“I don’t subscribe to the Triplicate, it would be like getting home garbage pick-up…but in reverse.”
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Today is kind of better…it’s payday, but I haven’t gotten my check yet. Usually she hands them our later than noon. Perhaps. I really don’t remember. I’ve been typing letters all morning. I’m glad it’s not Friday or I’d be here for ever. Tom told me to scan in some photos, but didn’t tell me how big to scan them in. isn’t that nice of him? Why can’t he fucking scan them in, it takes all of two minutes. Loser. Well, on the bright side, I’m not feeling as sick as I did yesterday, but I might ge worse tomorrow. Did I blog last night? Let’s see…nope, I didn’t blog at all. Well, I met that cute red-haired guy from Sammie’s math class yesterday and he complimented my “personal sense of style.” Sweet. Later that day, Amanda had yet another emotional collapse *yawn* and kept talking about hurting herself *double-yawn*. I just hate when people do stuff for attention. She is mentally unstable and she is not fit to be editor. I’m really sick of these childish breakdowns. I had this really weird dream about her and her parents. Did I mention it was really weird?
Wrote the outline for my English essay, I hope to have some time to work on it today. I’m learning to hate Lynda Hays (as if I needed to learn). She sent me this condiscending e-mail, which I will post:
“I still have not seen this picture in the paper. Please print along with the complete article and list of students’ names.
Thank you.
Lynda”
In e-mails like that, “thank you” is synonymous with “fuck you.”
Molly just called and they’re having a layout session and are dying because they don’t know anything about InDesign. I’m going to go and help them, I’ll probably miss art, but who freaking cares?
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I shouldn’t blog in the morning when I’m supposed to be getting ready, but I just had to today. Mike will be back from his vacation today and will likely chew Jocelyn out for handing in her resignation. I’m going to try to make myself as scarce as possible, I’m going to hang out in the darkroom batcave and burn all the old stuff on the photo server onto CDs. At least that’s my plan. Perhaps today isn’t the best day to tell him that there’s no way in hell I’m going to get all the veterans stuff done. Hmm. Well, must get ready to go to school.
I’ve tried everything to get the grayscale to go away: reinstalling my monitor drivers, changing my color profile, everything short of reinstalling Windows, which I am feeling is the only friggin’ solution. It’s just such a pain in the ass, I have to install all my programs over again. Anus crap. I’m thinking that next time instead of installing an illegal copy of Office 2003 I’ll install this OEM copy of Microsoft Works that came with Montag (yes, it blows hard, but at least it’s legal) and see if the same thing happens. Oh, lol, I checked out the computers in the editing room last night (Sammie and Steve got pizza!) it was so grand…but anyway, I checked out those computers and they only had 1.53GHz processors and 512MB of ram. My computer has a 3.0GHz processor and I’m going to get another stick of ram, totaling 1GB of RAM. I’m going to reinstall Windows tomorrow (or today when I get home from school/work) and then install everything (including Premiere) and then get to editing. I’ll take some videos with the Drift digital camera and edit it. I think it will look swank, all pixelated and stuff. And my computer burns DVDs, so I can make my own pixelated movies! Double-swank. Crap! Must get ready for school! It’s 8:05. The good thing is I’m not feeling as sick today, I went to sleep early. I’m happy.
I just want to say for the record that yesterday didn’t suck as bad as you might have imagined from earlier posts. It started shitty, but ended with orgasmic pizza. Well, must go. Hasta la vista.
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I’ve been feeling a lack of drive to buy another stick of RAM just yet. My computer is fine, and I doubt I’ll have a bunch of money this month to spend. So I’ve been checking out digital cameras. I’m in love with the Nikon Coolpix 4200. I’ve found it online for $275. Not bad, considering that it can take up to 4 megapixels (for prints up to 11×17″). Man, their top-of-the-line one takes 8 megapixels for prints up to 20×30″. *drool* But both of those are a bit out of my price range as of yet. Here’s the specs on the 4200:
http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=2&productNr=25517
I’m talking to my mom, I’m explaining “The Masque of the Red Death” to her. Robin just showed up, I should go to class.
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I got off work early so I could do some work on my essay. I’ve tentatively decided to analyze setting in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death.” It seems to me to be the most important element–the red room with black tapestries, the ebony clock, those are the most dramatic images. I re-read the story today and took some notes. I’ll have to stew on it for a few days before I come up with a thesis.
