Zoe’s Journal

I worked nearly twelve hours today (eating only a package of M&M’s) in order to get the new company newsletter out on time (since I no longer work on Wednesdays), only to come home and find the LotR looking over a copy of it and marking up things that needed to be changed. ‘The space between this line and that one is too big‘, ‘This number should have been spelled out‘, ‘I would move this column over a little‘, and ‘This shouldn’t be capitalized, and that should‘…

After that we went to take a hot bath, where he proceeded to tell me that he was going to give up his new schedule of getting up in the morning and working during the day; he is instead going to go back to his old system of staying up late and sleeping all day. I was kind of upset about that. We’ve been talking this issue for quite awhile. I won’t go into it here because it would be rather immature to air out the dirty laundry online.

**sigh**

I’m considering running to work first thing in the morning to make those newsletter changes before anyone sees it.

On the lighter side, there is a lady at work who comes in to water the plants about twice a week or so. I swear, she looks JUST LIKE an udead world of warcraft character. The hair, the face, the physique… Her laugh isn’t quite as annoying though.

And… today as I was leaving the office for some odd errand, my rather large co-worker whispered quite loudly to me…’I need to PEE so bad!’.

Gee… I didn’t need to know that! I didn’t need to PICTURE that! Gahh…

I have a headache - again.

A Huge One.

WHY?

Gahhh… What my headaches lack in naseau and dizziness they make up for with stabbing, shooting pains that cripple and force agonized immobility until they subside into dull throbbing.

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Work was okay today. It’s payroll week again, and my boss is finally back from vacation. And the newsletter I’ve been working so hard on goes out on Wednesday!! That’ll be so exciting…I realized that I haven’t said anything about my Anatomy/Phsysiology midterm yet.

Well, I passed. That’s the good news. The bad news is that my overall grade dropped by about 10 points. I am so pissed at myself.

Now that I have finished the requisitory update, I shall hobble off to bed in hopes that the morning starts much better.

P.S. I found a genius site for online jigsaw puzzles… http://www.jigzone.com/

I am so frustrated with Amazon right now. It is literally taking at least 30 minutes to get the html code for a link to ONE book. That is astonishingly slow for a company that wants to expedite sales. Perhaps this is recent bug? We shall find out.

This weekend passed pretty well - too bad that it’s over already.

Those who have been keeping current with zoesjournal know that I have four websites as of this weekend. If you’re absolutely dying to know the links, let me know and I may send them to you.

I’m going to go back to work on them some more, but to keep you busy, here is a link for you - and another… and another.

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On the Politics of WoW

Global chat really has its downsides. Who would know (or even care) how many idiots are in the world otherwise? Listening to people bash each other for preferring a certain music brand, for misspelling words, for policing those misspelled words… labeling each other ‘emo’, ‘retard’, ‘idiot’, noobs’, etc, while contemplating the hot friends of their mothers… all while sitting safely behind the curtain of anonymity. No one would so blatantly abuse the laws of society were their identities not so effectively concealed.

Listening to the idiocy of the barren masses has me contemplating whether or not I really want to play WoW, and instead turn to Guild Wars. But then, I would leave my ‘real life’ friends behind if I did so. And the same idiots most likely populate the world of Guild Wars as well. (though I can’t imagine there would be so many preteens there) Better yet, I could just abandon the entire online gaming experience and focus on more important stuff!

*sigh* I shall certainly think about this more. But I’ve grown to be quite attached to my ZoeJane rogue, and it would be heartless of me to dump her so close to level 60. Not to mention, how else could I communicate with those of my friends whose physiology is half composed of World of Warcraft? It’s such an easy way to communicate with everyone all at once.

On the other hand, I could do so much more effective stuff with the time that I use to play WoW. But then, what to do for leisure activities? I suppose I could actually physically exercise more. Gah. But then, what to do when I am both mentally and physically tired, and yet don’t want to sleep? I guess that’s where the off-line games would come in. But why choose off-line over online?

I think my conclusion is that I am going to keep my World of Warcraft subscription, but not play as much. I haven’t been playing alot recently anyway.

I purchased two more website domains: One is going to be a blog written by the kitties. This describes their favorite activities, the strange doings of their humans, their favorite toys (which will be linked to Amazon for affiliate sales), sicknesses and symptoms (along with remedies, if possible); the other is going to be a top-secret co-blog (don’t worry, it’s not porn).

So, I have gotten myself into a scary, strange, yet strangely motivating situation. So much to do! So much to learn…

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I have several questions that have been bothering me today.First of all, how do you deal with a guy who says he’ll change something and then never does. And keeps saying he’s going to change it, and never does. And even says, last night, that he’s going to change, yet does the same thing that very night? My co-worker says that part of him must just not be quite as developed and mature as the rest of him. I think I concur.

Second, how to explain to my family that they need to respect my views and the fact that the LotR and I are living together before marriage? We have very good, grounded reasons to do so (and it’s not sex, as much as they would like to believe otherwise), but they won’t even speak to us. It’s our choice, and it was very carefully thought out. It just bruises me deep that I am given no respect or consideration because of my beliefs. Christians are the worst persecutors.
Third, why my ipod boasts that the battery runs for 18 hours, yet I am Iucky if I can squeeze 6 good hours out of it.

I think I had a mini nervous breakdown last night. Poor LotR.

Biology midterm is tomorrow. I must go study.

I am completely and utterly tired tonight. The past two days have been so busy - I worked so hard and learned so many new things.

The LotR installed DreamWeaver on my computer so that I can learn to set up my new website. I got a few things done to it today, but the majority of my time was spent revamping the Reviews section of zoesjournal. Check it out! New formatting, new layout - and I’m working on an anchor system to link the search letters at the top. I’ve still got to link all of those books to Amazon and write a token review.

Google has now officially approved my application for ads - they will start as soon as the LotR puts the html into the code for this website. I need to start it up for the other website as well - even if it’s not up and running yet. People can still see it, so they could see the ads too.

The LotR and I have started an ‘IDEA card’. Basically, it’s just a 5X9 recipe card that I’m going to place on the refridgerator. On this, we will write all of our possibly do-able ideas. As they sit in front of us we can think about them and realize either the possibilities or impossibleness of each one.

So, I’m pretty tired. And hungry. I’m quite hungry. I ate peaches for lunch - well, I started to eat peaches until the LotR saw what I was eating and picked up my dish for himself. He does that alot. He drinks my drinks too, and then says that I am dehydrated. Gee.

Still on the agenda for tonight is to study yet more for the upcoming physiology midterm, and exercise my butt on the compact stepper machine that sits isolated in a corner by my desk.

Do you realize that it’s going to be November next week? I feel like I’m a step (or a few months) behind times. At least I already have my Christmas list written out and ready to buy. That’s half the time spent at stores taken care of.

I also did something else today - I bought an exercise ring with which to exercise my adductors. For those ignorant of the anatomic term, adductors are your inner thighs. Anyway, that should arrive sometime next week, I hope.

*off trots the ZoeJane in search of food*