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01 November 2007

Three-point status update. →[More:]
1. When I got to work today, the whole 4th floor smelled like a urinal cake, or one of those nasty car "air fresheners" they sell in convenience stores. I don't know why.

2. I find myself watching Tropical Storm Noel on the satellite maps, and WISHING it would make it up here to hit Georgia. We could use the 10+ inches of rain right now. (And we're going to lose trees anyway, at the rate we're going.)

3. I want to take the rest of the week off. Will someone please write me a fake note for my ~~teacher~~ producer?

post by: BoringPostcards at: 08:18 | 31 comments

1. My new TMJ nightguard (the old one cracked under the apparently extreme strength of my jaw) doesn't fit right and until I can get it fixed next week I have constant headaches, neck pain, and back pain, and I'm getting kind of down about it.

2. I am very tempted to work from home tomorrow. Although if I do that, then there's no chance that I'll make it to the Philly MeFi meet-up.

3. I feel fat. All of my regular methods for losing a few extra pounds fast don't seem to be working.

posted by amro 01 November | 08:30

1. Drinking oversweet flavoured coffee. (Gross. But it was on sale and I bought it before I noticed it was Swiss Chocolate Almond.)
2. Trying to decide if I can finish that script before I have to leave the house, or just say fuck it and work on it later tonight.
3. Worried that I have no clean socks.

posted by typewriter 01 November | 08:38

1. The garbage men are honking their horns for us to come out. I am not going out there. Husband usually leaves free sunglasses for them. I guess their supply is running low and they want more. Maybe next week.

2. I'm not eating any Halloween candy today. I can't and won't do it! I've eaten at least 20 peices or more in the last two days.

3. I'm heading out soon for a kid field trip. I'm a chaperone.
BP, I hope you get some rain. We're getting daily rain which is nice. Surges too.

posted by LoriFLA 01 November | 08:47

1. Rent collection day. It's all going to property taxes, which have skyrocketed in Houston this year.
2. Playing Jupiter - The Nexus Incident, a game I found on Steam. Most. Gorgeous. Space. Battles. EVAR! Also heavily moddable, including mods for Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica.
3. I ate a whole tri-tip day before yesterday. Still not hungry.

posted by WolfDaddy 01 November | 09:11

BP: I'll write you a note, if you write me a note. Wah!

posted by typewriter 01 November | 09:12

1. Trying to concentrate on a project at work. This project has no deadline. That's why I've been working on it for 2 years.

2. Waiting for a guy to get back to me about running his recording studio on the weekends. He has a very popular Beatles cover band in Germany and they want to record a bunch of Beatles songs using old-school analog techniques. I haven't recorded analog since 1999. I forgot how to calibrate a 2-inch machine. I want to do it though for the challenge.

3. If he wants to pay me legit, ahem, not under the table, I have to go to the Ausländerbehörde and ask if it's okay if I work freelance. If so, I'm sure there is a German amount of paperwork to fill out. Fuckin' Bureaucrats.

posted by chillmost 01 November | 09:22

1. The garbage men are honking their horns for us to come out. I am not going out there. Husband usually leaves free sunglasses for them. I guess their supply is running low and they want more. Maybe next week.

Ok, what in the world is THAT all about? Sunglasses for the trash guys? Wha?

posted by BoringPostcards 01 November | 09:28

My husband sells sunglasses for a living. We give the garbage guys sunglasses from time to time. Extra stock that doesn't sell, or just a few nice extras that we'll leave in a box. We do it about once or month or so. They see that both of our cars are out in the driveway and they gave us a little friendly honk to get out there and give them some some sunglasses if we have some. They've done it before. We don't have any stock at the house right now, so they'll have to wait. Even if we did, I don't know what to hand out, and husband is snoozing.

posted by LoriFLA 01 November | 09:33

BoPo: I wondered the same thing, but I think it's charmingly quirky and prefer to think of it as a set piece in one of those establishing shots in a movie about the High Weirdness that is suburban America.

1. Yet another respiratory infection.
2. Not another date.
3. Saw Control last night with most excellent friend and will probably go back and indulge in a little adolescent nostalgia. In a wig.

posted by crush-onastick 01 November | 09:34

1. Slightly hung over.
2. Slightly rested.
3. Don't know what to eat but weighing the options.
*gets out the excuse pad*

posted by ethylene 01 November | 09:42

1. Had a super-busy day yesterday and now I owe like, a million emails to people. That's what happens when you take a day off from the internet, folks.

2. Walked in the Halloween parade last night. Forgot my camera. Am idiot.

3. Off to DC tomorrow for a wedding! Woot!

posted by gaspode 01 November | 09:48

1. I'm hungry.
2. I'm thirsty.
3. My thighs are killing me.

posted by eamondaly 01 November | 09:51

1. Had freaky dream last night, and it's haunting me. Dream, dream, go away!
2. Must get rent today, must, must, must.
3. Fun weekend planned- day trip to CT, marathon cheering, dinner with friend back from HSM tour.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 November | 09:53

1. My boss (at the rather dull day job) just got fired.
2. I'm hung-over because my friends kept buying me beers last night. She Who Must Not Be Named wasn't amused.
3. I finally heard from my rather unreliable man at Korg, and he's meant to be sending me a guitar. I keep checking my account to see if the transaction has gone through. It hasn't. This displeases me.

posted by chuckdarwin 01 November | 10:01

1. Tried to do Greek homework on Monday night before class.

2. Hit a wall. I was completely burned out emotionally and mentally. The Greek letters started swimming in front of me.

3. Decided to play hooky instead.

posted by jason's_planet 01 November | 10:08

1. Underemployed
2. Broke
3. Depressed, with occasional bouts of panic re: above

posted by elizard 01 November | 10:11

1. On vacation for the next three days - YEAH! Mildly hungover despite fact that didn't hardly drink anything last night. Smoked too much though. Waaaay too much.

