all things me

Darn, I got a WordPress.com invite back in September but as I was about to redeem it now, I found out it expired in seven days. Back then I didn’t think I’d need an extra blog (where I can’t be as big a control freak as here) especially as I’m having hard time keeping this updated. I didn’t know what I was signing up for when I entered my email. Now I was going to do a little research for my article on WordPress… but it said “whoops, sorry, invite expired.”

Oh well, perhaps I should retry my invitation lottery luck but I’m sure now I’m trampled on by flocks.

I hope the article offer hasn’t expired even though I have been a terrible employee (I don’t care if I’m freelance/volunteer, terrible employee is a terrible employee). I’m just glad I’m writing again, because I’ve been such a procrastinator. It’s scary to write publicly about something you know you don’t know enough about (enough = everything). Am I being too tough on myself?

We got our flu shots (against influenza, not common cold). It was voluntary, of course, and I thought I’d go get one because I felt like I had started the flu wave the last time (hopefully I hadn’t…). If I got sick, I’d go to work anyway so it’s just better I don’t get sick. After I had been stung, the nurse said “whoops, there’s quite a lot of blood.”

Oh well, in all seriousness, it wasn’t too bad. My arm feels a little funny still, like I’ve pulled a muscle. I’m hoping I don’t get too bad a quick flu even though I’ve read/heard that may happen.

Now I’m so tired I’ll go and finish IT. Finally I get to finish a book (well, it’s as thick as two very thick books, 1090 pages)! And then on to my “last” King: Insomnia. Quotes because the Man just keeps writing! Oh yeah, on Wednesday I dragged myself shopping and got Robbie’s new album; I take back, Tripping is groovy. So are the other songs. Loving it! I also found Hearts in Atlantis as a non-movie version (no A. Hopkins on the cover). Now I’m missing only 7 books from my collection (plus Colorado Kid and future ones).

Note to self (I’m too lazy to write a paper diary): Boss said “has anyone ever told you you’re too efficient?”

I was writing an email to enrol to a course and needed to check the course site to see what info I needed to give. While I was there I decided to see what sort of topics there are. And that’s when I realised the topics were a little too familiar. Off I went to see my list of finished courses and there it was, under a different code and slightly different name.

Damn Bologna.

Good thing is, now I have my Tuesday mornings free — for work.

Today I read the strangest definition for ‘blog’: a website, which is regularly updated. Which means this — currently — isn’t a blog.

I clicked on to Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes from Blogging Pro. An interesting read but I’ve about item 2 in the past: using a photo. I understand that people want to see faces, but who wants to see my mug? I don’t! How shocking would it be if I posted my photo and you’d see that ?

I am, however, going to implement some of the enhancement ideas. When I was designing this site, I didn’t find a good colour for visited links (I did notice that some of the links, in blog content, lose underlining after a visit) so I forgot about it (accidentally!). Also I’m going to try and list some of the “must-read” entries but I’m afraid I might not find any (This is a blog for dog’s sake! Not a magazine. Why do people take blogs so seriously? It’s supposed to be fun, not 2nd or nth job (for most)). I did have a category for these, something like Minna’s picks, but apparently I removed it at some point (or it doesn’t have any posts!).
(There’s a list in the archives now.)

Jafer woke me up from my work-daze. In addition to not having written in over half a month (I honestly don’t know how that’s possible), I haven’t finished a book since July! (I’ll need to check my papery booklog, but the one here says July.)

I had hard time not laughing today. A group of people were talking and roaring with laughter (at work, of course) and I was sitting at my desk. Because I wasn’t in the group I couldn’t laugh along but I kept bursting so I had to leave for a while to cool off. I went and washed my coffee mug. Interesting, innit?

At work there is a person who coughs in a way that makes me think they’re choking. Also, their cough sometimes develops into a Donald Duck impersonation. Charming.

A student counsellor/thesis guide sort of person at my department wrote me asking if I have thought about master’s thesis stuff. I replied (“yes, I’ve thought about it but I want to get my bachelor’s first…”) and I get a response at 10:30 pm! At 10:30pm they should be watching the sports news. Dedication?

I’m probably odd for writing this. Forgive me, I’m a little tired, I’ve been correcting hundreds (566, still some fun left for tomorrow) of idiotic tag errors by a translator who happily slammed each 100% match from the translation memory into the text even though they were obviously incorrect. Dunce. It’s so sad it’s funny (at least I’m more of a laugher than a nagger in desperation). Oh, we have good laughs at work. I’m lucky the people I work with are wonderful.

I did it! I got meself an MP3 player! It’s a black (duh) Creative Zen Nano Plus. I thought a purple one would be nice too but I don’t think they had any. I’m currently transferring all my Robbie songs to it

It has a radio (from which you can also record) and voice recorder (I don’t need that but oh well) — 1 Gb space should serve my music need (I was thinking of getting a 512 Mb instead but caved in). The LCD screen looks really nice and crispy.

I don’t have enough energy to write really, so I’m posting this meme (via Jafer as usual) that claims I’m an…

Anal asshole
16 Cruelty, 54 Anal, 30 Pushover

You uptight jerk. All right, so maybe you don’t mean to be an asshole — it just kind of comes naturally to you. You’re the type of person who ruins a movie for everyone else by pointing out even the tiniest of plot holes. Learn to loosen up, kiddo, or you’ll end up imploding in on yourself. I’d tell you how everyone is plotting to kill you, but you’re probably too busy sending me a message regarding grammatical errors you’ve found within this test to notice.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 15% on Cruelty
You scored higher than 96% on Anal
You scored higher than 53% on Pushover

Take the Why do people hate you? test.

Finally, FINALLY, I found nice shoes! I’m all giddy about it and can’t wait for next week to try them out. They’re black (duh), ankle-high boots with a little heel. It was difficult to find shoes with a less pointy tip, but I didn’t find round ones either so I had to make a compromise. Anyway, I’m glad I have a little warmer shoes for the autumn because some mornings have been too chilly for me in my Scully-shoes^TM.

Dad really likes to go shoe shopping with me… (that is, he doesn’t, really really doesn’t) so I’m glad I sometimes find something. The winter shoes (ankle high-boots, hmm, am I dull?) were found in the same store as these new ones and I really really love the winter shoes, too.

We didn’t have time to do a lot of shopping (it was dinner time), so sometime soon we’re going again. I need that MP3 player (and a cell phone but I’ll probably wait on that) — just need to figure out which. Ugh, just when I cancelled my student allowance…

Did I just hear someone say that “I got some warning message here: ‘WinDVD is not your default DVD player. Do you want to set it as default DVD player now?”?!?

ROFL

Bug #1: I’m having a nasty cold. Throat hurts a lot a lot and I cough all the time. My nose runs (catch it!) too, but that’s a given. All that really makes it difficult to sleep even the few pathetic hours I get per night.

Bug #2: Email spam is getting more difficult to spot. Although the topics are often odd, some of them are vague enough not to ring alarm bells. Pro: the email address where I get most/all of the spam is going down soon. Con: I’ll have to give my new address to a lot of places… and have to remember what those places are…

Bug #3: Surprisingly, there were Trojans on Theme XP‘s installer files. I’m not saying I know that’s a trusted source, but it surprising anyway.