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What a long day, both a good and bad day. Coke 355mL, my partner in crime at work, was away sick again today, and the amount of service calls was piling up. I had to do a lot of calling around to figure out what was going on with things. I was starting to feel ill at one point myself, I think due to the stress. I get stressed easily because I feel so responsible. Strange things were happening today at work for Linh. Her print jobs would not react the same, and rarely come out properly. At the end of the day I was proud that I had actually accomplished quite a bit considering how much initial time I had spent information gathering and consolidating. I think my co-worker SoHo understands. However, the bad part was my jook singness took a hit today. Not only did I go out to lunch with Edwin, Fion, Lina, and Rick, which I mean 'not only' because of course eating out with Fion my chinese is going to take beatings. But, on the bus ride home today there were 2 caucasian men, with name tags that had Chinese written on them. They proceeded to strike up conversations in mandarin with some of the other commuters. They were quite impressive, and had brought smiles to several of the other Chinese passengers. I am embarassed of my poor showing, however I have recently discovered a program for my PDA called Chinese2Go and Japanese2Go. It is a farily neat program that now only spells out common phrases, but pronouces them as well. Tlo got out early and went to work out without me, but I managed to go by myself, which is good I didn't decide to just go home. I made the mistake of adding some weight to my usual, and needed some assistance benching when the bar came down and I did not have the strength to push it back up. Yeah, embarassing, next time I'll wait for Tlo, except he's selfish and doesn't ever wait! Well, he's just got more socially going for him then I do.

posted by Tempest7 @ 10:46