I just cancelled my Friendster and MySpace accounts.
I don’t use them - why keep them?

And, honestly, a lot of the “strangers” contacting me to “meet people” were just trying to add to their hundreds of friends and/or just gross and creepy. So I’m done with that.

Anyway - these last few days have been pretty busy, even though I’ve been leaving work early. Almost everyone at the office is down in Florida for a conference and I truly don’t have enough to keep me occupied for 8 hours a day for 5 days. I get stuff done and when it comes to the point where I would be playing “Bejeweled” or “Collapse” on the msngames.com, I wrap up and leave. About 3:00 each day.

Thursday was my haircut. I like it a lot.
Friday was nothing in particular. OK.
Saturday I had dinner at the diner with my friends after they attended the March for Peace in Manhattan.
Sunday we celebrated my little brother’s birthday, even though his actual birthday is today. He has final research papers and exams to study for, so he couldn’t take time off for dinner tonight. But we made two very tasty birthday cakes for him, and I think he was pretty happy.
Today I brought him a happy birthday pizza from a very good pizza place in Hoboken.

Tomorrow, I am going to go to my co-worker’s apartment and hang out with her. She’s leaving the company in May and moving to another state to pursue her PhD, so we’re going to have some bonding friendship time before then.

Friday night is my sister’s senior thesis art exhibition at her college. She’s graduating later this month and seniors majoring in fine arts put together an art exhibit instead of writing a senior thesis paper, etc. I’m excited to see it. She’s very good, and I’m not just saying that.

This weekend, I am going to upstate New York with my friends Kofi and Theresa to see Theresa’s nephew in a play. We’re going to go to a museum and enjoy a nice weekend away in general… so that’s going on.

Otherwise, I’ve been thinking a lot - and not in a bad way. I’ve also been feeling mildly crappy since my father reminds me every day how few days are left until our departure for Poland and Tunisia and how I’m not going to be in good condition by that time. Ugh. I have been hitting the treadmill, but only because I am done with classes now and I finally have the time.

I also got my copy of Kingdom Hearts 2 (for my PS2) and have been playing that a little bit here and there when I can’t sleep. I take my sleeping pills too, but until they kick in, I play the video game. Last night, I took the pills and was horribly dizzy this morning. I’m not sure why, but it passed after I laid back down for 20 minutes. I just had to drive into work as a result.

Thursday is my follow-up with the orthopedist again about my wrist. It’s been hurting me more than usual lately since I hit it against things pretty hard this weekend… not on purpose. I take off my wrist brace only to shower and wash my hands. So, of course, I was towel-drying my hair and when I flipped my head over, I lost my sense of balance for a second and had to steady myself against the bathroom counter. Unfortunately, I used my left hand (the injured/painful one) and my hand didn’t quite grasp the counter. I slammed it against the counter and started crying because it hurt so much. It wasn’t the impact that hurt, but the bone being pressed beyond the point where it stops moving now. That’s due to some arthritis I’ve developed in that wrist - which doesn’t scare me as much as I thought it would since arthritis is inflammation of a joint. It doesn’t mean I’m forever cursed… surgery might help me yet.

Anyway - yeah. Things have been moderately crappy in general, but I’m trying to remain a little more positive than usual since I already used up my depression points for the spring in the first three weeks of April. No more for me until June.

Oh! Another new discovery. I found a cool site for making custom t-shirts - better than Cafe Press because they can print on dark-colored t-shirts with no problem. Sweet! It’s called Spreadshirt.com and I just ordered three shirts from there - one for Theresa, one for LJ and one for myself.

It’s not exactly bedtime yet, but I think I want to play my video game a little. As I mentioned a few days ago, this game is like CRACK. In the addictive way, not in the illegal substance way.