lunch break blogging

today i skipped out on staff lunch to go home for some quiet time. i have to do this a couple of times a week to maintain sanity.
wednesdays i have to wear my university college explorers shirt. it's pea green with a yellow and white beatles theme. the front has a yellow submarine and the back has abbey road on it. despite the inconsistency in the "all you need is love/p.i.e" (pride, identity, empowerment) theme with covers, it's actually a pretty cool shirt. and, i like showing the students and student staff that i support what they do with their res college. anyway, today i had the genius idea to wear my wool,black, dry-clean only slacks with the t-shirt instead of khakis or non-dry clean only black slacks. i mean, i can't wear jeans to work, so i have to dress it up somehow (plus, i really, really, really like my slacks).
so, of course the first thing i did at work was spill coffee on my pants. lovely. this moment, beyond all others, with me in my pea-green t-shirt, coffee splattered slacks, grey shoes with a bow, and a harajuku lovers bag was the moment that i decided i felt like an adult.
there's something so nostalgically "grown up" about spilling coffee on yourself and afterwards being equally upset about the fact that you now have a wet coffee spot for meetings and the fact that the little amount of caffeine lost might just have been enough to keep you going for the day.

i'm reading and thinking about some fun stuff lately. about happiness, random acts of unconditional love, and how to be a better supervisor. i'll write about that later: it's time to go fight for our selection of new cas for next year.