it's like, you know

i'm in a very odd mood at the moment. tonight at walmart i met one of the lost boys from sudan. if you haven't seen "god grew tired of us" you should rent it. and then you will understand why my heart aches at the moment. i wanted to hug him and i wanted to cry and i wanted to just talk to him... but what do you say? i can't imagine would it be like to go through what he went through and then one day you're working at the walmart in glen allen. i can't even imagine.

i've had a challenging week. just another day and then some marketing stuff saturday morning and then i'm safe. i just need to make it through tomorrow without having any sort of freak out. today was close. ha. yesterday i had to buss tables for over 2 hours. i'm probably the highest paid busser to ever work for d&b.

we went on a segway tour of downtown richmond on tuesday. AMAZING. my favorite part was when someone asked our tour guide if they could take a picture of the segway and the guide said 'no, we're araid you'll sell it to the chinese and they'll steal the technology.' no one else laughed but i was crackin up.

richmond is a pretty amazing city. the term deadline was coined here during the civil war. and i don't get the terrible bad feelings from the buildings like i did in new orleans. anyway, learning to ride the segway was a bit of a task. after a while you totally forget you're using one but at first... yeah i was afraid to move. and if you have spent more than like 10 minutes with me out of doors you know how big of a pansy i am. but i didn't die. i didn't fall off the segway. i didn't get hit by a car. i consider it a successful evening. also, we saw the first lady of the state.

second best segway story: so i'm cruisin along with my bud and this lady was like standing on the stoop of a building (in my imagination she on a stoop though i don't think she could possibly have actually been b/c she was in front of a business) and she yells 'hey toothpick!' at which point katie stops to go talk to the lady. i think it is awesome that katie will stop to talk to someone when they yell hey toothpick at her. way to be awesome.

so tonight i got my eyebrows waxed and my hair cut. lets just say i will be wearing a baseball cap pulled down to my eyes for the next few weeks. how could they possibly both have been terrible at their jobs?!? this is what i get for being impulsive. i should have gone to godiva and bought chocolate like my original plan. but instead i just got everything on my head messed up. YAY. the good news is i will more fully appreciate my eyebrows and hair when it grows back to looking human. in the mean time i get too look like a goober.

why, exactly, do bad haircuts happen to good people? and can i call in sick of my hair? i really need some serious chocolate, a hug and a wig. what a week!