Zoe’s Journal

Our A/C is broken. This is literally the third time in less than 2 months. The good news is that it still has a warranty. The bad news is that they aren’t coming to fix it until tomorrow. At least we have ceiling fans in every room to ward off the gaping maw of the legendary Phoenix heat.

My sister posted pictures of her new baby girl! Here they are:

Cute, huh?

Tonight I plan to do homework - I will FORCE myself to do homework, that is. But I’ve yet to decide what to eat for dinner - we have no ‘cold dinner’ stuff. So, it looks like it’ll either be spaghetti or burritos. Can’t decide.

I may write more later as the mood strikes.

Ciao.

Just a quick update - this week has been pretty busy.

I got back from a 2-day trip to North Carolina yesterday evening. The meeting there went well - though it was mainly for the benefit of the agents that were invited, I actually learned a lot too! Ashley drove up to visit me the night we landed. We went to dinner at the hotel restaurant and then met the others in the bar for a couple of drinks, which lasted about 3 hours or so. There are some characters there, that’s for sure.

In the morning, I woke up early and went for a swim in the hotel pool. Though the water so murky that I couldn’t even see my bathing suit bottom, there were loudspeakers blaring out concerto music, and I was the only one there. I LOVE classical music played loudly - it served to wake me up happily whilst floating and swimming laps in the dark (the lights weren’t on yet).

The flight back was a little tedious. I was seated next to an extremely good-looking-in-a-bohemian-way couple who were holding hands and playing scrabble the entire way. I finished my book and then listened to my ipod while watching the cloud scenery and imagining a fairy land up there where the forests are white cloud and the plains are blue. I imagined warring factions goading their misty steeds to battle upon the precipices of Mount Thunder while the landscape continuously changed (it does that in this fairy land). And it’s always sunny, except in the Underworld, which descends in layers from cloud level to cloud level until it finally hits the very rock bottom - the dread place Earth, where thunder roars and lightning flashes, a veritable Hades in comparison to the world up above.

I went to work this morning with a sore throat and headache. I had some stuff to get done today - but after I finished that, I came back home and slept for a good 3 hours or so. It took the LotR about 20 minutes to goad me awake. We ate dinner at Pita Jungle. And now I should be studying, and I will for a while after I finish writing this, before I fall asleep again.

Oh! and my sister had her baby girl Tuesday morning - both are in good health.

I feel like I’ve been rolled over by one of those ridiculously large road flatteners you see in old cartoons. Why? Because pretty much all I have done today is lie in bed and read ‘The Soulforge‘, which is an extremely good book in the Dragonlance series, with the original characters. I’ve just started the next one, ‘Brothers In Arms’, but decided I needed a break before starting a second 500-page book. I’m feeling the effects of horizontal-ness.

But anyway, I did get up at some point and go to the grocery store - there to buy a package of frosted brownies and some jello parfait. Yum. And now I think I’ll go make some delicious chicken and pasta (pre-cooked by the LotR’s mom) and pour a tall glass of wine.

After that, the evening is completely unplanned, so I’ll most likely end up working on my book website, printing out next week’s homework and study assignments, or maybe just do some hack-n-slash RPG’s. Or civilization building. All of these fantasy books make me want to go off and build my own world or fight enemy goblins.

I haven’t heard from my mother since the marriage to Elvis. My sister is due to have her baby next week… and on Tuesday, I’m flying off to NC, there to be a fly on the wall in a company meeting with agents. Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll get to see any friends or family while in the area. Unless they want to make the 2-hour drive to come visit with me for a few hours - I doubt they will.

Yesterday I went outside to wash my car. I even rubbed it all down with a towel so that the water wouldn’t leave little chemical deposit spots all over. It was a rough job, but my car looks much better now, and the blue color is now no longer questionable.

One more thing - it is incredibly HOT outside right now…

The LotR sent me this awesome link today. It’s for a game called Chore Wars.
Basically, you form a party with all members of your household, create some ‘adventures’ (chores), choose the percentage of times treasure drops or you have to fight monsters. For example:

Bathe Cats

* medium strength, high constitution, high dexterity, high charisma, low intelligence, low wisdom
* between 70 and 80 gold pieces
* 30% chance of treasure (water sprite,crystal droplet,diamond)
* 40% chance of a wandering monster (hopping flea,giant tick,anus worm,ferocious cat)

I got to pick everything on there from the stats to number of gold pieces rewards and names of the monsters and treasures. Players keep track of their stats and develop their characters with the XP gained from the chores! I am pumped - I already have 60xp!

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