Another long blog post explaining where I've been and where I'm going....

First off... I told someone the other day that this crazy busy schedule sucks because I haven't been able to talk to my friends for weeks. Of course I then got the heavily sarcastic comment "oh, you mean your 'online friends'? How can you miss people that you've never met? :roll:" This really pisses me off, because I do consider my online friends to be actual friends, and in fact there are people I talk to online that know me better and seem to care about me more than some of my "real" friends. So, I'd just like to say you guys are great, and sorry I haven't been on and thanks to everyone who has been leaving me messages even though I haven't been on and replying in a timely manner.

Secondly.... my garage sale. We ended up making more money than we thought we were going to, so that's good. We made $880, $600 of which I got to keep. Time to put a small dent in my credit card bills.... :? And even though the sale went well overall, it was miserable. From Wednesday to Saturday my grandma (whose house we have the sale at) just drove me absolutely nuts. We ended up getting in an argument and giving each other the silent treatment. It was also hot and the windiest it's ever been during one of our sales. And so on top of my obligatory sunburn on my arms, face, and ears.... I also got windburn on my face and ears. So my skin blistered, opened up and started oozing, and then forming these large, yellow scabs. Very attractive :P And now my sunburn has started to peel so I leave bits of skin and scabs wherever I go. Normally I wouldn't care, and would even use this to gross out the people at work... however I have a conference next week and I need to look a bit more..... normal.... for it.

Which leads me to my third topic. Our annual meat science conference. Some may remember that we hosted this conference at my university last year and I absoluetly loathed the entire experience. But this year it's in South Dakota, so it won't be as bad. However, my main goal this year is to convince someone there that they want to hire me. So I'll be armed with my resume and business cards.... and my sun/wind burn :P Anyway, I'll be in South Dakota from Saturday (6am, yay) until Wednesday night. If you don't hear from me after that, then I probably melted into a pile of oozing flesh. Maybe Nano can collect my gooey remains and boil some of my enemies in it (I'll make you a list, just in case) :D