confessions

so i do something really bad and i feel a bit guilty …

people campaigning for random offices like to go and stand in front of the entrance to my train stop. the first time i was confronted by my local alderman. after hearing him rant for like two or three minutes i finally explained that i wasn’t registered to vote in chicago. it happened several more times before i finally got registered to vote here. now i’m finding that i’m still using that excuse so i can avoid having to talk to any of them. today one of the candidates for mayor and her campaign team were standing outside the entrance and i didn’t even take off my headphones. i just mumbled “not registered to vote in illinois” and walked by. i feel a bit guilty but they shouldn’t try to force people to talk to them, especially when some of those people [i.e. me] have social anxiety issues.

ooo … i bet i can turn that little incident into a part of my book. i swear i haven’t given up on it yet. i need some sort of creative outlet and it’s all i have at the moment.

i was talking to someone about exciting events at work coming up and sadly one of the things i rambled on about was how we were getting upgraded to office 2007 and how freaking excited i was about it. of course i don’t really like microsoft products all that much, but i love getting new software and what have you. i got a strange look and at first i was taken back. who doesn’t look forward to these things? we got a new intranet this past monday. i wasn’t feeling that great on monday and was almost going to call in sick, but when i remembered the new site was going live today i decided that i should suck it up. i swear i can’t help the fact that i’m a total nerd.

speaking of work … upfront season is coming up and i’m terribly excited. i’ve discovered that there are two prime seasons in the advertising/media world: television upfronts, when we get to see elaborate presentations and get neat gifts, and holiday thank-you season, when companies show their appreciation for your business.

in other news … it’s bitterly cold and i’m afraid to admit it to myself. the high tomorrow is 14. the high saturday is 10. the high sunday is 6. the high monday is 4. does anyone else see anything wrong with this? i was standing on the train platform tuesday or wednesday and it was 3. but with windchill it felt like -12. my face was burning with the bitter coldness and i literally thought i was going to burst into tears at any moment (and i probably would have had my tear ducts not been frozen shut). luckily the space heater i bought myself for my room works AMAZING. i turn that thing up on high for 15 minutes and it’s as toasty as can be.

time to go watch gray’s. until later.

i leave you with a last piece of entertainment ( i have software to download clips from my tivo so i can be entertaining now, forgive the quality of the first few seconds; i exported at a lower quality to get the file size down, i will have to experiment with video quality another night) …