if i can skip days, then i'm also allowed to write twice in one day, right? right.

so, i never mentioned anything about this retirement party for my journalism teacher, ms. swan. it was a very cool affair... she's a funny person, with a general demeanor that i would be hard-pressed to put into words. quirky would definitely be one of those words, but reserved would be one as well. quiet but frank. she's very good at methodical explanation, and uses lots of hand gestures and head nods.

anyway, there were many assembled guests there, though most of them were from the five years between my graduation and the present... and good god, are we old! yes, okay, not as old as the teacher-folk, but man-oh-man... we were hanging out with babes.

i feel like i wanted to say something else about that, but it's gone.

tomorrow i start work, and i'm definitely playing the whole "i'm flying by the seat of my pants, but i'm not going to let it unnerve me" game, which, let me tell you, is not easy. i called in to the assignment desk message machine tonight to let them know i was down for hours tomorrow and all this week... so now i'm really in it. i realized i still have very little idea of what i'm going to be doing or where i'm going to be doing it, and i'm trying to take solace in the fact that they'll hopefully give me plenty of time to get there on the bus. okay, time to stop living in the future. time for the now.

now's pretty chill. i like it.

hasta mañana.