RSS Feedsick to my stomach
ugh. i slept for about an hour, maybe an hour and a half, before i woke up again. i woke up with a horrible stomach ache. today is going to be hell, i can already tell. i’m hoping the sickness shakes off so that way i’m just tired rather than being sick and tired. hehe, sick and tired. that’s kinda funny.
of course i’m feeling sick right after almost a week out of the office and while my boss is out of town. it seems as though i always get sick when she’s not around (i make it seem like i’m out all the time, but i’ve only been out sick for two days in the last almost seven months i’ve been on the team). i have vowed that next time i’m sick it will be when she’s around so that way i can show her i’m really sick. i have a super guilty conscience and feel as though they might think i’m just making it up. i know i’d be suspicious.
i hate not sleeping. i look like crap. nothing worse than having bloodshot eyes with accompanying dark circles. that’s a lie, there are things far worse. i feel like i should go to work early since i’m up anyway. i’m just afraid i might get the urge to vomit and the last place i want to do that is on the train or at work. too much information. i know.
in other news …
i find this story rather amusing:
NY Times: Xerox Seeks Erasable Form of Paper for Copiers
i was making a comment (to myself, of course) about how much paper i waste on a daily basis. i make it a daily goal of mine to use enough paper to account for at least one dead tree. i can’t help it. i love printing things out and having them to write on. paperwork is my guilty sin. hmmm … guilty sin. now there’s a concept. is there such thing as an innocent sin? that just wouldn’t make sense now would it?
oh. on sunday i went to see for your consideration. i hate to admit it, but it was a bit of a let-down. it just wasn’t as funny as best in show.
i find it weird that the facebook phenomenon has crept into the work sphere. it totally blurs the lines of what used to be the work environment and what it is evolving into. granted, i work at an advertising agency and that alone pretty much throws all common workplace norms out the window. it’s a bit weird that anyone from work and just creep into my biznes (is it double s when you spell it like a gangsta’ would spell it? anyone know?) on facebook. luckily, i like everyone i work with. well except for one person. but i don’t even work in the same department as that person, much less the same office so that doesn’t count.
okay it’s now 7:11am as i’m wrapping this up and that’s the magical time i start getting ready for work everyday (shut up, i’m only OCD in weird ways). OCD is officially my excuse for my strange behavior now.
adieu.
did you have to let it linger?
i’m lingering between between being sleepy and actually being able to sleep. i feel tired but i can’t seem to get to sleep. this is especially surprising since i only slept about four or five hours last night. and i only slept three hours the night before. i think i’m going to have to take sleeping pills for the next few nights and try to correct my sleeping pattern. that usually does the trick. it’s quite severe this time so it will probably take three or four nights to swing my sleeping schedule back into alignment. i will just have to convince myself to take the sleeping pill early enough each night. this will be a challenge.
on a much more random note … the messenger bag that i take to work has become less and less about carrying documents and more and more about carrying magazines. the amount of magazines i have in there is insane … 14 to be exact. with the addition of all these free magazine subscriptions i get for work, i just don’t have time to keep up. in addition, even if i try to keep up, i don’t have time to read any books.
everyday i’ve been playing the mastercard home for the holiday instant win game just because i think it would be funny to win and then not be able eligible to receive the prize. although, now that i think about it, that would kind of be depressing.
as if i could get any more random … i’ve discovered that my site renders differently in internet explorer for pc than it does safari or firefox for mac. i wonder how it looks on firefox for pc. there’s actually only one significant difference … my links columns show up weird on a mac. i need to devote some more time to trying to creating a solution, as if it were something incredibly important.
okay i am going to go watch tonight’s episode of the class and then try and get at least three and a half hours of sleep.
until later.
i swear i’m not on crack
i hate when my sleep schedule is all messed up. i couldn’t sleep so i started making small tweaks to the final design. i seriously worked on the stupid musical note for about half an hour. i’m only a bit OCD.
now i am going to take a nap.
new style
i’m in the process of working in a new style and design on the site. i’m too tired to finish tonight but i imagine i’ll attempt to finish soon. a lot of it is small little things like fonts, color, adding in images, etc. perhaps i’ll finish it tomorrow.
i’m back in chicago after my trip back to texas for thanksgiving. i came back to much warmer weather than i was anticipating. where’s my snow?!? soon, hopefully. the high today is 60. by friday it is supposed to drop down to 34.
i put too many movies on my list to be tivoed while i was out. i came back and it had started deleting stuff i had saved up because it had run out of space (even though i pretty much cleared it out before i left). quite disappointed about that. i need to get a dual-tuner tivo with more space.
