all work and no internet makes holly crabby
09/18/01 ~ 3:18 p.m.
9:20 am
i really hate it when the firewall is down at work. i keep checking to see if internet is working again, but alas, it's 9:20 and still no dice. you'd think that during times like this, i'd be more productive at work. but no. i sit, writing diary entries in notepad.
it's hard to remember the time when i worked at old navy, or the nature company, and i couldn't check my email all day long [shudders]. i'm lucky now. but let's face it, as a computer science major, i'm going to be working on computers all day long for the rest of my life. and i better have internet. or i'll be outta that job in no time!
i can't check my email! what if people are joining my rings, signing my guestbook, or emailing me?? i can't get back to them to let them know i'm alive. i can't see what they are saying about me. i can't see who is joining my rings and kick them out if they suck [grin]. it's tragic!!!
ok, enough of that. it'll come back. so, last night was dawson's reruns night. jenny, mike, and al came to my house. we managed to watch 5 1/2 episodes (the last one got cut off my tape, i suck) and read 3 1/2 episode summaries (i *had* them on tape, but this stupid girl at my work borrow my tape and then QUIT and never gave it back to me! i am missing important episodes. i will kill someday for these). we finished season 2. on to season 3 this wednesday. mike's seen all of season 4, so we're almost caught up. (i'm an obsessed nut, i know. i *am* the runner of the dawson's creek ring).
some fun stuff happened. jenny scrapbooked a lot, i scrapbooked a little, we laughed, we talked, we ate ice cream. my adorable cat came over to mike, asking for ice cream. he teased her with it, and she tried to open her mouth to taste it and he pulled it back. she swiped at his spoon, scored, and licked ice cream off of her paws. it was hilarious. my cat rules.
before the event, i talked with one of my neighbors. i live in an apartment complex with 2 floors, and each apartment is kinda in a set of 4. 2 up, 2 down, in one little opening. so heather and i have been trying to figure out who is who and who lived where. we were way off. we knew that our downstairs buddies had not moved in. there's a blonde lady who drives a red van that is plastered with opossum stickers and her license plate says opossum. so we call her the possum lady. there's this lady with crazy black hair that is poofy, her name is tracy. i met her when i moved in but hadn't talked to her again until last night. we knew she lived upstairs, across from us. we assumed the opossum lady was her roommate. then there's this serious looking redheaded guy who drives a blue car. we thought he lived above us, and sometimes had old people (parents?) over to visit. at first we thought the old people lived there. but then the other day, i saw the redhead go in with tracy! i was all confused. to add to the confusion, sometimes above us we hear the upstairs neighbor run across the floor really fast.
so tracy solved it all for me yesterday. the opossum lady's name is leslie. she lives above us, by herself. she's the vice president of the opossum society and sometimes has to run to the phone in times of opossum emergencies. tracy and the redhead are married (his name is kevin). she's an artist, he's a biochemist at uc davis. and next door to us will soon be a few sophomores who probably lived in the dorms last year.
not bad, not bad. my neighbors are cool so far. i think i can handle it.
the orange couch is still ugly. but at least i have a lot of seating! it was comfy last night.
tonight brooke and i are going to see american pie 2. i loved (and own) the first one, yet hadn't gotten around to see the second one. plus i haven't see brooke much besides at work. so it should be good. she brought me "the best soy latte that i've ever had" today. isn't she cool? (coffee's still gross though. she's trying to convert me to be a drinker. never!)
i also don't feel so good. i have a slight fever and am kinda sluggish. i'll probably go to bed when i get home from the movie tonight. thursday night i'll call ned (tonight's our normal night, but due to the movie it's postponed), dye my roots, and pack. this weekend i'm going on a retreat with the women's engineering department (c.s. is included in that). it's for new students at davis. i hope i meet some cool people.
this is pretty long. see? this is what no internet does to a person. hmmm. i wonder if my internet is back. maybe.... maybe... it looks like it's trying hard... still trying... no. hmmm. maybe later. sad, sad world.
~holly~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
11:20 p.m.
just for today, i'd like to have a weblog diary. cuz i keep wanting to add but i can't get online. they are monitoring our workstations, so i can't be the one who shows up that i keep trying to connect to hotmail!!! if they check up on my access anyways, i'm pretty bad. like i'm on diaryland and hotmail about 80% of the day. eek.
they're trying to get me to go home, cuz if i have a fever then that means i'm contagious. but if i'm going to be sick, i'm gonna call in and spend the whole day in davis sleeping. or doing stuff that needs to be done (laundry, dished, vacuuming, scrapbooking). i'm sure not going to have gotten up, taken a shower, blow-dried my hair, drove 45 minutes to get here, just to go home. i want to make the most of my sick days. i'm thinking i need one about now anyways. tomorrow or thursday will probably be the winners. yay for my fever.
salina emailed me. i saw it earlier, when the server connected for a little bit. i can't email her back cuz i can't get online!!! grrr. i love you sal! i'll email when i can! (at least once this is up!!!)
so did my buddy justin from livermore. i want him to visit me. i replied yesterday and now i eagerly wait for his response.
plus i'm having an interesting email discussion with oblivia. there's just something about her lifestyle that i am inexplicably drawn to, despite my rather tame ways. i have no interest in being a slave, or in s&m, but there are aspects of her life and definitely her views that i want to know more about. you guys should read her diary. she has a lot to say. and that's all i'm going to say about that.
ooh, i had a dream about WTC last night. it was interesting, and i'm going to post it on nowayout when i get a chance. check it out.
well, i'm now looking around my cubicle, thinking of something to say, so i should end this installment.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~3:15 pm
so, hotmail started working again. but d-land wasn't so i got to worrying that when they were monitoring our stations that they saw my extensive use of d-land and BLOCKED me. then i find that diaryland was down. ha ha. scare me, why don't you?
only 2 more hours till i get to go to the movies and then i get to go home and sleep. time is crawling by... sigh.
~holly~
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