Suzy

This has just been such a crazy week, man. And now I'm packing for a week in New Orleans and trying to stay relatively calm about that. I'm going to a professional conference, and I'm excited, but I'm also nervous about navigating a brand new city on my own.

I'm still trying to figure out details on that stupid shooting, too. I've talked with my Library's security, and one of the guards has decided I need to learn the signs of people strung out on drugs because he's noticed the drug activity in my building and I have not. The police are being very tight lipped, but apparently neither lived here (so how did they get into my usually locked building?!), the "victim" is known to the police and has a record, and they possibly got the shooter's face on the bank security cams next door. The victim has been an issue for our Library in the past and has been banned before, so I guess he's not new to the neighborhood, but I do hope that if this happens again, it's not around here. :/

On a higher note, after avoiding my scale for the last 7 months, I finally got on again. I figured after being able to buy size 6 jeans, I hadn't gone up as I'd been so afraid, and that was accurate. My threshold in college had been 140, no matter how hard I tried, so I never really thought I'd be able to pass that. And then came yesterday, when I discovered that I was in the 130s for the first time since 8th grade. I'm so excited, and so shocked. I'm guessing a lot of it had to do with the ballet fit class, so of course I skipped tonight. Oops. In my defense, I'm packing.

And should probably go back to that. I don't suppose any of you are in New Orleans? Or have advice on places to go and streets/neighborhoods to avoid?