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so you would think a move down the street, literally only 3.5 blocks away, would be easier than this one was. going into the move i was convinced that it would only take about 2-3 hours to make the move over to the new place. yeah, not so much. it ended up taking a good 7 hours to get everything cleared out of the old place and into the new one. last time i moved i didn’t have much furniture since i had roommates previously. what a pain in the ass. trying to get the couch in through the back door was a task unlike any other.
i’m slowly adjusting to the new place and taking my sweet time unpacking. didn’t realize how much crap i have. instead of boxes i used tons of those plastic containers. it took like 15-20 of them and now they’re scattered throughout the house. i estimate at the rate i’m going that i should be done by the end of june or so.
comcast came and installed on wednesday and it only took four days for them to get everything working. the one thing i am impressed is that these old coax wires coming in from outside can handle everything (4 HD Streams + 1 SD Streams + Cable Internet). one HUGE complaint is that the HD box that they provided me only connects to the TV with component cables. horrible picture quality vs. HDMI. i never thought the difference would be so glaring.
to top everything off, thursday was the dreaded layoffs day at work. i was lucky enough to be safe this time around which i am quite grateful for. i will however, be using this as an opportunity to try and get more interactive responsibilities put on my desk.
now that the move & everything at work have passed i am hoping the anxiety attacks start to slow down. i woke up from my nap this afternoon and was freaking out. attacks coming out of sleep are the worst.
and now i’m off to go do some more unpacking. until later.
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 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 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 returned to life
for some reason i seem to always get the cab drivers who want to talk. tonight it was about the weather and if i worked downtown. awkward. one time a few months ago (october 17th to be exact, how i remember this is a complicated story) i was going home and the cab driver started talking to be about god and how he was convinced that that there was and that there wasn’t a good. i was really confused. it was a good story nonetheless. it was also really awkward.
wow how time flies. so my birthday totally sucked. i did get to see avenue q the evening prior which was great. but yeah, the actual birthday was just terrible.
work has been crazy busy. crazy busy indeed.
i got mario kart as a birthday gift from joe. best game ever. i can’t stop playing it.
that’s all for now.
the time that i finally finished packing
we’re barely one week into the month of may and it’s already starting to look like it’s going to be a crazy month. last week was full of finishing off presentations and client meetings. i’m off to new york tomorrow morning for three days filled with meetings with mccann & client with a grand finale of a big presentation on wednesday before heading home that evening.
the week after that is the network upfronts which will make that week go by rather quickly.
that’s all i’ve got. i had more but i need to get some sleep so i’m well rested for the flight in the morning.
until later.
the time that i settled on a couch and started considering the possibility of getting a cat
hooray! so my tax refund is set to be deposited on 22 Feb. this means if all goes as planned i’ll be able to buy my new couch next weekend. i’m now officially 98% set on the couch from crate & barrel. i’ve ordered the fabric swatches to inspect and everything. getting it will be a whole other issue though. i haven’t decided if i’m going to go with the stock fabric or custom fabric, so who knows how long it will be before i actually get the couch.
i finally finished and sent out my 2007 summer promo recap deck at work today. the never-ending campaign is finally behind me for good. what a relief. i finally feel like i’m getting some items completed off of my to-do list.
i’ve been wanting a puppy really badly for quite a while now. after a lot of thought i’m considering a cat. the ex had a tabby american shorthair that i absolutely adored and actually didn’t have a very much of an allergic reaction to at all. i think if i got an air filter and had a place with hardwood floors and just kept up with changing the sheets rather frequently i could actually live with a cat and have no problems. i think i need to visit an allergist to get tested and see if the immunotherapy would be of any benefit to me. i’m trying not too get excited about it, it’s at least 5 or 6 months from happening anyway.
okay that’s all i’ve got.
the time i was tired and didn’t want to bother developing a better title
this post initially started off with just reading “an entry … tomorrow … i swear.” but somehow i ended up giving in and writing a bit more.
what an interesting week it has been … the first three days back to work last week were busy and all sorts of crazy. on friday morning i was promoted! woot woot! a bit expected and a bit unexpected. i knew it had been in the works for a while now but i wasn’t expecting it to happen right after we returned from the holiday break. there’s a terribly funny story to go with all of this but it can’t be told yet because it’s not done.
other than that i suppose most of my time has just been spent working. getting back into the swing of things has been crazy. it has been nonstop, especially these last two or three days. my goal is to be done with two big items on my to-do list tomorrow and then i’ll be a boatload less stressed out. i didn’t end up leaving work today until 8:30ish. all my own doing though, i’ve determined that even though i have the laptop now i just can’t get work done when i’m not sitting behind a desk. i guess i’m going to have get a desk for home now.
so yeah, on my way home on the bus today there was this guy eating pizza. i don’t understand why people are okay with eating on the bus or on the train. it’s kind of gross. first of all, who wants to eat in a public place where people are just sitting there staring at you. and secondly, what kind of environment is that to eat in. i only like to eat when i can sit down and enjoy the meal. i would never eat in route to somewhere. it’s just so weird.
that is all.
the time ryan wished you a happy new year … now get back to work!
ah. the 2007 holiday season is now behind us and it’s time to look forward to the remaining 365 days of the year (2008 is a leap year and contains 366 total days). tomorrow is back to work, which i’m sort of looking forward to. i’m moving to another office on the other side of the building and i’m finally getting a work-issued laptop so i’ll finally have VPN access from home. plus it’s a three-day work week so i can’t complain too much.
last night was rather enjoyable. ended up going out with a couple of friends but we ended up at a place that was relatively dead for new year’s, which actually ended up being rather great. it was nice and calm and just a relaxed evening overall. plus, i was home by 1am which was nice. we did manage to unearth the answer to the age old question – which comes first, buzzed or tipsy? the correct order is apparently 1. tipsy, 2. buzzed, 3. drunk. just a little bit of trivia for the inquiring mind.
happy new year to all!
