Hello to the past

A bunch of us J-school alumni went to the district 8 regional NASC competition today. It was nice to go as a spectator and not as a participant. Much less stressful, but it will be nice to know what place the U gets and weather or not they will get to go to Nationals. It was fun to see people that I worked with last year and of course running into people that you don't expect. There was a girl that I went to high school with, we danced together at a studio and on the dance team. She was competing with her school today, so it was fun to catch up. It is very weird to think that just a year ago I was interviewing and trying to make contacts with people within the advertising world and now I have already worked at two agencies. It's very odd how things end up working out. I got out of paying the $15 admission fee, but ended up getting a $25 parking ticket because I didn't want to put my dollar coin in the meter. Ahh! If you try to be cheap, it will only cost you.

Brunch stop number 3 today: Copper Dome in St. Paul. There was a hiatus last week due to Easter- for those that celebrate...
I think this stop is my favorite so far. Atmosphere was nice, not too crowded- you can show up with a party of 10 and still get a table right away. Parking not horrible, I landed a spot on the lot, so naturally it was even better. The menu was a bit intense with all the boxes it had- every menu item had a box around it. Janna wasn't having any of it. But overall it was a tasty brunch stop.

For some reason I spent the majority of last week adding a disclaimer to "Happy Easter" statements. Every time someone said "Happy Easter" I added "If you celebrate". I'm not really sure why, but I just didn't want to assume that people were going to be A). Christian or B). doing anything special. Then, earlier this week one of my co-workers that I'm not a huge fan of asked how my Easter was. I wanted to say "I don't celebrate Easter" so badly, but I refrained and just informed him that I was under the weather and did nothing. I was fully intending on celebrating the Holiday, but really didn't feel good and napped all afternoon instead. But I'm not sure why I didn't take advantage of the opportunity to say my lines when the situation was just begging for me to say it. Even as a joke it would have been good.

Okay, I feel like I need to keep moving otherwise I am going to fall asleep and be super tired to the rest of the night and that doesn't really seem like a good option. And the sun just came out and is calling my name.