A2K's Wonderful World Of Reinvention

For on this day, five years ago, Isaac and I were married.

Happy anniversary, honey. :)

....less a nagging hack-up-a-lung-o-rama! After checking in with the doc today, I'll be going back to work tomorrow.

On the sad end, Curt's now got it. Send him good vibes, y'all, that he's down with it for less time than I was!

And here I thought it was just sinus on Saturday.

Now, I'm this hacking, 102-feverish with occasional chills, nauseated, exhausted MESS of a woman. I have not had the flu in over a decade, so I really had no memory of what it was like, other than 'unpleasant'.

How amusing this morning that WTMX's Eric and Kathy were talking about this latest flu strain going around as I turned on the radio this morn. At least I know I'm not alone in this, although I'd love to know who I caught it from.

I'd....like to go back to forgetting, now. At least my boss is being merciful and allowing me the time off to get better.This is a good thing - I wouldn't want ANYONE at my job to catch this, particularly my cubicle buddy who's pregnant.

But god...shoot me now. It'd be merciful.

Yeah. I...got nothin'. It's apparently been confirmed, however, that Darth and Yoda will be vying for the SoulCalibur this iteration of the game (I'm gonna have to play the hell out of this game if this actually goes live.)

We just got it from on high - our bosses are no fools, and they're sending us home EARLY.

...given the weather out there, we very well might get home by the usual time we get OFF. :)

Everyone stay safe in the Snow Belt today! 

I'm sitting here burning through my latest starbucks concoction - Venti white choco mocha with caramel, whipped cream, and two shots of raspberry flavoring. Yummy. And had blackberries for breakfast - blackberries the size of my thumb. Sometimes, I love the breakfast bar at my job. Whee! 

At times like this, my thoughts turn to possibly finding a dojo out here and starting martial arts classes of some sort. Not sure what kind, although I'd love to take either Aikido or taichi. Something to help me ratchet down my anxiety and stress, which is a constant companion nowadays.  

Or maybe I should just do yoga. 
Any ideas? 

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 or anyone willing to play a very librarianish game. Hope the link works.

Damn you, Carnegie-Mellon. Damn youuuuuuu!

http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/game1/game1.swf

Taking a new client today, after four hours of training in their 401k plan yesterday.

Right now, I'm staring at the phone like it was a live snake. I was so nervous last night that I went to bed sickeningly early last night, and barely touched the dinner Curt made. (I did pack it up this morning so I could have it for lunch today, and it does keep well!)

...Okay, I've already had two calls, and they don't seem THAT bad. But we'll see. 

(I'm focusing on my reward for getting through to the evening - P&W in Gnomeregan!)

The A2K is not dead, sorry to say... 

Again, I got slapped down by the general fact that my life is just NOT that interesting, thus I never really have anything to say. Sorry, folks! How's by all you?

But right now, I'm sitting at work, and mildly bored as hell. So, I'll update this thing. And I swear I'll try and keep it more current from now on.

The state of A2K's life.

..mmm. If I think of anything else, I'll drop another line or so later.

But yes, life is finally getting good, and I'm gradually getting where I want to be!

And today begins my first day at my new job. Two weeks of training, then the lion's den.

Any luck y'all would like to toss at me would be greatly appreciated. Particularly in the area of scheduling - they changed my shift hours on me AGAIN.

Madeline L'Engle died yesterday at the age of 88.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_re_us/obit_l_engle

Today has been a day for much screaming  - I and my loan consolidation officer called hither and yon all day trying to find out where one of my grad student loans went off to. No one knew where the fuck it was. We're not just talking the school - we're talking the US govt had no idea where it'd gone.

As I said to Crystal halfway through this, "You'd think the US would want their money back."

But we found it after four hours of calls, she emailed me the electronic copy of the consol papers  for me to sign - only to discover that she'd written my birthdate incorrectly. So she'll have to call the people actually putting together the consol to fix her error. ARGH.

