meta

I think one of my new hobbies might become spying on the people across the street. So far one thing we haven’t bought for the apartment are blinds for the windows (other than that one in the bathtub), and our windows are on the front of the building looking out across the street. As it happens, the house across the street from us doesn’t seem to be too fond of the use of blinds either, which allows me to stare into their lives and visa versa. The windows looking in on the second floor of the house reveal a room painted a pretty green that is stocked with a computer and stereo. I’ve yet to spot anyone using either. The third floor is the dull yellow of an uncovered lightbulb, and so far i’ve seen a rather dumpy looking shirtless man walk back and forth a few times. I can never see his face.

Of course, in order to stare at these people, i’ve got to stand in the middle of a window and stare. Any random glance in my direction from the house across the street would reveal my rampant voyeurism, and i don’t think i’m smooth enough to pass my actions off as anything else.

Obviously i’ve got to get some mini-blinds to spy through before i wind up getting myself killed.

I’m now running Netscape 4.7 (since i’m still too much of a wuss to run the dreaded 6.0). Ironically, trying to download the upgrade through Netscape 4.61 would cause me total system failure. As a result, i was forced to download the whole thing (not just the upgrade) with MSIEX. I don’t know if i’ll ever be able to wash off the smell…

Blogger always has to go down when i have something to say.

We have a moth in our apartment that continuously flies in erratic circles around a bare lightbulb before veering nearly into it and then escaping to a cooler spot to sit and plot for its next attack. My vision’s all spotty from watching it go through this routine for the past hour because the lightbulb is directly in my line of site if i glance past my monitor.

Do you ever feel like that moth? I eventually proved that i was smarter than it by shutting off the light. I haven’t seen it since.

We’re losing our minds. Obviously sitting in this room for 8-10 hours a day is driving us a bit batty, but to add to the atmosphere yesterday they brought us about $100 worth of snack food and caffine. Right now we’re playting 20 Questions, but i see a massive game of hide-and-go-seek happening a little later. Either that or hunting down the two squirrels we saw running up the metal steps yesterday… we don’t have any sort of meat here to eat and the absence of it is even a bit discomforting to me (and i’m the vegetarian of the bunch.

Updates from the squirrel roast as soon as we locate some skewers.

Howdy readers! I’m locked in the NSW “Command Post,” which i mentioned yesterday. This morning has been devoted to such mindless activities as counting out 1200 sheets of paper, punching holes in said pieces of paper, putting said paper into binders, and printing out 120 index sheets for the binders. The latter is the job i’m currently concerned with; it seems that the printer can only acknowledge one piece of paper at a time, so i’ve got to constantly reload it and press the feed button. But, only 120 times, which is a great relief after packing nearly 4000 bags for freshmen during my previous stint with Orientation. However, obviously one of the perks of being the printer jockey is that i’ve got to sit at the computer, so today isn’t shaping up to be all that bad.