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if this works like I hope it will then I might just start writing more entries. We shall see.
the time that i got into a fight with a cab driver
so today was my first day off from work since january. i probably should have used it in a more resourceful manner but instead i used it to relax a bit. joe and i went to dinner and a movie this evening. we saw monsters vs. aliens in 3D which was awesome. any movie in 3D is good in my opinion though. afterwards we got in a cab and headed home because i refused to walk to the train station, sit on the train for half an hour and then walk another 10 minutes home. all was fine until we arrive home and the cab driver shows his stupidity. i hand him my debit card to which he clearly lets out a huge sigh. awww boohoo, heaven forbid he have to follow the rules. so he grabs a credit card slip (because he wasn’t fancy enough to have one of the machines in the car) only to declare that he doesn’t have a pen. seriously?!? well i was thinking that the ride would be free since he wouldn’t be able to proceed with the transaction. luckily joe pulled a pen out of his car that was parked nearby. he rubs the card to imprint the numbers and hands me back the slip … blank, with nothing else written on it. i had to write in the final cost and was pretty annoyed and pissed off at this point. i took my card and my copy of the receipt and slammed the door. he yelled a friendly “Fuck You” out the window as a parting gift. i proceeded to go inside and report him on the city complaint website.
and that ladies and gentlemen, was my friday evening.
the time that i was [fill in blank here]
i turned in my 60 day notice to my landlord this week. now i’m sort of panicking. what if i don’t end up finding another acceptable place within my budget? erg. apartment hunting and moving always adds to my stress levels, which isn’t good considering that i’m an inherently stress-filled person. erg. i am so not looking forward to this. now i’m going to be [even more] paranoid and stressed for the next two months.
i have recently come back from a trip to the country (aka joe’s house) and am extremely happy to report that 3G service has arrived there. so exciting. now if only at&t could get the 3G service her in the city to work that would be awesome.
softball is about to begin, which i’m looking forward to, well except for the whole waking up early thing. that always sucks. but at least it means summer will be here before we know it, although you couldn’t imagine that if you looked outside my window right now and saw the snow falling.
okay, time for bed. until later.
the time that i was sick and too lazy to post
my apologies for the long absence. i got sick two weeks ago and over the last week i’ve finally started to recover. nothing very exciting going on though so not like much has been missed. lots of work, although i wish i would have taken some legitimate sick time from work so that i could have recovered faster. oh well, i am feeling much better now and counting down until the next agency holiday. less than two weeks until a three day weekend. now that’s something to look forward to.
the big issue of the last couple of weeks has been my complete lack of patience. so as soon as the iPhone OS 3.0 beta was announced i debated if i would do one of two things: 1. wait like a normal consumer until it is released as a final version or 2. sign up as a developer and try the sucker out (let it be noted that i’m also teaching myself to write code at the same time, so this wasn’t a complete play to just try out the software). so yeah, i ended up signing up and downloading the beta. of course the beta doesn’t handle my agency’s exchange security certificates correctly for some reason, so haven’t had access to work email. not the worst thing though. i have no issues waiting until the next beta update until i can fix that issue.
beyond that nothing too exciting going on. softball is getting ready to start in a few weeks and i have officially declared my intent to play again this year. i am horrible at softball but at least i enjoy hanging out with the people on the team. it will make for an enjoyable summer.
that’s all for now. until later.
the time that i jumped into the stock market
despite the fact that my 401k is down like 50% from everything i’ve put into it over the last three years, i decided that now would be a great time to expand my investment knowledge. so i made the decision to make an investment in the stock market, into an actual single company that is, not just a mutual fund. it’s a very small investment but we shall see where it goes. after one day in trading i am still even with my investment. good times. i won’t reveal the company i invested in for the moment as it was sort of a huge gamble (small bet, huge gamble).
i am so sad that the season is coming to an end for big love & united states of tara. such amazing shows and i will be sad to have to wait until another season of both.
as spring break arrives for all the grade school and college aged students, i can’t help but wish everyone received a spring break. i’m thinking i’m going to need to take some of my time off in the near future. i’m almost back up to 4 weeks and need bring it down a bit, particularly my personal and sick days since i have to use those before the end of the year.
okay my attention span has been spent for the evening. until later.
