Porter and I share a friend that we call PP. This is short for poopy pants… don’t ask me how he earned this title because I am not even sure. Now PP, for some reason, unbeknownst to me, refers to things by acronym, but only as of late. For instance, when we got together to watch “How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days”, the emails preceding the actual viewing referred to the movie as: HTLAGITD. I admit, it is easier to type those 8 measly letters than the whole movie title, but if you aren’t let in on the new “my life is an acronym” style, then you have no idea what movie you are going to watch.

This morning I received an email from PP with the subject CLD. Now, I am used to his acronym-based communication and I only hope that somewhere in the body of the email he explains to me what the hell he is talking about. But before I venture into the content of the email, I give myself a few guesses as to what he might be referring to: Controlled Liver Disorder? Cow Lick Disease? Is he sending me an email about the Cat Loving Danish? Okay… I give… What is he talking about?!?! Country Line Dancing. Yeehaw! I can only hope that he was inviting me to go tonight and not last night, ’cause I would LOVE to see his poopy pants boot-scoot boogie. Plus I haven’t line danced since my grandma broke her hip (it happened a long time ago and she is fully recovered now, don’t worry)!

I am gracefully step-ball-changing my way back to work…. =)

I was in Berkeley over the weekend. When I was leaving on Sunday morning, I thought that a water main had busted because the streets were flooded. Then I come to find out that it was not a water main break, but a terrential downpour that I somehow missed while holed up in the lab. I was driving through 8 inches of water trying to get out of town! It was crazy. What made the rain “freaky” was that it rained in some places and not in others. I am not talking a distance of 30 miles between places. I am talking distances of 10 miles or less. Like Sacramento flooded, but Davis didn’t even see a drop of rain. But I am thankful because it was about 30-40 degrees cooler yesterday and today! I will have to check out the weather and see how long “they” think it will last.

I missed Winemonkey’s sister’s wedding. She wanted me to make their wedding cake at one point, but I got booted from the baker position when I was going to have to work. =( I am going to get to make a birthday cake for a party on Saturday. The birthday girl loves chocolate, so I was just going to make the flourless chocolate cake that chocolate lovers seem to love. I was also going to make her some soap. Depending on how I feel this week, I might go out and get some crafty supplies to make some more magnets… I love it and it is so addicting! I will have to take some pictures of the ones Porter and I made this weekend.

I lent my sister the Body For Life book. Her last decision was that she would try the workout portion of the program, but that she wasn’t going to do the nutritional part. I couldn’t argue against it because no matter how hard I try, it is impossible for me to eat “cleanly” for more than 3 days in a row. I decided that on Monday I am going to start my second challenge. The focus of my first challenge was weight lifting, because I always liked doing it, but I never did it with any focus. This challenge is going to be about incorporating aerobics and yoga into the set. I don’t like being on the treadmill or elliptical trainer so I have decided to add a suite of aerobic-like classes to my schedule. I know that this isn’t exactly what Bill had in mind, but working out in a group (at least when it comes to aerobics) keeps me motivated. Not only that, but I have some severe poundage to lose and I think that it would be hard for me to overkill the aerobic portion of my workout. So look out step aerobics, here I come!

In other news, I am gearing down for the next couple of days so that when it comes time for the mother of all 24 hour shifts on Saturday, I am prepared. It is times like these when I become envious of ANY ONE who has made it through medical school. During the next few days I am going to be getting an outline for my paper together… yes… you read that correctly… my very first publication! Woohoo!

I am finally back at my desk. I never thought I would say that I am happy to be here, but that is EXACTLY how I feel. No more hauling equipment around CA, no more climbing on rooftops.

Lately I have not been feeling up to socializing. It is strange because I am usually all about it. Yesterday afternoon I honestly spent 4 hours organizing my MP3s instead of going out into the world. After going to the gym, I went to grocery store and ran into an old friend. I had a hard time having conversation with him. No eye contact, no good openers for the talk… it was strange and so totally not like me. I wonder if this happens to everyone.

Anyway. Hopefully I will be back to my perky normal self sometime soon.