The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

tempus fugit

Month: May, 2007

you know those days

Where you look at the clock, realize you have hours more of work to do, and just sort of die inside? Yeah. Today is one of those days. I’m going to have to treat myself to a smoothie after work with some change I’ve scraped together. I need some kind of reward. Christ.

Write it down, but don’t send the letter

I’m awake way past my bedtime. But I have to say, I’m seriously considering moving to San Francisco. This is like, a dream job. Well, at least my foothold into the San Francisco IT world. I need to stop listening to my mother. She’s trying to play it safe with me all the things that [...]

To my surprise, with half-closed eyes, things looked even better than when they were open

Well, for those of you don’t know, I spent most of yesterday night reinstalling OS X. I have to say it was a success, and the least painful computer operation I have ever done that involved a complete reformat. I did it so that I could write. I was having all these wonky issues (as [...]

negativo

I tested negative for HIV, gonorrhea, and chlamydia today. That’s cool, right? I thought I would feel better, but all I wanted to say was “um…what about the thousand more diseases that you can get? how do I know I don’t have any of them?” Well, it’s better than nothing.

is it bad

To work on your resume on your lunch break? Alex has been talking about how his company is hiring a first-level customer service rep at a Mac IT company and that he’s going to put my name in the pile. I would have to move to San Francisco, though. I love my job here, but [...]