Mood:  happy
In about an hour and a half it will be mine. Assuming of course that no one else places a bid but if the two people who bid before me haven't bid again yet, I don't think they will.

I've loved this movie since I was 8 and that was before I got all of the jokes. I was watching it on TV the other day and realized that they cut out some funny stuff (Mrs. White kneeing Mr. Body in the groin and the drawing of lots for example). Then I decided that instead of just renting it (with a posibility of the store not carrying it), I would just buy it. Cause it's a great movie that I know I'll watch again. Or whenever I need a good laugh.

"Everything alright?"
"Yep. Two corpses. Everything's fine."

***UPDATE*** And of course after posting this, I refresh and then I was no longer the highes bidder =(. That has since been corrected. Hopefully no more correcting will be necessary.

In non-work related news...
Now Playing: "All The Things She Said" by Tatu on "Ripped by RaptorX30"
I find in amusing that I saw three of my friends in transit today. I first saw Bridget waiting for the light on her bike while I was on the bus turning right. Then as the bus was pulling up to the Cal Poly stop, I saw Leigh walking in after skating to school today. And then coming home in the Escort Van, we were behind Kathryn on Murray but we turned right (illegally) while she went straight. Since I was dropped off in the main lot, I decided to get the mail and then saw Kathryn pull in. I hustled slightly and we ended up getting to the door at the same time. It was kind of funny actually, she had gotten mail and once I saw her head on the stairs coming up from the carport, I reached her mail over and said "your mail madam'moisle" (or however it's spelt, I took Spanish not French). It kind of startled her.

The reason we arrived at the same time instead of me much later was because I came home early because I could just not get myself to study for my Anthropology midterm that I have tomorrow. I need to just make sure I leave work at 10 tomorrow and spend 10-12 reading over my notes again. Fortunately the test is multiple guess so I'm not too concerned.

I also need to try to get out of the house early to drop my sweater off at the dry cleaners again. I told them about the stain but they didn't get it out (yes, I looked for the first time nearly a week later). Usually when they can't get the stain out they tell you on pickup, right? I don't think the guy I turned it into made note of it when he said he would. I still have my receipt fortunately. Well at least I learned my lesson about taking stains into the cleaners: make sure they do something to note that there's a stain, and to check the garmet before exiting the store. I really hope this stain comes out. I only wore the top once for like 7 hours at absolute max. And I have no idea what got onto it. At least the stain's not too big and if I adjust the neck and my hair just right, my hair covers it but that's assuming my hair's down which it's usually not during school. I'll work it out.

Tomorrow is Gianna's birthday and Bridget is trying to organize going to Spike's for Taco Tuesday at 8 with a possible appearance at pint night after (pass!). The good news is that since I have to take my Anthro test early, I don't have my class til 7 so I could totally make it. The bad news is that I'm still a bit sick. I'd hate to give Gianna my cold for her birthday. I'll have to see how I feel tomorrow. Cause I want to go.

Changes to the system
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: "Infest" by Papa Roach on "Infest"
Topic: Work
Perhaps I'm rare in this thinking, but if I received three notices of some system I use constantly was being changed, I would read the notice over carefully and pay special attention to part of how it would affect me.

Cal Poly's calendar server was upgraded over the weekend to the Oracle system. The PolyComm sent out a few e-mail notices of when this was going to change and how it would affect the users directly. Somehow most of the people who got those e-mails read the part about the conversion and having to change their password (which wasn't necessarily true by the way) but missed the part about the username changing from their full name to their e-mail address.

This made work very crazy this morning. Apparently, the staff members came in early and started fielding calls around 7am or so. Jim asked Matt to come in and help in the morning and Matt was already helping someone at the window when I came in. Good thing Jim asked him to come in because Michelle overslept until like 8:40 and then had class at 9. Annie arrived at her usual time of 8:18ish. When I got in, I glanced over the documentation at the workstation quickly (I had read it the night before when Terri sent an e-mail to all of us) and then decided to check voicemail. There was already like 10 messages when I tried to check it. I say tried because I kept having to hang up in the middle of the first message to answer the phone. On my third attempt, there were 20 messages but I was able to get through the first one. I decided to do a "one message at a time" appoach instead of trying to listen through all of the messages at once. A few of the people I called back either kept calling and got through and fixed their problem or called someone else and figured it out.