After all that, I went off to the workout room right around the corner from our apartment to get in some stationary cycling. Went the Cardio route on it, set for an hour. Holy god, big mistake that, plus doing cycling while watching the World Track and Field competition on the big screen in the workout room. Though my legs were not screaming for mercy when it was done, my heartrate was soaring and made me a tad lightheaded.

I got off the bike, staggered out the door, went down the hall...and slammed SMACK DAB into the window right next to the door out of the building. Loud enough that the landlord up at the other end of the hall came running to see what the heck that was.

Ow. I literally could not see for a while there, it hurt so bad. Upon getting back to the apartment, i found I had a small cut on the bridge of my nose that was weeping blood, and now the bridge has swollen, giving me a properly roman nose. Happily, it doesn't seem to be broken.

But yeah. My day, let me share it. :/

Not much going on recently - just been chilling and enjoying my vacation before the job begins.

voiceofisaac and gammahamster are presently off at a D&D game, so I've got the house to myself, and am enjoying the quiet. Well, the quiet between the SHRIEK of an explosion of cicadas we've had over the past week.

Tonight, I decided to break out the five Doctor Who VHS tapes that were given to me after someone donated them at the library and the library didn't want 'em. Flipped through 'em, decided on The Five Doctors. Now mind you, the majority of what I know about Doctor Who begins and ends with Tom Baker, the only series that aired in Arkansas when I was a girl. Okay, I've watched a lot of the most recent ones, but they're not the issue here. Am NOT familiar at all with the first few doctors.

Anyway. Dear *god* this thing is crack. I don't think I've laughed so hard in ages. It's like one endless Bob Hope road movie with the Docs and their Companions. The First is just all awesome cranky  "I was the original, so go get in the kitchen, Tegan" and ignoring Tegan's look of death(I need to find vids of the 1st if he's this awesome here). The 2nd is so eccentric and has the most horrific coat, the 3rd and his awesome hoopty (did he call that thing Bessie?) and his reunion with Sarah Jane - and then of course there's Tom, and then the Fifth...and what is with that big stalk of celery in his lapel???

And of course, the Master is awesome. <i>You want me to go into the Death Zone? Why? Oh, right, I'm expendable, you Gallifreyan bast - oh, wait, I get to go save the Doctor? And you're gonna offer me what to do this? This is utterly delicious.</i>

Thank you, Five Doctors, for making me a rabid fan that wants to see the old seasons now, even though I have very little idea of who ANY of these people are.

Now to go back to watch the rest of this awesome little show.

I...have no words. NONE.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/08/03/tancredo-bomb-muslim-holy-sites-first/

I mean...what...what the fuck? Bomb MECCA? Is this man totally fucking insane? Oh, wait, I answered that.

At last, after four years, light at the end of the tunnel.

I just got the call, after half a day of panic attacks and sleeplessness. A full time, salaried position at Isaac's place of work

I begin September 10th. Paid training for a month, then into the trenches I go.

Oh my god. When I got the call I just sat and cried for a minute. Finally, we can start getting where we want to go!

Still in the go-round with Isaac's company.

Following phone interviews with the company, and a battery of online tests, I got the greenlight to take an on-campus test today.

I went in freaking, since I had no idea what that was going to entail. Turned out it was yet another test on sample calls - how to respond, whether you could listen to directions and be able to deliver, that sort of stuff. Okay, fine - but it started out with a tutorial  on how to use the 'software' (editing client info, invoice creation/editing, knowledge bank accessing....) that had SO MUCH INFORMATION I wasn't sure whether or not I was absorbing enough of it, or absorbing the stuff I'd *need*.

And there were only *three* calls I was being tested on, where you had to use what the tutorial instructed you in to succeed in helping your 'client'. And it was pass/fail (but the administrator did not know what defined 'pass'. WHEE)

But hallelujah, I passed.

Final interview for the position TOMORROW MORNING.

I'm gonna be impossible at work tomorrow night.