niqui loves herself some insomnia, yeah. that’s good times!

am doing the regularly-scheduled-2:15-AM-wake-up thing again. v. irritating. it’s like, what, it’s not enough to not sleep, now it has to happen on a schedule? (why does my mental voice, when writing remarks like that, sound like such a yenta? oy!) in other news: started working for $job++ yesterday. (err, make that $job, now, i suppose.) i was terribly amused on my way to work as i thought i was rocking the doctor who look pretty well: dress shirt, pinstriped trousers, and black chuck taylors. (work shoes were tucked away in the bag, you see. very practical professional woman chic.) this turned into a sort of abashed sense as i got wandered around the office a bit and ran into one of the higher-ups multiple times before i had a chance to change shoes. hopefully no one looked down at the floor, i suppose! anyways, $job seems pretty neat thus far. i’ve traded in my office for a cube facing both a hallway door and a ginormous plasma HD tv which plays CNBC incessantly all day, which my new coworkers assure me i will learn to tune out in just a couple of days because it’s so annoying (i am grateful i am not the only one who confesses to being distracted by the talking heads so prominently placed to the corner of my eye — especially the one guy who looks like joe lieberman’s little brother. oh! imagine my surprise when i made that observation and my coworker who was helping me with stuff had no idea who joe lieberman was. how apolitical — how different from $job–!). i have few and unimpressive multiple displays compared to most other people: i “only” have two 17″ displays. (despite their sharp resolution and clean lines, i do miss my lovely old 21″.) yesterday’s task was setting up xp with all its shiny bells and whistles; today’s will be setting up my linux box. mmm, shiny multiple displays. which window manager shall i choose? i suppose i should probably go with what everyone else uses since i’ll have to support it, but, is it all wrong if i confess that i still like fvwm2? your pal niqui is using outlook + exchange. … it’s not nice to laugh at the handicapped, you know; you should stop that. — on the bright side, i have fuck-all to do with the email system, which is something to be extremely grateful for. all i have to worry about is telling outlook to use a proper quoting mechanism and send in plain text, and keeping my virus scanner up to date, and my work is done in that particular area. hah. my alarm went off; i had to “get up for work” five minutes ago. gotta cut this short, i guess. working the middle shift today: 7AM. also have a late meeting in hyde park to run off to after work, so i should be nicely tired when i get home tonight so maybe i can actually sleep through the night, tonight. that would be nice.