big day!

Today was the last day of my summer job. I worked for the Border Policy Research Institute and the Whatcom Council of Governments. First I hung out at the border attached to a laptop or a PDA collecting data. Then I was thankfully chosen to clean the data and make pretty graphs out of it. I've spent last couple of weeks knee deep in a database. But--a plus, I've learned some stuff about Access and I have another reference for my resume.
Today is also the day Walker's wife Kadie's water broke! There's going to be a Wee Walker any minute, I can feel it!
Today we also continued the cleaning of the house. Bryant's mom is coming for a visit and that's a good excuse to deep clean. Lord knows the apt needs it and we won't do it on our own. Today was vacuuming and folding clothes. These tasks also entailed stacking magazines and old mail (hey! there that is!) and Bryant vacuuming so hard he broke a...thing, it doesn't really have a name. Now it is a thing without a lid.
TOMORROW is a bigger day. I am starting my internship at Burlington-Edison High School. I wasn't feeling nervous until today when Jen asked me if I was going to be wearing a suit. A suit?! No one is going to be there except the counselors and maybe secretaries. Then she said I needed to impress people-and I agree. So I mentally reorganized my day to fit a trip to the blasted mall to find a suit. I emailed others to get a second opinion--Kath, a teacher in the school next to mine said hell no! I like that answer. So I came home and picked out my second best outfit next to a suit--nice grey pants and a black button front shirt, black socks with grey circles and black danskos. I even de-linted or whatever it's called the shirt. I continued cleaning, showered and settled down with a beer to check out the McKinney-Vento act that was mentioned in an email from my supervisor when my phone rang. It was Laural, my supervisor. She just wanted to let me know NOT to dress up tomorrow (a HUGE phew on my part) and that wearing shorts/capris and a nice shirt was just fine. woot.
And tomorrow Joan gets here. Kath let her crash at her house so she doesn't have to get a hotel so Rick gets a roommate for a few nights. We're thinking we'll cook out over there later on.
The rest of the week will be spent in OR.