you know you want it

so, i'm sitting in the lunchroom and A sits in front of me. after some idle chit chat with the new student, A says, "so, the OC called last night." i said, "oh, yeah." she said, "he was asking about you." i said, "oh? what did he have to say?" and she said, "he was wondering why he hadn't heard from you. so i told him you'd found much more interesting people to spend time with and that he was old news." i smiled. then she told me he was on saltspring.

what a dork he is. maybe if he made some effort to keep in touch with me, i would keep in touch with him.

still no word from my ex-double. maybe he's in a hospital somewhere, battling pneumonia. maybe he's passed out on the floor of his apartment from a high fever. or maybe, as greg would say, he's just not that into you.

i found this fantabulous book at the library today. it's called "historica - 1000 years of our lives and times". it's right up my alley - a thousand years of history condensed into 500 page coffee-table book. i sent it to my brother as a "hint hint" for christmas. hopefully, if the General decides to give me a gift again this year, it's a GC to Chapters and not the Body Shop again. there was also this lovely arthur erickson coffee table book that had his most well-known designs and buildings. i don't care what anyone says - i think his style is great.

things are not going so well with the new girl. i was really hoping she would have caught on by now but she's still having trouble with the computer programs we use. i know i shouldn't expect her to be like me - i fool around on computers and different programs so i know how to navigate my way through things. but she's looking for digital transcription files on Word and she keeps closing her e-mail/document management system when that's the one thing she should always be referring to. i can tell she's knowledgeable with procedural matters but she just doesn't have the hang of the computer yet and that's really the help that's most required. i think i billed a total of 4 hours today because most of my day was spent helping her do things that i had showed her how to do before and that she had written down how to do. it's not even that - she's not using her common sense to figure out problems. let's face it - finding something on the computer is just common sense. today, she called me over to look at an e-mail the General had sent her. the e-mail said to take the changes from the attached document and make them in redline on the document we had on the system. she showed me the e-mail (with the attachment unopened) and said, "i don't understand - i can't see the changes anywhere. where am i supposed to make them and how do i make them red?" she never even thought to open up the attachment or read the entire e-mail to see what the attachment was. i don't know. hopefully, it gets better soon because i'm getting busier.