hodgepodge-o-rama

hey, look, i'm back at work! it's kind of weird because it feels both like i've been gone a really long time and haven't been gone at all. luckily, diane was covering for me last week and did a whole bunch of ugly filing and took care of all the day-to-day work so i didn't come back to a whole big mess. it only took me an hour or so to catch up this morning. having a well-trained temp rawks so hard.

other than that, it's just work and not work for a next month until my next week off (padding long weekends is the new black). there's rumblings of our being out on strike on wednesday in support of the teachers, but that's a whole day and a half away, anything could happen before then. not that i'd mind having another day off, of course. i just hope they don't expect me to picket in the rain.

i'm on the vegetable soup and fat-free yoghurt diet in hopes of undoing some of the damage caused by thanksgiving and all the fucking chips'n'fish i've eaten in the past few weeks (and pre-empting the fast-approaching xmas baking season). i need to start working out again, as usual, but i don't know how or when just yet. thirty-five squats and twenty push-ups upon waking will be attempted. i give that at least one more day before it slips. i'm not good with the follow through, one might say.

i don't know why it was a good idea, but i picked up the book written by that savekaryn.com woman from the library yesterday. i'm only a chapter and a bit in and i'm already completely annoyed with her. the writing is fine, good even, but i think that knowing this is a real person's frivolity turned into begging (and probably some crankiness that i can't pull that off and get the internet to pay off my debts, too) just irks me. sort of like that friend you have who always complains about never having any money, but who goes out for every meal and shops every weekend. how can you possibly have sympathy for someone so obviously irresponsible and clueless? i had the same problem with the shopaholic books, actually. otherwise smart people doing stupid things just tick me off, i guess.