Me and Ben going to scare Josh
We failed horribly. Then we went over to Royce’s and he blew us off to hang out with his uuuuugly Mexican boyfriend.
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Oh yay! I got to hang out with one of my favorite friends ever today. I love my friends that can give me totally unbiased advice. It makes my day. I love smart people.
I hate not being able to blog any more–bloody hell. Me and Ben had fun tonight, he came over to my house with pizza and we went down to the beach and stalked hicks, it was funny. Then we saw an otter or some related water creature in the marsh on the way back. We finished off the night with a few hours of browsing MySpace profiles trying to find hot guys. We were successful in finding some okay guys in Brookings, but they were both hella dumb. It was sad. I don’t want to go to my boss’s party tomorrow. What I need to do is get up nice and early at 5 in the afternoon and work on Matt’s website, do my old creative writing quizzes, study for my speech test, and wash my clothes, etc. But no. No work for me, I have to go to that damn party. Well, at least it will be an excuse to make fun of the Insipid Coworker of Doom. Hey, I might even get to hang out with some of my cooler coworkers. Ah hell, I might as well get to sleep and get on the way to tomorrow.
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I’ve got to go, it’s lunchie-time!
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The Drift is now officially dead. Me and Molly went through the office this morning and cleaned everything out. It’s sad. Throgmorton won. There’s no paper to disagree with his idiotic policies and whimsical plans. I’m in the office now, all the pictures are taken down, the boards cleaned off. Everything is gone. I’m really sad. The Drift was so fun. It was the most fun I’d had in years. Sad. I guess Ben and I are going to hang out after my class. To be honest, I’m in a sad mood.
I shouldn’t have stayed up so late hanging out with Joe last night. I probably wasn’t such good company. But we did do a bunch of cool stuff, we investigated these abandoned buildings near the lighthouse, that was pretty interesting. I took pictures, they’re still on the camera. I want to go home so I can do a bunch of stuff, but I don’t want to spend gas. I’m not going to have enough money to get the handsfree mouse. I have only been working like 2 hours a day instead of my usual 3, even though I got a raise. My boss is doing all sorts of things with one of the things I work on, making it more concise and eliminating things…which means I have less to do. Shit fuck.
Eh, fuck it. I might as well get the handsfree thing even if it eats through my savings. I need to be able to surf the web and such without pain. That’s all I ever do lately. Oh shit, it’s 5:14. I need to get to class.
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I took the laptop into the kitchen so I could make toast and blog, but now the toast is done and I’m stuck blogging in the kitchen. Evil laptops. I guess I could take it all in the living room, but that would involve leaving either the toast or the laptop alone, and the gods know that I can’t be without Internet or toast. *muches on some yummy toast*
I just watched I (heart) Huckabees, and it was so cute/funny/sad/existential. I loved it. Ben lent it to me. I just wanted to call him up and go “woohoo, you’re not insipid!” but the jury might still be out on that. Might. He liked the picture I made with him in it (check it out on the portfolio page, it’s called Nowhere). Um, what else. Oh yeah, I was lonely after seeing the movie so I called Joe up. He’ll be off work in a little bit and come over. Yay, I’ve finished all but one piece of toast! I can move back to the living room, laptop in one arm and toast in the other! W00t!
Yay, I’m now ensconced in the futon. Futonlicious, baby. I’m probably going to rue the day that I blogged this, but I really really really like Joe. I would use the l-word, but that would misconstrue everything. It’s not sexual at all, it’s just the feeling that you would (forgive the dastardly 80s reference) “walk 500 miles” for a really good friend. It’s nice. I haven’t had a really good friend in a long time. The last one was Mindy, and she married some geek she dredged up in church camp so she could get a good hard fuck without offending Jesus. Hopefully Joe won’t go the same way. Well, I hope he does, but just not when I’m friends with him. I would be a horrible friend if I had a significant other, I’m sure of that.
I was at work until like 5 p.m. working on this computer-generated graphic. Those are pretty time-consuming, but the fucking stone age machine I have just fucks everything up. I tried to import this PDF map of Crescent City, and it crashed Illustrator. True, it was a 50MB+ file, but come on…if I had 512MB of RAM, that wouldn’t be shit. But I only have like 300MB on my computer at work. It’s fucking sad. So I had to take a screen cap of the PDF and painstakingly trace it into Illustrator. Well, I guess I can think of it this way: their shitty equipment lines my pockets. (cue the Martha Stewart voice) It’s a good thing.
I’ve been feeling really lonely lately. Not for sex or anything like that, there’s always an endless well of that. What I really want is a hardcore cuddle. I miss my Becky :(
Oh, that reminds me of something. I was all depressed after watching Gia (btw, I now wholeheartedly agree with Kelly–Angelina Jolie is the fucking sex) and so I called Josh and he was all “you know, you should get rid of all the mementos of Taggart, you talk about him all the time. I was all “I do?” and he’s all “Yeah.” Oh yeah, that’s conflict-driven dialog if I ever heard it. Lol. But anyway, I got all the photos and the painting and all the other crap, wrapped it up in some black faux fur, and took it over to his house for him to hide and not let me see. After he said it I realized how much it was true, I thought about him at least once daily.
