Sometimes I wish I had more violent tendances, so I could have reacted by turning around and smacking the guy on the corner who grabbed my cat ears off of my head.

I'm glad vegetarianism is mainstream enough these days that I can get away with being picky without looking too strange.

I don't know why I get annoyed at people who hang up when I answer the phone, when the last thing I want to do is talk to them anyway.

If Paul still reads this: I'm sorry I never got around to dying my hair again before I left. You'd love this. I dyed my hair 'true red' last night, a color a couple shades too bright to be considered natural, and it's perfect.

All in all I'm entirely too happy with my life right now to be flying to a goth convention tonight.

I know I am going to love my company now. I got a "project" to see what a piece of hardware my boss is getting rid of is going for on E-bay.

I know Andrew is prone to an eye twitching when stressed, and it happens to me occasionally too. It happened a bit yesterday even though I'm extremely un-stressed compared to usual right now. I've found something even more annoying now. My ear is doing the auditory version of twitching, a low stuttering sound going off in my right ear every few seconds. What is this?

I got my first paycheck today! I wasn't expecting that, thinking I'd have to wait a month for two pay cycles to go by.

Phrase of the day: transitional pope. I don't know why but I find it funny.

TMI warning: There's no chance of it waiting until after Convergence and it wasn't good enough to happen conveniently over the weekend, so I wish my period would hurry up and start and get the worst over with. I'm going through the no caffeine torture, have gone through half a gallon of soy milk so far, and all kinds of raspberry leaf tea. I don't want cramps to kill me at my new job.

Another fax machine mishap, but not so bad as the first: I faxed the page I was using to get the fax number off of right back to the company instead of the one I intended to.

Marcio, the company president, came back from Brazil yesterday and now that things have calmed down he's doing a good job helping me figure things out. He knows I'm not comfortable with the phones so he had me listen in on a call. That is soo much better than being told 'get this information' without knowing what I'm really asking for.

Things are starting to make sense one tiny piece at a time. Then Convergence should be enough to wipe it all away again this weekend.

I just stocked up on three packages of instant miso soup. I'm hooked on that stuff because it's the only insta-food I know that tastes exactly like the real thing. This means the real thing as I know it probably comes from freeze dried packets as well, but you can't beat dehydrated nori.

I've become one of those people who color in all of the 'o's on a printed page. You can tell any paperwork I've had to call someone about that way.

I just noticed that my paychecks from my old job still have my old address on them, and my last check was supposed to be mailed to me.

Found out I'm actually replacing somebody at work. No wonder they're trying to get me to learn so much so quickly! I'm still so overwhelmed, while I get told I'm doing great.

I share my afternoon bus stop with a woman who I have never seen off of her cell phone. I don't understand the cell phone mindset but I guess it passes the time. Even more I wonder how much that must cost in daily minutes.

Once again proving I am as graceful as a cat—the kind of cat you laugh at after it misses its jump the counter by a mile... I tripped over a wood stake sticking out of the ground and scraped up both of my knees while at lunch.

And first thing my second week, I break the printer. (Well, a paper jam I don't know how to fix.)

Random thought of late last night: I have a left-handed alarm clock.

Throughout the day that kept trying to modify itself to 'left-handed toaster'.

Twinkie sushi(!)

Canada is fighting back, now everyone's going to have to carry passports between the two countries.

Things should be improving now that I've left the soul sucking job... but I'm still feeling exhausted all of the time, and I still have this need to hide and be alone.

Second day at work: I am looking forward to a week or two in the future when I no longer feel clueless and don't have to bother people for work/answers all the time. I just want to get to that point and have it over with.