Post-Schna-ulations

I'm...taller???

This morning I took the opportunity to go have a free health screening offered to me by my employer. I was amazed at the organization with which the event proceeded (typically, things around here are a gaggle#&*!). Good news is, overall, I'm basically healthy. Yeah, go me! The slightly disturbing news (that I have been trying to deny for the past year) is that I'm not 5'0" anymore. Apparently I have soared into the towering realms of 5'1". I can deny it no longer. Oddly enough, this happened sometime within the past two years. Who knew I would stop growing at 16, only to sprout an extra inch at 24 or 25? On the plus side, I now have that extra inch to shrink as I age, before I have to dip below the 5' mark into the dreaded 4's.

Hmm...here are some of my other interesting experiences from the past couple of days that just aren't interesting enough to get more than a brief mention:
- I almost got run over by a DHL truck running a red light.
- One block later, I almost got run over by some stupid girl trying to turn left through a crowd of people.
- Someone waved me across the street in front of them, and as I was trying to walk quickly (so as not to be one of those irritating people who walks REALLY slow when waved by) my heel landed on a dip and tipped, causing me to stumble and nearly fall on my ass. To make it more embarassing, I was observed by two men waiting at the bus stop. To their credit, they waited to laugh until I was well out of earshot.
- I have decided my favorite insult of the week is crotch pheasant.
- I found the perfect grad school program, but it's out of the country (and I can't afford it).
- I picked up another playing gig in December in the pit of an opera that is very oboe-friendly. Very excited.
- Pancho went three days (and counting) without barfing.
- I bought and wore a pair of maroon(ish) pants and I LIKED IT!
- I'm reading an excellent book at the moment that is reminding me why I got into this field in the first place.
- I sent an email letter to my Congressman.

Terribly exciting, no?

posted by Schna @ 10:27 AM