So, Karen woke me up at 6:30 a.m. to chat. Even though at that point I had 8 hours of sleep, I was pretty delirious. The irony is I thought about calling her last night, but then, figured, oh, its probably midnight there, she'll definitely be asleep. I don't remember the first 15 minutes of our conversation (must've been the haze of me in the morning - Karen should expect that after all those years of living with me!!). Anyway, it was fun to talk with her, I've been really slack in letter writing/phone calls lately. I need to get back on the ball. She must've been really nervous about her big presentation today, but she didn't sound that way. So, I hope it goes well.

We talked until about 7:30, which is when I would normally wake up and ready myself for work. Then I realized all my pants were in the washing machine and needed to be dried. I managed to throw one pair in on super-high-plastic melting heat and made it here by 8:30. This is good, today is going to be a busy day. I am going to go sit in the back room of mission control during the shuttle's entry and landing today! How cool is that!? And on the next mission, I am going to sit in for launch.

In the meantime, I have one day left to prepare my intern pitch to be reviewed by my boss. Why oh why do excel charts look SO bad on powerpoint? I also have to go back to a little piece of code I was avoiding writing for the last couple of days.

While we were on the phone, Apache was in rare form, managing to go on my carpet not once, but twice. And she barked at me like a mad dog almost the entire conversation. The little bitch! I feel bad, having abandonned her to the posh expensive kennel on the horse farm all weekend. BUT, I don't feel that bad. Anyway, I dropped her off in a friend's backyard for the day, so that should wear her out (the two dogs were chasing each other in circles, they didn't even see me leave).