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my mood generally goes from ennui to elation between monday and thursday. friday is just a throw-away day at work since we're only here for five hours. but, i took the day off tomorrow so i wouldn't have to participate in the forced fun of halloween.
i'm looking forward to the long weekend. but not to daylight savings. :/
i just donated $15 to the obama campaign. i've never given money to a candidate before.
apparently i get a car magnet out of the deal. my donation probably covered postage for 10 magnets.
i'm trying to figure out which undergrad program the uw has that involves human-computer interaction. their website is kind of annoying to use. i can't find anything resembling it.
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woke up with a sore throat and a headache. i never get headaches so they make me ornery.
i slept til 10.
the dogs are excited, but i'm too weak to take them to the dog park. and it's yucky out.
i wrote a letter to tds this week complaining about my experience with deactivating my voice line and only having dsl. they have yet to get back to me, but it may be because they're trying to figure out who gets to deal with me.
i used proper capitalization so they wouldn't think me a dunce.
Normally I don't do this, but I'm particularly frustrated with the situation. I've been a TDS customer for over 10 years with the account number 6082861312. I recently opted to get rid of the voice portion of my services since my home phone was serving very little use. This process was very cumbersome and resulted in losing service (both voice and dsl) for a week. Subsequently, I received an electronic credit of $53. As a result of removal of the voice service, I was apparently assigned a new account number and sent a paper bill with a charge of $83; imagine my surprise.So, I had to call to initiate the credit adjustment from the previous account to the new one; somehow I feel as though that's not my responsibility and your systems should be able to accommodate a changed account number without the customer even knowing. Now I have to wait for a new pin (which I'll have to call again to change back to the previous pin so I can remember it) in order to set up electronic payments and suppress paper statements again.
I'm sure you understand the value of your customer's time, and obviously you're not trying to inconvenience me on purpose... I just would like your company to be aware that it is possible to make this a seamless process for your customer if you've a mind to design for your customer and not for your CEO.
I'd appreciate a response, and if possible, a credit for my week of lost service.
voting early. i'm not sure if my nerves will last against the crowds i'm hoping will turn out.
maybe i'll do it on the way home from work tomorrow.
i'm starting to get involved in several high-profile projects at work. those projects incur lots of meetings covering a myriad of topics... thusly, i lose time for myself (read: lunch). i just blocked off my lunch hour from today to the end of the year in an attempt to claim time. betcha $2 it won't work 50% of the time.
p.s., i have a tiny dentscratch in my phone and i don't know how it got there. :/
i'm hopping around vegan websites/cookbooks. do i have the wherewithal?
i'll probably have to give up sushi (well, the fishy kind) some time during my lifetime due to the depleted tuna and salmon. and the fact that they're not necessarily good for you in the quantities which i would like to consume.
cheese would be most difficult. i've only found one vegan cheese that came even remotely close to being appropriate to be placed between two slices of bread. i've switched to not getting mayo on my "6-inch veggie on wheat please"... maybe i should cut out the cheese once and see if it affects the flavor.
hm. it's worth thinking about, at least.
i overheard once that we generally wear 10% of our clothes 90% of the time. whenever i get the urge to clean out my closet, i think, "what if i'll want to wear that next week?" or the sentimental d.a.r.e. to keep kids off drugs shirt with a hole in it that i'll never wear. or the sweater that would fit just right if i were either always standing up, or dropped 10 lbs.
yea, maybe i should purge.
did not knit yesterday. i forgot to take it with me on my visit to see kurt at the tavern, and we ended up going out for sushi, so i got home just in time to crawl into bed.
late-night sushi results in some very strange dreams. ones that are not appropriate for repeating. oh! except part of the dream consisted of gas being $8.99 a gallon.
i did a load of laundry last night but it was still a little damp when i got up this morning... so my work-suitable hoodies weren't dry. kurt lent me one of his zip-up sweatshirts, so i get to smell him all day. it's nice.
also, we installed our wall-mounted shelves on sunday... but i'm too lame to take pictures. i'll try to grab some tonight.
i just forgot to take a picture of it before handing it over. once the weather permits, i'll grab a snapshot of the scarf in action.
has positively dragged by.
on a lighter note: i'm halfway to netflixing teen wolf and teen wolf too. i think it's hilarious that you have to rent them together.
got my new sena case earlier this week. i'd show you the drastic difference, but my blog won't let me upload a pic. :(
i was 14/15... and completely in love with digital underground. i played the humpty dance over and over and over and over. listening to it again this afternoon takes me right back to the barrymore when i smelled pot in the theater/room and felt like mom would be so mad if she knew.
lol.
apparently there are some changes in how eligibility to vote is being determined this time around... don't get caught in a rigmarole; check your registration.
not much to say today... the ennui is thick.
i did just get rjdj from the app store and it's pretty awesome.
i have the chiropractor this afternoon, hairscutty tomorrow, and dentist on monday. it's like dorothy's crew at the end of the wizard of oz.
so, i bought a sena case for my iphone and it started coming apart at the edges from use. i finally emailed them to let them know i thought a $30 leather case should last longer than 5 months and they're sending me a new one free of charge with a return box! though i don't care for the fact that it'll probably wear out in another 5 months, at least i won't have had to pay for it.
here's what the case looks like, if you're interested.
we're participating in forced volunteerism, being reduced to four letters, and having a pizza lunch in order to "team build". so i won't be at my desk today.
apparently, i've switched to an ISTJ in the last three years.
i didn't get around to recording knitting for joy this weekend. sorry.
thank goodness for a short week.
lol. about two weeks ago, i wrote to our hr guy with some concerns about the amount of time and effort put toward halloween when we can't seem to muster the same amount of energy for regular projects.
i just got through my work email after a 4-day weekend... they canceled halloween.
i feel like a kid with a.d.d.
i'm willing to bet if i'd been born 10 years later, i would have been diagnosed as such.
i'm currently waiting for the water heater to warm up enough so i can shower. we keep it low, usually.
i just bought my discontinued hair dye on ebay for $1 less than retail. i wonder if i can complain to l'oreal.
i keep forgetting to use friendfeed cuz it's another website i have to go check.
also, obama released a free iphone app today. go get it.
every once in a while, i get a wild hair and decide to boycott the cafe at work. usually, my reasoning involves the amount of meaty specials they offer, which leaves me with a salad. while healthy, not necessarily always appetizing or filling. more recently, i've been struck by the amount they charge for a veggie burger, bag of chips, and a 16oz soda (i get iced tea) in a corn cup. so, i've been going to subway... and i'll have saved $10 this week by doing so.
i've just removed 90% of my personal effects from my cubicle. i'll give the boss 3 weeks before he notices.
i didn't do i for that, though. i did it cuz i'm bored of all the silly little trinkets and knitted items and orange bits that i've been staring at for 7+ years. ok, maybe a little to see who notices.
i was reading my dailies and cam across an entry that said google had a weird day, so i went to my trusty phone and looked up the stocks. and i saw this:
i have two skirts. i wear one about twice a year. today is one of those days.
it's made from a pair of phat pants from my rave days. i just tried to take a pic but my cubeoffice is too dark and my arm is too short to hold my phone far enough away. it's also the only bottom-half covering i own which will fit my favorite belt.