Wow.
It doesn't get much busier than this. I've barely had any time to waste recently which is totally out of the ordinary. Yesterday couldn't have been more strange though. I woke up at 8.15 feeling sick enough to want another 45 minutes of sleep which is totally uncharacteristic of me. I've been semi-sick recently and I hadn't had an excellent record of sleep and they're never good together. Anyway, I ended up taking a later train in to work (it only gets me there 15 minutes later but I take the earlier one almost always). It was an absolutely beautiful day, sunny and 60° at 9.30 AM, and while walking to the train that I almost missed (it was 2 minutes EARLY, how uncommon!), I was about to cross Alma when a hawk (I really don't know - a predatory bird, at least) came out of this small wooded area and swooped past me at eye level with something large in it's claws. Not really something I see every day.

I ended up having quite a bit to do at work so I was there until 7.30 when I left to take the train home. By this point it's actually raining and not as nice as it was in the morning and so naturally, the train is 55 minutes late. I would have gone back to the office to work some more if I had known this but Caltrain enjoys denying problems until they're blatant. 25 minutes after the train was supposed to show up, we get an anouncement that the train is 20 minutes late. This soon escalates in to a 40-45 minute delay which causes it to rain harder. Finially, Caltrain decided to give us a 'worst-possible' number and we got an hour-to-hour-and-a-half announcement which, needless to say, really pissed people off. Luckily enough, 50 minutes after the train was originally supposed to arrive we again learned that it was 55 minutes late. Amazingly, this was true.

So I didn't get home until 9 last night and I ended up picking up my first shipment from Netflix out of my mailbox on the way in. What did I get as my first three movie-rentals-by-mail you ask? The original Star Wars trilogy, of course! I watched Episode IV last night, V tonight and with any luck I'll watch VI tomorrow. I haven't seen them all in so long and I don't recall ever actually sitting down to watch them rather than just seeing them on TV or whatever. I'm one of those people that Netflix actually looses money on because I can watch a movie just about every night of the week - if I get my send/receive cycle going I can probably get a new movie 6 days a week :) Fortunately, I don't have that many movies I want to watch and I won't continue my one-movie-a-night timetable past tomorrow night.

Lastly, I won't be back to Philadelphia this winter (not for the holidays at least) and it doesn't bother me too much. I was really excited for the get-together than Ian was setting up for a ton of our old actor friends (read: people I haven't seen in years) but that invite hasn't even gone out yet so I question if it'll actually happen. I was thinking about what it would be like to see them all again and getting incredibly nostalgic. I went so far as to listen to Semisonic's Feeling Strangely Fine which brings back oh-so-many memories. It seems especially strange to think of how everyone lives now since I imagine most of them are in college or living on their own.

At any rate, I know a lot of people don't have any time and/or money but I'd be happy to have *any* of my friends come out to California and visit. It's only a matter of time before I get you all out here! Except for Tom. He seems to really enjoy the winter in NYC. Masochist.