It’s Friday and I think I did jinx myself and not only that, I was thisclose to being an idiot. The jinx part first. Today was the slowest day of work so far and I jinxed it yesterday by writing about how fast the days go flying by. I knew that might happen when I was writing it but I did it anyway. Tempting fate? Perhaps. The idiot part was the fact that the washing machine that I do my laundry in, located in the kitchen has been behaving oddly. I thought the machine was on it’s last legs and I dreaded asking the invisible man of a landlord about it.

The thing is, when I moved in here 5 years ago the invisible man of a landlord wanted to jack up my rent $100 for the washing machine. I said no thanks, he can take it. I really didn’t use the machine for months until Pedro hipped me to the fact that the landlord was never going to take it away. So with Pedro’s backing me up (he’d beat up the landlord if I asked him to) I have been using it almost every weekend. Like I said it’s been acting up so I asked Julio if he knew anything about washing machines since Julio knows most things about everything and if he doesn’t, he acts like he does. It’s all part of his charm.

And charmingly enough, Julio said, ‘Maybe it’s your power strip.’ So after days of forgetting about the power strip I remembered to buy one on the way home. I asked the cute guy in the hardware store where the power strips were and he pointed to his amply packed crotch. “I got a nice power strip here for you, long and hard. Ready for some good pluggin’. Are you down with that?” How could I say no? Well there was nothing really to say because it didn’t really happen. He did ask again for what I was looking for, and I told him a power strip for plugging things in. He thought I meant a wall stripper, whatever that was. Heavens no. He himself could’ve made some money being a stripper though.

I came home a little while ago and decided to start on the laundry and sure enough Julio is a genius. The old power strip was kaput after all. That Julio can be brilliant sometimes. And other times? Well I’m not going there right now, but I am giving credit where credit is due. I chatted briefly online with yet another Latin named friend, Juan yesterday, letting him know that the Bjork tickets came in finally. We’re going to see her at Radio City next Wednesday, but we’re not sitting together. I was only able to get good seats individually, not together. So not together, we’re sitting on opposite sides of the orchestra. I’m looking forward to that. A week after that it’s Arcade Fire with brother Frank, where we will be sitting together, in decent seats on the first mezzanine.

Work was interesting today at least, though like I said, dreadfully slow. Tom Chin was better today, not the high strung thing he was yesterday. As I left with Vivek, I told him in the elevator that I like working there. He told me he thought it was great having me there, longingly caressing the his amply packed crotch. No wait. Too much xtube I guess. Slamming me against the elevator wall and forcing his tongue down my throat…oops! He really did say that it was great having me there and I was doing better than expected which is weird since, between you and me, I’m still trying to figure it all out. Could it be while fumbling about in the dark, I’m impressing them? It must be my edible crotchless panties.

Happy Birthday Song. 34 Years Young.

soldier story link
http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2007/04/from-angry-soldier.html

Thursday. I went to sleep around 9:30 after feeling a bit light headed. Decided to record Lost as I planned and also recorded the rebroadcast of the Daily Show and The Colbert Report this morning since Ugly Betty and My Name is Earl/The Office is on during yet another broadcast. Yeah yeah I know, who cares? I slept really well though. Bill stayed up and did not watch Lost so I have no idea what actually happened. I had a really deep sleep and it felt good since I was so achy. Now, today I feel good enough for a play date.

I woke up, showered, coffee, cereal and the email. Bill went off to work before I did leaving me with a kiss. He looked so cute in his suit and tie and his rumpled hat. I feel like such a parent sometimes dealing with Bill. I made sure he had his umbrella just in case it rained and I spit on my fingers to smooth out his hair. Hey, I’ve got a poetic license to kill. For some reason I feel I should tell you here that I was reading the Republic of T last night and I recommend the entries about The Queer Thing About School Shooters. He wrote three pieces but I’ve only read the first two.

Work was busy and so far, day nine, and I am constantly surprised by how fast the day goes by. Of course, having written that I have jinxed myself and the days will crawl. Still working on working on a system while doing just about everything that is asked of me. Today I asked Tom Chin, the Chief Financial Officer how I was doing and he said I was doing really well and he’s happy with my work, mentioning that Greg Stevens and Vivek are happy with me too. Tom Chin also apologized for snapping at me earlier.

I had asked him this morning for some information and he proceeded to read me the info from a sheet of paper he had in his hands. I craned my neck to see what it was so I could write notes and that’s when he snapped. It wasn’t so bad and certainly wasn’t akin to Felicia snapping at me. He later told me he had some confidential documents that I wasn’t supposed to see and someone earlier had done a similar thing. He did apologize a few times and I let him off the hook. That’s me, Mr. Nice Guy. Hello! After you!

Now I’m home, just watched some of Ugly Betty. I was talking to Sweet Sarah on the phone. Been a while since we had spoken and I was recording Ugly Betty anyway. I guess I will watch those tomorrow night since nothing is on Fridays anyway and I certainly don’t go out and do anything anymore. Wait, that’s not true. I am going to see Bjork on May 2 and Arcade Fire on May 9 and in between is the Hoboken Art & Music Festival and Dr. John is headlining and an old friend Karen Kuhl is also on the bill.