if you're wondering about the name change -- don't ask. i made some mistakes that'll be fixed soon.

Late for work today, for the first time in two months. It's totally my fault though. This morning, I got the monitor for the Mac G4 today. After getting back from the ortho (who I don't have to see again 'till May!), I hooked it up. I got distracted, and long story short, I was 7 minute slate. Oops.

One of these days I wouldn't mind being late for a totally valid reason, like getting into a street brawl, or being hit by a car, or a court summons against the brawlers or the drivers. Man, that'd be pretty out of the ordinary.

So I'm slowly falling asleep at my desk. This isn't good, and it won't do me and good if I'm caught. So I'm masking it well by coding the calls as fast as I can (as I'm supposed to do normally for work... -_-) Writing too, writing helps cover up the fatigue. I'm paying for all my late nights of near death no sleep experiences this week. I've consistently slept at like... 2:30, 3AM doing nothing at all, nothing productive anyways. Nothing NSFW either. Seriously just trying to sleep. I don't know. I don't know which of these issues I should deal with first, the insomnia or the productivity issues.

Speaking of productivity, the coffee machine fucked up today, and is giving out free coffee and hot chocolate. This is perfect! This is exactly what I need. Ifjasflkajflk I forget what I was gonna write. I burned my tongue with a mocha coffee, the first of the three I drank tonight. I have a bit of a lisp now. It's a little embarassing.

I'm gonna go and pick up my guitar again. It's been a while.

I can finally get back to writing again. Got one of the longer surveys, so I also have long moments of nothing in between.

I dusted off the old Blockbuster gold card, and decided to rent "Bully". It,s quite an intriguing game. For all of the exaggerations about school and society, it gets the basic ideas of daily life down pretty accurately. For example, you have classes that have to be attended, guards that bust you for truancy, being out of uniform, and bullying (duh), and the ever popular clique divisions in school. It's pretty tightly knit, and very well done. As an aside, all the controversy behind the game was pretty way off, as the lead character, you're more or less a defender of the people being bullied, sorta like a bully to bullies, y'know? But that's probably pretty obvious.

So Christmas is in 12 days! Are you excited? I'm excited. So excited, in fact, that I've made a Christmas themed mix...

Just kidding. I haven't and won't.

I feel like going back to some old habits that I broke years ago. No, this isn't where I come out and confess that I'm a smoker, I don't do that stuff.

No, it's not that sort of habit.

I think I want to go back to playing Dance Dance Revolution. Don't ask why, but I've gotten this urge recently to go back into that stuff. Arcading and all that. Hell, getting a home pad isn't even a bad idea, I wouldn't mind that either. But I dunno. It's been a while, and I'm outta shape. Maybe this could be part of a workout regimen, where I couple this with eating right, so I can get fit.

In other news -- I have one of these bad boys.You all probably already know anyways, but I got a DS Lite recently. I'm slowly amassing a collection of games, and staking out Wi-Fi hotspots near my frequent hangouts. I love it, but if only that alarm clock and all that came with a daily planner. Every portable stylus thing should have a daily planner. Man, then the DS would be like the greatest thing ever.

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It's a little weird being the one of the few out of all my friends to be ending as early as I am. A bunch of people I know are at Vanier and Marianopolis, and they've got exams or another week to kill in school. Whatever, it's almost over, it'll be fine. I've got three months worth of stuff that I'll need to catch up on with everyone I haven't seen.

I feel like I'm half dead. In the past 48 hours, I've only slept about 8. I'm something of a zombie right now, but it'll be over soon. Tomorrow, for all intents and purposes, is my last real day of class. One last in-class essay to do for English, but then that's it. I normally have three classes sthat day, but -- holy shit I've gotta find something to do besides going back home. Being home really just translates to doing nothing, which is what I hope to avoid. Shit... I'm dozing. This is such a bizarre feeling. I figure I can keep this up just so long that I don't start hallucinating. It sorta happened last night, I thought I was seeing bugs.

Do I wanna get on this metro? Nah, no seats. I'll head to the end of the station, there's always space there.

So I managed to type out two 1000 word essays in an hour and a half. I feel like a superhero or something. It was pretty fucking awesome, blazing through them like that. I like it when I get a rush of creativity like that, it's alway so--hey, someone I know. Gotta run.

Scribbles from the notebook
7:15PM
I just tried my hand at writing out a short story, but it just isn't panning out. I can only commit for something like that for just so long. But right now, I'm writing to stay alive. See,I'm at work now, I've got fifteen minutes to kill, and unlike other days, today is going by so painfully slow. Business numbers -- and people with no VCRs -- line my day, and because of that, there are no surveys being done... not that it matters, as I'm still getting paid. But still. As one of my co-workers used to say, "The dialer gods aren't with me tonight."
7:45PM (On Break)
I was gonna go over to Al-Taïb tonight, but it didn't really pan out when I realized that more or less every day this week, pizza's been dinner. So instead, I went for the quick and dirty Big Mac. I'll probably walk a bit of the ways home tonight to get it out of me.