Wednesday, November 23, 2005

those dreaded 4:30 a.m. phone calls

holy crap i'm tired. and i'm at work. and i'm working (mostly). i like to think of it as multi-tasking. is that word hypenated? because at 5:20 a.m., proper hypenation matters!

i work at a newspaper, and i'm on the call list. so if something is wrong with a page or any other reason that a printer can't print something, i'm called. which is okay, because maybe i'll leave before 4 today. and it's a nice quiet office with little to no distractions to speak of, so i get plenty of work done and i can listen to any cd i want.

but there's that whole downside of HAVING TO GET OUT OF BED AT 4:30 AM. that downside including the inability to warm up, the feeling that your eyes are so they hurt. the inability to have a coherent thought. but hey, extra hours are nice.

wait! they aren't nice! why? because it's a week with a paid holiday in it, I WON'T GET OVERTIME! f**kers. yeah, i'm leaving early today. screw this.

thanksgiving day plans to include:
watching parade (or all of them, depending on commercial breaks and speed of remote control usage)
wearing pajamas for better part of day
eating pad thai. or pizza. or something that involves no cooking whatsoever.
napping.

and the file is not cooperating, meaning they still can't print. crap. must make things work now.

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