Yeah, add me to the list.  What the heck is the point of having a blog if you don't actually update it?  Ack. 

The problem for me is I have this really sweet digital camera and I started carrying it everywhere - and I actually use it!  However, I don't want to load the photos to my laptop from work so I have to wait until I'm at home to load the photos on our home PC, and although it only takes a minute to do it, it just never happens.  Oh well.  So hopefully, in the next week you'll see some photos from my recent treks around the US and visits with my friend.

So, let's see, since the last post I've travelled to Urbana-Champaign, IL (nice people but a small city); a nice long jaunt to Charlotte for my best buddy Kate's baby shower and Mother's Day with the in-laws; Ithaca, New York - zig zag weather - 80 degrees one day and 50 degrees the next; Chicago, IL (oh my gosh - everyone should be required to see Body Worlds at the Chicago Museum of Science); Milwaukee, WI (my first trip to Wisconsin - a whole new state!) where I bought over 5 lbs of cheese (various flavors); and Seattle (for my good friends' John & Cindy Hegland's 25th wedding anniversary).  In between all of that I managed to see the play Hairspray and celebrate Drew's birthday! 

Now I'm home for about a week and a half.  I'm looking forward to actually cleaning my condo and hosting some company - my uncle Pat and his new girlfriend are coming to visit.  Pat is only 5 years older than me, so he's more like an older brother, but when we were little he used to put make-up on his face like Gene Simmons from Kiss and run around the house and scare me.  I'm still recovering.

Oh and the biggest news is my hair is dyed back to normal.  I'm now officially boring again.  I must be so mousy that United Airlines, partner of my dear beloved USAirways (where I am queen bee of the frequent flier program) decided to put me in a middle seat two rows from the back for a 5 hour flight.  And, to top it off, my friend Rachel who was with me who has no status on any airline got an aisle seat.  I hate United.  I can't wait for them to go under.  I also can't wait until I actually really look pregnant instead of just plump.

For those of you who care, I have a due date - October 22nd. 

The whole having a baby thing is pretty bizarre - since I'm not really showing yet, how do you tell people?  Or do you not say anything and can I leverage this a bit?  Like the whole middle-seat thing?  I think I have the right to - and darned right will I use that whole "expectant mother" parking spot at the grocery store when I'm wobbling, but right now, it doesn't really seem moral or ideal.

The other thing on my mind right now is my job.  It's been a year since I left the SOFT and I actually have learned a whole lot in my new job.  It has been an experience I really needed to have but there are a lot of things I'm rethinking these days.  One of them is that my manager has really committed to making me a director by the end of the next fiscal year (in February/March) but now I'm not sure if she will really do it - and if she won't then do I really want to stay here?  I need to do something more impactful - not that finding great college students jobs isn't impactful, but you know, I want to feel like I'm growing and right now I feel like I'm in groundhog's day.  Any thoughts out there?