the time that i further increased my nerd factor
now i’m the first to admit that i’m a huge nerd. giant techie. can’t get enough. i mean i’m one of the people who will be going on their third iPhone this summer when the next version will likely come out (yay for iPhone OS 3.0 preview next week!). one thing, however, that i’ve been adopting at a slower than usual pace is twitter. i checked it out quite a while ago although didn’t sign up for an account until last summer. i have been slow to start following people because i initially felt it would just be too overwhelming. i am happy to announce that i’m quickly ramping up the process and am nearing a total of 50 for my following list. granted, that number doesn’t seem large but i have to learn to manage more in incremental steps. i’m slowly developing the skills to keep up with it throughout the day and i think i’ve mastered those skills to the point where i feel comfortable going crazy now. i suppose it’s like google reader, it took my a while but now i’m able to have more than 100 RSS feeds aggregating and not feel lost in the sea of unread posts.
at work i’ve begun working on a digital 101 presentation that i’m beyond excited about. finally getting to spend time working on presentations that center around my passion. not that media planning in general isn’t a passion, because it most certainly is. i love my career in general, but getting to go in and specialize in digital and emerging technology just makes it that much more amazing. it’s my goal to make this a top-notch presentation so that i can wow people within the agency who might not have had the chance to work with me yet (especially after I sullied my name after the whole NYT quote debacle of 2008).
okay time to try sleeping again.
the time that i worked on an award submission
so myself and one of the other media planners at the agency decided to enter the 2009 young lion cannes media competition. same premise of the cannes and run by the same people but it’s supposed to focus more on the younger professionals. of course the timing lined up horrible with the end of a huge campaign i was putting together for work. so here we are, 24 hours until the final entry is do and it’s time to put together the rest of this entry. hopefully the final pieces will come together over the the next 18 or so hours.
i just got hungry all of a sudden and had to convince myself that i shouldn’t make myself brownies and eat them for dinner. i came home and took a nap so i sort of missed out on dinner time. i seriously need a diet and some exercise. i was wearing a shirt today and i could just feel the the fat bursting at the seams. i tried sucking in my gut the whole time trying to hide it. lame. i need to do something about this. i am afraid to get on my wii fit because i really don’t want to know what i am weighing at the moment. time to rededicate myself to getting in shape.
and that is that. back to trying to crank this submission out and hopefully get some rest.
the time that i think i was about done with “the time that”
yeah, i’m starting to become annoyed with the “the time that …” titles. i will spend the next few days working on some new variations.
i have been overly exhausted since i’ve returned from new york. not sure why. between the time shift across time zones and then the switch to daylight saving time, everything just seems off. the one amazing thing is that the temperature since coming back had been amazing up until today. Thursday & Friday were amazing days. I can’t wait until spring is officially here.
okay i don’t have the attention span to finish this at the moment. i am getting too tired to focus. more later.
the time i was in new york and super tired
client trips are one of my favorite things. coming up to purchase, ny is always fun. kinda wish we were staying in the city but sadly only meetings scheduled with the client this time around. either way, for some reason work is ten times more exciting when you’re not doing it at your desk. the one issue i do have is that the one hour time zone difference has really messed up my sense of time. i’m not usually this bad but it has been completely thrown off.
on a completely random note … for some reason the hotel gave me a handicap accessible room. i assume it’s because they didn’t have any other normal rooms with king size beds. it’s just so strange. everything is spaced so far apart and there’s not shower, just a huge stall with no curtain or door. very odd. in addition to that, the pillows that are on the bed are midget pillows. they’re only like a foot long and there are three of them on the bed. i’m not understanding these pillows.
grrr it’s 1am already. time to get some sleep. more later.
the time that travel made me nervous
morning travel makes me nervous. i’m always afraid that either i won’t wake up on time or that i’ll end up taking longer to get ready than i plan and that i might end up missing my flight. it’s not so bad when it’s casual travel but the fact that i have an important meeting and if i were to miss my flight i would be f-ed. seriously, i’m terrified of this every time i have to fly out in the morning. i just took a sleeping pill so that i can try and get some sleep tonight. i don’t need to be tossing and turning all night because i’m worrying all night.
okay joe picked up the hard copy of the presentation we are giving tomorrow and he doesn’t understand any of it. i have to explain media planning to him now and then it’s off to bed for me. more to come later.
the time that i wished the day would just end
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.
