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Busch Gardens

I was exhausted on Monday night so I decided to stick with swing instead of going to belly dance. This way I’ll be encouraged to attend every week.

Yesterday was lecture day. We had a speaker who is somehow associated with TEDx NASA. She spoke about the future of aviation, which was actually very interesting. A great speaker. I then spent the afternoon impatiently awaiting getting off work for the trip to Busch Gardens.

We arrived and got our tickets (which was much easier than anticipated) then rode roller coasters for most of the night. Well…my companions rode roller coasters. I spent most of the night sitting while they waited in line and rode, but managed to have fun for most of the night. I got home, showered, and slept like a log.

This morning, I decided to wear my long jeans and Vera Wang heels, which was an unwise decision since my feet hurt today after the evening of amusement park walking.
I had to go get my press release photo taken at 10.15, which was frustrating because I hate getting my picture taken, but ended up not too bad.
Spent the morning doing very little then headed to the Nav Center after lunch where we discussed focus groups and brainstorming sessions. The Nav Center is the creativity building for the Center. It’s actually very cool and surprising considering the nerdiness of NASA.
At lunch, Amanda and Courtney were at a fancy luncheon with a bigwig from the whole NASA organization so we missed out on eating with them. And Jake and Trevor had their awkward luncheon with Debbie Murray but came over to say hello briefly and mentioned having dates, which was very exciting for me because it’s gossip and I LOVE gossip. I then spent an hour trying to get the scoop before they claimed that they had no idea what was going on. Anger!

Now I’m wasting time until work gets over and I go sit outside while others play volleyball. Pretty boring. But I have two pictures from Busch Gardens:

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Solitude…

This past weekend was my glorious weekend of solitude. Roommates left late in the afternoon for DC and I proceeded to spend the next several days (until 8.45 Sunday night) lazing. I slept, webcam chatted with Brandon, laid on the floor (in various positions) either listening to music or silence, watched some television, and pretty much enjoyed doing nothing. Saturday afternoon, Trevor and Jake came over and sort of entertained me for a couple hours, which was a nice break from the solitude. Watched the US lose soccer to Ghana. I kept thinking the announcer was saying “gonads”, but it turns out he was saying “Ghanaians”. lol British accents.

Roommates got home on Sunday night, so we went to have a welcome back dinner thing for them and Ryan, who has been on vacation for a week. Trevor made coconut shrimp curry (which Ryan said smells like Engineering since all the Indian engineers always smell like curry. lolracism) that I didn’t try because I dislike coconut and shrimp and spicy foods make me sick. Courtney brought Trevor her keyboard from home and he ‘regaled’ us with various songs, including Elton John. woot. [enthusiasm level of woot: 4 of 10].

Today, we still have nothing to do, but we’re supposed to be getting a new intern in our office next week named Alexis. She’s a high school student. Very exciting. Tonight is belly dancing (I’ve officially decided to switch from swing) and tomorrow is possibly Busch Gardens (I haven’t decided whether to go or not).

Over the weekend, Brandon revealed that his dad is sponsoring a trip for him to Hampton to come visit me, so he’ll be over here sometime in the next couple weeks. YAY!

This is pretty much the most boring update yet.

I was planning on purchasing a camera, but have yet to send my checks home so I have to wait until I get money in my account to buy one. But! until then, I have a lovely image of a sculptural interpretation of the NASA Meatball found here on Center:

NASA Meatball Sculpture