it snowed last night about 4 inches here in north carolina. most businesses are closed…well, most except the one *I* work in, of course. not that i’m complaining. there wasn’t much to do at the hotel and i don’t have to drive anyway, so not much to do or say. i’m waiting to see if my flight is going to be delayed. we’ll see.

people are freaking out here, though, about the snow. north carolina doesn’t get too much snow, but when they do, everything seems to come to a halt. it’s silly. yesterday, it was snowing, but no snow was accumulating anywhere. but everyone was freaking out. businesses were shutting down, restaurants were closed, everyone was hiding out in their homes because the treacherous snow might kill you. just maybe. be careful! watch out! the snow! aaaaaaaaaaaaugh.

but it is kind of cool to be able to see the snow. we had some slipping and sliding on the way to work today. brought back some scary memories of when i lost control while driving in the snow.

but, i’m about 4 hours away from getting to the airport and going home. let’s hope that the flight isn’t delayed…or if it is, that i know that it’s delayed BEFORE i leave for the airport. i hate waiting at the airport. it is the worst thing to do.

i haven’t had pearl tea all week. it’s a very weird feeling. i think one of the first things that i’m going to get when i go home is a pearl tea drink. it may even be a stop on the way home from the airport, if i could swing things that way.

it’s getting to be the last day of work here, and i guess things have moved along pretty well. it’s surprising to see snow, which is pretty cool. oh, i should go and take some pictures of that. i haven’t really transferred pictures over to anything, so they are all being stored up on the camera.

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i saw a bunch of stores while on my drive back to the hotel that i was surprised at. there was a brick and mortar tigerdirect.com store, a dick’s sporting goods store, and some other store i can’t remember, but they have a strong online presence, but no brick and mortars back at home.

i guess it made me realize how different of a place this is here. i guess the first thing that’s really different is that people, in general, are just nicer. there’s just a warmer, fuzzier feeling going on here.

i don’t know. it’s nice out here, but there is something about home that i miss. maybe it’s my internet connection. whatever the case, my stay here is half over and i think that it’ll be nice to come back to san jose and sleep in my own bed.

speaking of which, the sheets and blankets that are supplied by the hotel are very thin and not very warm. i made the mistake of turning off the heater last night before going to bed and i woke up this morning a little cold. i guess i’ll just leave that heater on from now on. so much for trying to conserve energy.

it doesn’t seem like people really conserve much out here. people don’t walk anywhere, they drive. i haven’t really seen any recycling bins anywhere, either. i wonder if it is only the bay area where you see so much of that.

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i have no internet access at the hotel, so whatever access to the internet i have is restricted to the office. this is usually not a bad thing, except that i am quite busy here at the office so my time in front of my computer is actually pretty limited. grrr.

it’s not nearly as cold here as i thought that it would be, but it turns out that it may snow on thursday. i hope that this doesn’t mean that my flight will be delayed or cancelled. that would be truly horrendous. oh well.

so far my stay here has been pretty good. north carolina is much like how i remembered it. it feels like a more rural version of home. more trees.

the one thing that kills me about north carolina is the lack of crosswalks. i don’t think that people walk anywhere here. it just doesn’t happen. so there are busy intersections and i can’t cross them in my hobbling state because…you know…NO CROSSWALKS.

sheesh.

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i’ll be in north carolina all of next week on a business trip. this has been complicated slightly by my recent ankle injury. it has been feeling a lot better recently, though. right now i’m hobbling around on one crutch.

so i’m trying to compile a list of all of the things that i need to bring for my trip. i always get really paranoid whenever i am about to go on a trip. i always think that i’m going to forget something.

oh well, off to my list.

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it kills me! this whole ross/rachel thing on friends drives me crazy, but i love it. but i really like to see the struggle that they go through. i guess i like it because it’s almost a forbidden love. two people, torn by their desires and restraints have to come to resolution with what they ultimately cannot do.

when rachel left ross with “it’s never off the table with us” a whole new world of possibility opened up.

would i have had such restraint if rachel threw herself at me if i was ross?

hardly. =P

is it possible for two people to spend too much time together? is it healthy to spend every waking moment together? or perhaps the better question should be is it unhealthy to spend every waking moment together?

i think that the answer to this question is really dependent on the couple. some couples love to spend every waking moment with each other, while others like to have some kind of alone time to do their own thing, say with their own friends.

for me, i think that i like to have some personal time alone. it’s not that i would do anything special, but it is something that i like to have from time to time. i know of couples that spend all of their time exlcusively with each other and then when one has to go away the other seems lost because they don’t really know of a life outside of the other person.

different things work for different people. i guess we just have to find what works best for us.

so last night i decided to venture out there and watch my tuesday night volleyball team play…without me. to occupy some times, i decided to bring my camera along and take pictures of some of the action. i shot exclusively with a borrowed canon 50/1.8 and i’ve decided that i need that kind of speed to shoot anything in low light. so that being said…

i think that i’m going to order myself a copy of this lens. it’s cheap, it’s fast, and i think it’ll complement my collection quite well.

it was quite an ordeal getting around. i guess you never appreciate even the most basic of things until you lose them. this inability to walk freely is really cramping my style.

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when i woke up this morning, i was in an excrutiating amount of pain. it hurt bad. last night as i was playing volleyball, my left foot slipped under me and i rolled my ankle. it had swollen up to the size of my fist and it was rather frightening to see it like that.

it didn’t hurt as much last night, but this morning, i had every intention of going to the doctor’s office to get it checked out, but as i tried to get out of bed, the pain was overwhelming. it hurt so bad, that i wasn’t sure if i could even make it to the bathroom. i hobbled back quickly into bed after taking some tylenol and i’ve been bed-bound since.

the pain has subsided quite a bit, so i think i’m going to try and wash up and go to the doctor’s office now.