An Ending and Some Excitement

As I only have 2 Sundays left working with Joe, I almost feel like it's the end of a part of my life. Not that I won't continue working with people with developmental disabilities, since I'm pretty much committed to that now...but I'm struggling with my decision to leave, even though I know it's the right one--I will miss working with him. Today for example, we went to the planetarium for their new show on NASA, which was pretty fun.  If you feel moved to see it, there is a pretty hilarious shot of one of the Apollo 16 astronauts trying to jump up and down on the moon and falling over...

HOWEVER, even though we had a good time today, I got home exhausted and am going to end up having to get up super early in the morning to work more on my paper/presentation (which is tomorrow...at least it will be over).  

I'm getting pretty psyched about Brian's birthday next weekend--I have all sorts of stuff planned. For example, we're going to see the Dead Sea Scrolls (should that be capitalized? Clearly Dead Sea should be, as it is a proper noun, but i'm not sure about S/scrolls...anyway) at the Natural Science museum, as I promised him we would do back in the summer when I found out they were there. Then we're going to his favorite restaurant, 518 West, for lunch (as I recall, we went to its Chapel Hill equivalent, 411 West, for his 21st birthday and I bought him his first glass of legal wine...ah, good times).  Then, i'm cooking dinner (quiche lorraine and Tollhouse pie, his choice) and we're going to see the new Bond movie, as we both love Bond and have gone to see all the movies together that have come out since we started dating (I think that's only 3...although we have watched a couple more on DVD, one which we accidentally watched twice because we weren't actually watching the first time, if you get my gist. And can I just say, Die Another Day is not only the dumbest Bond movie ever, but the dumbest movie ever, period. Halle Berry sucks as a Bond girl, and Madonna needs to get over the fact that she is not really British). I'm hoping it's good, as I was a bit disappointed in Casino Royale...I get that they're trying to start from the beginning of Bond, but why is Judi Dench still M? And where are Q and Moneypenny???

I hope we don't get lost in downtown Raleigh, as I am prone to do, and miss some of that--i'm also planning on cooking breakfast Sunday morning, and then going to Mass with him before work, so I can yell "It's Brian's 24th birthday today!!!" when they ask for announcements.  I'm pretty much more excited about it than my birthday. Especially since I get to go see a movie in the theater for the first time since August..it's about time.