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two months left Once again I managed to stay awake for most of this Sunday and I think that it was worth it even though the weather didn't have much to offer except gray skies and wind. I was a little out of sorts when I got home from work this morning. Oh, it felt good to be home, but I hadn't been able to talk with Nicole before I left. The two times that I did talk with her at work she sounded very tired so I left her alone. The need for a nap was very obvious to me. I guess that that would have been fine except that part of me thought that she might be angry with me for some unknown reason and that dampened my mood even more. Sunday mornings haven't been the same since Ann left and I didn't realize how much I liked that transition from work to home that we had together. Those two or three hours of talking was a nice way to end the week and I haven't been able to find something to take its place. Maybe just a few more words with Nicole would have been enough. I don't know. ... Oh, work hired someone to replace Ann. He starts tomorrow and will be trained on days for some unspecified length of time. At the moment this means nothing to me. What does bother me is the way that my boss, who I will now call Magic Eightball from this point forward, presented him to the rest of the department in his email. Magic Eightball was quick to point out the new guy's military background and I groaned. To me this means that we have someone with no will of their own. The military wants people who can not think and will accept orders without question. I see that as a very sad quality in a person and hope that I am wrong about this new person. Of course I have no say whatsoever in who gets hired. ... My plan had been to get some sleep and then study for my upcoming midterm. That plan didn't happen. Instead I slept, cooked some food and half paid attention to the Academy Awards. Actually I think the only reason that I watched the awards was that I was too tired to study. My mind was unable to focus on anything important and television takes zero mental effort. It was nice to see Jennifer Connelly win an award, but I can't remember anything else that caught my attention. Having only seen Lord of the Rings and Training Day made it hard to care about any of the categories. Seeing Woody Allen for a few minutes was good, but the rest of the program wasn't compelling enough to keep me awake to see the end.
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