Not just any ol' Thursday

So I have nothing to do today. No class, no teaching. My students have an exam this week, so we're not meeting between the exam days. (The exam is in two parts on two days.) To top that off, my Russian professor is in Russia for a conference, so he had cancelled class for the past week and a half (to be made up at a later date, unfortunately). What all this means is that I have no responsibilities today. Just sit in my cozy apartment, which I have all to myself, watch a litle cable, do a little cleaning, drink a little tea. Perfect. I don't even get weekends like that anymore since those are the days I work at the mall! Ahhhh. Bob and I will be going to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Krannert this evening, and will go out for a little dinner before hand. So I'll have time to make myself all cute for that too. Just perfect! It happens to be a sunny day, albeit quite cold and windy. So while it's lovely to look outside, it is definitely better to be inside rather than out.

Here's my view from my couch. Yes, it's a bit bright, but all I have is a cameraphone. Blech.



HA! Murphy's Law. Lane Bryant just called and asked if I could come in this afternoon to work. Tehcnically, yes. But after all this joyful elabortation about my day off, there is no way in hell I'm going in! So I lied and gave them my usual schedule. I have a feeling it was just one of the most useless managers on the planet calling me in (I'm a relief manager) so she could take the afternoon off herself. She's queen of excuses. Always has a "headache," never does any work. Useless. We all think that she needs to go, but she's been difficult to get rid of. LB policy is such that you can't just fire them without multiple documented violations. She hasn't done anything that bad...she's just lazy and useless...should NOT be in retail, should NOT be in customer service of any sort! Okay, this rant is starting to ruin my lovely afternoon. Enough.

I am starting to enjoy these bloggified rants. I used to do this sort of thing in word documents while procrastating/dreading a paper. Without the paper, this is really quite enjoyable! But as for now, I've just found a movie OnDemand to watch (Prime), so I'll put the laptop down for a spell to watch it. I'm sure I'll be back tonight!