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November 26, 2003These are a few of my thankful thingsIn no order of importance:
November 24, 2003If I can make it through today...I can make it through tomorrow. I’m currently bordering between calm me and full out panic attack me. I don’t know why I’ve been in the grumpiest of grumpy moods as of late, everything is annoying me and I mean everything. I don’t want to be at work, I don’t want to work on a “Working Bibliography”, I don’t want to think about my art project that I’ll be having a midway through critique tomorrow. I’m having a Peter from Office Space period. I don’t want to do anything. I want to get up, not go to work, not care about not going into work. This weekend, my one and only goal was to make progress on the two class projects. Did I achieve my goal? No. I didn’t even really touch anything remotely close to it, hell; I didn’t even touch one of my projects. Now I’m in full panic mode, trying not to scare the bejebus out of me with all the impending work. I need a vacation. Instead of getting outside during lunch, I spent it at my desk working on one assignment for my class. I hear from my coworkers that it’s unusually nice for a late November day. I haven’t talked with anyone much, I’m just trying not to snap at the 50 sheets of paper one boss handed me to do data entry. I can’t even work on the site project that I am supposed to be working on. It’s one of the quietest times of the year and I have an inane project to work on, what the f shit is that? I was working on the assignment and the project is a “Working Bibliography” which must comprise of 20 or more sources, three of which must be books. We can use the internet, but no more than three sources must come from there. This irritated me because my topic is the RIAA and their interests based upon financial gains at the cost of consumers. Well, the whole thing is about piracy, music, online sharing, and copyright infringement – I think I will need to point out to him that I will find most of my information at such sites as the RIAA, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, Wired, and Salon. Most, if not all, my sources are located on the internet and to only submit three sources, I might have to roshambo my professor for the other 14. Other than not doing what I should have been doing, I had a decent weekend. It was comprised of free Ommegang beer at Mahar’s (which was damn tasty along with the Belgian chocolates), seeing Love Actually with John and Mer (it was good even if Alan Rickman’s character was a douche), and Kelly’s delicious pumpkin cheesecake (which I think I soiled myself upon first bite).
November 20, 2003November 17, 2003Monday, bloody MondayIt's 8:10 am, I've been up for four hours already. I ate breakfast at 5 am, I showered at 6 am, I got to work at 7:36 am, I got pissed off about work at 8:05 am. This day does not bode well, I said to myself as I shut my car door that I will not have a bad day. I still am steadfast in that statement, I will not have a bad day... no, other people are going to wish that I just stayed home today because I am in no mood to take stupidity and do the work that others should be doing. I have finally resigned myself to the fact that yes, I am in fact sick. It started yesterday at Mahar's. My eye was tearing and my nose was acting funky, this morning my eye is perpetually tearing and my nose is leakier than a reporter on a white house scandal. I need to find some meds that clog up the nose but don't contain pseudoephedrine. I don't need to be walking around this place continually chanting, "I will not kill, I will not kill, I will not kill..... MUST EAT BRAINS" The weekend was a great one. Mahar's Friday night with Mer and John, four delicious mugs of beer goodness. Saturday was lowkey, I finally got around to watching Searching for Bobby Fischer, had some awesome turkey burgers and damned Time Warner for their crappy DVR box. Yesterday was the Shebeen and it was pretty decent, lots of good beers, and tasty treats. Pat made Mer's french toast recipe Saturday night and we ate that for brunch in the morning and I made Beef Stew in the morning to eat at night. Best beef stew I have ever made, the beef was so tender, and my special ingredient was Irish Whiskey. Yum.
November 13, 2003The Dead MonthsThe dead months have arrived my friends; the long hard times wait for us
November 12, 2003My non-holidayWhere some people were honouring out nation's veterans by participating in parades, cemetery visits, memorials and dedications. I spent the majority of the day doing laundry - lots and lots of laundry. Thankfully, no one was in the place since I took up a 40-lb, 3 20-lb, and 3 normal washers and similarly 9 dryers. After spending the three hours in the place I decided to finally pick up the electric snow blower to combat this year's winter. If some law remains applicable, we won't have any snow since I'm ready for it - which may be a good thing, if you're Kris. I went to Colonie mall, in the rain, with everyone driving like jackholes and decided the first thing that I was to do was hit FYE. I had a pocketful of quarters, they have skeeball, why not enjoy the rewards of doing laundry? I would have enjoyed my experience more if it wasn't for the fact that some woman was working around me trying to fix the two down machines. 290 tickets later, I left feeling a bit happier and ready to tackle the snow 'thrower' purchase. The one thing that I hate about Sears is that the employees on the floor are working for commission. I feel like a piece of meat in a tiger cage ready for them to pounce all over me. Luckily everyone was too preoccupied with someone else that I just hopped in the sales line. I don't care who gets the commission; I just want to be in and out with my already set-in-mind purchase. The other thing I accomplished was to organize the food storage container bin and set up a back of soda bottles/cans for the homeless/poor dudes that stop by every garbage night. Last evening, Kris, Pat, and myself went to the Palace Theatre to see Bare Naked Ladies. Like the other time I saw them, it was phenomenal. The one thing I love about these guys in concert is that it was completely different from the other time - different songs, different set design, and a different format to the show. My complaints mainly were the venue and not with the band. The women in queue for the loo were rationing toilet paper since it was the only roll left, the best beer being served was Bud Light, and it was freaking hot up in the balcony. The show was overall excellent, including a limbo moment when during the Q&A portion of the show someone asked if they ever had one, if so who one, and would they put it on their blog. The acoustic version of It Takes Two. The format of the show was playing their new album over the course of the evening interspersed with classics from each previous album. So some of my favorites that they played were Alcohol and Brian Wilson – hits, yes but the other songs I loved, I didn’t know the names to, they could have possibly been off the new album.
November 06, 2003Zany BongyMy coworker comes over to me and says, who are the geniuses that thought of this one. Just take a look at the title and look very closely to the software packaging image. Someone was ripping tubes a little too hard the night before - talk about zany but I don't think they were using their brainy.
November 05, 2003West HellTonight's class has been cancelled (sort of) but instead I *should* attend a speaker w/presentation at RPI. There are certain times when I'm on RPI campus, to a. get drunk or b. bitch at the bursar/registrar. I'm in West Hell, not bitching to bursar or registrar, so that leaves me to drinking. In honour of my failed attempt at Chemistry there, I shall bring a Litre bottle of something with Kris's 160 proof vodka. That should be fun, at least I'd have an hour to sober up while I sat there and contemplated art.
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