Weird. Some girl came by with a candle for Amanda. I know that Amanda doesn’t really believe in any of this Wicca stuff, she’s just trying to rebel against her parents and their patriarchal religion. It bores me how naive she is. I think I may have found a reason why my computer went into grayscale:
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBL/tip5800/rh5810.htm
I dunno. I’m going to take a nap. I’m so tired.
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Just thought I’d post my bank statement when I went to deposit that stuff. I think it’s hideously funny:
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I just learned something. It occurred to me: “What’s the difference between ‘et al’ and ‘et cetera.’” I looked it up. Et al means just “and others,” while et cetera means “and others of the same kind.” Just thought that was cool.
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I just must blog about this dream…in the dream I was painting my teeth with nail polish. In the dream I was vaguely thinking “There’s something wrong here..” but I just kept doing it. Weird. Tomorrow is going to be apocalyptic, Mike will be back and he will chew out Jocelyn for quitting…it’s just sad. In a healthy work environment, Jocelyn would just be able to go up to Mike and talk about her problems with the environment, but with the current management approach of bullying and intimidation, that just isn’t an option. Depressing. I feel like I should be looking for a new job…but what other job could I do? I mean, I am at school most of the time, this three hour a day thing is perfect for me. I hope I get a big paycheck…I’m not sure if that seventy-two cents will get me to Thursday. I have to leave at like two-thirty to talk to Becky and have her reimburse me for those photos. I hope she just whips out a twenty, that would be glorious. I would run over and deposit it into my account.
Now that I really think about it, there isn’t really much that I want to buy for my computer. I’m thinking another stick of RAM maybe…but that’s really pricy. After the glowing keyboard and another stick of RAM I think it’ll be done. Hmm. Done. What a strange word. I still need to find out why the OS turned gray. I think it was because of the illegal Office 2003.
Oh, I forgot to say something. Guess what? Tom deleted the support groups listing. No more support groups! What a fucking idiot. I’m going to tell Mike about it when he gets back, but I’m sure Mike or Tom will just blame it on me. Fuck them all.
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I stole $4 in change from my dad and went and deposited it into my account, I have a grand total of $.72 in my account now. Yes, that’s seventy-two cents. But I guess it’s better than negative three dollars. OMG. Jocelyn handed in her resignation today. I wish I could post her resignation letter, it articulates very well how fucked up a manager Mike is. 100% employee turnover in six months is bad managing, no matter how you slice it.
She gave a copy of her letter to Teresa, and is going to send one to the Pilot too. Jocelyn makes $10.50 an hour, she just told me. Man. I asked her to send a copy of her letter to the company headquarters in Bend, she said she’s going to. God, when I got here Stacey and Dave and all the “tech people” if they can be called such left a message on mine and Jocelyn’s computers saying that it was “against company policy to use any instant messaging programs.” Gee, that would sure be nice of them to tell me. I read every word of their entire like seven-page dissertation on what to do and not to do while working here, and it said NOTHING about computers. Not even a mention. I bet they read our e-mails and don’t tell us too. That’s illegal. But I know they do it. Bastards. I don’t want to join the College Democrats club because it says not to join any political organizations, I don’t put a Kerry bumper sticker on my car because it’s against company policy. And they chastize me for something that’s not even in the pamphlet? Fuck them. I’m joining the Democrat Club, I’m going to put a big fat Kerry sticker on my car. Fuck them. They didn’t tell me anything about “comany computer policy.” That just pisses me off.
Incompetent bastards.
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I was feeling really good yesterday, that my life couldn’t be too bad…and now it’s gone to shit. I woke up and am really really sick (but fucking have to go to school/work anyway), and then I turn on my computer and it’s doing that thing where it turns into grayscale again. I’ve searched the Internet in vain to try to find some reason why it’s doing this, but I can’t. My best guess is that I installed my illegal copy of Office 2003 and somehow it knows. Fucking cock. And the infurating thing is that it will display certain icons and stuff in color, while the rest of everything is in black and white. I haven’t checked my online banking, because I know with this shitty beginning to the day that I most certainly have bounced a check. Great, it says I have negative three dollars. However, it hasn’t charged me a fee yet so I should go down there and put five dollars in there. Hm, the DayQuil is kicking in…maybe today won’t suck. No…it’ll suck. Who am I kidding?
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