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Let’s see. I feel like I haven’t posted in ages. My work days feel like work MONTHS. I’ve only been at the workday, where day=month thing for about a month and a half, which means I should be done with half a year right now.

So in those mental 6 months, I’ve sprained my ankle, fallen in the workplace, filed for workers comp (oh, wait, that’s all one thing), have logged in more overtime hours than I care to count — knowing that I don’t get paid overtime (I do know that for every normal 2 weeks of work I do, there’s at least a bit more than a week of overtime in there), been so swamped with work, that’s all I can see…

Um. All I can remember from the last 6 weeks is work stuff. And I can’t remember why I checked off ‘books’ in the Categories section.

I decided I’ll be taking the GREs in the next 12 months from now. No, I’m not solidly planning on attending grad school, I just think the test taking part of it will be fun.

Yes, I used ‘test-taking’ and ‘fun’ in the same sentence. I’m such a nerd. Sue me. I’ve always been the kid that everyone hated in grade school through high school. I’d barely make an effort in lecture, but come test taking time — I’d breeze through with extra time to spare. It’s an art, I’m telling all of you. It took time to be perfected. New grade, new obstacles to overcome.

It’s like I told my interviewer from a long past interview: I love the idea of a great challenge. And I hate being bored. Taking the GREs later serves both those statements. The GRE seems to cripple most people’s lives. I’d like to give it a go. If I get an awesome score — that’s really great, then I could possibly look at grad school, just for the hell of it — I have no such need of things yet. And prepping for the tests will give me something else to fill up my non-work minutes. Should be interesting.

Along with possibly taking the GREs in my future (without the certainty of attending grad school after that), I’ve also picked up a book on HTML/CSS/beginners SSI and one on “Tagalog for non-native speakers”. Of those two, the latter is posing far greater a challenge. I’m fine with pronunciation, having grown up with it all my life. I know a great deal of the words, again, having grown up in such an environment. I’m completely baffled as to sentence structure and basic grammar. Nearly 26, and the Tagalog comprehension of a 2 year old (possibly less).

I make such an awesome Filipino.

I won a copy of a book today. To be exact, I received my copy of a book I won today. To be more exact, the title of the book is Petite Anglaise. Written by a blogger. So, of course, this is of interest to me. I have read her before. Very wonderful stuff. New link up in my blogroll, and no, I can’t tell you why she wasn’t up there before.

I’ll let everyone know what I think of it whenever it is I finish. Because we all know, in the life of a busy professional, hobbies and things and even her greatest passion (blogging) gets left on the wayside sometimes. Hopefully, hopefully soon though.

I discovered I hate people who call themselves and their work the ‘creme de la creme’. I think if your work is THAT good, then the work should speak for itself.

I met someone in the Philippines who could not stop calling herself and her work the ‘creme de la creme’. It totally turned me off from actually investigating her work for herself. I was impressed enough with her awards and such… but her repetition just turned me off from her and whatever else she’s done.

So, I’m not really impressed anymore. And I found it highly ironic that someone who had been divorced a few times could write a book on how to make one’s marriage/relationship work.