I am working for an investment company/bank owner company/something to do with money company this week. Just as the world's stock markets are crashing to the ground. I was here two days last week for some training, and am currently sitting in front of the office computer writing this. This job is the complete opposite from the one I had before with the lawyers - I am busy busy busy all the time. The worst part about this job is, however, that I have to get up at 6.20. The first day I was up at 6. It is too early! Luckily I only have three more days to go. And then school starts next week and I will be living off borrowed money... Yikes.
It is already cold in Vancouver in the mornings, but the afternoons continue to be warm. It is nice. It is almost October. I am trying to find a new apartment for us to move into at the end of the month, as we are leaving the west end.. But there are no ads up yet. Moving won't be fun.
And now I have to go turn on the dishwasher. And go home. Yay. Oh! But I should tell you because I know you are all dying to know how my finger is doing! I can use it to type again! It doesn't hurt anymore! But the underside of my nail is completely nicely black!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Quick update
I hurt my finger really badly under a crashing window. It really hurts. I got some of the blood drained at the doctor's office, with the help of my new care card. Yes, I am finally covered.
I also have another temp job. It requires me to get out of bed at 6am. In other words, it is a living hell. More on that later, now I have to sleep.
End of quick update.
I also have another temp job. It requires me to get out of bed at 6am. In other words, it is a living hell. More on that later, now I have to sleep.
End of quick update.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Sick and tired
This is going to be a really quick, short blog entry, just to update after the last one! So it is Wednesday, and I am leaving work in ten minutes, one hour early, to go to BCIT and get my schedule and my book list and see who else is in my class and such. Good times!
Saturday and Sunday went by really fast, even though Chris had to work (again), and we spent both nights at the Commodore. Bad Religion was great (as always), but I almost fell asleep during Spiritualized. Sorry, Chris, but at least you enjoyed it. :) I hope to get some pictures up here from BR, cause we were in the first row, woohoo! I got some bruises and my leg really hurt after the show, but it was worth it!
I have a cold. I got it on Saturday. And Chris got it two days ago. It sucks. I bought echinacea and Chris bought oil of oregano, so we're using the strong stuff to keep ourselves going. I am already starting to feel better.
Gotta run to Burnaby now! Just wanted to say hi! Hi! Bye!
Saturday and Sunday went by really fast, even though Chris had to work (again), and we spent both nights at the Commodore. Bad Religion was great (as always), but I almost fell asleep during Spiritualized. Sorry, Chris, but at least you enjoyed it. :) I hope to get some pictures up here from BR, cause we were in the first row, woohoo! I got some bruises and my leg really hurt after the show, but it was worth it!
I have a cold. I got it on Saturday. And Chris got it two days ago. It sucks. I bought echinacea and Chris bought oil of oregano, so we're using the strong stuff to keep ourselves going. I am already starting to feel better.
Gotta run to Burnaby now! Just wanted to say hi! Hi! Bye!
Friday, September 12, 2008
YAAAAY
Sooooo to everyone's relief (I know you've been losing sleep over it), I can now announce that my files are safe. Yes. I got them back. I don't know if I got 100 percent of them, or only around 99, but a nice little program by the name of Active Undelete dug through the metaphorical mud that remained on the bottom of my harddrive and came back with all my data. The only problem that I have now is that NONE of the files have kept the information pertaining to their original place on my drive: like names, folders, dates created, etc. They are arranged according to file format, e.g. one folder for jpgs, one for wavs... It is going to take me a very very long time to arrange all this stuff. Especially since I had two or three copies of certain files. Oh man. It is going to take forever. I might just delete my music and download it again, even though I might not remember everything I had on my computer, because how on earth am I going to be able to recognize every single mp3 I have (out of about 50 gb of files) and remember the bands, songs, albums? It would be like the biggest ever music quiz. The music quiz of eternity.
It is Friday today, which means I have two days of no work ahead of me. I am not going to say two days of relaxing, because concerts aren't exactly relaxing, and that is what this weekend is going to be filled with. Chris is working all weekend (again), but on Saturday we are going to see Spiritualized at the Commodore Ballroom (I know nothing about them except they gave me a headache when I tried to listen to them... The setup is not promising), and on Sunday it is time for Bad Religion. YAAAAY Bad Religion. It'll be the third time I see them... I think. Pretty sure it's the third time. YAAAAY. They are also playing at the Commodore, and then I will be tired on Monday. But who cares. Good times!
It is Friday today, which means I have two days of no work ahead of me. I am not going to say two days of relaxing, because concerts aren't exactly relaxing, and that is what this weekend is going to be filled with. Chris is working all weekend (again), but on Saturday we are going to see Spiritualized at the Commodore Ballroom (I know nothing about them except they gave me a headache when I tried to listen to them... The setup is not promising), and on Sunday it is time for Bad Religion. YAAAAY Bad Religion. It'll be the third time I see them... I think. Pretty sure it's the third time. YAAAAY. They are also playing at the Commodore, and then I will be tired on Monday. But who cares. Good times!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
City
I am tired of people here. They have no brains. They don't obey stop signs. They don't let you pass but take up the whole sidewalk. They stop their cars in the middle of intersections. And that's just talking about the traffic.
