I have never had a job were the customers are better and easier to deal with than my co-workers. Until now that is. I have to work with one of the more annoying males I've ever met. He's incompotent, stupid, and childish. I also think that he doesn't like it when a woman knows more than he does. What does that mean for me? I get asked asinine questions, talked down to, pestered for attention, doing most of the work to prevent mistakes from happening ( mind you this has to be the easiest job I have ever had), correcting really stupid mistakes (ex. not FILING paperwork in the correct alphabetical order), having the idiot lie about me in front of me, our co-worker and our boss ( she was aware of his false accusations), gloating when he finally is right and I wasn't (he spent the rest of the day trying to prove me wrong about several other things and just ended up being wrong himself and looking like even more of an idiot), the list just goes on. I've already expressed to him that I dislike him yet he insist on trying to engage me in conversation. It doesn't matter how many curt answers I give him he keeps coming back. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to be there five days a week but I do because I'm the most compotent person in that office and Julie isn't as willing to give me days off like she does the other two because if I'm not there shit goes wrong. I've got one of the advisors calling me that heart of the testing center. I'm a freaking student worker I get paid a pittance and have way more responsibility than I ever wanted simple because I'm capable. So much for easy summers. Mind you I have never wanted the school year to start as much as I want it to start now. Oh, I'm also the only one at the testing center working the week of the DNC, even my boss took that week off.

Apparently some pharmacists and pyhsicians are choosing not to dispense or prescribe birth control pills because they feel it can cause "silent" abortions.

I'm crossing my fingers that Cassini-Huygens will make it into Saturn's orbit.

The Grandma visit turned out to be a success. She was making plans to come visit again in a year or sooner when we were walking out of the house to take her to the train station. It is a monumentally big deal that she enjoyed herself. I used to believe that she thought fun was just a dirty word and something only to be had by slackers and loafers. It's nice that she has started to mellow out.
I just realized that I have not mentioned anything about my knitting projects in quite a while. I have finished my yoga mat bag. It's a little too long but otherwise I think it went well. I made myself a shawl that was immediately hijacked by my grandmother. I made her another one just to be nice. I started a third shawl and she was eyeing that too but I told her no way it's mine. And so I am making myself a rose colored shawl with Pattons Divine.

My Grandma is visiting, YATTA!!!! It's been bretty good so far. We haven't had any arguments and she seems to be having fun. We took her to see "Around the World in 80 Days" I have never known her to go to a movie or even rent one and was unsure if she would even like it. I figured it was a good bet since she used to watch old Kung Fu flicks. Ahhhhh... Sat morning cartoons, wrestling, and kung fu flicks is what my weekend tv veiwing consisted of in my younger days. We haven't done much else. We started watching the first Harry Potter movie last night but she went to bed about half an hour into the movie and to my great suprised requested to watch the rest of the movie today. When the movie was done and the lights were turned back on she had a smile on her face. I thought "I'll be damned she really like that movie" We are going to take her to the MFA tomorrow and on Saturday night we are going to a POPS performance at Symphony Hall.
I got an elliptical machine this Monday. I'm really excited. I've been getting up early in the mornings so that I can practice yoga before going to work but Paul and Grandma are visiting which makes the accessibility of the living room at 6:00 in the morning a bit difficult. Ehh....who am I kidding I longed for an elliptical machine for a couple of years now. So excited.trisha's blog smells funny Thank you for that JD. Anyhooo.... I'm super excited and super out of shape. I've been a big girl for a long time but I played soccer in high school and did my three month gym spurts and did yoga so I've always been able to tolerate activity. I didn't realize how much sitting on my ass I was doing the past couple of years until this morning. Despite my doing yoga in the early morning I apparently wasn't prepared for how weak I am in the cardiovascular area. I'm non too happy about it and plan to report exercise attempts in a couple of weeks. In the mean time I'm going to keep on trucking and hopefully get access to the living room again to practice in the morning. BLAH BLAH BLAH... Ah Cindy you are the only one who listens (reads) and cares...

GRRR ARRR ARGH!!!! My DDR 4th Mix copy no longer works. It's got mystery scratches on it!! I'm none to happy about this.

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Sorry Cindy!!! I love your comments and the fact that you make commects but now that Blogger provides their own comments I got rid of the Haloscan comments. I never did like the alignment anyhoo.

