I'm still here, it's just that my new job is kicking my butt and not leaving me a lot of free time this week. I'm really, really enjoying the job and it's not physically demanding but it's an intensive 4-week training course that we're (I'm in a group of 20 new hires) in the first week of, so lots and lots of information coming at us really fast. It's a different kind of tired, but tired just the same, lol!

I was a wimp and wore my glasses to work today. I'm doing pretty good getting used to my contacts, but there is a lot of computer work in my job and it was getting hard on my eyes to transition between reading the computer screen and then also doing a lot of reading on a projection screen for power point presentations. I gave my eyeballs a break. I hope I don't have a harder time with the contacts now that I've been without them for a day, though!

Did I mention I really think I'm going to like my new job? I'm meeting some cool people, too, although some of them lead lives of such DRAMA that they belong in a telenovela or something. Still, you can't beat the entertaiment value.

And, I just found out that Survivor Fiji starts tonight. I'm a sucker for Survivor, I've watched every season and I'm not about to start now after sticking with it for this long. That said, I'm going to go indulge in that now and then head to bed super-early tonight. Just one more day and then the weekend, woot!

My bookclub has an outing planned to downtown P'land for a "field trip" to Powell's on Saturday, I can't wait! I'll blog again soon, I hope. Mea culpa.

Gratuituos Bono (and some other guy) photo o' the day:

new eyes

Finally, after literally years of talking about it, I got contacts. I'm trying to get used to seeing with my new eyes, I think after a few days I won't even notice them anymore but right now I'm having a hard time convincing myself that I can actually see even though I don't have my glasses on. I think it's really just mind over matter!

That, and getting used to putting things into my eyeballs. That part is still kind of weird, too, but I guess it's all part of the learning process.

My other big news is that I got a kick ass job offer which I'd be nuts to turn down. Doubts about my mental state aside, I'm not THAT nuts, so I promptly quit my job at the airport and will start my NEW new job on Monday. I'm really looking forward to it!

Things are pretty quiet on the u2 front, although the Grammys are coming up soon and the boys have 2 nominations. Still no word as to whether they will be performing, but I kind of expect to see them there. It won't be as exciting as last year's Grammys, but it will be fun to watch all the same. I hope they'll perform Saints with Green Day, it's either that or MJBlige and One, and even though I love One I really don't like what MJ does to the song. I hated the Green Day collaboration at first, too, but it's kind of grown on me.



PS Can somebody help me out with my template coding? For some reason, as you can see, the sidebar is overlapping photos on the right side. Very annoying, and I'm pretty sure this is a new development. Anyone got any advise??