Resurrection

Due to your many desperate requests that I bring the beloved blog back to life, here I am! Last night I was laying in bed, drunk, flat on my back, and I had this idea that when laying flat on my back in bed I felt like _____. Someone. Something. Whatever it was that is now a blank was REALLY hilarious to me, and I remember repeating it to myself like 6 times in an attempt to remember it, and I remember also thinking "This is so hilarious! This will be the first thing I write about when I start my blog again!"

Of course, I have literally no idea what it was that was so funny. I briefly thought that I should write it down, a la that episode of Seinfeld (The Heart Attack) that was on the other day with a Larry David cameo as a mad scientist on some sci-fi movie on Jerry's TV...

"Look, Sigmund. Look in the sky. The planets are on fire. It is just as you prophesied. The planets of our solar system, incinerating. Like flaming globes, Sigmund, like flaming globes!"

...but I don't usually keep a pad of paper or writing utensil handy, and I was basically on the verge of blacking out where the thought alone of actual physical movement is too much. It is really good that I had driven myself home only 20 minutes or so before passing out like that. Excellent decision making.*

Anyyyyyway, the point is, last night around 4AM, I had an amazing idea for a first post, and now I don't. So this hungover mess is my lackluster re-emergence into the world of sending out nothing to the nothing. The following items will be covered in short succession, hopefully with some illustrations:

• Croatia & Game of Thrones Season II
• Arson at the office!
• Dog on Prozac/Crazy Vet
• Halloween
• Other

Are we still friends?

*I don't condone drunk driving and I should clarify that I wasn't really drunk drunk when I drove home. I like to front load my evening with a few shots early on, and then dance a lot while holding a prop (in this case can of gross warm PBR, most of which I spilled on myself and others, and hardly any of which I actually drank) to discourage people from buying me more drinks. So really, I was just exhausted and dehydrated, which is also not a great way to drive yourself anywhere, but I was definitely within the legal driving limits! End scene.

Gone til November

I am sad to say that I will have to take an extended pause from blogging. I have this huge test coming up in October to get my professional engineers license, and I really need to get my ass in gear. First of all, it's on basically the entire gamut of fire protection engineering, which includes a lot of stuff I don't do on a regular basis, or at all. Great! Second, I haven't taken a test since like 2006, so it's going to be really rough. I used to be a test taking pro. I went to college! I was the freaking valedictorian of my high school! I knew how to cram like a pro! Is there a class you can take to re-learn how to learn?

Also, I am going on 3 weeks worth of vacation before doomsday, so I need to maximize my non-vacation time for studying. This test is actually ruining my life. Halloween this year is going to be a pathetic joke, cause a good costume requires time and many trips to goodwills and craft stores! I am depressed just thinking about missing that. But, I promise to get back to the ol' web log as soon as the life ruining is finished. I might even write a tiny tiny bit if something really earth shifting pops up, but most likely I will try to have some small amount of willpower to resist the seductive pull of the interwebs. Uch, and I just let myself get addicted to Reddit too! O the injustice!

Please say a prayer for me at your Danielle Shrine every night or morning, depending on your prayer schedule preferences, until October 25th, and 8 weeks beyond. Tell God, or whoever, that I should definitely pass, because I do NOT want to be doing this studying nonsense again, ever, preferably. Also, I like stamps with my name on them, which I would actually be allowed to get if I pass!! Ok, now it will be infinitely embarrassing if I don't pass. So announcing this to the porn hunters and bots that frequent my blog will hopefully inspire me to be really committed to avoiding the shame of "public" failure.

Thank you and goodnight until November!