02.11.2002 - Quality

So my time at work, limited as it may or may not be, is being increasingly consumed by actual work. As such, I haven't had as much paid time to focus on the diary. It's a shame, I know, but I've decided to exercise the oft neglected focus and hard work portion of my brain in order to hopefully hang onto my job and have money to maintain my filthy eating habit. I have priorities. Who knew?

Because I haven't een able to update my diary from work, I've fallen even farther behind. Frankly, I'm tired of living in the past, so you're going to get one of those dreaded highlights of the past few days entries.

Since I'm hopefully going to have this job for a while and I anticipate this level of work to remain constant, you might see more late night entries or skipped days. I tell you as if you care.

Anyway, the highlights:

The new boss gave me the opportunity to pick up some extra hours on Monday morning, so I jumped at the chance. After getting no sleep, working four hours, going to class and staying up all night trying to finish the column that I would normally write at work, I was officially exhausted by the end of the day.

Normally, this would have made work on Tuesday unbearable, but time passes much faster when I'm doing work. Still, the lack of sleep and the abnormal levels of brain activity have decreased my mental capacity to the point that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Betty White and Barry White by the end of the day.

I ended up skipping most of my classes on Wednesday because I just couldn't handle being out of bed for more than an hour at a time. I became intimate with my pillow, and for once, that doesn't mean that I woke up humping it.

That night, I met Roommate Ihsan at a Sacramento theatre to see a critics' showing of a movie called No Man's Land because he had free passes. When we got to the box office, they said they didn't know anything about it. Because they felt bad, they let us see any movie we wanted to for free. Because it happened to be playing at the same time as the other movie was supposed to start, we saw Amélíe. This movie made me incredibly happy, to the point that my tiny black heart almost turned a deep crimson and started beating again.

Almost.

Also, the girl in that movie is officially the cutest person ever. She's like a prize you'd win at a carnival for guessing how many pinto beans were inside a jar.

Thursday was not only Valentines Day, but also Rod's birthday. Julia, Jackson and I went over to his new apartment for what was a cool, yet different and very chill party. We sat around listening to folks play guitar and slowly drinking wine. It kind of gave me a Big Chill moment and made me feel a little old. It wasn't entirely bad though.

And that should bring us pretty much up to speed. Any questions?

-- Jeffy