Homesick

I was really feeling the pains of homesickness today. I don't know if it was triggered due to frustrations at work, the unending rain, or missing Issie and Albert. All I know is that I wanted to be home a.s.a.p.

Seeing as we still have three weeks of work ahead of us (and one amazing week of travel), I have to... just get over it.

I had a pity party for myself for about 5 minutes when I got home... journaling about how being an intern is horrendous because you have no voice, your opinion doesn't matter, and, well, you can fill in the things you would say at a self-sponsored lamentation party.

Now, I realize that I only feel bad because of this bleak attitude I have adopted (which I shall blame on the rain). So, I have plans to go in tomorrow heart afire and ready to embrace the opportunity to learn. Positive, positive, positive.

If the sun would just come out tomorrow, wait, I'm not Annie; let's move on to other things.

Jordan, Beth, Kelly, Duncan and I had a feast tonight. We finally ate the duck I got from the luncheon last week. We also had bread, potatoes, white wine and some strawberries and Nutella to finish things up. It was a delicious meal, and we all were joyfully full (a nice change).

Duncan and I went to the laundry room, as a lack of clean underwear necessitated it, and the machine, that will not even accept ten cent pieces, read the two euro coin as a ten cent piece.

More aggravation.

Maybe I should pretend to be Annie. Does breaking out into song help? It was certainly entertaining at the Catholic Evensong service.

As for our days, I am staying pretty busy at work. I got most frustrated because there was a white headline placed on top of a picture. Part of the headline was hard to read because it fell on a white portion of the photo (i.e. looked like crap). So, I suggested to my supervisor that we
put the slightest drop shadow behind the lettering (which not only solved the problem, but made the headline pop a bit), and he said, no "We don't usually do that." So even though I showed him that it did look better (and to me, there was no disputing that fact), I was shot down, the lowly intern.

Now, moving on to better things... Duncan bought a pair of pants for €10. They are quite fetching. Other than that, he says nothing much happened today. However, he did get to play in a tot-sized inflatable castle (he got the best job).

We're tired (still). So we shall be heading to bed! We love you and miss you all very much.

Give our pets extra hugs for us tonight (or in the case of Nala, give her a little wave from across the room)!

Cheers,
Whitney