My wrist hurts a little. I’ve been working too much; more than I want. If anything, it helps the time pass quickly; yet when I pause everything seems sooo slow. I am excited to go home. Excited to see my family; excited to see my girl. I have a lot of work to do. Sometimes I wonder if I will finish it; but what is the point in wondering that? I saw Dr. Kim this morning, she said the skin on my face had cleared up quite a bit. I’m pleased but I wonder if I will ever understand why I didn’t see someone like her earlier. Pride, perhaps. I’m often very convinced I can solve all the world’s problems on my own. In reality, I can barely solve my own problems. I think it is time I leave work now; I was watching a movie last night, ‘State and Main’ and I want to finish it tonight. In addition, I need to make vocabulary flash cards. English this time, for my GRE study. I wonder though, I’m not sure how motivated I am just yet. I want to get my job under control and to the point where I come in and leave in a reasonable amount of time and I think that will make my free time more productive too.

I woke up about 7:30… actually, I woke up at 3 to check on the build, which I did not break. Whew. I actually got out of bed close to 8. I had a nightmare in which I cheated on Eriko and then I was going to tell her. I woke up very grateful that it was just a dream and was tempted to tell about it. I know I have a deep desire to tell her everything. I think that is a good thing. But as she told me once, I have to do it little by little. I had a long day at work today. I got lots of stuff done but I’m not really sure if I am any closer to being done. Well, I take that back – when I leave for Anchorage, I will be done. Knowing there is an end helps me not get so frustrated or let the pressure get to me. I just want to do the best that I can.

I forgot to write last night, so I’ll try and recall it now : I worked for about 5 hours yesterday – for the most part it was good productive work and I felt good about it; then Susie came online and I screwed around a bit. Nontheless, I left work right after 5, which I planned on doing. Got some yummy Tup Tim Thai and ate that along with a beer. Laundry! Then I did 5 loads of laundry, stretched out over about a 2.5 hour period. I watched the first third of Scarface on David’s computer while this was occuring, and recompiled my kernel. 2.6 has some strange quirks, it seems a little less responsive for me. Then I watched the international version of The Professional, entitle Leon – it definitely had more of a lolita flair but it gave more meaning to the story. I am still not satisified with my computer setup, I want it to be a nice hobby area where I can just hack and play. I might be on the right track because I’ve decided that there is no point in trying to have a dual-pu! rpose desk, I cannot study there with the computer, it is too distracting. I’m thinking I should either study at the kitchen table or start going to the library. I want to learn to study. Well.

I am spending my Friday night relaxing with some mind-numbing entertainment. After work I had dinner with Kaya, my co-worker. I like Kaya. We went to McMennaminns and each had the Captain Nemo burger and a Ruby (beer). Then I came home and while watching Mystery Men I organized some papers, receipts, etc. that had long been overdue. My main purpose was to find the receipt for my UW class so Isilon can reimburse me. I finally got snoopy back online after replacing his power supply with one that my co-worker, Skye, didn’t want. Now I am upgrading to kernel version 2.6-test1 and updating all my Debian packages. Well, the computer is doing that, I am in David’s room watching About Schmidt and writing this.. ;P

It was a pretty entertaining movie that David rented. Lots of action, with some heros and political stuff thrown in too. It wore me out! I elected to relax this evening rather than stay late at work. Soon, bedtime.

I’ve been at work way too long tonight, but I got some shit accomplished. About time! I hope the productivity streak can continue. I had my last swimming class tonight, we learned the elementary backstroke, or chicken-airplane-soldier. It was cool. I feel more and more natural in the water everytime I get in, now I just need practice, practice, practice! I secured vacation today at work for going to visit Eriko in December. I’ll be gone Dec 4th - 14th.. and I’ll get to see Eriko perform in a drama while I’m there! I’m excited. I also grabbed some vacation time to visit the fam; I need to buy a ticket 20th - 28th. And! Susie agreed to be my date for the Real Dave’s wedding. Just my way of surrouunding myself with all the people I love at one time. Tae will be there, I haven’t seen that fucker for a while… I hear he is doing well and I’m glad. Time to leave work, go home, eat some pretzels, read some of Politika, take a shower and ZZZZzzzz…. (of course, I should insert attend to Bailey’s needs in between each item.. ;P