Is it Monday yet? I want it to be Monday. :P Monday? Hello? Is it Monday yet?

*gets a spitwad right between the eyes*

Right, yeah, so um, yeah. It's been a decent weekend. Wednesday didn't start out terribly well, I was feeling stressed and anxious all day, but I knew all I needed was for Joe to get there, and I was right about that. Once he came in I felt SO much better and the day ended up being awesome. It was the day before our 'first month anniversary' and we celebrated it then because I was gone on Thursday. Wow, okay, I will never forget that afternoon. If you ask real nicely I might tell you what I got, but I think it suffices for this thing to say that it was incredibly special and sweet and romantic and one of the most thoughtful presents I've ever gotten. :) *dreamy sigh* Thanks babe. You're the best. :)

So yeah, and then we went to Wendy's and Joe tried to get Frosty all over my face. Luckily all he succeeded in doing was covering his nose in honey mustard. ;) Muahaha. And then we went to the 100 House and played Life! I haven't played that game in years! It's a lot different from the last time I played it too. It was fun, but kinda... well I dunno. It wasn't quite the walk down memory lane I was hoping for, I mean it was SO different, I dunno, kinda strange! Now I kinda wanna dig out the old version and compare the two. :) Maybe when I go home next weekend.

So yeah, then I ended up staying up all night Wednesday and ranting about some stuff that I just really needed to get off my chest, I guess. Things that have been building up for a really long time without my even paying much attention to them. I'd like to say they're all resolved now, but I know they aren't. I know I can't forgive and forget quite yet... I know I need to and I know I will. I think what I need is to get out of this house. That will cut all the remaining ties and really let me start fresh, and then I can seriously move on. Only three weeks left. :)

Thursday I spent asleep in a van on the way to Rhode Island. That was a good thing, because Ziya was driving and when Ziya's driving it's really better if you don't watch. He makes me really nervous. So I slept the whole way there, and then we checked into the hotel and then had dinner and then I watched Friends and went to bed by 9:30. :)

Friday morning was the programming competition. It was half an hour late getting started, and then we ended up really not doing very well. We got two problems done, and two pretty well done, and one that was originally done flawlessly (at least the algorithm was flawless, and I can say this because I wrote it, but anyway it's true) except it took too long to run on large inputs. *sigh* Damn stack overflow. So we ended up not getting that one at all because we took too long trying to figure out a non-recursive way to do it, and believe me that's frustrating when you know you have a flawless recursive algorithm! Ah well. Really, once it was over I was like, whateva. Time to check my email (I had two new messages... actually 46, but only 2 of them were from Joe). ;) That would have been cooler if I'd had a little more time to read and reply, but it was still very nice. :) Made my morning at least! So then we had lunch, went to a talk, and then sat around the dining room at Rhode Island College while the conference went on around us. I, being the productive girl that I am, pulled out my Combinatorics homework and spent the whole afternoon working on that, and got approximately 9 of 10 questions done! And it's not due till Wednesday! I was proud of myself, although I was a dork (actually, when I did this on the way back from the cruise Adam said I was a good girlfriend... so I'll go with that) and I had a certain little angel bear from a certain someone, and a picture of aforementioned someone, propped up by my homework, ispiring me to do it. :) Well it was either combinatorics or listening to Adam and Ziya dwelling on the programming competition for the entire day. God, talk about driving me nuts. ;) And then when I'd gotten through all of the combinatorics that I knew how to do, I went to the single terminal that they had set up in the corner for the checking of email, and checked my email again. (Had an e-card that time. *big grin*) Didn't have time to reply though, because some dorky people came over, discovered there was only one computer, said loudly "Well I guess we'll have to wait until this frees up", and then stood there... watching me. GAH. So I got up. :P Went back to our table, had dinner, watched some other teams collect the $100 prize for winning the programming contest, and then we went back to the hotel, where Adam came to visit Becky (who was sharing a room with me) and they decided to have couple story time. Which is cute and all but when you're in RI and your boyfriend is in NY it's rather depressing to be stuck hanging out with cute couples. Ya know? :)

I'd spent the previous day debating on whether to call Joe from Rhode Island, and had concluded that I would call him if we won. Or at least made the top 3. Well we came in tenth. But then as I said before, Adam came over, and that decided me. I ended up having to find a pay phone, but I called and he answered and it was bliss. :) We talked for two and a half hours. ;) I kept feeding quarters into the silly thing and then at the end decided to wait until it cut off... and then it didn't cut off. ;) So I had to hang up. But still... it was lovely. It's cool how just the sound of a voice can totally make your day. I was firmly seated back up on our cloud when I went back up to bed. It didn't even bother me that Adam slept over (it did bother me a little when I could hear them kissing after I turned off the tv, but whatever). ;)

And that, ladies and gentlemen, was our first actual telephone conversation. ;) Hehe.

Which brings me up to this morning... breakfast, checkout, and then on the road again. I realized pretty early on that it wasn't going to be possible to do my homework in the van, because it was bouncing too much to write legibly. So I napped for like an hour, and then I wrote Joe a letter for 5 hours (not quite continuously) that took up 3 pages front and back. ;) That was kinda fun actually. I gazed at the windmills as we drove by Canastota, and a few hours after that I waved to Joe's car as we passed the Bob Evans in Hamburg... talk about frustrating. ;) The one person I actually wanted to see right then, 500 feet from the highway, and I couldn't go say hello. *growl*

And now I am here. NOT doing my homework, as usual. But I WILL. Cuz I HAVE to. :)

Monday is only 2 days away..... ;)