pardon my french

dear jacs,

last night was hella stressful (i'm keen on referencing every little thing from undergrad, can you tell?), and most of today wasn't much better. i had a bunch of stuff to do at work and was bothered every 5 minutes by idiotic questions and phone calls. but, on the plus side, i got my work projects done (because it's so difficult shifting children's toys around, you know), and the rest of work wasn't that terrible. homework was a little stressful again tonight, though not nearly as bad as that statistical package last night. i just kept striking out on finding actual librarians to chat with. here's hoping they don't dock me lots of points for having to make due with an online reference librarian/public library director and a library science student manning the online ref desk...and for it being two minutes late. just two, not like last night's hour and 20 minutes. eesh. i promise, my other project will be done and turned in on time.

in other news, happy birthday, friend. if things were different, i'd probably be calling you now to tell you all this over the phone and complain about our homework. and you'd be telling me what it was like doing your practicum at the library there in tyler. if things were different...

i miss you...
i'm probably going to go have a big snot-and-tear fest in a few minutes, but that's to be expected.
and i'll call eric tomorrow. i'm sure this is even harder for him.

other updates for this week: hopefully this week i won't forget about church on wednesday night like i did last week. katie, nate, and the boys missed me (so sweet, right?). and katie said they're supposed to do caroling on friday night, so i'm definitely going to try to do that. it's been since high school (i think) that i last went caroling. if you were here, i'd force you to go, be damned all of your complaints about your singing voice not being good. who cares, it's caroling and it'll either make people happy or make them slam the door in our faces (bloody scrooges).

maybe tonight i'll dream about you again...or about eric...as long as that chatty girl isn't there again...yeesh! have a good birthday, friend.

je ne t'oublieranni jamais, ma très chère amie.

--jens