odd

After having an odd dream last night about grocery shopping with TJ, I woke up knowing today was gonna be weird.
I headed upstairs and had breakfast, which my mother was nice and made for me, when she decided to bring up the 4th of July.
"What are you doing for it?"
"Why?"
"Because Dick and I are talking about joining you by TJ's family for it this year."
I requested, as we had discussed a couple of months ago, that she travel across and visit TJ's family with me, without the boyfriend attached to her hip, before she make the trek with the sig other. She seemed offended at this request, and got all huffy on me. After my practical explanation of wanting to take a trip with my mother alone, much like she's been doing every other weekend with Dick, she angrily slapped the calendar down on the table and said "Fine, find a weekend that will work."
She apparently thinks that going there a month earlier than the 4th is too soon. I never accused this woman of ever making sense...
After finding a perfect weekend (memorial day) and presenting it to her, I got a reserved "oh" from her and left for school.
I got to campus early in order to copy some notes down from a prof for a test I have in his class tomorrow. Yes, it's very last minute, but I didn't realize I was missing them until yesterday. I'll make sure to start studying a little farther before the next test... He didn't show up until 15 minutes after the time I said I'd be there. Ok, cool, is there a copy machine on the floor that I can just make a copy? He said no, that I'd have to go to the next building to do that. Ok, so I run over to the student union-type place and get my 17 cents worth of copies, run back in and up the 3 floors to get back to his office and notice, lo and behold, a copy machine 2 doors down from his office. That was mildly frustrating, but I figure that in as my aerobic workout of the morning.
I then droned through my morning classes, the 2nd of which involved a 50-something year old non traditional student ramble on and on about cow shit and how it's bad for the environment, yada yada. I agree, I don't like factory farms either and am trying to wean myself way down on meat consumption, but this woman was repeating herself for an entire half hour, mainly on the adverse effects of cow shit.
On my walk through campus after class, I encountered anti-abortion activists with pictures of dead babies, and a man yelling about how nobody cares. I was tempted to yell back something to just joke with the guy, but didn't out of fear that he might get even scary.
Pleasant. Now it's lunchtime and I can't bring myself to eat the brown chicken fried rice I had waiting for me...
Hopefully my work shift doesn't suck today too...