any other Monday

I'd probably be asleep... I did nod off after eating a salad (and cottage cheese) for dinner... but then I woke again... and I woke hungry... must have been all that exercise walking for hours and hours around Disney yesterday... and probably an emotional hunger too (comfort food is so sweet)... so I'm munching on Italian subs and watching various TV stuff (Enterprise, football, mediocrity) and most of all, enjoying the empty living room...

yes, Odysseus is gone... Rasputin was serious and handed him a ticket and money and drove him to the bus station today... I did not know Ody had a son where he is going... apparently, as confused as he is, he's going to depend on his 18 year old son (who's been forced to be pretty independent already since Ody is his more responsible parent and hasn't seen him in years) to help him find work (but he's convinced that he's going to teach his son about responsibility and life)... I hope his son can help him and they find much success in whatever they do...

though for the time being, preferably not in Orlando...

I feel so mean for thinking that, but I know the leech mindset wel and I've had more than my share of hangers-on in this life and I've promised myself no more... in talking to Raspy about Ody, Raspy said that Ody has always been this way (dependent, depressed) and the Ody we saw the past two weeks is better than he's ever been... Raspy thinks his mom's finally leaving might have kicked Ody enough to wake him up a bit... sad though, if this is his best ever...

there is apparently some family back where he is going, but only one actually said Ody could stay and limited it to a few days... meanwhile, I am reassured to see that Raspy did make Ody keep his word and we are not enabling him any more... I did hand Raspy some money to help cover what he gave Ody cuz Raspy tapped himself for the rest of the month (Raspy just had to hand him all his money being the good guy he is) and he and Precious shouldn't suffer for being his brother's keeper for a little while... and so after spraying the couch and carpet with Fabreeze, life is sort of back to normal around here...

so any other Monday I'd have napped into a deep sleep and ate very light and gotten good rest and balanced the high caloric weekend, but the energy level was high this evening (even Raspy and Precious were awake and talking and the TV was off when I got home) and so I rode the wave... you shouda been here... better yet, you shoulda been at Disney with Jackson and me this weekend...

work continues to be surreal and almost farcicle as the office cubicle was sort of finished, but the move did not begin because the one-day-a-week person did not move, so the former PI person could not move, so I raised the profile of my relative officelessness (I actually share two offices, but don't claim a desk of my own at the moment because people are working at every desk and I am training my assistant {who is creeping along way too slowly as her learning curve is way too steep to make this reorganization actually work, but I'll give it more time and spend my days developing baby step instruction sheets for every task for her [and let the data and PI work fall behind a month or two] and hope she surprises me one of these days} at my data desk) and had more people noticing and asking and other director's praised me for my patience and adaptability and the ridiculousness of the situation (me wheeling my little table-office around) livened the day and probably raised moral more than lowered it (and that's part of my job too)...

so that's Monday, just like any other Monday, only different...

and just when you thought this was over (it is, mostly), let's all wish z0tl a safe journey (or comisseration) since his planned vacation to Cancun just might get washed out by Hurricane Dean...pack rain gear and boots, z, and don't drink the water... the man has impeccable timing, aye?...

thanks for being here and may you be feeling wonderful tonight :)