Oof, the week just flew by.

What's happening? Hmmm...

Hotel income has started slipping again, so the boss has been getting on me again. It's really frustrating because 90% of my suggestions have received his approval but he has yet to implement them. Yet here I am "not doing enough".

Bah.

I'm telling myself to hang in there another year. One more and I can afford to take a long, long vacation.

Well, what else...

Well I applied for a loan, and was denied, of course. Years ago I let my Mom get a card out in my name, and let's just say that's yet to be payed off.

Hmm, that's not quite as horrible as it sounds. It's cost more then a couple of grand to raise me, after all. I'm not upset about it. Just poor. She said she'll pay me back when she sells her house, so, fair enough.

I've taken to spending a lot of time in bookstores after work. Every day I pick a new subject, and I spend a couple of hours reading up about it. I found the one chair in the store that's right next to an outlet, so after reading I relax and catch up on my RSS Feeds, do some more research, and even occasionally get some work done.

Seeing as how creativity has seemed to be my one saving grace around here, I've mostly been reading up on digital graphics and such. Right now I'm working on a model of the hotel in Google's Sketchup, so I can show off a few of my renovation ideas. I'm also trying to produce a short promotional video for the place.

I ran into an ex-coworker at the bookstore the other day. I think I wrote some entries about her a couple of years ago.

[Recap- Really religious, in her 30's, but still acted extremely immature. After her firing, we ran into each other a year ago- in the same store, as a matter of fact. I tried being friendly with her, and we hung out for an afternoon. She never called me back, and I didn't mind much and pretty much forgot about her. ]

But boy, when she saw me again, she was freakin' seething with anger.

In the face of my indifference, it was pretty startling. How the hell can she carry so much ill will after all this time? That must be pretty stressful. And I wasn't even sure why she was angry with me. I tried finding out, just to satisfy my own curiosity, but I couldn't get anything but insults.

Ah well. Not everyone can see how fantastic and Great I am. Plus I'm a genius.

Shiny- let's be Bad Guys.

Just watched Serenity again, and was struck, as always, by just how fantastic and damn-near perfect it is. People are idiots for not making it more of a financial success, but I suppose a lot of the the greatest things never are.

I recently got an email asking me an interesting question. Basically, with all my talk about gadgets and scifi and stuff, had anyone accused me of being Too Tomboyish?

I hadn't really thought too much about that before, so I took a couple of days to ponder on it before putting a semi-coherent answer together. It's funny, but thinking back I distinctly recall being a lot more "feminine" in more ways than I am now.

Just read some of my really old blog entries- going on and on about make up and Seventeen magazine and all that crap. I was more shy, more introverted, really sensitive, and my mannerisms were a tad more flamboyant.

As I aged and the hormones started altering my body, I think I felt confident enough to come out of my shell to express myself- Myself being a geeky gadget nut who builds little robots in her spare time.

Maybe it's the Aquarian part of me that gets a kick out of not conforming to typical stereotypes- I wear 3 wristwatches at a time, have a fascination with aviation goggles that borders on the obscene, and my purse doubles as a Tool box.

As much as I complain and get depressed about not fitting in, being shoved into a little box would be too claustrophobic for me. But I'm still evolving, still changing with the years. Who knows? Maybe in a decade or so I'll go the complete opposite way and be a Stepford Wife.

Well anyhoo, time to get back to my steam powered scooter which I'll use to lead my Robot Minions into battle for World Domination.

Catch me on the News later- Chow!

Sushi!

Mmmm, I rolled my own Avocado Sushi, fried up some Chinese Sausage, and made myself a Lychee Martini. Does life get any better?

Yes?

Oh...

Anyhoo, so that was good. I can't believe it's been so long since I've gone out to eat. I'm actually surviving, somehow!

In other news, Emmy had said she was thinking about joining me in Thailand for about a week. I thought that was really sweet of her to offer, and I'd love it if she was able to make it. It might be a little less scary with a little bit of companionship.

Have I mentioned how glad I am she's back in my life?

Yay!

Ahhh, Particle Accelerators... Is there nothing they can't do?

! No...It couldn't be... Could it?

(It's not ;)

Coincidentally, just out of frame to the left is the Flagship SF Apple Store.

Right after this Pic was taken he called me Rude!

lol

I'm rather proud of myself, resisting the temptation to eat out and have been making my own food for the past couple of weeks.

Now that I got an electrician to redo some of the wiring around here, I can now run a hot plate or a microwave without blowing a fuse.

Mostly it's vegetarian based- they've done amazing things with the almighty soy bean. A "steak" stir fry I cooked up almost tasted like the real thing.

I'm not a Good Cook, by any means. It's all just thrown together and comes out rather plain, but the fact that I saved a ton of money by eating in seems to make up for it.

Tonight? Sushi!