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listening to the new emery right now…it’s ok

i got my apartment finally…I’m not going to say I’m disappointed…but the old adage “you get what you pay for” always holds true. I don’t mind that it’s small…don’t mind the fact that there’s no overhead light in my room…don’t really mind that all the appliances are old…but i do mind that the bedroom isn’t big enough for my computer (I don’t think). i have a king size waterbed and I finally get to use it after sleeping on dorm beds for 6 years…but i think it’s pretty much gonna fill up my room and not leave room for my big desk. most people just say “so?” but it is a bother to me.

this morning i moved a big load to the apt, then I went to the mall when it opened and went to the apple store. i signed up for the apple credit card and bought a 20 gig ipod and iskin. I don’t have money for it at the moment, but I can’t handle packing and moving without books or music stimulating my brain. so I did the apple credit deal and get 90 days with 0% financing, and I’ll have plenty of money well before my 90 days are up. I am definitely not an advocate of buying on credit without the money to pay for it, and detest the thought of paying interest on anything…but I figured i’d bend the rules a little bit here since there’s no interest involved.

after work i kept myself awake long enough to go to wal-mart and get a light bulb for my big lamp for my bedroom (since it has no light). I kept remembering things i needed and ended up spending like an hour in walmart. most of that time was spent wandering around looking for air fresheners. i finally asked a lady with bad teeth. they were in the grocery section, of all places. apparently all the home sanitation type things are. how odd. i felt really out of place buying home goods. i bought a black shower curtain/liner with black metal hangy things. I thoroughly enjoyed hanging that up. I have no idea why. I also bought a cheap crappy frame to put my big casablanca poster in. i am not sure how to affix it to the wall though.

i have to have renter’s insurance before setting up my waterbed. need to figure that out. i need renter’s insurance anyway cause i have too much expensive stuff to just lose it all.

then i fell asleep for 3 hours on the living room floor. i was really tired.

work is ok, if a bit boring

hrm it’s time to start a new book but i believe i’ve already moved them all. that presents a problem. i’m quite bothered by that actually.

I am back at work and it is good to be doing this and not school

It was a hectic morning but it eventually came out ok

This month while I’m still part time I’m writing some tool in java that stresses a database and then kills the database server in the middle to try to get it to corrupt. When I start full time I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to be doing, but I believe it’s some java concerning health monitoring of our server software, and c++ mapi concerning the exchange sync portion of our server software. anyway, it will be good. I’m about to go home after hours of trying to acquaint myself with java. I haven’t touched it in years, and wow there’s stuff I hate about it. but I’m not gonna even go there because that will go into dork details that most people don’t understand or care about. give me c++ plz

Judy the office lady, she has so many jobs I’m not sure what they all are, she’s the receptionist for our office and everything else. anyway she brought me my nameplate for my cubicle and asked if i needed anything and I asked for a garbage can. she came back with that…and a pad of paper, a pen, a “magnetic clip dispenser” (clips not included), a box of paper clips, scissors, a roll of tape, a tape dispenser for it…and a stapler. It’s a swingline. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with all this, but oh well. perhaps someday they will come in handy.

I have a phone. And a phone number and extension and crap. I feel special. Not sure what I need that for either, but perhaps someday i will use it. I guess it’s handy for when I have to make calls in the middle of the day to deal with things that come up, won’t have to do it on my cellphone. ::shrug:: Oh also I’m getting a company cell phone. I’m not sure why at all. I would assume one (the only?) purpose is that everybody should have a phone using our software for test purposes. There’s a ton of treo 650‘s in the office so maybe I’ll get one of those. I’m sure I’ll get something cool anyway, since you have to have a cool phone to run our company’s software. so anyway, yeah. I’m gonna drive home now. chaching