I hate my job.

Must find new one ASAP.

That is all.

TGIF

Is it just me or are these questions ridiculously easy? Back me up here, folks. Sure, I have some brains but I know I'm not in the 93rd percentile based on a measly 25 questions!

To wish zvuv a very happy birthday!

I know, I know I haven't updated in a while. I'll get to it, I promise! In the meantime, do this thing. I dig it.

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It's been an uneventful week that should have been the opposite.
The weekend was low-key except for my monthly outing with the gals to Blockheads. I have to say that I am LOVING having a crew of galpals to gabber with about anything under the sun. Nights of margaritas, burritos, and our favorite waiter, Ricardo, are super awesome!
After that I went to J's and stayed over and got to see chimpeater after what seems like forEVAR and my other Iowa buddy, D. We ate some cake that chimpeater stole from work and watched some Sifl and Olly that I brought from home. Good times, good times. Sat and Sun were relaxy days with nothing noteworthy going on.

Monday I was supposed to see O, but after waiting around for 40 mins for him to finish up at work I took off, quite irritated. Tuesday I was supposed to see Steve, but he was ill and had to cancel. J to the rescue with an unexpected visit to make up for all the rejection! I met him in Borders (where I did some xmas shopping) and went to my fav noodle shop, MEE, for dinner. The rest of the night was low key thanks to J's neflix subscription/addiction.

Tonight I'm looking forward to getting home early and trying to tackle some of the crap that's piled up on the DVR. Such a daunting task!

So Jeff was walking me home to my place last night when we passed a small group of teens chatting outside a bodega. That's when I heard something I thought to be so funny I couldn't stop laughing for the next few minutes.

"I said no vegetables but then I found a pea in it...but that's just how life goes, ya know?"

You said it man. That's just how life goes. Occasionally one is disturbed by peaness.

So I went to lunch with my coworker Jason today and as we were leaving I expressed to him how very much my job blows and how I would much rather sit around Wendy's all day than return to working.

On the trip back we cut through the children's hospital and I got cornered by someone working the blood drive and found the perfect excuse to miss a little work. I signed in, grabbed my form, filled it out and sat down to wait for my pre donation mini checkup.
Been exposed to HIV/AIDS? -nope
Any tatoos/piercings in the past 12 months? -yes (ears in June)
Any needle sharing or drug use? - no
On antibiotics? - no
Ever lived in the UK for more than 3 months? - yes
Ever traveled to these countries within the past 7 years? - no

and on and on.

So I'm called and she questions me about my piercing, when, where, how? No problems there. Then she questions me about my time in the UK. "Yeah I lived in England for two years from 1986-1988."
Apparently this invalidates me from giving blood because I might be carrying MAD COW DISEASE.

wtf?

So my dearest mother just left town this morning after a weekend visit to the city. One of these days I am going to have to take her to do something special. This trip consisted mostly of tv watching and going to restaurants. Hey, I'm not complaining- I love to eat, but I feel bad when she makes the trip out and we end up doing a whole lot of nothing. She seems to enjoy the downtime though, so whatever I suppose. Other than eating we went shopping at the mall in Queens, went out in the city on Monday with jewfarmer, and checked out a couple of places in SoHo the day she got in, including UniClo.
Alright, now UniClo is basically the new, hip place to be. It's supposed to be affordable good quality clothing, without all that stupid logo bullshit. Sadly UniClo and my perception of affordable don't quite match up. H&M for me, thanks.

Last week was generally uneventful, but still a lovely week. I spent every day of it with J, and got to see Nan and C for the big Rockefeller tree lighting on Wednesday. The good news about that is that we got a really good spot. The bad news: well C was late and the actually lighting wasn't until 9 so we decided it would suck too much to stand around for 3 hours and bailed on the whole thing. We went down to East Village instead where J and I ate lots of Belgian french fries and pined desperately over books at my favorite little shop that neither of us could afford. After coffee we went back to my place and kept it low key the rest of the night. I haven't seen him since my mom arrived on Saturday morning and as ridiculous as it sounds, I miss him. I know it seems silly, but we're still in the first stages of our relationship so I can't get enough of the boy. Tonight's my first free night and he's coming over to hang out after work, yay! I think tomorrow I will see if Steve can get together for dinner. His bday was this weekend and I have a gift to give him! Friday is another night of dinner and drinking with the girls, should be a blast!

I got bored...and I always sort of thought Sable looked like Falkor so...

So I'm back to dieting a little. Starting today! I lost some weight doing this a couple months ago but didn't stick with it and gained some back. Cereal for breakfast, cottage cheese and carrots (or granola) for lunch, and a sensible dinner at least 4 nights a week. This leaves room for eating out with friends so I don't go crazy. I'm not sure what motivated me to get back on it specifically, but I think that money was a huge deciding factor. Eat less, spend less. Simple as that. So there's that bit of life.

