I caught up with Amanda (ex-Teletech) this afternoon, for "coffee" which actually turned out to be hot chocolate. Anyway, she broke up with her boyfriend last night and needed some "moral support" which I provided! It was good to see her again - I was afraid that things might be a tad awkward because we've never seen each other outside of work before, but it was just fine! So much to talk about, so many common friends, all that jazz. So, it was fun.

I just downloaded Deep Purple's Machine Head album using Suprnova.org Bit Torrent download. I won't explain how it works, but it's pretty cool. Anyway, the album kicks serious butt. I hadn't heard it before, although I know most of the songs off it. Awesome!

Evelyn! That's the girl's name that I kept forgetting!

I'm at work, doing verifications of course (I am now doing it permanently, if you recall). I've moved desks, sitting around new people. The new people include Lorenz (who I went through training with), Dolly, Olivia, Anoka (who I buddied with early on in my time here) and another girl who's name I should know but keep forgetting.

I now essentially have a new job. I buckled, and applied for the QA Verifiers position, and got it. So now my job involves listening to arseholes make stupid mistakes all day every day. Fun!

What the hell is that???

Brad's graduation on Saturday was relatively boring. I read through most of it. Then we saw Men At Arms, a play adapted from a Terry Pratchett book. We being me and Andrew. It was a vast improvement on the rest of the day. Very very funny. Very good.

Thesaurus.com/cute. Scroll down to the entry for "pretty". One of the synonyms is "ten". Are you going to walk up to a girl and say "Hey babe, you're looking ten tonight!"? I think not! She'd probably turn around and say "Age, or dress size?!"

Dave says:
bet you cant guess what im doing atm
Mitzi Dupree says:
muddin?
Dave says:
only in the background... what else!
Mitzi Dupree says:
masturbating?
Dave says:
IN THE KITCHEN?!!
Mitzi Dupree says:
well, why not
Dave says:
what are you, perverted?
Mitzi Dupree says:
yes

Let me see, let me see. What is there to say? I feel reasonably crappy. I went to see a doctor today, it seems I have a severe upper respitory infection, and she recommends I take Thursday and Friday off work (I haven't been to work at all this week). It will mean that I won't get paid for a week, of course, however I'm sure if I need extra money Dave and my parents will be happy to oblige. Well, my parents will be happy, Dave will just do it because if he doesn't, I'll be broke. So I've been sitting at home, rather bored... I've watched every movie we own fifty three thousand times and now have nothing to do but be miserable.

Funny Quotes

I feel like crap. Head's stuffy, eyes hurt, nose is running, throat's sore.

You know how I said that Dave had the flu? Well, so do I now. I'm at home today, taking the day off work. Hard to do telesales when your voice sounds like two rocks grinding together.

Pizza Hut finally arrived with a cold pizza and garlic bread.

We have been waiting for over an hour for our meal from Pizza Hut to be delivered. Not only is it late, but I do not doubt it will also be cold. For shame! We were told it would be a long time, 50 minutes. We were told it would arrive at about 7.30pm. It's now 7.50pm. Where is our pizza? Is it cold? My stomach is complaining violently. Curse Pizza Hut.

It's been a whole smegging day, and not a single submission for my website name competition! I'm disappointed in all my readers (should they happen to exist)!

Well... ok, perhaps not that disappointed. After all, I can't really expect other people to do my thinking for me... not all the time anyway. But I'm still hoping! Still taking submissions! Email me submissions: mitzi_dupree@iinet.net.au.

Stacy is the #180 most common female name.
0.121% of females in the US are named Stacy.
Around 154275 US females are named Stacy!
source namestatistics.com

Horsfall is the #30252 most common last name.
0.0005% of last names in the US are Horsfall.
Around 1250 US last names are Horsfall!
source namestatistics.com

Other bloggers all seem to know other bloggers. It's like a community of not only bloggers but friends who blog. I don't have any friends who blog, as far as I know. My friends are largely non-net-savvy, and the geeks I know are just... well, non-bloggers!

Speaking of geeks, my own special geek (Dave of course) is feeling a bit sick today and we can't really figure out why. I think the flu is going around, I hope he's not coming down with that. He says it feels like the way he feels when he hasn't been eating and sleeping properly, but he's been doing both quite well... that sounds odd. What I mean to say is, he has been eating healthily and getting enough sleep. So for now, tis a mystery indeed.

I wonder if my blog is "cool"?

OK, I'm going to run a competition. Email Me with suggestions for names for this site. The prize will be your name listed on my site and of course your submitted site name used as the title for this site.

Wow! Somehow this thing's had more than 1000 visitors!!! (Probably mostly me, but who cares!)

Working on a Saturday. What a travesty! Not that I'm entirely sure what that word means, but it sounds right. Between calls I type - Jamiu isn't here to chat to and I don't know why! Amanda's here but she's two seats away and she's on a call anyway. Ho Hum.

I enjoyed this job at first. Now I confess I'm getting a tad bored with it. It's only been about six weeks. I just have to discipline myself into keeping going - if I give up every job I have after six weeks because I'm bored with it, I'll never get anywhere in life. Not that I will anyway, but that's beside the point.

Dammit I hate when people are saying "yes" all the way through the presentation and then come out with "I need to speak to my wife" or "I need to see something written down". However, I pride myself on not forcing sales, not being pushy or unethical, so I pretty much have to let it slide. Dammit.

Want sales. Dammit.

Last Night: I went to Brad's place, supposedly to pick up my Terry Pratchett books which he borrowed (all six or eight of them, but I only came home with three), but ended up staying quite late and watching most of Fight Club.

Today: We pretty much ran out of numbers to dial from work, and were basically sent home four hours early. I was quite happy with that! I went book-shopping before going home, I bought The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (I've read the previous two in the series and they were excellent), and Ice Station by Matthew Reilly who I've never heard of before but the book looks good and it was only $5.

Tomorrow: Working again tomorrow - I work every third Saturday.