Random things

just because I have nothing to do at the moment at work. NOTHING. it's very weird. Monday and Tuesday i was searching for stuff to do. Wednesday I took a sick day. I wasn't feeling well, but it was the sort of thing that if i'd had work to do, i would have just sucked it up and come in.

so i spent the day looking at agent listings. i at least have a few possibilities on a list now. so i've done *something*. i need to look at all of the requirements together and decide if i should just start sending out queries and worry about editing the thing later, or edit it to have it ready if they'll want the manuscript. (hope springs eternal) i'm patting myself on the back for at least starting something.

to completely change the subject, i do have *something* to do, which is testing out a new system we're using. but i can't decide if i'm not using it correctly- because it's brand new and there's no documentation, not that i believe in reading documentation anyway- or if its a mess. i'll try again tomorrow when i'm not in that end of the day tired.

altho i should take wednesdays off more often. i find as i go through the week my debt of sleep catches up with me. mondays, i'm good. tuesdays, starting to drag, until fridays i'm in bed by 9. but it's thursday and i'm perky. i'm meeting a friend for dinner tonight and i've already cancelled two thursdays with her just because i'm so beat by thursday i can't be social. like, two weeks ago on thursday i was convinced i was getting sick and i cancelled on her. got a decent night's sleep and i was fine.

i realize that all of this means i should just get to bed earlier, but that's easier said than done. even though most nights all i do is sit there and watch tv, and you would think that would be like sleeping, not running around, but... i'm still always tired. sheri slept for about 90 minutes on the couch last night. i had to wake her up for american idol. i would have told her to just go to bed before that, but i knew she wanted to see american idol. (dude, sanjaya is still on that show? what is up with that? i rather liked brandon, altho, admittedly, he sucked hard on tuesday)

most of the time i'm tired and listless and i think maybe i'm just bored. as much as i enjoy sitting around and watching tv, it does get tiresome night after night. i should turn off the tv by 8 or 9 and spend a couple of hours writing.

i *should* do lots of things.

half-marathon

a marathon. well, a half of one. really.

this was brought about because beth and todd did the disney half-marathon to celebrate the fact that she was a year cancer-free. as marie and sheri and i were watching people cross the finish line, we all decided we could do that. i was watching people and saying 'she's like 80. we can do this. he's like 70. we can do this. okay, that guy has ONE LEG. we can do this!'

beth managed to finish without ever really training. okay, by the end she was begging for the van to come along and scoop her up, but she made it.

i think she's a little annoyed that now we're into it. i think she was hoping to never cover 13 miles on foot again.

anyhow, weight watchers just posted a plan to get you to 13 miles by the end of the year. since the disney marathon is in january, that works out pretty well. colleen and i are doing laps at work. we're not really sure how far each of our laps is, but we're going with 300 steps and 2000 steps is a mile. heck, its better than sitting at my desk all day, right?