What the heck?!

Ok, so the bizzare-ist thing happened to me in the Newark airport yesterday. I had gone to the big food court and gotten a donut at Dunkin' Donuts, then plopped me and all my crap down at a table for either 4 or 6, I can't remember which it was. The little side area that I was in was pretty crowded, but there was the whole food court left with lots of open seats. So, I was happily eating my donut and decided to call KM. I'm chatting away, minding my own business when this guy walks up with his bag of McDonalds food, and sits himself down not only at my table, but right across from me!? I was sitting there with my junk all spread out on the table, talking on my phone, and he just sat down and started eating!? What the hell? I was blown away. I was sitting sideways in my chair anyway, not facing the table, so I kind of turned away more so he wasn't listening to my conversation, then somehow gathered up all my junk while on the phone and left?! I mean, hello?! I could have sorta understood sitting at the OTHER end of the table, but right across from me, whie I'm on the phone? Yeah, maybe he wanted to say hello or something, but dude, I'm on the phone, get out of my personal space. Then, I'd been reading social psych stuff all day, about social psych experiments on conformity and bystander effect, etc, and thought "oh my gosh, maybe they're doing an experiment to see people's reactions to a stranger sitting down at their table." But my word, that is the most bizzare-o thing that's happened to me in a long time!! He didn't say anything, just kinda sat there. And, since I wasn't really facing him, I couldn't really tell if he was looking at me or just eating his McDonald's or what?! It freaked me out, man!! PERSONAL SPACE BOUNDARIES PLEASE. I imagine I'd have reacted differently if I hadn't been on the phone, but who knows.

Anyway, as you can tell, I'm back from NY. It snowed a bunch Monday night, so we were all worried that we might not get out on time, but it being NY they took care of it right away. I flew on a "real" plane (big 120+ passenger) from Newark to Nashville. So that was cool. I was surrounded by tons of Mary Kay ladies, going to a conference/convention at OpryLand Hotel. Lord. Not only were they Mary Kay ladies, they were New Jersey/NYC Mary kay ladies, with their heavy Jersey accents and pounds of make up and gaudy jewelery. It was quite funny, actually. Listening to them talk about their pink cadillacs and stuff. I got into Nashville a few mins late, but Robin was just leaving when we landed so it worked out nicely. It was like a heat wave going outside after 5* temps and blowing snow!! =)

I got the doggies this am, gave them baths, and then headed off to work. Thye were not too happy with me. Oh well, I'll take them for a walk when I get home from work. I was going to get up at 7:30 and get them but I was just tooo tired to get myself out of bed.

I'm wearing my fuzzy, warm new Carolina Panthers sweatshirt that I got off of ebay. heheh. All the Titans fans are not happy! ;-) But, other than that, not a lot going on at work. I should be tallying up evaluation results, but I'm not in the mood to do that yet. In a bit, perhaps. I need another weekend to recover from this weekend. I don't want to go to class ALL day tomorrow!! Ugh.

Ok, time to pretend to get some work done.