everybody says this is your home0823 hrs:Work is going slowly today. When I first got here, I was the only one in the office because most people decided to vote this morning. I've only had a few emails and I am feeling uninspired to do any work at all. Today's mission is to distract myself from the election. I don't go to the polls until after work, since they are open until 8pm. Nailz and I are going to go together so we have company while we stand in line. My boss's henchwoman sent out an email saying we could all leave an hour early to go vote. The boss is out again today - sick, apparently. I will be taking that hour, even though I will wait until Nailz gets home to go vote.
I am just about to enter my 3rd week of being smoke-free (well, almost, see my slippage notes). I quit on October 22nd, though I stopped smoking at work on October 20th. It doesn't feel like it has been that long, but at the same time feels like I haven't smoked regularly in forever! It is very strange. I have had two small slips in the last two weeks, but it's not the end of my quit. I had 3 cigarettes at a party on the 25th and 4 cigarettes at a party on the 31st. It is difficult when there is alcohol involved. I did go to a party on the 1st and had a drink, but didn't smoke, so that is a good start! It's strange because quitting smoking is hard, but it feels easy at the same time. I've been re-enforcing my resolve and getting a few laughs in by reading through the
Quitticisms glossary on QuitNet.
The definitions of HTBC and Celery is Under the Left Rear Tire are especially funny.
Unfortunately, I have been experiencing the CRS and QuitZits phenomena. The CRS I can sort of deal with, but the QuitZits are frustrating - I even have them on my scalp. Gross (but not as gross as smoking for the rest of my life, and these will pass eventually). I wonder how long that is supposed to go on for?? *can't wait until body finishes cleaning house*
0933 hrs:"Too bad he couldn't buy a really good
collage education with $2.25 lol he needs it!"
This is why I usually stay away from things where the general public can comment on news and such. The misspelling of the word "college", lack of sentence structure and punctuation completely undermine his criticism of the person featured in the news story. I laughed, but sometimes I see these things and a little bit of my hope for humanity dies....
Baz Luhrman: don't worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum
1044 hrs:Gah! This day is taking it's sweet time...I just want it to be 3pm, so I can go home and distract myself from the election by surfing LJ and doing things around the house. I also am sending out the paper copy of my JET application on my way home today. I called the Japanese Consulate in Chicago to check on a few technicalities in regard to the application. Everything is really ready to go now. *frets hardcore* I'm so nervous! What if they don't want me? What if I don't even get an interview? What if I didn't follow one, tiny instruction and they throw out my application without even looking at it? What then? I've put so much time into the application and deciding whether it was really something I wanted to do that I'd never really thought about getting rejected by the program. Maybe now that the application process is over and all I have is to sit and wait for 3 months to find out if I'll get an interview, I should come up with plan B... I'm assuming this plan should not include any type of illegal immigration activity. XD Totally worried...about 2 BIG things (in my world anyway). At least one of them will either be confirmed or denied after today. For the 2nd one, I will have to come up with some way of not worrying too much. *still fretting*
1127 hrs:Oh, and changed my desktop wallpaper today. I now have a picture of Nishikido Ryo rocking out. It is good work wallpaper. It is also kind of bright and refreshing, so hopefully that will help brighten these darkening days. I should remind myself to minimize all of the applications I run for a minute or two just to look at it now and then. :)
1254 hrs:AND last, but certainly NOT LEAST:
GO OUT AND VOTE! Even if you don't feel like standing in line - do something good for yourself and your country by exercising your right to vote. If you've already voted: congratulations and THANK YOU!
Labels: election, JET program, quitting smoking, work