Let's see, work is work. No recent ups or downs, which is fine in my book. I got to sit in on case conferences last week and observe the diagnosing live-action style. Still more motivation for me to move on from what I'm doing and seek out more interesting aspects of my education.

Social life. Well this is what I usually talk about eh? I've been trying to spend more time with the gals, and to get out and meet new people. It's been going really well. I went to a ping pong tournament at Ian's and met a cool girl there (I really need to call her soon) though I haven't talked to him since, heh. I went out to Kara's thanksgiving celebration and met a bunch more people, all of whom were very cool and different from my typical crew. It's really nice to be able to expand my horizons. Life is all about networking, baby! Ice broomball is coming up in January, and I might do dodgeball as well, which would be killer. I need to actually push for it so it happens instead of sitting on my butt and waiting for it to come to me.

Aaaaand love life, the bane of my existence. This I don't want to get too far into, but I'm at a point where I think I want to cut all the stupid little lines tying me to the dock, and float out to and island and drop anchor. A new, but strangely familiar island that already feels like home. Still I know it will be a little bit of a tough journey, but I see its worth and the value of a slow sail there. For now it's just best to enjoy the scenery and lay off the throttle.

Ed Bradley Dies

omg omg omg omg!

Boy be CRAZY.

omg! wtf? omg!

 

Please, friends, vote tomorrow.

That is all.

A few days ago I got a message from this guy.

Wow, just wow.

I refrained from responding so as not to give the guy any hope...but I almost did for the sheer fact that he's this guy. Seriously, people.

I made an icon from a photo morgan78 posted. Very halloweeny!

What is it about mornings that turns me into a mega superbitch? Can lack of sleep change a person that much? Normally nearly all these things would leave me unfazed.

This morning I had several minor (turned major) annoyances. First of all, there was an incident on the 7 line in the tunnel so we had to sit on the tracks in a curve (so the whole train was leaning) for over 20 minutes. Delays happen, sure, they suck, they make you late for work, and they're tedious. And you know what? It wasn't even the train being stopped that bothered me (though I have to admit that I was annoyed that I would have actually been on time without the train delay, which is rare for me). There was a girl chatting on the phone right near me for the entire wait. She didn't have an annoying voice, nor was she talking about anything annoying. It was just the mere constant stream of sound coming out of her that was annoying to me.
We finally get to Queensboro plaza and as I am waiting for the N train I hear one of the few things that annoys me nearly 100% of the time. Whistling guy. Who IS this guy?? Why does he whistle in enclosed spaces? No one wants to listen to you whistle.
Then we get on the N train. Right across from me is that couple everyone loves to hate. Cutesy kissy couple. They spent the last 3 stops of the train ride STRAIGHT (that I saw anyway) exchanging forehead kisses. I wanted to take my shoe off and chuck it at them for lack of a better object to throw.
On the walk between the N train and the A train in the city I always pass a deli coupled with a bum in front asking for change. He started to ask me for money...until he saw the look on my face. He stopped mid sentence and said 'nevermind'.
Oh, and to the lady on 58th street? Do NOT fucking look me straight in the eye and decide to go ahead and play sidewalk chicken and then act like you're in shock and hurt when you slam the elbow you have jutting out into me as you pass and find that I actually hold my ground. You're a total bitch.

( Wow, that's a lot of Bad Religion )

owenmuir, why?!?

Well, it was an unexciting weekend for me. I went out on Friday with a male who apparently likes me but I'm uninterested. After dinner I cut out claiming I was tired (though I WAS actually tired). I ended up telling the guy the next day that I wasn't interested in dating him. He took it well, good for him.

Apparently I was tired for a reason on Friday, because by the end of the night I had no voice. I still got up on Saturday and went to Greenpoint to watch football at the condo (AMAZING PLACE) of Brian Norman, a guy that grew up in my hometown and is the older brother of Lizzy, a girl I graduated with. Nice to see a CB-er doing well for himself. It was also nice to reminisce about the ol hometown. Again, by the time I left at like 6PM my voice was gone and I was dead tired. Stupid being sick. I stayed in for the night and had a nice lunch with zvuv at the Beer Garden. Again, I spent the rest of my night at home relaxing. I think it's a really good thing that I took it easy this weekend because I am feeling ok today. My voice is still not up to par, but I feel fine.

Now, a...something. I am behind on data entry because I've been doing so many other things lately so today is my catch up day. While I do this, I am listening to my Ipod. I've decided to make up an Ipod Log of the songs I'm listening to today. Does anyone else out there listen to their Ipod/music during work? If so I challenge you to join me in creating a music log! I'll have the full thing finished at the end of the day!
( So far... )