(Note: entry written more around midnightish.) Well, so much for taking that pill to put me to sleep last night. Guess what- it didn't. No, instead I was woozy AND wide awake to boot. I finally laid down around 4 a.m. and kinda stared at the clock until the alarm went off. I continued to be woozy until noon, too. Bad sign. You'll note by the time on this entry that I'm obviously awake past my bedtime again, but this time I'm not even bothering with Woozy Pill.

As predicted, I went back to work and found that there was very little to do. We don't get our major paperwork in here and ready to be worked on until February (don't ask me why, presumably the other department that does them is slow). Well, we have paperwork in, but we can't do it until someone else enters the basic stuff into the computer, which could be...whenever. Seriously, people are alphabetizing and filing around here, and I'll be amazed if this fills out the entire week. I don't know why the hell the temp folks have been kept on for another month when we don't have much to do. I like them, but man, even us permanent folks are looking for busywork. Hence why I am sandbagging it and just fooling around on the net by writing this entry so I can work more slowly on what I'm doing. Because once this stack runs out, what the hell else can I do? I freaked out when I noticed that all the filing was going to be done before I got to it. Sheesh. And we need to look busy, since it's Layoff Season and all... When nobody's around, I stop doing work so I can save some for when people are around. It's pathetic. I'd love to do something else, but my boss doesn't really have the time now to work on that. From what I saw on 3WA today, this kind of thing is a common problem.

Financially, I have been a pretty good girl. I went to Borders tonight to pick up the aforementioned desired bridal porn, read it, then put it down and walked away. $10 unspent! I went to Target with Hill and bought nothing (not that there was anything I wanted there) and avoided the mall to boot. I also avoided checking out the gorgeous clothing stores in town, one of which was new and another of which was having a 20% off sale. I didn't go in the toy store, which was having a 60-70% off sale.

My halo isn't perfectly shiny- I spent a bit too much on lunch because I needed the caffeine and I went to the grocery store. Which was good because I was really out of food, but on the other hand, not much was on sale there either. Oh well, at least I'm fed for awhile.

Yeah, THAT was real exciting for you to read, I'm sure.

Much to my amusement, Dave applied to work at a porn store today. Y'all can just imagine my parents' reaction to that... or the PITA relatives's reactions...But it apparently pays more than most of the places he's been applying to lately, and hey, he could work nights... I'm sure his True Porn Clerk Stories would be a hoot, anyway. Of course, given the track record going on of late, this will probably end up not working out too.

Don't mind me, I'm feeling rather pissy on this subject. Especially since the computer joint that was so hot to hire him a few weeks ago, the one that said "Come back in two weeks when we have a hiring manager again," hired somebody else already by the time he returned exactly two weeks later.

Seriously, the string of bad luck he's having is reminding me of the book I just read, Lady Slings The Booze. The narrator is a brilliant but jinxed PI- he solves things, but they often go terribly wrong nevertheless. 2002 sure seemed to be his year for that, with the exception of me.

He is also looking into a few computer schools to go to, since he's getting fed up of this whole thing. I'd love it if he went, though as with everything else, it would require him to have a job and have money coming in for him to afford school... bleah, it's a neverending cycle, isn't it?

Watched Joe Millionaire tonight and thought it was great. The most evil premise for a show EVER. Take one cuteish awkward loser-with-the-ladies dolt, convince him that he'll find a girl who wants him for him, then sic 20 VERY OBVIOUS moneygrubbers on him. Bwahahahah!!!! These girls were not even remotely subtle about the whole thing either. He could have been repulsive and they would have been swooning at his dreaminess.

I am wondering though: Why change his last name from Marriott? Wouldn't that make it sound like he inherited from the hotel chain and be more convincing? Or would Marriott sue? Probably, right.

I was about ready to vomit on Ms. "I don't wanna be the breadwinner" and everyone who went on and on about wanting to be a princess. Ah, the trashy goodness. I can't wait until next week when he makes them shovel manure (really).

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