i'm a pixel here, myself

Oh, irony, why have you struck again? I generally prefer writing during, you know, *sane* hours, not this getting-inspired-at-midnight thing. ::types furiously:: Fortunately, when I emailed our timesheet person to tell her that I'd submitted my hours for December electronically, I told her I wasn't feeling well (which, okay, this morning I could barely get out of bed because my back muscles hurt so much) and I put in for tomorrow as a sick day too, citing that I "wouldn't know". So I get to stay home tomorrow and hopefully finish my story and clean the apartment and cook for my party. The moral of this story is that sometimes doing exercises you haven't done in months is good, in that you get to stay home from work. Nevermind the bad part, which is that I'm *still* in pain and I've felt like a fat lump all day. ::swears off food forever and ever amen::

E leaves Saturday. I leave Monday. And Amazon still won't process my order. @$#&!

Also: I have downloaded The Queen, which I have heard is v.v. good, and I would like to put it on my iPod for plane viewing, but it is in some weird VCD format and iSquint has told me the frame rate is no good. Which is weird, because VLC plays it just fine on my PC. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm kind of hoping to avoid another piece of software, but if that's the answer, that's the answer.

Susan, I think you have wreaked your havoc on my DSL as well. I'm "borrowing" an unsecured wireless network at the moment, so that I can chat with tech support. Le sigh. Come back to me, DSL!

In other news, mrgnxvg. Sleeeeeeeeepy. But I have eight zillion things to do in preparation for my party, so as soon as I'm "done" with tech support...

ETA: And, of course, the solution to my 'net problem was something I did on my own, not something tech support helped with. SIGH.