this weeks update

i have spent the last 6 hours at work. in this time period i have worked for a total of 35 minutes
most of the day has been spent doing the following:
1- looking into PhD Programs specifically in Art history and considering it
2- eating. I have eaten twice. both as non social activities, and solo at my desk
3- talking to the group uninterrupted by work or management for about an hour
4- looking up positions as an adjunct professor (what? I can just hear my fans saying, you teach...well i need money, i have my mfa, and i have been working as a professional designer for 8 years- so why not)
5- doing the match: are department has had 42% turn over since December, or 42% turn over since I joined. I wonder if I smell...
6- chatting on im.. you know since the boss came into work we had to continue talking somehow
7- working on my cv so i can apply for said job as an adjunct and start working on the 2 applications.
8- devising a rough plan on my phd program and how i might do it
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yes, it has been productive. I am going to leave at 3, call it a day and go shopping for a flogger. A soft deerskin flogger, i think in black and purple. and look at latex. not buy latex, just look and see what came in.

Then i am going to go home and have more wonderful sex with j. since we fantastic sex for 2 hours before work this morning. and i can not stop thinking about continuing it.

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next week is submit, and i am brining my friend w. not as a date, but as an introduction to the LBT BDSM scene. I hope she has fun. I am dragging her shopping for the said flogger after work.
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the week after I am in orlando for 6 days. yay beach! I will drag my co-workers out to the beach one night for sure, and i also have a baby shower to go to while i am there.
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and then i come home and my cousin and her 2 friends are coming to NYC to party, so there will be much to do!

dogs

this weekend aside from visiting with my 70 something grandparents and spending quality time with them. I have also spent a fair amount of time with 2 very opinionated boston terriers.

they have the following comments:
"Why are you currently not petting me"(Dog 1)
"PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME" (Dog 2)
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"Now now now NOW NOW ME PET, MUST KISS YOU!!!!!!!" (Dog 2)

"Give me a cookie, I did something, I am cute and I didn't run away, you are happy you must now feed me a cookie"(Dog 1)
"COOKIE!!!!!!" (Dog 2 concentrates as she sits there patiently waiting, never demanding anything that magically comes from the cupboard- she just sits and looks cute meanwhile all you see in her eyes is ...i love you i must kiss you soon please give me a cookie!)

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"OHH PLAY, BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL, RUN, RUN, RUN" (Dog 2)
"Take the ball from that simple minded dog right out of her mouth and run really fast, like all those times I ran away from this place fast...." (Dog1)
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"sleepy time, sleepy time, sleepy time" (Dog 2 looks at you and her little dog body with barely enough energy as she walks herself to her bed before going to sleep, this walk also usually means the COOKIE from earlier is still not eaten and she will take it with her to sleep and bury it in her bed linens"
yawn...one eye brow raise "move me if you want me to sleep somewhere besides the couch cushion you want to sit on"(dog 1)
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As you can tell dog 1, and dog 2 have very different personalities.
dog 1, although older, wiser, and a bit pickier, is not as bitchy as I make her out to be. But she is more opinionated about things, she never barks r growls out of this bitciness, and she adores little dog 2. Daily little dog 2, cleans dog 1's head and face. Dog 1, loves people and waggs her little bottom when they visit but with just less energy as Dog 2. Dog 1 is 2 years older. Dog 1 loves to go outside, dog 2 loves to be snuggled on the couch and never go outside. Both dogs love to eat people food, canned dog food, only chicken flavor, dog 2 will eat chruchy, dog one, will only eat them by taking a mouthful to where you sit in the house and spit them out, laydown next to you and eat them like popcorn. I would easily have either dog full time in my life. even as a girl who prefers big dogs. Aside from the constant grunting of little dog 2, and the odd lay on floor and drag myself by my front paws habit of dog 1, i adore them and they have so much to say. Some little dogs just do not seem as talkative.
for instance this morning conversation is as follows:
(i wake up, it is 7:30, obviously the dogs do not wake up until 9)
dog 1: (sleeping at my feet on the couch) "oh you are serious about this waking up thing..hmm.. give me 10 min, soon i will be awake, and full of energy to run around but YOU moved me at 2 am from the middle of the couch, and i need sometime to decide if i can ignore that (pause) that belly rub sure feels good....ok i am awake..."
you walk to the laundry room, open the half shut door and say "ohh dog 2, time to get up sleepy head"
dog 2:(really tired, squints, still asleep faithfully pushes open her own cage door) Ok, i am up, i love you lets snuggle. (follows you to anywhere you decide it is time to go)
dog 1: (now awake and sitting by the door)
you: outside!!!
only dog 1 responds, in fact you don't even think dog 2 has a bladder.

dog 1: prances back to the glass door when finished with outside activities, comes inside and dances and acts super cute.
dog 2: laying on couch sleeping again.

you: (like the trained monkey you are, go get dog 1 a cookie) "COOKIES!!!"

dog 1: "COOKIE COOKIE COOKIES COOKIE"
dog 2 (still sleeping on couch)

you break a cookie in half.
you give dog 1 a 1/2 cookie at the cabinet, dog 2 you bring the other half of cookie to

dog 1:)REALLY ANNOYED, STARING AT YOU LIKE YOU KILLED SOMETHIG, makes a gruf sound. bites the half cookie in front of her and drops it, not eating one crumb. "you did not give me a full size cookie, you will now go get me a full size cookie or i will stare at you and continue to do this dance step infront of this pitiful excuse of a cookie"
dog 2(has half cookie tucked under her chin content as can be"

you: go back to the cabinet to retrieve a full size cookie for each. otherwise the backfire of gas of upsetting dog 1 could be deadly. And she knows where you sleep.

