Dragging Tuesdays...

YAWN

Good lord, Tuesday mornings here at work always suck. For some reason, Mondays have been flying right by, but Tuesdays drag—I haven’t fought this hard to stay awake since my Old Testament class in high school. Seriously—if you suffer from insomnia, come work as an editor for Corporate Research International. You’ll be cured in two hours, guaranteed.

Or at least since last Tuesday, I suppose.

Nerd that I am, one of my methods of combating the eventual crushing boredom at work is to bring in a couple of Transformers. Ostensibly, they’re desk decorations…but when I need to fidget or take my eyes off the screen, I’ll start converting them. Today’s entertainment consists of Barricade, an evil Decepticon from the upcoming movie who turns into a cop car; and Mach Alert, from the Robots In Disguise line, who turns into…well…a cop car. They’re cool vehicles, though…Barricade’s a Saleen-modded 2006 Ford Mustang, and Mach Alert’s a Lamborghini Diablo. So there.

I seriously don’t know how Becky can be a morning person. I got about 6.5 hours of shuteye last night, and feel like hell. Her stomach was bothering her a bit this morning, but was otherwise her usual alert self.

Speaking of whom, she’s driving back and forth between home and Columbus for the first three days of this week. Some ODOT seminar/training/thingy…we’d talked about her staying out there, but she opted for the driving in the end. It makes her a bit more tired, and she has to get up a bit earlier in the morning, but she’s okay with it. Part of the reason she didn’t want to stay out there was because of the costs of a hotel and food (and the fact that she wouldn’t have much to do out there at night)—but I suspect the real reason is that she didn’t want to go into puppy withdrawal. Think she might have missed me too? J

(later in the day)

Dear lord, it’s boring as SHIT here. Can’t seem to wake up, either. Boring to the point that my co-worker Beth and I were discussing and briefly comparing Prince’s “Under the Cherry Moon” with “Copacabana”…


Work Song Shuffle (again):

Jimi Hendrix: “All Along the Watchtower”
Nate Dogg: “Why”
Rage Against the Machine: “How I Could Just Kill a Man”
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic: “Agony of Defeet”
Pete Moss: “Strive to Live”
Rage Against the Machine: “Bulls on Parade”
The Atomic Fireballs: “Man With the Hex”
Cream: “I’m So Glad”
Gorillaz: “November Has Come”
Rancid: “Ruby Soho”
Led Zeppelin: “Black Dog”
The Meditations: “Choice of Color”
Ted Nugent: “Stranglehold”
Michael Jackson: “Billie Jean”
Al Green: “Let’s Stay Together”
The Ark Band: “Please Wait”
Phil Collins: “In the Air Tonight”
Robert Miles: “One and One”
John Lennon: “Woman is the Nigger of the World”
Israel Vibration: “Dub In the Middle East”
Ben Folds Five: “The Luckiest”
Nirvana: “Blew”
Led Zeppelin: “Dazed and Confused”
Blind Faith: “Can’t Find My Way Home”
Neil Young: “The Needle and the Damage Done”
The Verve: “Bittersweet Symphony”
311: “Freak Out”
Pearl Jam: “I Got Id”
The Honeydrippers: “Sea of Love”
Squirrel Nut Zippers: “Lover’s Lane”
Audioslave: “Shadow of the Sun”
King Chango: “Revolution/Cumbia Reggae”
Jane’s Addiction: “Summertime Rolls”
The Doobie Brothers: “Long Train Runnin’”
Ziggy Marley: “Melancholy Mood”
Nine Inch Nails: “Something I Can Never Have”
Jaco Pastorius: “Soul Intro/The Chicken”
Pink Floyd: “Us and Them”
Ben Harper: “Heart of Gold”
Olivia Newton-John: “You’re the One That I Want”
EMF: “Unbelievable”
Nirvana: “Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip”
The Congos: “Don’t Blame It On I”
The Beatles: “With a Little Help From My Friends”
Shaggy: “Luv Me, Luv Me”
The Cure: “Love Song”
Bob Marley and The Wailers: “Natty Dread”
Dub Is a Weapon: “Insurrection”
Rage Against the Machine: “Fistful of Steel”
Rob Zombie: “Meet the Creeper”