“I don’t subscribe to the Triplicate, it would be like getting home garbage pick-up…but in reverse.”

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?

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.

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.

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.