Day 5

Man so here I am at work. It's 8:13 pm; I got here at 7:45 am. Really all there is to say is: whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Hardware should just work, and ingesting 40 minutes of digital footage should not take an hour. It should take, maximum, 40 minutes but hey I'm not capturing off a tape here, these are just files man. Maybe if we were using macs instead of windows... the ingesting wouldn't go faster but the stupid hardware would probably work. Why does windows even need drivers? apple computers > microsoft. HUFF PUFF.
I am definitely going to be here at least another 1.5 hours, and that's the estimate if I put in the last card to ingest and book it rather than waiting around for it to finish.

it's okay, because I get paid well and it's easy, I'm just tired and I want to go home. I got two hours of sleep Wednesday night because of my overnight work shift, and then last night I got about four hours because Eric wanted us to switch which side of bed we slept on for some reason unfathomable to me, and I just couldn't get quite comfortable and kept waking up. We will definitely be sleeping on our usual sides tonight, or I will probably die.

I don't feel particularly hungry today, though, which is good. I have been at work all day so I bought some orange juice and tomato juice that were suitably un-tampered with, not as great as fresh juice but I can't exactly bring my Breville to work. It also helps being at work, I think, because there's not really any food or eating to tempt my eyes and nostrils, and I'm busy enough that eating doesn't cross my mind.

Yesterday was a bit rougher than today was, though. I was at home all day and because I wanted to celebrate Eric's job-getting and also I was bored and wanted to cook... I made him a carrot cake. It smelled and looked delicious. It was probably the perfect cake, by my guess. And one of my favorite tastes is cream cheese frosting, it's a real pain to whip some up and not lick your fingers, or the bowl, or just eat it with a spoon. He was happy though and I think that's a good thing... and it occupied me for a while. I don't think I'll be cooking much more this month though. It was quite the temptation.

I am excited for Monday, when I will record my weekly trackings. I've already lost a little chunk of weight, but probably some of that is poop so nothing to get excited over yet. Hopefully the figures will be more inspiring by Monday.

Man it is raining heaps currently and it will be at around 10 pm that I have to walk about 1.6 km down K road. This means nothing to you currently, but what I will tell you is this: K road "used to" be Auckland's red light district. The part I work at is a nice bit of K road, but to get to where I parked I have to walk through a scummy scary bit. I am not excited. I was expecting to be walking to my car at 4:30 in the afternoon, when the streets are not scary. I am probably showing what a yuppie I am, but even when I was walking to work at 7:30 am this morning, I passed two trannies and several homeless dudes, and a terrifying soapbox yelling guy who said the n-word four times in the time it took me to walk as quickly as I could out of earshot. Yeah.
I felt out of place.

anyway... I guess that's it for me, I'll go read some more of that crime novel I found on a dusty shelf around here (crime novel? you're already kind of scared, kerri, what is even wrong with you?)

clearly I'm going insane.

Much love.