2. Let son stay home from school for mental health/too much candy bellyache day. He has promised to do his algebra homework which means, as always, that the long deserted, overgrown, in ruins part of my brain that did algebra 20 years ago must be woken up. Pain!

3. Am going to photograph an abandoned mica factory at 2:00 for work and am totally psyched about it - hopefully, will even come home with incredibly large chunks of cool mica.

posted by mygothlaundry 01 November | 10:43

1. First day of NaNoWriMo! I need to write something.

2. Tummy hurts. Again.

3. Went to see Nightmare Before Christmas in IMAX 3D last night, which was one big long nostalgic orgasm. I had to work really hard not to sing along.

posted by Fuzzbean 01 November | 10:52

1. Husband bitching about how much we spent on alcohol whilst in Baltimore this past weekend (some confusion, apparently about who was 'buying' when)
2. Husband bitching about erroneous cable bill being overcharged on automatic debit
3. Me wishing that he wouldn't be doing our banking RIGHT THIS MINUTE

posted by msali 01 November | 11:09

1. I have 30 hours to finish two essays on liberality of interpretation in the Marshall court.
2. My roommate came in realllly drunk last night, and I feel like hassling him about it (especially since he knew about my exam), but it doesn't seem worth the effort right now.
3. I'm tired because I got up early to go to Mass for All Saint's Day. Fulfilling my good little Catholic obligations was easier when I was at a Catholic school.

posted by dismas 01 November | 11:13

4. Also wishing I'd managed to drag myself out of this funk for long enough to go to the community Halloween bonfire last night. Oh, well.

Amro--My dentist fitted me with a mouth guard that just goes between the front teeth, forcing the jaw muscles to stop clamping down altogether. Once I got used to it (and stopped pulling it out in my sleep), it worked quite well.

posted by elizard 01 November | 11:27

Is it small, elizard? Like, is it a choking hazard?

posted by amro 01 November | 11:35

Elizard/Amro - I have something like that as well (it fits over my bottom front two teeth). It's pretty snug - it takes a lot of work for me to get it off without using my hands, although I can do it.

I suppose you could choke on it, but you'd have to be sleeping in a really weird way, and I don't think it's really small enough to swallow unless you were working at it.

posted by dismas 01 November | 11:54

1. Honey dipper's here pumpin' out our poops.

2. I dozed off this morning and missed pilates. Then I ate a full-sized Hershey with almonds. I'm a fatty.

3. Looking forward to tonight's 30 Rock. Last week's was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.

posted by jrossi4r 01 November | 12:46

1. When I got to work today, the whole 4th floor smelled like a urinal cake, or one of those nasty car "air fresheners" they sell in convenience stores. I don't know why.

I just heard, yesterday, about a kid in one of my schools eating one of those.

Apparently, didn't hurt him. But, still.

posted by danf 01 November | 12:46

In keeping with the three-point theme:

1. Until you get used to it, you may have some weird dreams involving battlefield surgery (bullet-biting), etc, causing you to pull the damned thing out in your sleep
2. This may lead to you finding it embedded in your flesh in the morning, but
2a. as dismas says, it fits very tightly, and won't fall off unless you pull it off, at which point, even in your sleep, you'll probably fling it away from you. Never had a problem with choking. (As I recall, it's about 1" x 1" x 1/2") Also,
3. As it stops your jaw muscles from engaging, it is much more effective in preventing headaches, 'ear' (jaw muscle) aches, etc. (As my dentist explained it, your body won't let your jaws clamp down hard on something between your front teeth, as this could cause those teeth to break.) Hope this helps, amro!

posted by elizard 01 November | 12:51

1. Still slightly jetlagged. Melatonin is helping.

2. Scarily busy in the office, but thankfully the important piece of paper I mislaid on Tuesday turned up today. And I am working at home tomorrow.

3. I am getting 93.5% of the available bonus for the last half-year at work, which is great, bearing in mind that over 50% of it is now discretionary. I wish I didn't have to pay tax on it.

posted by essexjan 01 November | 14:43

Thaks for the info, elizard and dismas. I'll look into it.

posted by amro 01 November | 15:01

1. After a week and a half of not going to the gym, my heel spur is feeling much better-- there's not really any other way of getting it to stop hurting than rest.
2. After a week and a half of not going to the gym, I'm feeling a bit anxious about the weight loss campaign. But I think it'll be okay.
3. To celebrate the latest "eat drink and die" cancer warnings I'm going to have a steak for dinner tonight.

posted by jokeefe 01 November | 18:12

1. Lost enough weight to get into a sexy halloween outfit. That was an ego boost.
2. Am in a cleaning frenzy at the house because I'm going to be gone for a week and the hubby will be wrangling the boys by hisself
3. I'm slightly panicking over where I'm going - San Jose !earthquake!
3a. I FORGOT to pick up my Xanax refill. Goddamn!

posted by lysdexic 01 November | 18:14

1. totally tired.
2. worked a full day, went and helped some friends move out of their apartment, then went to band practice, came home and answered some work email.
3. have show tomorrow, must go to bed now but slightly amped up from practice. will grind teeth in bed for half hour before falling to sleep. This means I'll get less than five hours in before getting up again. Yay!

posted by safetyfork 01 November | 22:38

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