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So far no lunch plans have materialized for the week, either with Nala or the old family friend. I’m off on Friday but it’s not looking promising so far. Maybe next week.

I’m kinda down in the dumps. Not sure why. It might have been the anticipation of meeting new people and seeing people I haven’t seen in years and then not doing either. Oh well. Or maybe my current dry spell is taking it’s toll on my moods and I just need to, um, get un-dry, so to speak.

It seems that I was not the only one shunned from AmandaS’s wedding. She put a bunch of pictures up on MySpace and I didn’t recognize anyone but her and the groom. And the groom’s parents of course, since I destroyed their mailbox and all. Ember might know some of them, but I think she was a year behind Amanda in school so they may not have overlapped much. And of course, Ember might have gotten an invitation and not told me to keep me from feeling bad about it. She’s that kind of person. I like that. Love ya Ember!

AmandaC and I were flirting a bit on Facebook IM a few nights ago. That was fun. Too bad she’s got that whole married thing going on, we’d be good together.   She’s kinda bummed about some stuff but that’s really all I can say. She needs some serious cheering up.

I’m fairly certain Carla and I have been flirting a bit as well, but it’s hard to tell with that one. Of course if I have to ask if we’re flirting chances are we probably aren’t, right?

Critter got all of her friends to enter the Staples Center lottery for tickets to the Michael Jackson Memorial so she could go if one of us won (she is the only one of us with the money, and it’s supposed to be for her car’s air conditioner but what the heck) but none of us did. She is of course madder than a wet hen that some of the people that did win auctioned off their claim numbers on eBay and other sites like it. She’s pissed that they entered with no intention of going, just trying to make a quick buck. I can’t really blame her, but I can’t say I blame the folks that sold their seats either, money is money after all, and it’s not like they were tickets for seats on the last transport off the planet before it blows up or anything.

JB was supposed to have gone to Chicago for the "American Idol" tryouts but couldn’t get the money together in time. I think she was going to the one in Denver. Is there one in Denver? It’s somewhere out that direction anyway. I"m not sure when it is supposed to be so I don’t know if they’ve gone yet or not. She’s got a good voice, and she picked a good song for her, but that’s kind of the point isn’t it? It’s like when the best band student my high school had to offer (she could play piano, xylophone, and all the woodwinds (including the double reeds) by the end of sophomore year) applied for the All American McDonald’s Marching Band or whatever they call it, the one that marches (or at least used to march) in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade every year. That is an elite group of youngsters, and I think they only take fifty people, one from each state. The one from my school that applied didn’t even get past the first screening. Ouch.

Got a wake-up text from one of my fellow managers this morning. She sent me a text at 05:05 wanting to know if we normally had vendors delivering on Wednesday because there was no one from Receiving to scan them in. I told her I thought we did, and told her which ones the computer could auto-verify so she could get them scanned and out of the way and she told me she didn’t have time to do it at all, auto-verification or not. I’m not even sure why she was texting me instead of looking up the home numbers for the receiving clerks and getting their butts in to work. Later on, after my hearing (which went really well, I don’t think we’re going to have to pay benefits) I caught up with her and told her that the only people so far that had gotten me up so early on my day off were 1) people who have fired me 2) people who have officially reprimanded me and 3) people that were in bed with me to begin with, and then asked her if she was up for promotion to Senior Manager or should I run home and change the sheets before she got there? I have never seen her blush like that before. I swear I was only giving her a hard time about waking me up. We annoy each other way to much to have a relationship like that. Besides, I think it’s against the rules, but I’m not positive about that.

I really hope I get to meet Nala soon. I think we’d do well together if we were afforded the opportunity. I just don’t want to start a fling or something before we get a chance to see if there’s still anything there. I’m pretty sure there was *something* there before, just not sure what. And I’m not really *interested* in anyone up here right now. Don’t get me wrong, there is a list of names (a short one, three or four) to whom I would not say "no" if they suggested a quick roll in the hay, but I don’t want to be in a relationship with them, not right now anyway. And most of them know they are on the list, and pretty much don’t want to be in a relationship with me right now either, but might seriously consider asking if they got in the proper mood. It’s just one of those weird things. I really need to find someone. I know, stop looking, blah, blah, blah, but that’s how I ended up in relationships with Dirty Girl and Critter – I wasn’t chasing them, I just kind of tripped over it. We all did. It just happened. And look how well those ended…

It tried to rain earlier today but didn’t quite manage it.

I drove ten miles into town for pizza and discovered when I got to the place to pick it up I’d left my wallet at home. I’ll do twenty-mile round trips for pizza occasionally but I’m not gonna do forty. I’m sure they worked it into their buffet though, so no harm to them either.

That’s all. ‘Night everyone!