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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 got it! I played it! I loved it! My right thumb (aka the acceleration button) is now totally spazzing and shaking. I still love it! So, I’m totally going to play more tomorrow. (duh)

My favorite character has to be Baby Peach.

My new machine is here! I feel like I’m geeking out. It’s nothing too special… I mean, nothing like a gaming machine (although, I will eventually own one of those). But it’s definitely miles above what I am working with currently and what I used to have (you poor virus ridden HD you).

Dell Vostro 200
Intel DualCore 2GHz
Vista Home Basic (well, I know it’s a pain, but if the OS is unavoidable, I might as well practice at home)
160G HD (which isn’t a huge issue. I have externals)
22 inch widescreen LCD (omg squee)
black (practically a necessity)

Geeking out may turn to freaking out in the near future though. The space where my other machine sits… has been overrun with my clutter. And clothes. I will eventually get into how cramped my available closet space is. But it scarcely rivals how cramped my ‘tech space’ aka my desk is. No, there will be no pictures.

I’ve got iPod speaker (Bose, of course), other iPods, cable box, old desktop (HP), TV (32 inch Bravia), decrepit printer (hasn’t had an ink refill in YEARS (minimum 6), various chargers, camera, other phone. Inevitably other bits of tech that aren’t mine also end up here. Like our GPS. Don’t know how that managed to travel from the garage up here.

At any rate. I’ll wait till my inner geek child has calmed, and then we can commence the setup.