I've even raped and killed a mountain panda in the hills of Shaanxi.

So yesterday after lunch I switched machines, just to the one across from me. First I had to bring my chair with me, because with the back thing I was dealing with yesterday, the presented chair was no fucking good. It leaned back really far, and if the monitor was on the ceiling I'd be well pleased, but as it is, no. So then I had to install all my other favorite programs. The one great thing about this machine, well, first off it's a faster processor but only 256MB of RAM, still probably better than the other one, but really my favorite part so far is that it allowed me to set Mozilla as my default browser. I'd asked people for months to let me do it on the other machine, so I guess it's just company policy to ignore such requests. It worked just fine when I did it, though. So.

The other nifty thing is that it has Acrobat 7.0, because I installed it. Well, the reader, not the other version. It does have the real thing but it's version 5.0 and for my needs, totally wrong. But it also has the newest versions of office, the 2003 editions, which are lots prettier and stranger. It's a little discombobulating, and due to this as well as other factors I feel like I'm not really required to do work anymore. On the other hand, since acquiring the net at home, I feel like surfing isn't any fun at work anymore. So it's a little bit callous and strange.

llarian picked up my futon yesterday, so that's the end of that tale. Reg refuses to buy a microwave till he has enough money to pay rent, which is sensible but unfair to all the microwave popcorn i have sitting around. I guess it will have to just stay at work.

I was all pissed off yesterday at the weekend trolls who ate my Thai food, but this morning I was looking for yogurt and, well wow, my Thai food magically reappeared. So, yeah, forget that. However, there was no yogurt, so I had to break into my secret oatmeal stash. I actually kind of like oatmeal, although my favorite kind has apples, cinnamon, sugar, and raisins. And doesn't exist except in my mom's kitchen.

Also I had a single tall gingerbread latte, which, trust me, is enough reason to forgive Starbucks for all its ubiquitousness. Or, as hydrozoa put it, "reason to drink coffee." I hadn't had anything with caffeine in it since Friday, but since the weekend was a bit of a drug debauchery that doesn't really matter. I had no other caffeine and I felt fine, except I fell asleep around ten. But I did have Pho for dinner, which inevitably makes one drowsy, so perhaps it doesn't matter. I watched the first thirty minutes or so of The Guns of the Navarone (sp?) and woke up just as it was ending THREE HOURS LATER. Reg advised me to watch it during daylight hours - figuratively speaking of course - and we went to bed.

At that point I had a headache, but a mild one, and it was gone by the time I woke up for real. And then about twenty minutes ago I wasn't feeling tired but the slight headache began to return. I'm fearing it's now the other side of my head's wisdom teeth, and I think I'm just gonna have to suck it up and make an appt. at Harborview for, you know, a month from now. But then I had a caffeinated cola beverage and it went away.