Back-Tracking
Nov. 2nd, 2007 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holytoastrLet's see. So the day before halloween we carved our pumpkin at work. I was unimpressed by it but the others were happy so that's good. It wasn't much of a challenge for me though.
When I got home I got to play with SCIENCE! by baking window cookies. I needed to experiment in order to find the correct baking time to ensure tasty cookies and clear candy windows. the correct formula was the full baking time minus 3 minutes for the cookies alone, and then add the crushed candy for the final 3 minutes. Yay science!
Halloween day, I wore my grim reaper costume. I think I looked fantastic. However, while on my way to work, I thought I had the wrong day. I didn't see anyone else with a costume! People are so boring. I got lots of compliments on my costume though.
Despite looking great, I only got 2nd place in the costume contest. (And we only got honorable mention in the pumpkin carving contest, but that was to be expected.) Marge Simpson won, which I guess makes sense because people will be more inclined to vote for the funny and familiar over um, death. I'm going to enter the costume in a few online contests, so maybe I'll win something there. (Which reminds me, I need to upload those pictures so I can enter before the deadline.)
Yesterday was a stressful, and extremely cold day. The new director is having a lot of trouble meeting deadlines, which fills me with madness. It reminds me a lot of my old job and is making me VERY unhappy. I need to find a way to tell my boss that I can't spend all day babysitting the director if I am going to enjoy this job.
On the way home, I tried to refill my metro card only to discover that my atm card wasn't working. I had to use my emergency credit card while I panicked that maybe something was wrong with my account. I wasted far too much time fighting with the card and ended up missing my bus. Thankfully ben came to my rescue. He is my hero.
Finally home, I devoted the evening to setting up gutsy gibbon on my laptop. I am free of vista! Yay! It was a little scary cause I needed to write and rewrite some files to get the wireless working. Ben had to help me a lot with that. I didn't even know where to start without his help.
Last night I dreamed I was traveling with doctor who and several companions from future times. We were taking a rocket to a space station (don't ask me why we weren't using the tardis) and I was very excited. Everyone thought I was extremely childish for getting so excited over something as simple as a rocket ride. However, just before we took off, I woke up. I was SO disappointed too! I think I actually went, "Aaww. :(" when I woke up.
Then I dreamed that I smelled bad and that ben pushed me away. That was a sad dream.
Today is also very cold. And not starting out well as I missed the bus. But I brought my laptop to work so I can write my novel if things get quiet enough. And in theory there is a writing meetup at the panera near my apt tonight, so maybe I'll go to that. It would keep me from getting distracted and would be a good way to meet new people.
When I got home I got to play with SCIENCE! by baking window cookies. I needed to experiment in order to find the correct baking time to ensure tasty cookies and clear candy windows. the correct formula was the full baking time minus 3 minutes for the cookies alone, and then add the crushed candy for the final 3 minutes. Yay science!
Halloween day, I wore my grim reaper costume. I think I looked fantastic. However, while on my way to work, I thought I had the wrong day. I didn't see anyone else with a costume! People are so boring. I got lots of compliments on my costume though.
Despite looking great, I only got 2nd place in the costume contest. (And we only got honorable mention in the pumpkin carving contest, but that was to be expected.) Marge Simpson won, which I guess makes sense because people will be more inclined to vote for the funny and familiar over um, death. I'm going to enter the costume in a few online contests, so maybe I'll win something there. (Which reminds me, I need to upload those pictures so I can enter before the deadline.)
Yesterday was a stressful, and extremely cold day. The new director is having a lot of trouble meeting deadlines, which fills me with madness. It reminds me a lot of my old job and is making me VERY unhappy. I need to find a way to tell my boss that I can't spend all day babysitting the director if I am going to enjoy this job.
On the way home, I tried to refill my metro card only to discover that my atm card wasn't working. I had to use my emergency credit card while I panicked that maybe something was wrong with my account. I wasted far too much time fighting with the card and ended up missing my bus. Thankfully ben came to my rescue. He is my hero.
Finally home, I devoted the evening to setting up gutsy gibbon on my laptop. I am free of vista! Yay! It was a little scary cause I needed to write and rewrite some files to get the wireless working. Ben had to help me a lot with that. I didn't even know where to start without his help.
Last night I dreamed I was traveling with doctor who and several companions from future times. We were taking a rocket to a space station (don't ask me why we weren't using the tardis) and I was very excited. Everyone thought I was extremely childish for getting so excited over something as simple as a rocket ride. However, just before we took off, I woke up. I was SO disappointed too! I think I actually went, "Aaww. :(" when I woke up.
Then I dreamed that I smelled bad and that ben pushed me away. That was a sad dream.
Today is also very cold. And not starting out well as I missed the bus. But I brought my laptop to work so I can write my novel if things get quiet enough. And in theory there is a writing meetup at the panera near my apt tonight, so maybe I'll go to that. It would keep me from getting distracted and would be a good way to meet new people.
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