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i believe it’s safe to say that today can be declared one of the worst days of the year so far. from the moment i woke up it has just been one of those days.
today the ceo and several other executives of the most popular premium video content site (rhymes with lulu; not typing the real name because i have discovered they are all over the social media sphere and regularly monitor for mentions of their name). hands down the best part of the day. i loved the site before but after hearing from the top guys themselves i’m sort of in awe. the company, the people who run it, their vision, everything about the company blows my mind. i wish every media company out there could be filled with the passion and excitement that they are. i’m biased though i suppose as i’m definitely a huge fan of the site and the technology.
after that meeting the stress of work definitely got to me. i’m feeling like a complete failure at work. it’s really eating me up and i really let it get to me this evening. i wish i wouldn’t have but it all just boiled over and and before i knew it i was just feeling like crap. bleh.
and to top off the day for me … as i was leaving work it was pouring, absolutely pouring. of course i totally forgot to bring my umbrella to work today (or so i thought). i stopped into the cvs in the building to pick up an umbrella. nearly $20 later i was well on my way out the door with a trusty umbrella in my hand. i get about 50 feet away from the front door and the rain slows to a very light sprinkle. great. just great. so i fold up the umbrella and go to store it in my bag and what do i find? my umbrella. it was in my bag the whole time. that was like the icing on the day.
that’s all for now. i’m done with this self-pity party and my head hurts too much to put any more thoughts together.
the time that i could use a thoughtwriter
in the 3001:the final odyssey (the third book after 2001), they have these things called thoughtwriters. they hook up to your brain and you can think something and it automatically gets transcribed electronically. it would make things so much easier. particularly writing these entries in a timely manner.
i made the mistake of watching the series finale of six feet under this evening. those last 10 minutes are such a tear-jerker. the sad thing is that i’m keeping it on my tivo so i can watch it again later this week.
i have so much work to get done but i’m so stressed that i was worthless today. i just couldn’t focus and was jumping around all day. it was so much easier to focus when we had separate offices. for some reason i just can’t stay focused in the new surrounding. being a cube rat is so unpleasant that i find it incredibly difficult to stay past 6pm these days. working in an uncomfortable environment just isn’t my thing. not sure why i’m so particular about this.
that’s all for now. i need some sleep. more later.
the time that we went to costco and other things
so yesterday afternoon we went to costco only to end up buying nothing of use. we left with a 2 gallon tub of red vines, 30 packs of gum, 36 mini packs of cookies, 20 packs of freeze-dried fruit, and 36 packs of fruit snacks. oh the dangers of buying in bulk. i have stored them in a drawer i have dubbed the snack drawer. now it just beckons my name. the freeze-dried fruit has become my new obsession. i’m going to run out before i get another chance to go back and restock. what a shame.
for a late lunch/really early dinner yesterday we went to uncle julio’s which is hands down my favorite mexican food restaurant in the city. i find it weird that the national mexican chain is the place i like best in the city but all the “authentic” places in the city just seem to be missing something. what i really miss is tex-mex. i am dying to go back to austin and get some …
speaking of austin, i’m trying to plan a large trip home to dallas and austin in april but i’m finding it a bit more difficult than i originally planned. my goal is to make this trip a week and a half to two weeks but there are a lot of minor details that still need to be worked out.
next week i’m going to ny/purchase to see the client which i am looking forward to. plus i will get to see all the client’s in person as well as members of my team from austin.
that’s all for now.
the time i was ready for the week to be over
today was seriously a horrible day at work. my mind was scattered all day, i couldn’t keep focus at all, i had a million things going on between trying to send out feedback letters and handling a million other little things. ugh so much to deal with and by the end of the day i had become beyond frazzled. so happy today is over.
grrrrr. i am frustrated. i need some time on the wii fit and then a nightcap. and then it’s off to bed for me.
oh yeah, did i mention the wii fit? i will get the wii fit tracker up online and running soon. not doing so great 1 week into it.
is this week over yet?
the time that i felt funny
so i ended up working from home today for non-sick reasons but this afternoon i started feeling sick. i’m just hoping that it will pass with some sleep this evening. my stomach feels like a ate junk food all day but for once i actually ate well (frosted mini-wheats for breakfast and peanut butter sandwiches for lunch). so now i’m sitting her hungry, but not wanting to eat.
