and this is why i'm a dork

I met my friend Karen for lunch today. And we were talking about life and plans and such. She was wondering if I had anything yet and I was just saying I was looking for jobs in these states and she was trying to picture where they were. She has family in New Jersey and has been the NY/NJ before and is doing a J1 this summer and will be spending her summer in the States! So me being the dork I am, pulled out a pen and grabbed a napkin and at first just drew the rough outline of the US and then just dots for NYC and Washington DC. 

And then I just drew rough outlines of the East Coast, and then since was like can you do all the states. So I quickly just started drawing boxes and as you can see my sense of scale and such, COMPLETELY off. But I never said I was an artist. So then she was started coloring, she was excited she knew the Great Lakes (though they are completely off in the drawing!) so she drew them in red. And then wanted to color Canada and Mexico and the Ocean. Then she marked places she'd been in orange and me in green hilighter. And the places she wanted to go in yellow. So then I labeled all the states with her naming the ones she could, and I was sooo mad I forgot ONE state. Stupid Missouri. I looked at it closer once I got back to work and figured it out pretty fast. But it made her laugh that in about 15 minutes I just quickly did this. 

And so exciting when around 12.30 gmail returned. The radio station we listen to at work actually said, and oh by the way gmail is back and we all went and signed in. How sad is that? 

So I still need to pack... But I know what I want to bring, I just need to actually pack it all. The weather is going to be nice mid to upper 50s and low 60s. and SUN! 

Oh, and just watched Law and Order: UK. It is a new show over in the UK. And it is obvi a British version of Law and Order. It was pretty good, though I miss the usual actors and the places that I know in NYC and actually understanding the court system. The UK one has all the solicitor/barristers (not sure of the difference between solicitor and barrister) in the wigs and such which made me giggle. Though it was nice to watch Law and Order, because I love that show. 

Ok, so my internet is driving me insane, it just stops working and won't let me go to a new webpage, like gmail still works and I can still chat, I just can't open or change windows! uuuuugh!

So maybe I really should pack?