Changes

"The speech of someone in love bores everyone except the loved one." -Unknown

Well, I need to do some reading, and I need to pick out stuff for an essay topic for the essay due Wednesday..so of course I choose to stall and do an entry for my page. I'm so brilliant sometimes.

Today, I'd like to do an analysis for you of how my life's changed since I got a boyfriend (and not just the trying to get used to that term either). I figure that'll be mildly interesting, and it has been on my mind today.

Such a shame that I got a boyfriend AFTER the relative season, isn't it? I woulda finally gotten them to shut up!

My days previous to Remington went about like this:

Wake up at 8 a.m. Wash face, brush teeth, turn on the Weather Channel to see if it's gonna rain/freeze, and dress accordingly. Pick out an outfit, usually something kinda nice, earrings, necklace, sometimes a bracelet, and check e-mail and Spotfans, catch the bus at 8:30, read the paper and wait for class to start. Come back after class routine is to go check my sites, eat lunch, generally look for ways to stall around on doing homework. Sometimes I actually read the books I'm supposed to read. At night, do more homework, watch my shows, stall around on internet while doing that. Shower, wash face, brush teeth, go to bed around midnight. Exciting, huh.

This is about how my days go if I don't see Remington still, and somehow, while I get more work done, it all seems flat now.

Just to simplify things, here's how my days go when Remington has spent the night at my place:

Wake up at 8:30 if he's giving me a ride, 8 if he rode his bike over. However, we don't actually get out of bed for ten more minutes or so, stalling. I haven't washed my face in the a.m. for so long because we stall around so much that by the time we get out of bed we have time to get dressed, period. I pull on the closest clothes to me, barely manage a watch and rings, much less other jewelry. If I'm catching the bus, he goes down and waits with me, we act all lovey-dovey until it arrives. If I get a ride, we hold hands (when possible) in the car, and I get to class just as it's about to start, or later. Naturally there's some kissing goodbye =) I then go to classes and space out thinking about him.

When I'm home in the daytime, I do much the same stuff as before, but now it includes going on IRC and hoping he'll show up. Which pretty much eliminates any work I used to do in the daytime.

At night I still attempt to do homework and mess with the Internet (and write entries, albeit they all get finished later and uploaded much later) and watch my shows and shower (not skipping shaving like I'd do every other day or so), until I hear from Remington, and well, then I don't. We either go out or he comes over here and we watch a movie or mess with the computer, or uh, other stuff. Go to bed around two a.m. usually. I am getting a lot less sleep on a regular basis, but I'm too happy to notice, usually.

It's a real change to me to have something to look forward to nights besides watching Buffy/Felicity/Dawson/Friends. If we had dorm activities now I'd never go. Well, they're having some sex thing (how to sustain "intimate" relationships) on Monday that I'd like to go to, but I'll be too busy with mine to be able to go, I bet. =)

The homework, however, is suffering. I am bummed that I have a paper to do and a midterm to study for this week, and am wondering if I can get that studying done in the afternoon if I don't go on IRC (fat chance) or study while on IRC (fatter chance) so I can have him over guilt-free that night. I really don't want to NOT have him over, but on the other hand I probably won't get any work done if he's around to distract me. Can I call him at three a.m.- "I finished the paper finally, come on over!"?

Okay, I should be working NOW while he's still gone so I won't have this problem, right??? But will I? Not likely.

However, I am going to upload this entry TODAY, so it's on time for a change. But I reserve the right to come back and update it later if I hear from him =) which I hope happens =) 'cause I miss him.

Back Forth Front page Posts page

jdrutherford@ucdavis.edu

This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page