Well, I was going to write an entry last night, but unfortunately, the site went down and I couldn't get it. I usually get that loverly "401 Error" message when I actually want to write a good entry. Tonight, I sit, after a long, hard day of work with the kids. I sit here, in the computer lab on campus, eating supersized McDonald's fries with a supersized tea ... I'm thirsty. I'm hungry. "But, Seth! It's not healthy." Tea not only hydrates faster than water and soda, but it also helps the urinary tract AND I used Sweet N Low, thank you. As for the fries ... potato ... vegetable. PLUS! cooked in VEGETABLE grease. See? I can be healthy. What I'm really craving right now is an open campfire and some smores. It feels like fall already here. Tomorrow, tomorrow will be warmer, but right now ... the sky is perfectly blue and the temperature is right and it just ... feels like fall. School is back in session now for the kiddos - well, most of them. Now is the time that I break out my Jack Skellington gear and have a ball. I went to the mall today after work ... I have three hours to kill before I have to be at the station. I'll take a nap when I'm done with this entry. But anyway, I actually went to the mall today. I can't believe it. And for some reason, I felt compelled to go into Bath and Body Works - and YES! YES, I bought something! Damnit! It's Lavender Vanilla pillow spray - to help you sleep. Shannon uses it all the time. I love the way it smells. Back when I still lived with her, David, and Dakota, I would fall asleep so fast when I used her blanket. It's also the smell of Dakota's room now - it's one of those peaceful, soothing fragrances that is easy on the nose. I've been having trouble sleeping anyway. I tend to wake up a lot lately. Thanks to this new turn of events, I've found myself watching Cartoon Network at 3 in the morning and now I'm addicted to Case Closed. I love mysteries. I've become frustrated with myself, though, because when I thought I had it figured out, because I put all the pieces together - I'd actually be way off. Damnit. Most of the time, I'm right, though. I WANNA BE A DETECTIVE!!! Lovely, can I PLEASE be a detective? PLEASE? Anyway - yeah, to get back to the subject of Fall and Bath and Body Works - they had Halloween stuff already - candles, lip gloss, soap, various other items. I didn't notice until after I'd already checked out, but I was like "... it's August. I didn't think stores put out Halloween stuff until after Labor Day." I'm way off. It's been a tough week. With the kids starting school and everything, the schedule was just suddenly shifted and now they're all hectic and crazy and chaotic - it's so difficult to control them now - not like it wasn't hard before. Yay for back to school! Had some girls at work quit. The financial manager, Scott, was yelling at a teacher for something she didn't do - right there, in front of thirty-plus kids eating their snacks. Said, and I quote, "I will make your life a living Hades." So, yeah, she quit. He's getting reprimanded, I believe - I actually kind of hope he gets fired. Regardless of whether or not you are on the clock, you do NOT yell in front of the kids - especially like that. It's the second time that's happened to that teacher in four months - I don't blame her for quitting. I don't blame her at all. Her friend quit with her, along with another teacher who had just had a horrible day topped by being yelled at by a parent because her daughter's face hadn't been wiped off properly. And for the record, diaper rashes can result from anything - they aren't only caused by poor changing habits. What more to talk about? I could talk about one of the conflicts I had this week - the first conflict/fight we'd had, really, since meeting each other ... but that's actually behind me now. It's over, and it's not really worth mentioning. Things are fine. I'm fine. Everything's fine. Well, for right now anyway. I could talk about how I'm definitely not voting for Bush in November - but why beat a dead horse, right? You all know that already. I could talk about how much I love my lovely and how much I look forward to talking to her on the phone Saturday night. Yeah ... And now, I shall nap, and dream of her. Mmmm ... loveliness ...