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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
The Song
Yesterday was not the best day. But somehow that's all melted away because I'm standing here at work and no one is annoying me and Gwyneth is singing Bette Davis Eyes over the loudspeakers.
Fantastic.
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Monday, August 29, 2005
The Spiders
At first it was just a spider. Then a couple of spiders. There was a gap between the screen and the window in the bathroom, so it's obvious where they came in. It's an empty apartment, so it's only natural that you're going to see a couple of bugs, right?
So i squashed them and went about my business. But then I saw another one. And another. By the fifth spider, I thought someone was playing a joke on me.
Until we looked out the window.
Apparently I live in the Outback, because it's like Wild Kingdom out there. The entire front of the building appeared to be covered in spiderwebs, with literally hundreds of spiders crawling all around.
This is when I started to freak out.
Luckily, a friend who can now be likened to Steve Irwin of Crocodile Hunter fame, or perhaps Jeff Corwin of slightly less insane PBS fame, took the Raid in hand and went to work. He opened screens and leaned out and sprayed all around. Those were some of the biggest spiders I've ever seen. We killed over 50 spiders, with about 20 in the house.
Unfortunately, while Steve/Jeff will kill spiders, he will not dispose of their carcasses. So that task fell to me. I must confess that there are still a few in the windowsills that I can't bring myself to get rid of. That would require more effort than just sliding them onto a piece of cardboard, and I refuse to pick them up, even in kleenex. Ew. Ew.
Ew.
I was too scared to sleep in my bedroom last night (I'm not going to close myself into that tiny room with two large windows...that's just like asking them to come in while I'm asleep), and I can't keep sacking out on the couch.
Things appear to be more under control now, but I still called the building exterminator. They were coming in a few weeks anyway, and I see no reason why they can't just come now.
So think good spiderless vibes in my direction. I'm going to need all the help I can get.
8/29/2005 12:37:00 PM link
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
The Packing: Part V
So. Many. Boxes.
Still. Not. Done.
Must. Sleep.
8/27/2005 12:34:00 AM link
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Thursday, August 25, 2005
The Packing: Part IV
If I have to put together one more banker's box, I might cry.
8/25/2005 03:55:00 PM link
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The Packing: Part III
Why do I have so many damn books?
Stupid masters degree.
8/25/2005 02:48:00 PM link
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The Packing: Part II
This sucks. I should have just stayed here.
8/25/2005 02:35:00 PM link
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
The Packing
These last two weeks have been busy. Starting the new job. Getting the apartment, and then getting all the moving stuff figured out. Taking the ex to Indiana. Finishing the show. All at the same time.
I'm not used to doing so many different things at one time. It was a long lazy time since I quit the firm. Sure, I was working on really hard school things, but I still had time for Friends watching.
Oh, who am I kidding? I've made it through three seasons in the past couple of weeks. You have to have something on in the background while you're packing, don't you? Even though the living room is pretty much packed.
You know, I could fire up the season 10 episodes that I have on the computer while I pack up the office.
It's better than sitting in silence.
Packing is hard. I haven't had to move in three years. And even then, I just threw everything in laundry baskets and carried them downstairs one flight to the new place.
You can't do that with movers. Oh yes, I'm hiring movers. I'm done carrying things. I have to do that enough with the company. And I have a lot of stuff that I do not want to lift.
Clearly, I don't want to pack it either.
8/23/2005 10:23:00 PM link
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Monday, August 08, 2005
The Improvement
After the bad phone day on Thursday, things started to look up. Here's ten reasons why.
1. Got the job. Started today. Got free things right away. Kind of made working again OK.
2. Found an apartment. Applied for it. We'll see in a day or two if I get it. Knock on wood.
3. The new place has a patio with just enough room for the grill. And it's covered. So I can grill all year long. And I will.
4. The mean person must have realized he was mean. His emails were much nicer after I threatened to quit. And I'm still going to quit, because I don't need to be talked to that way.
5. The show didn't have the crummy second week audiences I expected. Maybe marketing actually works. Doesn't mean I slept any better, but at least I wasn't in a bad mood about it too.
6. I finished my stupid paper that got deleted. And it's actually much better than it was. It wasn't worth it, but at least it's done.
7. I also finished my project for my online "just for learning" class.
8. That means I'm completely done with all of my classes! Forever! Woo!
9. Although the temperature has gone up since I got home this evening, sitting here inhaling ice water has cooled me down.
10. The old Bonnie Tyler songs I downloaded are just as good as I remember. I may even buy some of her European imports from the last few years. Good times.
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Thursday, August 04, 2005
The Phone
It is just not my friend. The people that I want to call (namely apartment people and job people) are not calling. And yet, the people that I don't want to call (people who feel the need to yell at me for five minutes on my voicemail) do.
It's been a rough day.
8/04/2005 10:54:00 PM link
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005
The Computer
I was so close. I had finished my (really bad) stats paper, saved it on the hard drive in the computer lab, and I was saving it to a disk to take to a free printer.
And then it all came crashing down.
It managed to save about 5 pages of the paper, which was about 16 pages. Not only that, but all the research had been included in the paper, so although I'm not starting again from square one, it's not much farther than square two.
I know everyone has a story like this, but this was my LAST paper for my LAST class EVER. It was the last day I even had to show up on campus, because the final test for stats gets mailed to the professor tomorrow.
Instead, I'm going to the computer lab tomorrow to rewrite it after my job interview in the morning. And I'll probably spend all day there, because it's not an easy paper. It's even harder to rewrite a bad paper than it is to write a good paper.
Not fair.
8/02/2005 12:32:00 PM link
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Monday, August 01, 2005
The Pain
Associated Press: The National Institute of Health in Washington D.C. and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have convened to discuss the latest epidemic sweeping the nation, and perhaps the world. Patients all over the country have complained of severe neck pain, eye strain and fatigue. In addition, a number of Fortune 500 employers have reported that absenteeism has been at an all time high for the last two weeks.
Patients have presented symptoms after varying degrees of exposure, but the common factor remains that all symptoms have persisted after the presentation.
A number of patients have also reported that their pains flare up and die down with some regularity, as they explore the causation of their disease.
Concerned citizen Micky York held out as long as he could, but eventually fell to the weakness over the past weekend, when he encountered a sale at Barnes and Noble. Not wanting to pass up the special savings, he purchased, as did so many thousands before him, the latest Harry Potter book. He is now finding it difficult to piece together a case study that he should be working on, and instead finds reasons to go back upstairs to finish "just one more chapter."
Those wishing to go back and re-read the first five books have been placed in a high alert care zone until thier symptoms subside. The NIH and CDC are working together to find a cure for these ailments, but until that time, citizens are warned to finish the books as soon as possible.
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