okay i’m tired now. good night.
no power here
i have clearly fallen back into the habit of not updating with the great stories that i have (i.e. none).
i am perplexed by people who are stuck in another technology era. i find it strange when people in their 20s are unfamiliar with many of the technological advances that we have today. i mean hell, even my mom is familiar with instant messaging. it’s beyond me. some people are just on another level and i don’t get it. i just don’t get. i have a very hard time understanding this non-technology way of living life. it’s beyond me, it really is.
work has been incredibly busy lately. we have so much going on this quarter it’s insane. insane but fun. we’re working on some amazing programs. i seriously have an amazing job.
what else have i been up to …
the weather this past friday was HORRIBLE. i left work and it was barely misting. i was having dinner with a friend and when i got off the train it was pouring. it wouldn’t have been so bad had the rain been falling vertically. the rain was literally coming straight at me. i can’t remember being that miserable in the rain in ages. my pants were DRENCHED in rain. it was miserable sitting through dinner like that.
the next day (saturday) i spent the day with a friend. woke up early and had breakfast and then i got a walking tour of parts of the city. then we had lunch at the place where his partner is a pastry chef. delicious. then i had to head back to work to figure out how to get my keys out of the bathroom that i locked them in. they caught someone from another floor having sex in our bathrooms over the summer so they started locking them and i have a habit of setting my keys on the counter near the sink when i walk in and this time i just forgot about them. good times. then i went over to kevin and nick’s (same friends) place for dinner, which was amazing. that was just a fun and eventful day in general. i don’t think i’ve explored the city that much since i’ve moved here.
sunday was lazy day.
tuesday night i went to a little happy hour for one of our group media directors who just got married.
tomorrow night is the mtv party and i can’t decide if i want to go. it’s a big trade-off. while it would probably be a lot of fun to go and have a few drinks, i know that i won’t get home until at least 11pm if i do go. i have several things i need to get done and i have a relatively busy weekend coming up so i don’t have much time before i leave for texas on monday night.
i’m so very much looking forward to the upcoming holiday week. i’m vowing to not have to wake up earlier than 10am more than once or twice. it will be wonderful.
ah, the power returns.
good times.
such a great day.
the last 24 hours have been so great. control of both chambers of congress and donald rumsfeld resigns. amazing.
gluttony
i just had one of the most gluttonous meals this evening and also hands down one of the most expensive. food network took us to this restaurant that was out of this world and i imagine the bill was easily $1000. i had never been to a place that was so pretentious (in a good way). there were a total of four or five tables in this restaurant. the food was spectacular but there wasn’t a lot on the menu that was appealing to me. i’m not a big fan of monk fish or rabbit. i settled for the pork tenderloin which was out of this world. add in the fancy salad, three glasses of wine, fancy dessert, and the cappuccino and now i’m beyond full and on the verge of sickness. such a great night.
i went to a movie on sunday evening with a couple of friends. the movie was interesting but i had a good time. we had dinner at this mediterranean restaurant which was rather good. they had those tables where you eat sitting on the floor. such a fun experience.
this week has been fairly quiet so far other than that.
brrrrrrr
It’s 25 degrees and i am standing on the platform waiting for the train and =
my hands are about to fall off. I am so screwed this winter.
mmm donuts.
i was quite excited because i thought i was going to bed early. clearly i was wrong. i fell asleep around 10pm only to wake back up shortly after 1am. now i can’t fall back asleep and it’s driving me crazy. to make matters worse i have a craving for donuts from dunkin’ donuts. that’s another great thing about the midwest, you can’t go more than a few blocks without there being a dunkin’ donuts. it has become a dangerous addiction for me.
running with scissors came out in theaters last week and i’m dying to go see it. i need to make a point to try and go see it soon. of course it won’t be as good as the book but i imagine it will be rather great.
i can’t believe it’s november already. the holiday season is upon is. this is by far my favorite time of the year. and the best part of it? all the holiday ads that will start running next week. the only part of the season that i’m concerned about is the weather. it’s getting increasingly cold and the it appears as though the nightly lows are now stuck in the 20s range. now if it would just snow i’d be happy. we will see if i feel differently after the cold really arrives. so far the cold doesn’t seem to be keeping me indoors, granted it’s not nearly as cold as it is going to get. i had a great date this evening. thursday i’ve got a wine tasting class with a magazine account rep. friday night i’m going to a bulls game. i have an mtv party in a couple of weeks. this should be a fairly entertaining autumn/winter.
okay i really should try and catch some moer sleep before work.
