Who Wants to be Painfully Boring?

Two weeks. No cigarettes. No, don't congratulate me please, because I'm having trouble hearing people over the sound of how much I ROCK!!!

It hasn't been the most eventful week for me. I went to Half Price Books and picked up a little de Beauvoir and a little Woolf. Visited Epoch. the new local coffee joint a couple of times. Watched Cronenberg's Spider, which was quite good in that weirded out Cronenberg kind of way (stock answer of the evening: "Well, because it's Cronenberg."). I still think he's brilliant though. He can find that blurry line between the beautiful and the horrific in human nature in a way that so few can. Most of his movies can break your heart a little.

Handy Andy aka Evil da Pig aka Shaniqua has my computer running again. All that time and effort trying to get the stupid thing going, all these months I've been home computerless, only to find that the problem was an unseated graphics card. Boy, do I feel silly. But, assuming things continue to go well, I'll be back online as of this weekend via a brand new wireless access point. W00T!

Work is just that. I'm working on new process diagrams, from drafts coming down from team leads. The one I got today for "Record Cash Transfers to/from Bank" consists of one box that says "Record Cash Transfers to/from Bank". I emailed the author about it and she replied that that was all she had of the process. Hmm. I guess I'm going to have to go down there myself.

It's still really hot. I'm diong yoga in the apartment, but have not attended Ye Olde Dojo in the Parke for a couple of weeks because these days, such temperatures cause me to feel as if my very hide is swelling. Perhaps I'll be more up to braving it tomorrow. But damned if I really feel like it's such a lovely idea to spend all day at a desk, then go brave 100+° temperatures in head-to-toe black clothing. Nope, I want to sprawl out naked under the A/C with a cherry cola Slurpee. I am CIVILIZED, by god.

Many good books I've got going right now. Give me a couple of days and I'll start reviewing them for you.

Finally a note to my fellow psych geeks: Scientific American's magazine "Mind" is worth looking at. Reasonably intelligent articles on interesting behavioral research. The quality of writing is decent as well. I'm actually considering my own subscription.