Yay! I hope you had fun at your event, and enjoyed getting away!

I was going to go tonight to the board game meetup... but yesterday, I was so exhausted and overwhelmed, and just no where near getting all the weekend stuff done. It sucks. Especially in the summers, being out in the sun/heat really just drains me... I am not a hot-weather person at all, and just literally feel like the energy is sucked out of me. I think I need to move some place cooler. Anyway, so I decided instead to sleep in today and skip the games so I can get stuff done around the house.

Good for you for quitting smoking! That's awesome! That's interesting that you felt healthier when you were a vegan. I was a vegetarian (for 20 long years!) and really, it feels like one of the worse decisions I've made. I wish I had not been so stubborn, and had quit long before I did. I think that, for me, as a vegetarian I was always eating too many carbs (even if I ate really healthy for a vegetarian) - it's just so carb-based. My body doesn't do well like that. On top of that, I strongly suspect part of my long-term depression (and I used to be MUCH more depressed) was from not getting enough protein (tryptophan converts into serotonin, so if you're not getting enough protein, you're probably not getting enough tryptophan, and thus not able to make serotonin - yikes.) Oh well, live and learn.

I'm glad I triggered you to remember that you have nicer clothes, and can dress it up a bit at the office if you want to! It is kind of funny how we can just forget about stuff like that.

Glad you liked the video! I play low all the time too. I'm actually really uncomfortable, I think, playing high... it feels very domineering and rude to me. I thought she made a good point about when to use it, and only doing it when you actually were in a position of leadership, or when leadership is open and you're trying to win it. And, ugh, yeah, the Howard/Heidi thing is so incredibly depressing. But, the good part was that despite that bias, Heidi *was* successful ! So, it's not impossible! And, I think *everyone* has something working against them.

Oh wow, video-port-guy sounds like such an idiot. Really, he had you revert the changes you made to speed up his computer because he didn't believe you? Did he even TRY using it with the changes? Were the changes otherwise noticeable or inconvenient to him? What an idiot. Dealing with him must be such a test of your patience

Thanks for the encouragement about the portfolio and jobs. It's funny, but it doesn't *feel* that way (like I could get another job quickly if I *had* to.) But, I keep quite a bit in an emergency fund, so I try not to worry too much about that. I'll probably just start by trying to look through my old work and see what I can use... there's just not as much as I'd like on the design side (or that's all that recent). But surely I can pick out a couple things.

Oh! And - re: keeping a brush with you. That's a great idea to keep one in the car. But, have you seen the fairly small ones that they make just for your purse? I can't remember where I got mine, maybe Ulta? But the handle is *just* big enough to get your hand around, and the brush isn't much bigger. Or you could try a comb? It's just nice to have *something* with you, so if it's the middle of the day and you walk in to the bathroom and notice that your hair has managed to go into wild mode (as mine likes to do), you can beat it back into something resembling submission!

Ugh, I'm so tired feeling today... not sure how I'm going to get stuff done, I kind of want to curl back up in bed and just watch TV and play with my tablet! Hope you had a fun weekend, and congratulations on getting into the program that you applied to! Sorry for the stress it's causing you, but I'm glad you got in!