full moon crazies

first of all, how is it thursday already?

secondly, beware the power of the full moon.... it can only bring intense cravings for red meat, a feeling of having drunk too much caffeine without drinking any (or at least just minimal amounts) and, of course, my period.

it's been a very weird week - very intense and very full. it feels like every day, i've been falling into bed and then getting up and running out the door. in between sleeping and waking, think very full days with many meetings topped with a day-long meeting today in a room with NO WINDOWS. that's right - NO WINDOWS and the walls are GREY. what the? who designed that building??? i have been in meetings in that room before for 3 hours at a time and left feeling slightly suicidal but today was too much. couple the grey walls/no windows thing with very intense people who demand answers in a really aggressive way at a meeting that you volunteered to attend to help them do their job, and what do you get? that's right... fun.

buuuuutttttttt i drove there! yay! i was really leary of joining the morning commute but i car-pooled with a friend so the hatred of being a single passenger vehicle was alleviated. and it was quite lovely and a trip that normally takes me 45 minutes with 2 buses and a train plus about 8 minutes of walking on either side was suddenly 20 minutes. i am on a very slippery slope.

and tonight was very romantic - a moonlit walk on the beach with lulu and jill and sebastien and reuben. the fog was sitting on english bay and the mountains and the cityscape were just poking out of it. reuben and lulu frolicked in the water and tried to eat the bones of a dead animal on the beach and jill, sebastien and i walked and talked. well, jill and i walked and talked and sebastien was carried along and slept.

sleeping sounds good right about now, but it's only 8:30. i'll go waste some time, and then, as Pepys always ended his diary entries (would he be a blogger?), to bed. how will i waste some time you ask? see above....