Vancouver seems to be the most brain-dead city I have lived in so far. It's either that, or then all the smart ones are hiding inside their houses, away from being run over by idiotic bikers on the sidewalks. The city is beautiful, but why does that mean that only stupid people stay here to enjoy it? They take one look at the mountains and decide to start smoking pot or turning into self-loving wannabe-models addicted to moronic television shows? I might be unfair, and I am sure that there are tons of people here that I actually would enjoy having a conversation with, but hey, I am only calling it as I see it. I hope that going back to school will change my perception of this place and its inhabitants.
I am annoyed. Both at others, and at myself. I made the most idiotic mistake on Monday, one that will likely cost me 500 dollars - or at least I hope that it will cost me 500 dollars, because that would mean that it is reversible. I came home from work tired and dazed on Monday, and put a dvd-rw into my computer, in the hopes of erasing its content and filling it with the fifth and sixth episodes of Dexter, season two. What I did instead though was far less constructive. I managed to click "format drive E" instead of "erase drive F" (easy mistake, one would think), and thus started erasing everything I had on my external hard drive, which happened to be plugged into my computer.
Erasing everything.
Luckily (at least this is what gives me even a sliver of hope right now), I went to play some music from my hard drive, and when it did not respond to my enquiries, I noticed what I was doing and stopped the formatting. But it had already chewed off the part of the drive that was recognizable to my computer, and as such, can no longer be accessed in any normal way. And I have everything on that hard drive! All my photos from about three years time. All my documents. I don't care about all the other stuff that is on it - music, movies, and such, but my photos... ALL MY PHOTOS! That is my whole life and all my memories. Yes, I would pay 500 dollars to get them back, and I sincerely hope they are still readable in some shape or form. I just wish I hadn't been so tired and dazed after work on Monday... I sure could use that money for other things. You know. Like food.
I am also in a bad mood due to my current temporary job. It is driving me insane. It is so boring. I have nothing to do. I read and I surf and I walk around, but my brain is standing still. Sometimes I fax stuff. Other times I mail stuff. But that's it. Out of the eight hours I sit here every day (minus the lunch breaks and other breaks I just wander off on cause nobody cares), I probably work about fifteen to twenty minutes. Sometimes it goes up to almost an hour. Fantastic! I suppose I should be happy they are paying me 100 dollars for fifteen minutes of work, but I would rather be at least a little challenged.
That is all the ranting I feel comfortable doing today. I hope things will feel better when my classes start. At least, yes, thanks for your comment Chris, I did get that student loan. But I also have to pay it back one day, and now with 500 less dollars. I wish I would win the lottery.
Vancouver seems to be the most brain-dead city I have lived in so far. It's either that, or then all the smart ones are hiding inside their houses, away from being run over by idiotic bikers on the sidewalks. The city is beautiful, but why does that mean that only stupid people stay here to enjoy it? They take one look at the mountains and decide to start smoking pot or turning into self-loving wannabe-models addicted to moronic television shows? I might be unfair, and I am sure that there are tons of people here that I actually would enjoy having a conversation with, but hey, I am only calling it as I see it. I hope that going back to school will change my perception of this place and its inhabitants.
I am annoyed. Both at others, and at myself. I made the most idiotic mistake on Monday, one that will likely cost me 500 dollars - or at least I hope that it will cost me 500 dollars, because that would mean that it is reversible. I came home from work tired and dazed on Monday, and put a dvd-rw into my computer, in the hopes of erasing its content and filling it with the fifth and sixth episodes of Dexter, season two. What I did instead though was far less constructive. I managed to click "format drive E" instead of "erase drive F" (easy mistake, one would think), and thus started erasing everything I had on my external hard drive, which happened to be plugged into my computer.
Erasing everything.
Luckily (at least this is what gives me even a sliver of hope right now), I went to play some music from my hard drive, and when it did not respond to my enquiries, I noticed what I was doing and stopped the formatting. But it had already chewed off the part of the drive that was recognizable to my computer, and as such, can no longer be accessed in any normal way. And I have everything on that hard drive! All my photos from about three years time. All my documents. I don't care about all the other stuff that is on it - music, movies, and such, but my photos... ALL MY PHOTOS! That is my whole life and all my memories. Yes, I would pay 500 dollars to get them back, and I sincerely hope they are still readable in some shape or form. I just wish I hadn't been so tired and dazed after work on Monday... I sure could use that money for other things. You know. Like food.
I am also in a bad mood due to my current temporary job. It is driving me insane. It is so boring. I have nothing to do. I read and I surf and I walk around, but my brain is standing still. Sometimes I fax stuff. Other times I mail stuff. But that's it. Out of the eight hours I sit here every day (minus the lunch breaks and other breaks I just wander off on cause nobody cares), I probably work about fifteen to twenty minutes. Sometimes it goes up to almost an hour. Fantastic! I suppose I should be happy they are paying me 100 dollars for fifteen minutes of work, but I would rather be at least a little challenged.
That is all the ranting I feel comfortable doing today. I hope things will feel better when my classes start. At least, yes, thanks for your comment Chris, I did get that student loan. But I also have to pay it back one day, and now with 500 less dollars. I wish I would win the lottery.
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