I made one attempt at looking at the Remedy queue but that was at like 10:45 and then the phone rang. I did notice that we had 40+ tickets in there though. At least 5 of which were submitted by users as "medium" priority with log in problems. And the forms and account info that was in the bin? Forget, I didn't even get a chance to really look. I noticed some password management for account creation in the queue but I just couldn't get to them. I did do some forms but they were hand delivered or came fresh off the fax.

Add on top of all of this a stuffy nose, a cough and a sore throat. Yeah talking on the phone for 3 hours is not a smart thing to do. And had it been almost any other day, I probably could have asked the other people there if they could get the phone first. Thank goodness for cough drops. Hopefuly tomorrow all this calendar craziness will die down and we can work on all the e-mails we undoubtably received today but just couldn't get to and work through the queue. And hopefully my throat will feel better. *sigh* Hopefully.

Have I mentioned how much I hate being sick?
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: "Don't Turn Around" by Ace of Base on "The Sign"
I have? Well I'm going to mention it again. I hate being sick. I hate needing to keep a box of tissues by my side and going through a box every 24 hours. I hate how my nose is now so raw, it hurts to use the tissue. I hate how dry my lips have gotten and that I can't find my chapstick. I hate how my throat hurts. I hate how the congestion also gets to my ears. I hate how it makes me want to stay in bed all day and do nothing. Oh wait, I always have that feeling on the weekend. Okay scratch that one.

I suppose I should be grateful that I don't have a fever.

Please please let me have passed!
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: "Love Is" by Brian McKnight & Vanessa Williams on "Beverly Hills, 90210 - The Soundtrack"
Topic: School
Just got back from the WPE. It went okay I suppose. It would have been better if I didn't have to wipe my nose every other minute. The topic was about the "gap year" that more high school seniors are taking before college and if it benefits the students.
I said that it didn't because there's a chance they skip college altogether and then they are limited when their life falls apart later. And the main reason to take the year off was travel which you can just do by studying abroad. Somehow I managed to write 5 short paragraphs. No clue if it was long enough as I only had written on about 2.5 pages and they were saying that it should be about 3 pages. *sigh* Please, please please let me pass.

Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: "Livin La Vida Loca" by Eddie Murphy and Antonio Bande on "Shrek 2 OST"
Topic: School
I think I can officially say that I'm sick. I was trying to convince myself that it was allergies yesterday but my allergies don't get this bad. Conjested and a slightly sore throat. And all this the day before the graduation dependent bullshit promoting WPE. So you all can except a lovely rant about that tomorrow afternoon or late night.

Is it hot in here or is it just me?
Mood:  on fire
Now Playing: "Unhappy Anniversary" by Vitamin C on "Vitamin C"
Topic: Apartment
I think I'm starting to miss the cold weather. Or the lack of humidity I guess. I mean at least in the cold, I could sit in my room and not sweat. So I guess when it's a day that goes above 70, my apartment is a sauna. Falling asleep should be fun...

Things to do tomorrow
Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: Give It To You" by Jordan Knight on "From OzStyle"
Since I've been completely unproductive the whole weekend thus far.

-Clean up room.
-Send out Math Club e-mails.
-Sit-ups
-Work on senior project stuff
-Start 413 homework
-Write letter to Meghan/finish up package
-Write letter to Grandma

I would put "drop off dry cleaning" on there except I doubt they're open. I meant to do that Friday. Then on Saturday and then today. But there's something about just lounging in one's PJs all day that is totally attractive.

Not the best use of $6...
Mood:  smelly
...but definitely not the worst. I went and saw Elektra and Meet the Fockers at the drive in tonight. I was seeing Fockers for the second time. Not nearly as funny the second time around. As for Elektra...well, the fight scenes and the special effects were cool. The story could have used a bit more explaining. Like *why* she was brought back to life and *how* Abbey learned to fight. Things like that. They did do an excellent job in the casting/make-up in finding actresses that look a lot like Jennifer Gardner. Considering that I really wasn't going to do much else tonight, it wasn't horrible (except for all the crap I ate instead of a real dinner).

Update: Oh and someone had WAY too much fun with Greek letters during the credits of Elektra. Why couldn't they just use the title on the posters and in the preview. THAT one was cool. Uppercase sigmas instead of E's? Not that cute.

Mood:  happy
Now Playing: "Bringin' Da Noise" by 'N Sync on "No Strings Attached"
California weather returns as we move into highs of 70's! Yay!