatever.

Perhaps it is dangerous that I am now blogging in relative anonymity, as I no longer feel obligated to make myself sound like a decent human being.

I filled an entire garbage bag in about 10 minutes of going through crap on the surface of my apartment and it looks almost exactly the same in here. How many more garbage bags will I need? I think we need to start a betting pool.

My grandfather is back out of the hospital. Yay. I should go visit him tomorrow.

My head hurts. Could it perhaps have something to do with the long list of things I consumed yesterday that tend to be my triggers? I was eating edamame. They were delicious, but soy is on my trigger food list. And this was after drinking coffee and before drinking beer. Not to mention the soy sauce with the sushi, and who knows what else in the sushi that may or may not get along with my brain.