vacation.

well, after the most unrelaxing trip i have had in a long time. (for the record i have had business trips far more relaxing than the past 6 days in the bahamas)
let me preface this post with:

I have never disliked any culture before. I have never disliked an entire group of people. I am a polite traveler, we tip extremely heavy, and we are both patient with most things. I give people the benefit of the doubt so much it screws me over and i usually never say anything aside to justin. if you are reading this you probably already know this about me.

so for me to feel this way, it was a horrible experience- I had been to the bahams 7 times before this past trip and always loved it.
I will never go back now.

we planned our vacation, something we save up money for all year, something we hasn't done in over a year together, we get limited time off a year J gets 10 days off, if we had known any of what happened would happen, we would have planned to spend our money else where.


pluses:
hotel: the hotel we spent most of the week was awesome. it was an inn called orange hill inn. it was great. it was clean. the private beach front cottage was amazing, especially for 140 a night. the on site restaurant was ok.

the day trip: sailing in the Caribbean was great. even with 24 other people on the boat. the crew was so much fun. and the rum punch was great. We did not snorkel the reef out there (my fear of masks actually stems from leaky snorkeling experiences- at least my fear of wearing them) but Rose island (small 3 miles long about 100 feet wide) was so nice. we layed on the beach and swam.

the beach at the inn: talk about no one there! it was awesome. it was outside of any hotel district. The snorkeling was great. ( I finally got a mask that fit me NO LEAKS!!!) I saw so many cool fish and some kind of sting ray i think. i am not too sure, it was kinda scary so i swam away from it.

relaxing and laying around with justin was great.

everything was fine except when ever we left the hotel area
- bus 10A is not the bus going back to the hotel from downtown. it was like taking a ghetto fabulous ride through the shacks and ghettos of the bahamas. actually it wasn't like that, it was that. the bus looked like it had been on pimp my ride, and the drove about 50 miles an hour on roads so narrow with the bus door open. the kid driving the bus was just annoying by saying "well aren't you smart" after i stated "i know we got on the wrong bus" the lady in the first row of the bus was nice. she helped us out and gave the kid a dirty look and he drove us to meet up with a 10 (not 10A) bus.

- nassau and paradise island have become the disney of the Caribbean. the last time i was there was about 5 years ago. The Atlantis hadn't put up all the other buildings, there weren't a million people there. there was actually beach space on paradise island that wasn't overtaken. it wasn't on this height of over population. now it is disgusting

- the first night (we flew in early) so we got a run of the mill cheap motel place. check in time wasn't until 4 pm, but we didn't know that. we even request an early check in and we not accommodated. the people who worked there were rude. and dirt. it was ten million times worse than the subway on an 8 am commute when no one in the car has had their coffee.

- most food establishments- it would be 25 minutes the waitress would pass you a million times she would never even stop at the table to give you a menu or anything. this happened nearly ever where we went aside from places that were 35 bucks a plate.

- any time we encountered native people outside of the 2nd hotel, or in some fancy restaurant, they were so rude and anti-american that it was sickening. so i am making it my mission to tell people not to go to the country of the bahams. most people, are all assholes. the few we met that were not were transplants from other islands or ex-pats or former eurpoeans.

- the airport. the TSA agent left me in tears (even with my work badge) my bags were ripped apart at the slowest rate possible (yes btw, it is slow in the islands, it is slow and hot, and i accept this. I have been to PR a bunch, the people not only are they rude they are rude and slow and if for one minute you make notion for the cunt bitches to actually function at the rate of something tolerable and not talk to their friend/coworker while they move at the rate of a sloth they move even slower) are even ruder and give you nasty looks. FUCKING CUNT BITCH SECURITY WOMAN. I have no problem getting my stuff searched, but do it at a rate that will not cause me to miss my plane, and do it with some neatness. She was digging the super neatly packed bag (the neurotically- zuni can testify i have some really neurotic tendencies) that wouldn't close when at all when she was done packing it. She then stuffed everything back inside, attempted to zip is at yelled at me when i asked to organize the stuff and zip it myself, which then caused her to decide to re-search my bag.
This resulting in tears since i knew if that bag went through baggage like that the bag would break because it was so poorly stuffed and zipped. FUCKING RUDE CUNT.

THE BAHAMAS SUCKS DO NOT GO THERE UNLESS YOU GO TO AN OUT ISLAND or do not plan on leaving your resort or going through 5 security checkpoints at the hotel i think if you take a cruise in on a day trip you would enjoy it. the airport was the worst i had ever been at (I spend a lot of time in airports...) it took over an hour to get through after we checked in- and it was not busy when we were there. we walked through 3 seperate machines in 3 different areas. and the people who worked there yelled at everyone. I couldnt wait to get on the plane. Thank god the inflight person was able to move us around so we could sit next to one another. the flight home was awesome. and neither one of us could wait to land.

We are concerned about our next planned trip around thanksgiving to aruba and already started reading about it.
I travel to a lot of places with out J and with friends from work - so it makes me sad if he and i do not have the bestest time possible together when we go away since i know we will not go away together for awhile.


as a plus, i still have 62 hours of time off to use with a rate of earning at 16 hours a month :)
a long weekend vising my family in ohio
a long weekend to Cali to go to a spa with my friend winter
a visit to Jenny in Seattle
and aruba to look forward to
and a trip to cancun to start planning for next summer