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i hate them.
i've been sitting in front of both of mine since 4 and still haven't gotten to the point to reinstall windows.
i had trouble getting it to recognize the new drive as c: unless i disabled the ide drive first. hopefully i can get it to cooperate once i'm done.
this is more for me in the future, gentle reader, than for you.
i have one little white taste bud on the tip of my tongue and it's pissing me off.
also, i don't know what to think about the sniftag. i kinda want to get jones and nora one (each). whoah, nevermind. i just looked at the cost.
came across this site today and wanted to blog about it so i don't forget.
i've been getting lunch from subway for a while now but probably won't have that luxury when there's 4 feet of snow on the ground. so i need to start bringing my lunch. i was pretty good at it for a while, then i got lazy.
i went and saw dub trio last night... i wasn't entirely impressed, but the second band, el valiente, was really good.
i didn't get home til 2:30. as i told a friend, i think i turned into a pumpkin.
stoughton road and commercial ave seems to be the spot where some of madison's homeless hold their signs, looking very forlorn and cold. last week, a girl with star tattoos on her cheeks and only a hoody and jeans was there. i couldn't read her sign cuz i was driving toward the dog park. i had planned on giving her the only five in my wallet and my headwarmer but she was gone by the time we were on our way back home.
today, there was a sad looking man with a sign expressing his desire to get home for the holidays. and a jesus fish. i think they always add "god bless" in order to appeal to people's catholic guilt.
anyway... i gave him a 10 and said, "good luck". as i drove away, i thought, "i don't care if he spends it on alcohol because at least that'll give him a warm night's sleep, even if it's just in his head."
hopefully he spends it on a bus ticket instead.
my hard drive is dead. i am at the mercy of ups to deliver me a new one.
this means i can't sync my phone to get the new 2.2 update (google street view!) and i'm without my music library (totally separate hard drive).
stupid computers...
one of the cafe workers here noticed and announced that i had lost weight. that was nice.
apparently my hal.dll file is missing or corrupt.
i can already picture what my friday afternoon is going to consist of.
i knew having two computers was not overkill.
sunday evening at woodman's. couldn't deal with the line in the liquor store. had to leave.
yesterday at the dr's office. could hardly hold the cup in which to pee.
almost today at lunch. but i did the breathe-on-your-thumb trick and i think it worked.
uti's are hard to misdiagnose. i used to get them all the time. i almost just told the receptionist lady to send me straight to the pharmacy but decided against it. the dr. was nice enough.
so now i'm on antibiotics and i'm supposed to stay out of the sun.
in other news: i've lost 10lbs in 2 months and had to adjust my watch band to a smaller size.
i feel, very slightly, as though i'm coming down with a uti. aside from the fact that i loathe going to the doctor, the last time i had a uti i didn't have insurance so i took those cranberry pills for a week and stained my toilet and almost turned it into a kidney infection as a result.
so, now i just have to wait til i have to pee again to decide if i need to go to the dr.
and i think i have a fever.
update: confirmed. leaving at 11. i have to get my insurance card so i'll be at the east side dean urgent care in about 2 hours.
i had to do some rejiggering of my vacation time in order not to lose any of it, which left me with the random amount of 4.25; a half day. so i chose to take a half day today and all of tomorrow off.
i really wanted to sleep in today.
apparently i can't drive in the dark anymore. unless there are street lights. i'm going to have to start taking the through-town route again which sucks cuz there's more braking involved. but i had a difficult time last night on 113; not to mention my phone doesn't get a signal between bishop's bay and the other side of governor nelson's state park.
court stenographer, asl interpreter.
just so i don't forget.
i got 20 minutes away from home this morning before realizing my iphone was sitting on my closed laptop at home. i had mere seconds to decide if i should turn around or keep going since i was at the intersection of campus drive and old university. in a flash, i signaled to turn onto breese terrace. the following 25 minutes was witness to the worst driving i think i've ever put up with in madison.
all for my phone.
i also realized this morning that i had left my snack carrier at work which holds my empty coffee mug and nalgene for easy transport home. thusly, i've pinpointed yesterday as the precise moment at which i turned senile.
was not apparent at kohl's this weekend. the parking lot was packed. and i spent $60 on 3 bras. one of which is the most comfortable thing i've ever worn and i highly recommend it. i just may buy three more.
on another note: i have a 3.5 day workweek. using up vacation time.
american girl makes job cuts. i wasn't one of them. we did lose a team member though...
i biked down to mickey's last night and witnessed a hit and run by a vehicle to bicyclist at the atwood/dunning intersection. the biker was fine, but his bike was not. the car took off and it was the first time i didn't look at the license plate. i am manic about that shit. i do remember, however, that it was a tanish, 4-door, compact sedan, and the entire driver's side was smashed in. possibly a toyota or honda. it wasn't an american car.
a white truck took off after the car, presumably to get the plates. hopefully s/he succeeded.
i have my evening and weekend hoodie and my daytime hoodie. i'm wearing the wrong one right now. it has holes everywhere.
i should probably replace it soon.
everyone's in a really good mood today.
it'll probably wear off as the reality of actually supporting the man we've chosen to run the country sets in. i don't think many people realize the depth of support and investment (emotional, actual) he's going to require from us. it's not like someone just steps into a position and viola (i pronounce that wrong on purpose) the world is a new and better place.
americans who want change are going to have to participate in the revolution of that expectation.
the country will be on edge today.
i'm vacillating on whether or not to stay home on my couch with the dogs and a cold bevvie tonight, or hang out at the tavern with other surly/elated folks and risk witnessing a riot.
i forgot my ipod today. which means i had to listen to the bob and tom show this morning since 93.1 the lake is now 9.31 jamz, the place for hip hop in the capitol city. i hate the bob and tom show.
also, since i forgot my ipod, that means i forgot my keycard to get into work because they share space on my dining room table over the weekend. that is all.