so yeah, back to yesterday’s entry … so now that my furniture is rearranged i’ve set up stations in the living room to help get through my huge digital document project. i’ve decided that any thing that can be accessed online will no longer be scanned in which has cut down on the amount of paper work in the scan pile. the new problem is that the pile for shredding is crazy huge. minor issues, i know.
i know it’s only mid-february but i’m already dreading the summer when all the good television shows go back into hibernation. for now i will just have to make the most of everything on right now. the season premiere of amazing race was absolutely amazing. i want to try out for the show but i haven’t found anyone to apply with. it would be a great experience to do some of those things they do.
more to come later when i can think clearly.
the time that i was too lazy to complete this entry title
i have to say that i get a sick pleasure out of seeing stupid people make a fool of themselves. i spent a great portion of the afternoon watching parking wars on a&e which is by far one of the most amusing shows i’ve ever seen. people are stupid and it drives me crazy. absolutely crazy. there was this one person on the show who kept parking illegally near her work and she kept getting tickets and then when her car got towed she acted like it was a joke and it shouldn’t have happened. complete ignorance drives me up the wall. now i’m watching 60 minutes and am amazed at the immense amount of senselessness portrayed by some.
at this moment in time i’m sitting in my apartment freezing. it seems that every now and then the heat all of a sudden just stops working. if i didn’t have my space heater i don’t know what i’d do. i have three months before it’s time to move so i guess it’s time to start feeling out the market and decide what i’m going to look for in a new apartment. i am actually looking forward to this move. i’m getting super organized and i think packing and the move is going to go by really quickly.
joe and i spent last night moving my furniture around so that i have more room to use the wii fit in the living room but now i’m not liking the acoustics. the speakers on the television now point the couch and the hallway so i’m losing some of the sound quality. i suppose i will just deal with it until i move because plugging all those wires back in again is too big of a task for me to want to pursue.
more to come when i’m done with amazing race.
the time that i somehow made it through the week alive
what an amazingly exhausting week that went by rather quickly.
i wasn’t able to sleep much this week. it was rather horrible. my ability to sleep is diminishing by the day. it has become increasingly evident over the last few weeks that i just don’t seem to be able to get more than 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night and even those aren’t the best. i manage to get more on the weekend but that’s only because i take advil pm to help get some sleep (ironically i’ve had headaches everyday for the past week or two). the results came back on the sleep study that they did on me the previous week and they found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. very, very annoying. i did manage to get a ridiculously expensive prescription for my stomach medicine out of this though. i started doing the mail order service to get 3 months worth of pills at once. it cost me a $100 co-pay but even more amazingly is the $800 that insurance was billed on top of that. so now i have this bottle the size of a red bull can that is filled with almost $1000 worth of my stomach medicine. that just blows my mind.
work has been incredibly busy. i literally spent half of the week on the phone negotiating. so much to get done and while it’s a bit stressful, i have to say that it’s incredibly fulfilling. over the last few weeks i’ve expanded my role at the agency to include some interactive media duties and i have to say that i’m having a blast. i love being able to do my traditional media planning/strategy and then also getting to work on interactive media strategy. so yes work is crazy busy but i’m loving every minute. one of the other planners on my team and i are even entering into the media portion of the cannes young lions competition which is rather exciting.
speaking of work … my client did an AMAZING thing this week and gave me tickets to the live taping of death cab for cutie’s performance on the pbs soundstage show. i can’t even put into words how exciting that is.
that’s pretty much all i’ve got for the moment.
the time that i couldn’t sleep and it made me a sad panda
so last week’s sleep study was rather interesting. they hooked all kinds of wires and then had me sleep. that was no easy task. the wires were rather short and connected to this metal box that they had to put in bed with me. i toss and turn a lot at night and every time i would turn around the box would jam itself into my back. good times. so now i just wait for final results to see if anything was learned from all of that. good times.
between the lack of a decent evening of sleep and all the self-induced stress from work, i’m starting to wear thin. there’s just so much to get done and not enough time to do it all. plus me being exhausted all the time doesn’t help.
that reminds me … i’m tired and it’s time to go try and sleep before the drowsiness fades.