the time that i couldn’t sleep #1492a
erg. i had been laying in bed for over an hour when i realized that i wasn’t any where closer to falling asleep than i was when i initially tried going to bed. so, as i have been taught, i got out of bed to take a break before i try going to bed again. so here i am sitting in front of the tv watching iron chef america and killing time before i try to go to bed again in 45 minutes.
speaking of iron chef america, i have randomly become obsessed with food network shows this weekend. i have added four more season passes to my tivo list just from shows i have watched today.
speaking of food … i’m trying to start getting healthy (yes, something i’ve tried a million times before). i have been eating the most unhealthy foods recently and i can honestly say that i’ve never been this large in my life. my medium clothes are starting to feel tight and my pants are starting to have issues closing. i need to start taking some drastic measures or i’m seriously going to regret it. i really need to try and be a bit more active outdoors once it starts warming up again. i also need to start eating better and managing my diet better. i just can’t allow me to do this to myself anymore.
and back to tv … speaking of good tv shows … this weekend i started watching united states of tara on showtime. wasn’t sure how i was going to like it based on the synopsis:
A woman struggles to find a balance between her dissociative identity disorder and raising a dysfunctional family.
it didn’t sound so great initially, but after watching the first episode i have to say i’m hooked. i was scared after the first 15 minutes of the pilot because I wasn’t sure how the story was going to play out but i must say that after i realized it’s a dark comedy i warmed up to it immediately. the personalities that this woman goes through are complex and interesting and the response of the family is confusing yet intriguing.
and now i’m bored. i need to find a new book to read. it’s been a couple of months since i’ve ready a good book. hmmm. i will make that something to accomplish this week.
speaking of this week. it’s going to be an interesting week. i’m about to kick off negotiations for an ad campaign but at the same time i’m releasing rfps this week which comes along with having to let people down and having to deal with those who refuse to take no for an answer. good times to be had by all.
i am still amidst my first box of paperwork that i am trying to get scanned and shredded. this is taking a lot longer than i initially expected. there are about 500-1000 pages of documents to be scanned in this box alone. i can’t imagine how many others there are in the remaining 4-5 boxes of paperwork i have. once i have all this scanning done it will surely make the next move rather easy. getting rid of all this stuff will take care of like 20-25% of all the boxes i filled when i moved last. i have four more months to complete this scanning project and get rid of all the other clutter that i no longer need.
after that task is done the next problem to tackle will be the lack of hard drive space. between all these documents i’ve been archiving and all the tv shows i’ve been transferring off of my tivo and onto the external hard drive, i’m set to have a serious hard drive space issue soon. my temproary quick solution will be to just add a usb hub to my apple time capsule and keep adding hard drives like crazy. i will have to come up with a better solution at a later date.
hmmm i just realized that the number in the title of this entry (1492) is also the year columbus sailed the ocean blue, right? [sings to self: in 1492, columbus sailed the ocean blue.]
this weekend was rather boring. joe is sick with the stomach flu so the weekend was somewhat sidelined after i had to stay up all friday evening worrying about him because he had to go to the hospital [ugh, brings back bad memories of my jan '06 trip to the hospital for the stomach flu]. it was getting late on friday and i was working myself up into a panic attack so i finally just took some advil pm and knocked myself out for my own good.
so yeah, the weekend was spent worrying about joe and trying to mess up my sleep schedule even more. not that there’s a lot to do out and about on the weekend in the dead of winter. it wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t so cold outside. it was just way too cold this weekend to do anything. not that i could do much since i have gone back to being anti-social. that is something else i’m going to try and fix this year. i’ve reverted back to my anti-social ways of not having friends to hang out with and it’s beginning to suck. last weekend i had brunch with josh which was fun and then this week i am having drinks with my friend michael. that’s two social outings in one month, a decent improvement i suppose. still a lot of work to be done though. i need to figure out how to make new friends
okay enough of coming up with random stuff to talk about. i suppose i will go find something else to do around here before i try sleeping again.
the time that i didn’t make any sense at all.
so i went back and read the entry i made last night and it totally doesn’t make any sense. yay me!
i am most thankful that the week is finally over. seemed like a never ending and most stressful week, although i suppose it is going to be that way until at least the end of february.
