Highway to Hell

Well, in true Kristen form, I reveled in my glorious morning a bit too soon, and have been summoned back to the office.  Funny how you can work over 100 hours in 8 days and yet still get in trouble for not being at the office (even though you've been working from home since 7:30 am on a HOLIDAY).  So, Deac is back at home and I am here with both Boss-Men.  At least the fact that I cried all the way here is winning me some sympathy points.

Sometimes I hate my life...

Let's Go Crazy

Dearly beloved

We are gathered here today

to get through this thing called life

Electric word life

It means forever and that's a mighty long time

But I'm here to tell you

There's something else

The afterworld

A world of never ending happiness

You can always see the sun, day or night

So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills

You know the one - Dr Everything'll Be Alright

Instead of asking him how much of your time is left

Ask him how much of your mind, baby 

Cause in this life

Things are much harder than in the afterworld

In this life

You're on your own

And if the elevator tries to bring you down

Go crazy - punch a higher floor

If you don't like the world you're living in

Take a look around you

At least you got friends

You see I called my old lady

For a friendly word

She picked up the phone

Dropped it on the floor

(Sex, sex) is all I heard

Are we gonna let the elevator

Bring us down

Oh, no Let's Go!

Let's go crazy

Let's get nuts

Let's look for the purple banana

'Til they put us in the truck, let's go!

We're all excited 

But we don't know why

Maybe it's cause

We're all gonna die

And when we do (When we do)

What's it all for (What's it all for)

You better live now

Before the grim reaper come knocking on your door

Tell me, are we gonna let the elevator bring us down

Oh, no let's go!

Let's go crazy

Let's get nuts

Look for the purple banana

'Til they put us in the truck, let's go!

C'mon baby

Let's get nuts

Yeah

Crazy

Let's go crazy

Are we gonna let the elevator bring us down

Oh, no let's go!

Go crazy

I said let's go crazy (Go crazy)

Let's go, let's go 

Go

Let's go

Dr. Everything'll be alright 

Will make everything go wrong

Pills and thrills and dafodills will kill

Hang tough children

He's coming

He's coming

Coming

- prince

The Downward Spiral

1:54 am.  Must have draft of 75 page application to client by tonight.  I am only halfway done.  Now, I'm thinking that "tonight" can be interpreted subjectively.  I'm thinking it'll probably be 4:00 am Thursday morning.  It's still dark then.  That counts as night, right?  Considering the push for this draft is to accommodate the client's vacation plans, and considering I am not allowed to have my own vacation plans since I will be spending the weekend in the office, I say 4:00 am, it is.  And they should be damn grateful.   


Moving on.  In today's (yet another) cop-out post, I am directing you to another blog.  Probably a stupid move, as I am shocked I have any readers left at all after my essentially month-long hiatus, and by introducing you to this blog, I am encouraging your defection from mine.  But, I'm doing it anyway because this post is just too frickin' hilarious not to share.  And, it pretty much sums up my entire month.  


Treat yourself to a hearty, raucous belly laugh: 


http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/05/sneaky-hate-spiral.html 

PAIN SCALE (also stolen from courtesy of Hyperbole and a Half): 

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I'll give you three guesses as to where I currently fall on the scale (or off of it, as the case may be)... 

I'm So Tired - Part Trois

I worked from 9:30 am Friday morning to 9:00 am Saturday morning.  Granted, I took a break or two to eat and watch some tube (season finale of Grey's?  Can anyone say OH MY HOLY HELL??), but still.  No sleep.  Needless to say, I am very, very tired.

Consider this the explanation for my bloggy absence.

Off to work some more (yes, it's 12:20 am.  Figuring a minimum of 2 hours left tonight...).

Hope you're all doing better than I.

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For your viewing pleasure I submit to you the first video ever aired on MTV.  Enjoy.
 

Days Like This

Wow, what a week.  It's been a bit of a nightmare.  And today - well, ever had one of those days where you can't get ANYTHING right?  That's today.  At least it's pretty much over.  Family drama, work, travel, emails from The Ex, stomach bug, exhaustion...


But, I've survived.


Instead of delving into all that has made this week a total bitch, I've decided to list the positives:

• My biopsy results from my procedure are normal.  Yay!
• It wasn't my external hard-drive that was fried, just its cord.  And I had an extra cord lying around.
• I got my replacement PDA, so I'm not stuck with the piece of shit LG Incite. 
• My little brother got to play varsity baseball, even though he's only a freshman. 
• Despite the fact that I mailed my taxes at the VERY last second, I had an extremely pleasant experience at the post office. 
• I made it home safely from my many hours on the road. 
• All of my coworkers made it home safely from their respective flights. 
• I've learned a lot about some cool stuff. 
• The weather is fabulous. 
• Deac is understanding. 
• My grandfather doesn't have to have surgery (part of the family drama). 
• Tax season is over. 
• I am going to the beach next weekend, come hell or high water. 
• Today is pay day. 
• I ordered my new laptop.  It'll be here next week. 
• I found the cutest wallet ever at Target. 
• The emails from The Ex didn't upset me.  Rather, they made me appreciate stress-free dating. (Thank you, Deac.)

What good stuff has happened to all of you this week?  

The Waiting is the Hardest Part

So, I've been on hold with the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles for 45 minutes.  I need a copy of my driving record.  This is my fault, as I totally glossed over the requirement to send in my driving records with my Bar Exam Application.  As you know, the application is due tomorrow.  It's a BEAST.  I still have to enter all of my jobs from my 18th birthday to now (there are eleven, as I worked 3 jobs at a time for a while there), and enter in my 8 references, and all of my student loans.  That, combined with my to-do list for work and the barrage of related emails, is causing me to hyperventilate.  I have the GA DMV on hold on two different phones right now.  If I could...OH WAIT!  Someone is answering!!!

Lovely.  GA will not do ANYTHING over the phone.  Fan-frickin'-tastic.  I have to mail in a request.  Let's see if the Bar will allow me to send my records later...

YES!  Success!  Apparently, the Bar is used to dealing with moronic DMVs.  My application will still be complete if I send it sans driving records.  Hooray!!

So, that's done.  And I got my student loan balances.  Now, I just need to get to my actual work!  So, back to it.  Let's just hope my heart palpitations cease and desist...

 

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