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Spent my evening at work chatting with people, watching The Boondocks, listening to the Cure and every once in a while actually contributing to the effort. Tomorrow it's District 9 and Inglorious Basterds with a friend.

It's homecoming weekend in town - which is basically just a big fair where the serve up the usual unhealthy festival food, hold pageants where parents get to...
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It's probably not a good sign when the only time you're getting sleep most days is when you're taking leftover nighttime cold and flu medicine. I just can't get there most nights. I'm sure there are better and less ridiculous remedies, but I'm lazy and use what's on hand when I finally get fed up with it.

Nothing going on except more disillusionment with work...
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A weekend of nothing but sleeping into the evenings, being up all night and Fallout 3. I get a week of vacation around a month from now and need to figure out something more than this to do. Maybe see if my friend in Chapel Hill wouldn't mind a visitor for part of it. It's been too long since I've seen her.

Really, I...
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I was quite sad to see Les Paul's obituary coming over the wire when I walked into the newsroom this afternoon. Though his own music might now have been my cup of tea, that wonderful invention of his brings me joy and makes life a bit more bearable everyday, even if my own has been collecting dust for a while.

Also had a long conversation...
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Walked into the office this afternoon and was told a project I'd started - and nearly completed - Saturday evening was accidentally deleted by another department earlier in the day. None too pleased. At least it was a small project and the materials were still on hand.

When I left shortly after 1 a.m. - after doing that project all over again - a hunchbacked...
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Feeling more John Lydon than Joe Strummer at the moment. More cynical and nihilistic than anything even remotely idealistic. Part of it is work.

Maybe a lot of it is work.

Part of it is not having enough Clash in my life at the moment. I should listen to them more to help perk me up against everything that wants to beat me down. They...
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Still quite weak and sick, though not as weak and sick as I was a couple days ago. I managed to drag myself into the office and holed myself away in a little corner as to not bother anyone, but by the time 10 p.m. rolled around I was crashing hard, feeling a bit dizzy and wanting to pass out.

Yet it's 3:20 and I'm...
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Coughed, sneezed, threw up and slept through most of the weekend after leaving work early Friday night in absolute misery and with people telling me I looked like hell. Feeling a bit better today, but still quite weak and still coughing, though not as frequently. I really just want to go back to bed.

Sore throat. No voice. Achey joints. No appetite. Life is grand when you work in an office where people hack and cough and are sick instead of staying home, so you eventually get what they've had as well.

Garth Ennis' The Boys has been keeping me entertained at least. Hopefully my Twilight Zone DVDs arrive tomorrow. The Outer Limits (original series) arrived yesterday. If I'm...
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Been out of it all day, exhausted and achey all over. The series of thunderstorms that hit didn't help much. Finally got to watch the Director's Cut of Watchmen though. I already liked the film and ranked it as one of the best comic adaptations ever, but this version's inclusion of the death of Hollis Mason pushed it even further into the stratosphere for me.