It made me so sad thinking about how people like Royce and Taggart always have an armada of disposable friends and lovers that they will never appreciate, and they don’t even have to try for it. It makes me sad. Oh dear, the wrist pain…I forgot about it. The graphic I did today really irritated my tendons, I shouldn’t have been typing–but it’s my thing, I’m a writer. Damn damn damn. I’m totally shelling out the dinero for the handsfree mouse once I get paid. Okay, must go…Joe should be here shortly, and it’s so akward to end in the middle of a paragraph…not to mention the searing pain in my wrist.
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Alleviating my carpal tunnel is going to be extremely expensive. It’s either:
Mouse:
$150 for an ergonomic mouse
$350 for a completely mouse-free tracking system
Keyboard:
$300 for a vertical keyboard
$200 for a contoured keyboard that will only work with a PC
Well, I guess I could just blow my next paycheck on the hands-free mouse thing and a foot switch, then all that would be left would be the typing thing, but I don’t really type very much. All I do is surf the web, do e-mail, listen to music, web design, etc….mostly mouse-intensive stuff. I guess if someone came up to me and said “Hey, I’ll take away your wrist pain for $300″ I’d say “hell yeah.” I guess I need to work on my story today, but I’m not feelin’ it. I guess getting an ergonomic keyboard would be better for my productivity, but my mouse hand was the first thing to hurt and really the only thing that hurts. I think when I get paid on the 29th I’m getting that $350 mouse replacement thing. It’s an investment in my tendons. And they have a 30-day money back gurantee. Cool. I’m happy my pain will end soon. I think I’m going to go into the living room and make some food, then I’m going to go back in here and finish up that story I have to write.
I hate being a slave to my wrist pain. I can’t write any more, my tendons are throbbing…but I will later. Hasta.
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Man, I haven’t blogged in ages. OMG, it’s been a week! Holy shit. I think this is the longest I’ve ever gone in like, months. Well, the week was fun and stressful. My wrists have been really hurting lately, that’s why I haven’t been blogging. But I’ve been looking into mouse and keyboard alternatives tonight and they are really cool. I might even be able to play Diablo II again! W00t!
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I just watched Gia and it was so sad, omg…I cried my eyes out for the last thirty minutes of the movie. But I must go to bed. I worked on my story today, I got another page and a half written, I’m going to put the finishing touches on it later in the week. I have to do a bunch of crap at work tomorrow and already I’m dreading it. Shit fuck. And my wrists hurt.
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Well, I guess it just goes to show you. When you think you’re going to have the day from hell, the world just surprises you. It’s good to be a cynic: either you’re right or you’re plesantly surprised. I like being pleasantly suprised. For getting almost five hours of sleep, I woke up refreshed. It was very strange. I strolled across my spotless, rearranged, vacuumed room to my computer, and ergonomically checked my blogs. OMG.
ADOBE BOUGHT MACROMEDIA. OMG.
If this doesn’t seem world shattering to you, then you probably don’t do web design or tone photos. I dunno, it might be really sweet but it might not be. Only time will tell.
But yeah, drove to work listening to Blue Lines. I got there around 11:35. It was so strange, it seemed like I was going to be really late when I left, but I had to sit in my car for twenty minutes until the normal time I arrived on Mondays. It would be a bit difficult to explain the reason for my sudden punctuality. But anyway, work was excellent. I had the answer to every question, was polite internally and externally to everyone, and was in the zone. I finished in record time.
After that I went to the theatre to play some DDR. I downloaded some codes the night before for the machine, and I tried the code to make the 3rd Mix into the 2nd Mix. It totally worked! I didn’t like too many of the songs though, so I mainly played the 3rd Mix. I had Gentle Stress and this other one stuck in my head, so I played them a lot. On my last game, I tried the third code to bring you into uberhard mode. It worked. Oh, the humanity… It worked. The songs were SOOO hard. It was unbelievable. I died on the first song. I went to the car for my last $5, but right then it started raining, so I was all “eh, I’ll treat it as an omen and live to play another day.” So I went to Josh’s house. And checked my e-mail. And started blogging.
I’m going to hardcore work on my story tonight. I had the insight this morning. Her husband/boyfriend thingy should be in the car with her. It would be perfect. Characters can’t be in a vacuum. Or I could come up with a new idea. I need to decide right now. Ah, my mom just called me back. I have to proofread one of her papers today.
Hm. I just spent a while looking at Apple laptops on eBay. You know, I just hate used stuff. If I’m going to spent $600 on something, I want it to be brand spanking new. Anyway, I think I’m going to go and make myself a sandwich.
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