I would leave, but currently I’m the only one here, and I just took down a very important message for Susan, which convinced me to stay. I mean, how much is it costing the company if I stay here until Tom gets here…like $7? I just took a message integral to Susan’s story. That seven dollars is well spent. I really wish someone would show up. Nobody has showed up except for Susan: no Jocelyn, no Matt, no Tom. Well, Tom usually breezes in around two, but still… I think everyone knows that Mike is gone and is deliberately not showing up. However, I find work fun without him here, so I would totally come in a bit early. Oh well, so much for bullshitting with Jocelyn. I was contemplating something yesterday…if I had a significant other, would I “come out of the closet” at work? I’m not in the closet here…it’s just that talking about sex is not in our job descriptions. However, I think if I was talking to Jocelyn or something I might idly comment that I’m going to Jammin’ at Jed with my “insignificant other” and then in later references use a male pronoun. She’d get the message. She gets subtle things like that. People that have gone to college understand subtlety. I think I misspelled that last word, but oh well.

Oh, Today I realized that I’m getting fat. My belt doesn’t fit me any more! I didn’t think I was getting fat–I mean, all my clothes fit the same. Maybe I’m just bloated or something…that belt didn’t fit me to begin with, I bought the wrong size and had to make a new hole in it just so I could wear it. Oh well. I should get the hell out of here. It’s almost two.

I just remembered that one time that I left this early Stacey sent me an e-mail saying that I have to work at least two hours a day, it’s required by the State of California. Is that all capitalized? I don’t know. I have to go to the bathroom.

Okay, back. I feel a little less sick now. In other news, my hair looks good. I’m liking it today. Every day that I put the Infusium stuff in it it loooks all shiny and pretty. I’m glad that it’s long enough to put behind my ears now, it’s not such a bother now. I’ve kind of reconsidered dyeing it blue-black. I think I’ll just dye it black with a blue base instead of the other base. I used a black with another base color and it turned out just looking more dark brown than black. I’m not sure whether I should dye all my hair again though… It is unevenly colored in some places. I’m just not sure what to do.

Lol, I’m really subscribing to that thing Molly was talking about, the 64 boxes of worry. One box is now taken up with “I’m worried about the evenness of my hair color.” Sweet. I guess I should be worried about getting fired, seeing that I’m doing no work. But…I mean…I’m a very good worker most days, I just feel ill and depressed today. I mean, I’m still doing my work, just not all that I could do. Oh, I got here around 10:40-something, so I only have to stay until 12:40-something. And it’s 12:19. So I’d better get started on the Calendar.

I could leave in about thirty minutes (I could finish the calendar that quickly) but it would look bad if I left this early. Well…there really is no one in the news room, which seems to be my only reason for staying. My online banking says I have $130. Not bad, but I’m pretty sure that I only really have about $100. I was going to go to the store and get a big spindle of blank CDs, dental floss, and a new toothbrush, but I feel like I should wait a while on the CDs. I should save my money. I don’t get paid again until like the 30th. I haven’t checked yet, which is good. I’ve been loving this Madonna “You Can Dance” record that I bought a while ago. I was listening to it this morning, it has this cool song on it called “Spotlight” and remixes of “Holiday” and other poppy stuff. It’s mixed so it blends into the next song, which is cool.

There’s now nobody here. Mike is moving, Susan is at the courthouse. I was going to charge ahead and get a bunch more of the veterans done, but I realized that I just don’t feel like it. This thing with my computer has put me in a really bad mood. How am I supposed to fix the system if I can’t get into the BIOS. I mean, it boots fine if I don’t try to get into the BIOS…but I mean…god, the BIOS is REALLY necessary to fix problems and such. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I could clear the CMOS and start from scratch, but I don’t think that would help matters much.

I don’t want to be here today. Oh, I got to play around with Mike’s new computer since he’s not here and it’s SO COOL! I totally want a mac laptop.

http://www.apple.com/ibook/

Aww man, the ibooks start at $1000. :( I’m getting a PDA. Well, once I get my desktop computer to work. I really should have set up the floppy drive before I tried to set up the SATA drive. Oh well. If all else fails, I can just take it down to the computer shop with all the drivers, disks, etc. and say “make it work.” Well…more like “Make it boot Windows from a 2GB partition at the front of the SATA drive.” I can do the rest. I think I’ll back up my files on a DVD when I get home and then clear the CMOS. I do have a long time until Windows gets here…at least a week or two. Well…probably more like a week and a half. Maybe even less…I mean I did get my drive a lot quicker than I anticipated. Well, we’ll see. The integral thing will be to get Windows XP setup to pull the SATA drivers of the floppy disk, and to regain access to the BIOS. Actually, strike that, reverse it. I really should get to work. Mike isn’t here today, I’ll just do FYI and the Community Calendar (there’s a buttload of letters that have already been typed in) and then get the hell out of here. I want to surf the net and blog with impunity.

They totally make fan cable extenders! I’m going to get that forty or so dollar fan controller, those extender cables, and wire all my fans once and for all. I’m sick of all the big bulky molex-to-fan connectors that are restricting airflow in my case.