An Awkward and Awesome Start to September

Hell hath no fury like this bird scorned.
Look at that stink eye he's shooting my way.

Awkward

• Getting bested by a hawk.  This bird does not like me unless I’m feeding him.  And when I’m not feeding him, he wants to rip my eyeballs out and eat them.  After a long, long morning of trying to win this bird over, only to have him try to attack me again and again, I stormed off into the other room like a five-year-old, tears in my eyes.  YES.  TEARS.  IN.  MY.  EYES.  Damn you, bird!  You WILL NOT make me cry.  But he almost did.  Thank God no one was around and I had a few moments to compose myself.
• The spider in my margarita.  And then the spider on my chimichanga.  Okay, am I attracting spiders or is this something I should inform management about?
• My hair when I work out.  It sticks out in sixteen different directions and my bangs plaster to my forehead.  Okay, really just my whole self when I work out.  I sweat like none other.  In five minutes I look like I jumped in a swimming pool.  Ew.  And then on Tuesday, while working out, I thought I saw an old teacher I had a crush on.  Not a good place for a reunion.  “Oh, hey…*pantpant*…how are you?...*pantpant*…That’s good…*wipessweatoffhead*…I used to have a crush on you in high school…*pantpant*”  No.  Just no.
• This conversation with a creepy man at a coffee shop.
• Me: [texting on phone]
• Man [creeping up behind me]: That’s a small screen.
• Me: Yeah…
• Silence, then the man walks away.  Ummm…okay…

Awesome

• Finally sorting through the fifty-five million piles of paperwork from school that have been taking over my closet floor since the beginning of summer.  I think they may also have been breeding because I don’t remember having THIS much paperwork to go through.  But regardless, these papers are now nicely sorted into file folders and stored away.  Yay!
• I’m writing consistently! Well, sort of consistently.  But I am writing, and that’s more than I can say for much of this summer where I was a lazy, non-writing bum.
• My new Snap Fitness gym membership.  Though I am leaving for England in 3 weeks (yikes!) I decided to get their $9 30-Day Trial Pass.  I’ve worked out three times in four days, which way more than I’ve worked out in the past four years.  Yay me!
• Taking 4^th place out of 10 teams at trivia.  Not bad, Jolly Judgez!, not bad.
• Buying three sweaters from Value Village for $7.  One was an American Eagle cropped cardigan and one was a cashmere sweater from Banana Republic!  Success!
• Coming home to find a letter for me in the mail sent by my dear friend Michael.  The boy doesn’t write me for years, then breaks his finger and decides to hand write me a two and a half page letter (The other half of the page was taken up by an X-ray of his broken finger.  Awkward and awesome, Michael. J).  I was so excited and happy and can’t wait to write him back.