out of order
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2:18 p.m.ah yes. it's a new day. oh happy friday! i get paid today. this entire week, i've been broke, scrounging for change and eating everything that i can cook at home til it's all good. i was so happy this morning to wake up to find that i have money in my bank account.
i get to the gas station to fill my mom's car up with gas, since i've been running on empty for the past two days. i pull up to one of the pumps and it's "out of order." no problem. i pull around to another one.
::swipe:: my card goes in and out. i punch in the required zip code and it says "authorizing." i wait. "authorizing," it blinks. i wait some more. my foot taps as i am still waiting. "what the hell?" so push cancel, and a "select nozzle" screen appears breifly and disappears. i swipe my card again, this time noticing that the screen delays one step until i press the following button. for example, my zip code is 90***. i press the 9, but it won't show up until i press the 0 and so forth. i get to the "authorizing" screen and i wait a little bit and pick up the nozzle. and everything is fine. i was a bit annoyed, but whatever, i head out to work.
turn on my computer, fire up trillian, and "ooh, i have mail!" (yes, that is what i say every morning when i see that little mail icon pop up. it's a wonderful feeling.) i fire up my internet explorer and i click onto the login screen. as soon as i click on an email link, popup ads starting coming up non-stop. it wouldn't stop. click click, nothing. it keeps coming. so i ctrl-alt-del and shut all of the IE windows simultaneously. i must've accepted one of those pop-up certificate thingies thinking it was a new shockwave plugin. so i spent all morning trying to fix this. i uninstall shockwave and everything seems fine now. i should restart my computer after this entry, just to make sure it worked.
walking up those damn stairs in the morning is getting more difficult every day. it's not physical. it's motivational. if i can just convince myself that i'm good here, and remember that i'm very grateful to have a job, whereas, many people i know don't and are having a hard time finding one, i can find that motivation. i'm good here. i should use this opportunity to better other aspects of my life. a raise would be nice. (congrats to asha by the way!)
all week, i've been wearing a hat to work. the same hat. i just can't get myself to walk around here, or anywhere, with my shaved head. i just want it to grow out. it's long enough so that in a couple weeks, it will be at a length where i can do something with it. but it is still relatively short. i'm kind of getting use to it. but we'll see. the hat thing is workin for me. maybe i can go out and buy cool hats or something. one OGT (obviously gay trait) i'll admit to is that i like to accessorize! (if this gets out that i said this on here, i'll find out and i'll kill you! every single one of you! and it won't be pretty either. it will be one of those tortuously slow painful deaths that will involve a hamster, a chainsaw, and possibly tweezers.)
in fact, read these. you'll forget all about the above paragraph.
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