in rochester tonite. needed a break . something about coming to my parents house that is soo soothing. seeing my parents together, seeing my puppy, my brothers... is it wierd to miss home at 23? maybe i just miss good food and a thermostat turned past 58.
last nite we did tudor , hardware, pink - the usual friday sequence. i skipped out on the party on highland with the girls to hang out with the boys. bad idea. i kinda regret it. tudor just annoyed me. there is only so many times i can hear harrington sing 'Obsession' at karoke. the girls said the party was fun too, like a broadway joes renuion from the old days.

another brief story about how ridiculous my job is. the man in the cubicle next to me sneezed earlier. i said " god bless you." he acutally complained to HR about my religious propaganda. my manager pulled me aside and told me to watch what i say. wow. a few minutes ago the sneezer informed me that i can say "may the druids watch over your spirit" next time he sneezes. i told him i didn't appreciate his satanic black magic viewpoints.

i also just got back from a training in the new IPAQ's coming out. i'm obsessed. i never realized how bad i needed a pocket pc until today.

i love you:

last nite after the game i went back to the 1039 house. i didn't realize you couldn't park on elmwood over nite anymore so i paid tony $4 to move my car at 12:55. i can't believe he did it. the catch was though, he wouldnt tell me where it was. at the time, this seemed like a great idea because i didn't have to leave the warm house and i was in the midst of a rousing round of the Trapped in the Closet drinking game. this proved to be a terrible idea this morning when i wandered around a 4 block radius in the snow for 45 minutes.
so the trapped in the closet drinking game you ask? ah this was the brainchild of scott a few weeks ago. seriously the dvd of volumes 1-12 with the commentary is most likely the funniest thing i have seen in a long time. we made it so you have to drink at certain points during this cinematic masterpiece such as when r.kelly talks into the wrong camera, when 'big man' (a midget stripper) takes a puff of his inhaler etc. i have never seen someone take themselves as seriously as r kelly does.

okay this may be one of the most embarrassing entries ever. not only does it show how lazy i am - but that i have seen "trapped in the closet" more then once

la luna nite last nite. that open bar kills me. it is one hour - but apparently i have no self control. i drank my face off. then danced like a maniac with the boys. i think i saw my boyfriend that looks like a girlfriend making out with a guy. surprize surprize. seriously what is it with these emoscenster boys lately? i feel like everyone is confused about their sexuality lately. supposed straight boys making out with boys and girls making out with girls making out with boys. my straight man friends were making out last nite and then one of them turned around to bring me home. i don't get this. is this the new wave of sexuality? is it a fashion trend? am i being naive?

later at roxys the boys did a duet to 'obsession.' it has been in my head allll day.

sitting rinkside tonite. hopefully this time wont get in a fight.

i love corporate america. today i had my workspace ergonomically evaluated. there is an employee for my company whose actual job it is to evaluate the way people sit and work in their cubicles. this lady spent about 10 minutes looking at my desk setup and how i work. it was decided that all is needed to cure my bad posture, back pain and headaches was a keyboard tray! here is a copy of the actual email she followed up to my manager with:

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Original Message

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From:     Flaherty, Mayan
Sent:    Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:43 PM
To:    Flaherty, Mayan
Subject:    Workstation Ergonomic Evaluation

Dear Tom,

Today, I completed an ergonomic workstation evaluation for Jessica. She has been experiencing back and
shoulder discomfort. I am not surprised! She is sitting facing one way and her keyboard is in one direction
& her monitor is in another direction. She is also reaching for her keyboard, which pulls on her back and
shoulders. I recommend the installation of a keyboard tray. This will allow Jessica to work in a forward
facing more neutral position.

A used keyboard tray is available, so the charge back will be $21. If you approval of the installation, please send
me your cost center code. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.
Mayan



update on the flat tire disaster:

went to another garage. it was sliced open pretty bad apparently. and yes i need to replace the whole tire. they told me since it is a new car i need a new tire. which i am now suspecting is bullshit. oh and also the tire is available no where in buffalo. so it has to be ordered. i would really like to know how there is no tires available for the most popular car of 2005.

dyan comes back home tonite from dallas. she is going to be here for a while - almost a month - which is sweet. the only thing that sucks is that i lose my platonic husband (her bf.) he will be missed.

what a morning again!! i think i have a black cloud over me this week. i went to bring my car into Midas this morning to get the tire repaired and the wait was at least an hour. (yes even after i made an appt last nite.) as i pulled out on to delware and made a right onto kenmore, i was on my cell to try and find another location to get it patched - and fast. i got pulled over and ticketed for being on my phone. i drove around on my donut to 3 more garages until finally i gave up and submitted to the hour wait at firestone. 2 hours later (and yes i am way late to work) they tell me i have a hole in my side wall and it will be $110 to replace the tire. i left on my donut again.