now that lost, damages, and battlestar galactica are back on tv with new seasons i couldn’t be happier. the first two episodes of lost were rather interesting. not as fulfilling as i would have liked but still rather great. the island time jumping thing is rather odd and could get rather annoying quickly. my hope is that it will stop before they reach the mid-season mark. three episodes into damages and it’s been quite amazing as well. it will be interesting to see how the story line for this season plays out but there have already been some REALLY good twists. as for battlestar galactica, i’m sad to say that i was somewhat disappointed in the beginning fo the last half of this season. itfeels like everything has just started over and they’re back in the same situation. they have a lot of work to do in the last 8 episodes if i’m going to be satisfied with the ending to the series. caprica, however, will hopefully hold a great deal of promise. getting to know the back story will likely be insanely interesting.
television is absolutely amazing. i thought i loved tv before i got my hdtv but once i got it i really discovered what television is. add in the movie channels and i could literally sit in front of the television all the time. actually, i know that i couldn’t. i tried that over the holiday break and nearly lost my mind after just two and a half days.
beyond tv and work i don’t have much else going on. i don’t really have too much extra time.
i have been having a horrible time sleeping lately so on monday morning i’m heading to the doctor’s office to explore the possibility of me having sleep apnea. after doing some research it seems like a lot of my symptoms are sure signs of all the fatigue and sleep issues i’ve had over the past several years. it will be interesting to find out if this is what is really causing everything.
okay i’m off to bed. more later.
the time that i was stressed and sleepy
this week needs to end immediately. it has been so sleepy and stressful and it’s driving me crazy. in fact, i’m too sleepy to finish this. i’m off to bed. this was sort of pointless i guess.
the time that i added a boat load of movies to my must-see list
after watching the golden globes tonight i have greatly increased the list of movies that i need to watch in the very near future to include:
- Wall-E
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Doubt
- Burn After Reading
- Last Chance Harvey
- Confessions of a Shopoholic (pretend you didn’t see this one)
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Bernard & Doris
- John Adams
- Frost/Nixon
- In Bruges
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Reader
- Revolutionary Road
- He’s Just Not That Into You (again, pretend you didn’t see this one)
- Milk
- Rachel Getting Married
- Changeling
- Gran Torino
- The Dark Knight
yeah, i have no idea when i’m going to get through the whole list. i will have to get started immediately.
in other news … something that really annoys me are the new ny-quil/day-quil with vitamin c commericals. the commercials feature their new formulations that include vitamin c that is supposed to be good at preventing and stopping colds, right? well then why do they feature people who are vitamin c fanatics? if these people are taking tons of vitamin c and are still getting sick, why would ny-quil with vitamin c be any kind of improvement?
and that’s all i’ve got for now. i have some desparate housewives and brothers & sisters to get watched before i head off to bed.
the time that i had this great idea that didn’t work out
so now that i’m also working on a new account at work i find myself busier than i’ve ever been. this is great except for the fact that i’m always busy now. i came home and was rather exhausted so i developed this plan where i would go to bed early (9pm) and then just wake up really early (6am) and try to get some work done. well, i woke up at 5am and couldn’t get back to sleep so i went to get started on some work only to realize that i left all the files that i need as a reference on my desk. some good that does me. the good thing is i just realized that i do have something that i can work on now that will hopefully give me the rest of the day to work on the other two projects i need to get done.
so today was the apple keynote at macworld. nothing too exciting. the fact that iTunes music is now sold DRM free is kinda great. or at least it was until i realized how much it will cost to upgrade all the songs i’ve purchased to date in my collection. the problem is that you can’t upgrade anything individually. it’s either everything or nothing. hmmmm. doesn’t look like i’ll be upgrading my library any time soon.
the time that i had 13 days off – parts XI – XIII
i am rather excited to be returning to work tomorrow. not because i miss work but because it will give me something to do. i will need to send some of today working a couple of presentations so that i don’t go into the week with nothing prepared. i should have today but i was too busy sleeping and playing guitar hero.
i’ve begun the early, early stages of seeking out a new apartment. i still have 5 months to go before my lease expires but i figure i might as well get a feel for where i want to focus my searching energies when i do get serious about it. grrr. i hate moving. and even more then i hate moving i hate apartment searching.
ugh i’ve been staring at this thing for an hour now. i can’t remember what else i was going to write about. until later i suppose.
