subconscious soundtrack.

i just dropped stephen off at the airport. now that grad school is finally over (as of 6pm today when he turned in the infamous doug feith's final), his job is eager to get him traveling. this week it's cambridge's harvard square to interview 3 ksg profs/ambassadors. in 2 more weeks, it will be an adventurous trip to yerevan, armenia in the south caucus - lucky him. :P

i have to admit, i kind of enjoy having an evening all to myself. right now i have gingerbread men baking in the oven while i chill out on the couch in a kitty sandwich - franklin to my left, winston on the right. such sweethearts.

today was interesting day...from conquering "are you smarter than a 5th grader?" at the RSM luncheon/holiday party (quite the spread, not to mention my candied pecans - oh yum!) to finalizing the federal government's standard operating procedures on how to administer retirement (yes, it's as interesting as it sounds) to battling expectation against the fragile hope of *possibly* being able to roll-off this wretched project at the end of the month (if only!)

but through it all, one thing has remained constant - this song stuck in my head, playing on repeat! instead of the expected mariah carey's christmas classic, it's been the goo goo doll's summer hit........ah!

i think it might have something to do with the fact that stephen broke down and actually BOUGHT the transformers movie (i miss the 80s) this weekend - that along with the new harry potter. yay. our dvd collection has seriously suffered since becoming netflix members in july of 06. to celebrate, we watched the flicks again and again - y'know, to make sure they didn't "need" to be returned.

so welcome to the inner most tick-tocking of my mind...at least, for the moment. that's what blogging's for, right???