i am such a girl. it took me til i was in front of the albright today to figure out a had a flat tire. what a start to a monday morning. i called for roadside assistance, considering i have no clue how to change a tire. (this is something i need to learn.) 30 minutes later a young scruffy looking guy pulls up in a beat up blue Plymouth pulls up. don't these guys usually have service vehicles? i cracked my window and asked for ID. he thought i was completely nuts - and looking back, rightly so considering it was 10am on elmwood in broad daylight. "you think i am gonna carjack your car with a flat tire lady?," he says. as he pulled the donut out of my trunk i forget all the crap i have in there. 2 bras and a pair of underwear fly out into the albright parking lot. he blushes ferociously - then tells me i should really clean my car. clean my car! who does he think he is. the 78 empty packs of parliments and camels are there for a reason - as is the 6 pairs of shoes, 11 artvoices, and 27 empty mountain dew bottles are. i'll clean my car when i am good and ready.

hanging out with the dude-bros i live with opens my eyes to a very different lifestyle - and just emphasizes why i could never ever date this kind of man. last nite, amongst the midst of labatt blue cans and a jim carrey movie muted in the background, i witnessed them choreographing a backstreet boys dance. the one actually took his sweat band off for the occasion. see example A of my roommates below:

last nite was extremely painful. it was one of those late nite 5am pink nites i thought i was done with years ago. apparently not. as i said yesterday we started at prespa for john's 30th. it was kind of an awkward scene and as i looked around i noticed half of us were drinking Old English out of a can. at fuckin prespa. 5 minutes later we were outta there and at tudor and we were more in our element. everyone was out and having a really great time. this was followed by harware of course, and then pink. i made out with some pretty emo boy that looked like a girl. then saw him at pano's today. it was mortifying.

craig randomly appeared in town tonite. apparently we are going to some '80s party on potomoc with the 1039 boys. then i am sure we will be in allen. i can't afford to keep doing this - i am going to have to get a 2nd job. how is it i am the only one of my friends that has a real grown up job...and the only one broke all the time. i don't get it. does anyone have a job for me where i can work 10-6 on saturday and sundays ?

every christmas at my work in my department we raise money to sponser a family. being the only girl i usually get shoved into running these types of fundraisers. i am ok with this. i actually kind of enjoy it. this year we are running a chinese raffle. this has sent waves of excitment through every geek in the department. the networking guys were shaking with anticapation to see what would be put in as prizes. the powers that be actually let us clear out the storage rooms and take all the old equipment as giveaways. this mean wireless equipment and production boxes are far as the eye can see. software galore. most of it i have no idea what the hell it is. there has been a huge response. i am so happy - some of these geeks have spent like $200 in tickets! considering that most of them will take the equipment and sell it on ebay for 5 times that it isn't too bad. it is about 5:30 now and we have made almost $1000. that will make for a really really nice christmas for this family.

tonite is john w's 30th birthday. he is old. we are apparently goin to prespa to celebrate. i havnt been there in soo long. i always think of the story of how harrington stole the bathroom mirror last year. i have to behave somewhat though - apparently my nana is dropping by at 9am to give me something. what this something is i am not sure - i think i should be scared.

about a year and a half ago i worked at this warehouse down elmwood behind the home depot plaza. it was a electronic recycling plant. my job was to take the pc's they piled for me with a forklift and rip them apart. then i was to put together units that worked out of the random bits and pieces laying about. by 'worked' i mean they were able to boot windows 98 once. there was no running water - they would use these huge barrells, fill them up with water from the lake and then hang them over the toilets and run a house down. no joke. everyone used to chain smoke on the floor. which brings me to my point. kinda. in the november 21 issue of The Nation there is an articled entitled Toxic Recycling. it pretty much hit the nail on the head. it talks about prisons doing the same kind of work i was and how dangerous it was. so not only did i have to pee in lake water, withstand the threat of being blown up daily, get sexually harassed on a minutely basis, and harbor felons - i was breathing in lead, cadmium, mercury, and all other kinds of crap. the worst part is, even though the prisons don't have to be prepared for unscheduled OSHA visits, it seems as they got more then us. i did not see OSHA come through there once the entire time i worked there. nor heard of prior visits. okay i am going on a tangent. i don't know where this came from.

anyways.
as every wednesday i was at hardware last nite. i was really into that jazz band there for the last few weeks until i picked up on a pattern. they seem to play the same stuff in the same order every week. for some reason this got to me. also - does anyone notice how much the art completely sucks there? i am sorry if it belongs to anyone that happens to be reading this. but it is not my taste.

last nite was drama central. (surprize surprize) i swear i am not this much of a drama queen in real life. i don't know what is going on with me lately. the boys were wasted and ridiculous - and that led to nothing but bad bad things.

another wierd thing that happened. chris introduced me to this chick he was with - this girl i never met before. as i said hello to her she asked right away if i went to St. Marks school. i attended St Marks K-2 grades. left after that (because the principal beat me - another story for another day.) how wierd is that. who recognizes someone like 15 years later. she seems cool though - real sweet. maybe we will rekindle out kindergarten friendship.

before i went out i agreed to let doug film me for his project. i knew this was a bad idea from the beginning - especially b/c i was so pissed at him still. and part of that anger was b/c of his apparent tendency to film girls naked for these projects - with out my knowledge. it was almost comical the way all his equipment and the 2 of us were crammed in my tiny bathroom filming me put on my makeup. we were seething mad at eachother and i was putting on my lipstick so voilently it broke.

crucial has bad hold music.