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09/20/2002 entry: "post-birthday"

Today ended my streak of great days. I'm still doing good, because it's not like the things that happened this past week just stopped happening or ended. It's just that today, it rained. And apparently my backpack doesn't keep it out very well. My things didn't get too wet, but enough wet to piss me off. Despite my umbrella, my pants and sweatshirt got pretty wet. Yuck.

But, I'm here to talk about my birthday and everything. It began Wednesday night at midnight, which I was thoroughly surprised about. Michael came online and gave me a wonderful IM version of Happy Birthday. I got a couple emails from my parents. Sara came over and we hit up Bennigans for some food. Their baked potato soup is the best soup I've ever had. Seriously. Peggy also surprised me by leaving me a text message on my cell phone! Fun stuff. Then later, Kevin and I got together to celebrate the whole anniversary thing.

Oh! And Sara and I "practiced" for about 10 minutes. She had this song she was working on, but no lyrics. So I grabbed a couple sheets of lyrics, and tried to improvise some sort of melody to go along with her song.. it worked alright I suppose, but it would have been better if we had more time. So, we're hopefully going to get together sometime soon to do that.

Lisa left me a message last night, too.. it was really nice to get. I don't hear that kind of stuff from people very often. In the past 5 days, I've gotten to hear somewhat similar things from 3 of my friends (each a little different, but all special in their own ways). Well, 3 including her. I think that's part of what made it so good.

As wonderful as things have been, a feeling like that can't last forever. Today pretty much cut off my supply to the happiness hose. It's just the little things. I had class all day. I was still really tired this morning. It was raining really hard and it got into my backpack. I've been wet all day. I have so much homework to do. I haven't started my web design job yet. This chair I have for my desk sucks and my back hurts. But, I'm complaining too much. I should be reading. Or working on homework.

Although I've been kind of working with very very simple programs and editing things, I get to write my first program for a homework assignment. Yesss. This is going to be fun.

See? Still good things. And everytime I read something nice someone said to me, I'll remember how I felt these past days. But, it's just one of those things. Can't last forever, as much as I try.