Today I turn 26. I've reached the point where, according to JD, things start to go down hill. Aside from the strange hip pain when I walk I feel like a spring chicken. I'm almost done with my mat bag. Finally I can stop knitting in a tube.
Nate managed to get me to leave the house at ten o'clock last night to go see the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Akabar or something like that. It was a lot of fun. I can't believe how many college age people were there to see it. It was sold out and it was on three screens. I must say that it was fun. Thank you for getting me out of the house last night Nate. Plus I got to see Nicole and John and that is always fun.
My Grandmother is on the phone with me right now and she said that I can dip into her yarn closest. She's got a closet in one of the basement bedrooms that is so full of yarn that you have to be careful opening the door. I think she's got a stash in her bedroom also. I may not have to buy yarn for quite sometime if that's the case. The only draw back is that I may have to wind the yarn into balls. That can be a bit of a pain in the ass but it will be worth it since she's got a lot of yarn.
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I want to blog really I do but I don't know what to talk about. I'm watching JD play Billy Hatcher. It's his latest obsession. We have Nate to thank for this. Mean while I've been playing Morrowind again. I haven't been able to do as much video gaming as I would like. I've actually been working a lot. I did finally get married and have a kid in Harvest Moon. I've been neglecting the game though because Morrowind is such crack. JD doesn't blog any more and it makes me sad.
Kevin, the other person I work for, really wants me to get my drivers license. I guess I should. I mean there is no good reason for me not to have it. I can't possibly fail a road test in Boston. I've had driving instructors tell me that the speed limit is just a suggestion. I'm gong to eat now. JD is chowing down on some Cod and white Asparagus and it looks yummy.

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I feel gypped! I bought Heroic Trio from Newbury Comics and neglected to look to see if it was dubbed only or if it also had Cantonese with subtitles. Well unfortunately it is dubbed only and they changed the names of the main characters. Why the hell would they change the names of the characters?! I spent $26 on this movie and I get no subtitles!!! DAMN IT ALL TO HELL!!! I better check the box for The Executioners to make sure that I get subtitles. Which it does and it was only $8. Granted I don't expect the transfer on The Executioners to be the greatest but I won't have to deal with bad voice overs. REALLY BAD VOICE OVERS. There is also something about Theif Catcher saying "Whey! WHEY!!" that's really charming. UGH I can't deal with the name changes and some of the script changes. Stupid me for buying the version of Heroic Trio published by Miramax. If the transfer quality on The Executioners is just as good I'm going to be super duper pissed.

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I posted while I was at work and the damn thing crapped out on me. :( I really should stop this procrastination and start studying. Oh and if anyone's interested "The Incredibles" looks incredible. The spell checker just did wacky shit too.

I'm at working listening to a classic rock station when Don McLean's American Pie came on. I never realized what a long song it is. What's even more ridiculous is that I know all the lyrics to it. That's more ridiculous then when I realized that I knew the lyrics to the Highlander Theme song. I'm not sure how that happened. I'm pretty sure that the first time I watched Highlander the movie was within the past two years. I swear it happens through osmosis.

I think that I have found my next book to read. "What the Corpse Revealed: Murder and the Science of Forensic Detection" I will go hunting for it soon.
I'm on the phone with Nate and he's telling me about the latest Zelda game for the Gamecube. Apparently it's going to be orgasmically amazing. I'll put a link to it once I check it out.

I began blocking the kyoto sweater at long last. I did the back and it went well and I thought well I can fit both front pieces on and do them at the same time. I began pinning down the right side and I was measuring to make sure that it was pinned down to the correct proportions when I noticed that my piece didn't match with the back. To my dismay I realized that I had worked the front right shoulder as if I was working the front left shoulder! I grumbled and called myself dirty names and began to rip it past the point that I began to shape the shoulder. Now just to let you know in the past ripping anything caused shivers to go down my spine because I would always fumble and just have to start over. Well today I bit my lip and tried it. I, thankfully, was able to rip it to two rows below the beginning of the shoulder shaping and correct my mistake. In total it took about 15 mins and I didn't pull any hairs out. I'm so glad that went smoothly and now I can get back to blocking the rest of my garment.

JD and I took a much needed break from homework doing to go to Walmart. Yes Walmart that evil place. Well you know what. I can buy pins, fabric and foam like padding there so :P. I came home and five minutes later with the afore mentioned items constructed a "blocking board". It's not really a board per say but I can stick needles in it and it has a gingham pattern that was 1X1 squares. I can't complain it will suffice and I didn't spend $50 something dollars plus $20 something in shipping on it. We also had yummy yummy sushi at Minado. JD has deemed it his favorite restaurant.

I had my scheduling problem taken care of the same day it occurred. That's what's nice about being in a small department. The prof. get back to you sooner so things can get resolved faster. Woo Hoo. I'm missing the Wake Up the Earth festival that's happening at the Stony Brook park area. Sniff sniff. All for a good cause though. I have almost caught up with my physics HW and hopefully will start having my programming project underway before the night is out.
My latest project is a yoga mat bag. I want to start practicing again and I don't have anything that I can comfortably carry my mat in. Hopefully my stash of leftover Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece will suffice for the project. I bought some addi turbo US #7 16" circulars for the job. I like the addi's though I feel that I don't knit fast enough to fully appreciate them. They are smooth. The stitches slip off with ease and they sort of move along the needle of their own accord.