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Office, office, office

I spend so much of my day/life plinking away at the computer keyboard. The past few weeks have been especially painful. Today I have been clicking away through the audit database, typing in numbers, oh so many numbers, chugging down bottle after bottle of water to help stop myself from going crazy. I stare out the window at what seems like a whole other world from my window, above the buildings of downtown Sydney (my roommate Bec laughs when I say downtown...Sydney's downtown is known as the CBD--central business district, but that doesn't stop it from being downtown!). Last week there were army helicopters flying through town, landing on some building over yonder, flying past the Centrepoint Tower, and being good enough to distract me from mind-numbing work for a few minutes. The Sydney airport isn't so far from downtown and I frequently see planes flying to and fro. On rainy days, I sit and watch the rain spill over the buildings. I watch rainclouds and non-rainclouds f...

A jumble of goings on

There are all kinds of things that have been going on lately. Let's start with the most recent and move backwards. I got home from work yesterday only to see a card sitting on the counter. Even before I was close enough to read it, I knew who it was from and I smiled, thinking, "Yay, my first Christmas card." Um, I mean our first joint Christmas card! From Bethany! Well, half right. Yay Bethany, no for Christmas (or Pagan Winter Festival for that matter). I opened the pink polka dotted envelope flap (not Christmas-y) and inside lay a card gleaming with little glittery rattles. Rattles??? WHAT??? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Bethany's pregnant! It was like Laura telling me she was pregnant, all over again. Disbelief, incredulity, and the remembrance that we were all going to wait to have kids until we were older...then the crashing of reality telling me we are older. I just don't feel that old! I don't feel like 25 is quite old enough to have kids. :) I mean, I know it i...

Voting system in the audit office?

One of the guys at work just came over to tell me that I had just been voted "most attractive new person on level 14". Isn't that just spectacular? :) But it sure makes for a good chuckle during the day.