Not Fully Functional

I think I dropped the soap 4 or 5 times this morning in the shower. Good thing I'm not in prison. My phone alarm sang for 40 minutes before I was able to drag myself out of bed. Good thing it doesn't turn off after 30 minutes like my clock radio alarm. I'm pretty spent from this weekend.

Friday night the Apple folks had a going away outing for some good friends that are moving. So sad. I probably stayed out too late, because I had a big day on Saturday, but I'm a sucker for hanging out with good friends.

Saturday I had to be in the District at 8:30 am for a visit day for the school to which I was admitted. From 9-5, we had a sample of 3 classes we'd be taking, a presentation from career services, and lunch with current students. We had a little break so we could get all purdied up, and at 7pm we boarded a bus to take us on a dinner cruise on the Potomac. How cool! It was a great time. We got back at 11...and then the bus took us to a bar where the current students had gotten a $500 tab. Ridiculous. It's was like a visit weekend for undergrad...only legal. People were going nuts. I was good though, because I had to work the next day and well...drive home. But again, I'm a sucker for hanging out with friends, even if I just met them that day, so I ended up getting home at 2am.

Off to Apple at 11am Sunday. It started out a pretty typical Sunday...sufficiently busy, but nothing too bad. Then around 3pm we got SLAMMED! I was helping about 3 people at one time, while trying to find specialists for 3 additional people who wanted to buy computers. Oy.

Off at 5, then on to the next venture...sexuality education for middle schoolers. Last night's topic: Sexual orientation and gender identity. Teaching this class has been interesting. The curriculum is designed to be secular and taught anywhere, so it assumes that this session may be difficult and uncomfortable for the youth. But these are Unitarian Universalist youth...youth who have been raised to be accepting and loving of all differences. Youth who already know people of different sexual orientations and gender identities. To the question, "Have you ever seen a man dressed as a woman or a woman dressed as a man?" Most of them said, "Yes." To the question, "What did you think?" they said, "The person was doing what he or she needed to do to be him or herself." No judging or ridicule whatsoever. Of course this is wonderful and makes my job, in a way, easy. But it also makes getting them to talk and participate difficult...because they think, well, this is common sense! Oh well...I guess I'd rather have that problem than hateful youth who won't listen or accept and cherish people's differences.

After that, I stayed up late watching the Oscars...and I'm so happy Glen & Marketa won for Falling Slowly! Here is their performance from last night (with intro from Colin Farrell...ow ow!) I haven't seen any of the nominated movies, but I've seen Once (I got the DVD for my roomie for Christmas) and I listen to that song all the time. Soooo good. And they are just adorable. Take that, Enchanted!!

I hope my eyes open all the way at some point today.