I did something selfish and took a long weekend. And it was really selfish of me, because taking it meant that I had to leave town without finishing the community newsletter. And that's practically scandalous behavior for me. Even when I was in Egypt I managed to get everything for the newsletter taken care of. I don't know if my recent bought of crabbiness would account for it, but I'm not really feeling all that responsible right now. So I took off with a, "Sorry, someone else will have to finish this." I'm never that irresponsible.

Which might explain how it came back to bite me on the butt over the weekend. I took my lazy attitude with me to Iowa, and ended up fouling up the whole weekend. Don't get me wrong, I still had a good time. But there were some very tense moments that could have been avoided if I had been behaving like my normal self. Case in point: directions. If I am going someplace strange I normally take directions with me. Not this past Friday however. Friday I decided my super librarian powers would allow me to remember directions I had looked at on Tuesday. Yeah, I think you all know where this is going.

We had decided to visit the Victorian Manor in Geneseo on our way to Princeton (Illinois). To be fair we had driven to Geneseo before, so it seemed logical that one of us would remember the way. We didn't and got spectacularly lost. And we both knew we were lost, but both of us were unwilling to acknowledge it. So we just kept driving until a big sign that said Welcome to Galesburg acknowledged it for us. Yeah. Not a good thing.

You would think I had learned my lesson, right? Wrong. On Saturday we took off (not needing directions as we had been where we were going before) without pertinent pieces of information like would the place we were going actually be open when the got there or would the place be open at all.

I'm in a funk that I need to snap out of. I've got way too many important things coming up (referendum, new class, teleconference, RT, etc.) to have such a laissez-faire attitude. I need an attitude adjustment fast.

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