Bored and fearful
Bored bored bored bored bored.

alicelaughed, our admin and my partner in crime here, is on vacation to England for a week. While I wish her well, I hate her with the burning passion of a thousand burning passionate things. Starting now and running through January is the big application season for us. I'm going to be utterly swamped by mail. I have a number of other projects I should be working on. But I don't want to. I fear the coming of the mail.

We've got a new guy starting on Monday (sorry, mgrasso). Have to see how he shakes out. I got a heavy geek/gamer vibe off him at the interview so I'm hopeful we'll get along (too lazy to link to the Geek Fallacies page). But in the meantime there's nowhere for him to sit. Facilities is supposed to come in and build a new desk, turning my respectable 2-person (me + 1 part timer) office into a cozy 3 person space. grr.

aliwings had to go to the overnight sleep lab last night to get stuck with electrodes and see if her new Vader-esque breathing pump is making a difference. I always feel kinda off after a night when she's not home. And then the General decided to start talking (to his stuffies? in his sleep? who knows) at 4AM, which caused me to bolt upright and not be able to get back to sleep. He, however, fell back to sleep and I had to pretty much light him on fire to get him up and out the door this morning (Dear DSS, I'm kidding about the fire thing. But I did cover him with fire ants. That's okay, right? Love h58).

Have to get to Comicopia at lunch. Last issue of Identity Crisis is out today, as is the first TPB of Joss Whedon's X-Men. Shouldn't spend money on comics right now but, you know, fuck it.

bored bored bored. Nothing interesting on LJ. don't want to face the horrible work I have to do. Entertain me. Or I'll be forced to babble more.