i’m not too blue to fly
Wednesday, 25 June, 2003
i have decided to utilize my eight-plus hours of work time to listen to new music. i am tired of listening to the same songs over and over … even though i have transferred over almost all my mp3s to my computer at work, i’m tired of hearing them already. so i thought i’d start bringing cds that i have but don’t listen to, to decide if i really need them, and new cds that i don’t know. am currently accepting suggestions for new things i should borrow/download/otherwise find.
last night i went to high street with kilian, and then he came over and we wound up (of course) talking about video games. he has played torment so he got me unstuck and then i was happy. i’m glad he called me, because half of my friends (which equals two) are leaving tomorrow: travis for hawaii, and olly for england. and since andi is in europe, too, that leaves me with … um … seth … i guess. kilian, now. sho, if he would call me (ahem). i’m so glad i have a library card. and computer games. and knitting.
god, i’m boring.
(song: “the littlest birds,” be good tanyas)
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just like this time, and every time
Sunday, 22 June, 2003
twenty-four hours after picking it up from shebly’s house, i am thirty pages away from the end of harry potter 5. yes, that means i have read eight hundred thirty nine pages since 11:00 yesterday. actually, i didn’t really start it until about 4:30, as i was wandering around all over eugene with travis until about then. we went to north bank for lunch, as it was on the way to the mall and we were tired of walking; katie and the famous (not non-existent!) marcus met up with us there, so that was fun. then we went to the mall, then old navy. love old navy. then home, where i commenced reading. i was trying to just read it ‘cos i wanted to, and not to race my sister, but it was pointless anyway since she had gotten it at midnight the night before so she had had all saturday to read. also hung out with olly briefly at high street (yesterday was mcmenamin’s day). and, Boy is not dead, as i thought he might be, nor is he ignoring me, which i thought was much more likely than dead. he was in california. lovely to know that in advance of two weeks of no contact. pfft.
anyway, now i’m at work to make up for the half day i took to go to the dentist, so had better work so i can take a break in two hours and try to finish book.
(song: “break your heart,” barenaked ladies)
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i dreamed that i saw you down at the corner store
Wednesday, 18 June, 2003
i’m mad at this page because i can’t make it do what i want. i’m mad at hot outside because it makes my apartment gross. i’m mad at graduation ‘cos no one is here. i’m mad at work ‘cos i am not good at it, and i’m mad at me because i’m not good at being not-good at things. i had a bad day yesterday. it wouldn’t have been such a bad day if i weren’t such a freak. really, all the bad of the day was in my head. stupid head.
(today is better, though. i have pineapple, and i have vegetable fried rice. and i’m faster today, so i can tell my head to shut up.)
since saturday: saw david, who left, wah. saw andi, who is leaving v. soon, wah. played torment. slept a lot. played torment. came to work. had drinks & then japanese food with travis and his (conservative) ex-roommate chris. played torment. work. torment. currently: work. soon: torment. my life is Not Exciting.
(song: “only in the past,” be good tanyas)
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and the footsteps that are leaving
Saturday, 14 June, 2003
i always hate graduation. but it’s worse this year because this time, everyone is leaving, for reals, for never seeing again ever. and i was grumpy already. gr. hate this.
(song: “what do you hear in these sounds,” dar williams)
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just to get a change of pace
Friday, 13 June, 2003
it is raining today! yay!
except that meant that when i woke up twenty minutes before i thought the bus left (twenty-five minutes before it actually left), i had to leave right away, since i can’t ride my bike in the rain. well, i can ride it, but the brakes stop working, so it’s not the smartest thing ever.
today i merged accounts belonging to mci/worldcom, arthur andersen, and the society of creative loafing. also i had to decide which was right, board of regents or broad of regence? as you can see this job is very intellectually challenging.
i hate that i have to go to sleep at ten, though. i wanted to go to the Boy’s party last night. but it’s friday!! so i can do fun things tonight.
(song: “amy hit the atmosphere,” counting crows)
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when it gets dark i tow your heart away
Wednesday, 11 June, 2003
i’m ashamed to say that i now understand the appeal of working for a corporation. symantec has: a bus that goes straight there! a spiffy cafeteria. free soda & coffee machines everywhere. a gym. with classes that anyone can take! yoga! ten-minute abs! weight training!
drawbacks: can use instant messenger, but only yahoo’s. why? because they use norton and are friends with symantec. also, human resources people are Dumb. the woman was such a politician, but not in the cool and interesting way. in the way that she kept calling me by my name at totally weird places (”and, lauren, this is the gym, and, lauren, we have a starbucks espresso bar…”) and that she was very sugaryfake. ew.
apparently my job is going to consist of using some macro something something to copy information from an excel spreadsheet to a different program, looking at two documents, deciding which one is better, and merging them. my fingers are already confused and want to press the hotkeys i just learned when i really mean to say something normal like alt-back arrow or control-c. i learned: alt-6, control-q, alt-1, alt-3, alt-8, alt–, alt-0. in that order. over, and over, and over.
and … nothing else is going on in my life. the Important Boy’s parents are coming (yes, all the way from Old Europe!) this week so i will be bored. i really need some new friends.
but all in all, i think i kind of like the idea of having a normal person job, even though it means i have to get on the bus waaay too early. i’m done at five every day, and i don’t have to think about anything after that. it’s kind of nice.
(song: “lovely rita,” beatles)
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monday morning, turning back
Tuesday, 10 June, 2003
i just got a job. like just now. i interviewed this morning for a housing job, doing grounds or maintenance or custodial at westmoreland. it was the shortest interview in the world, and i couldn’t tell if it was because i’m extremely unqualified, or because it’s a lame, brainless job, and of course i’m hired, because i’m not brainless. but then i was at work, lala, playing torment and reading the internet and things, and i got a phone call from personnel source that gave me no information but basically she said “please come take an excel test because this job wants you to know excel.” she didn’t really tell me what the job was, when it would start, or how she got my number … so i rode my bike out there to see what was up. they had me take a typing test (71wpm!) and an excel test (71% overall, better than i thought, since that test was the first time i ever used excel, pretty much) and then the lady took me into her office. while she was shuffling papers i saw a printout from monster.com, which is really cool, since i just filled that thing out like two days ago. anyway, she told me they have a position they really need to fill at symantec, and it’s forty hours a week at $9 an hour for four to six weeks, and they would like me to be there at eight o’clock tomorrow morning.
!!
this means i have to figure out how to get to symantec.
(song: “you never give me your money,” beatles)
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maybe that’s a waste of angels
Saturday, 7 June, 2003
after i got mad at torment i thought i’d mess with this page a bit … though i know a little bit of css, i used my usual method of changing tags and then refreshing to see what happened. the only thing i can’t figure out is how to make the calendar not be so close to the right border. i’m angry at that part. soon i will upload the rest of the old web page. i started uploading images today but apparently movable type only allows me to upload one thing at a time. this is very stupid. am also considering putting my images and things on the uw server so as not to take up so much space chez bill.
yesterday i ran a different direction which smelled different. usually when i get to the bike path i turn left, and i go under the footbridge and under the other bridge and then to the second or third bench along the path, depending on how i feel. yesterday i turned right and went all the way over the autzen footbridge to the bench on the other side. then i realized i had gone too far, and i wouldn’t be able to make it all the way back without walking. i was going to try that route again today, but i didn’t get up until nine and then it was too late. it has been Way Too Hot here. i am boycotting.
i bought a playstation from sho on thursday. this is very exciting.
(song: “you’re the one,” paul simon)