Meh. Sitting here bored for yet another night. Server reboots prolly gonna kick off in another hour or two, if memory serves. So I've got a little while to bash something out here.

Well, interesting thing I've found out working here so far... apparently, I have excellent phone skills. Granted, this just means that I can talk without sounding like I've got marbles in my mouth, and recover well when, say, a co-worker decides to begin singing something from The Little Mermaid loudly in a cracking falsetto voice. So there. Go me.

Decided tonight that I need to adapt myself to drinking coffee. This is due to two factors: One, the twelve hour midnight shifts due tend to drag on. And two, there's a free coffee machine in the cafeteria, and seeing as I realized today that I have four dollars left in my pocket, I figured I'd better save it for the inevitable 4AM munchies run to the gas station up the street.

On the money front, at least I have now found out where the hell my paychecks have been going to. Apparently my handler drops off all the checks with the receptionist on Fridays. Which could've been useful information, seeing as I haven't even seen a paycheck from this place yet. But now I know, and if GI Joe taught us anything as youngsters, it's that knowing is half the battle.

Also got one of those good news / bad news talks from my manager this weekend, as well. Apparently, the good news is that they're going to be picking me up direct a lot sooner than I thought. As in right after fourth of July, they're going to be making me an offer. The bad news is that my contract expires at the end of this week. Which is kind of good, kind of bad. Bad that I'm not going to be making any money this coming week & a half, but good since I can actually see a few people that I haven't seen in a while. Eh, either way, these couple of checks I'm picking up in the morning should more than carry me through.

Of course, since I am going to get picked up and be making Real Grown-Up Money^TM, I do have to start looking for my own place. If for no other reason than the current drive sucks gas like no one's business, and it's currently about an hour drive each way. I figure I've got a few choices on this one... I could get a place nice and close to work. A few of the places I've looked at around here would be only a few miles away. Biking distance, if I got that wild of a hair up my ass. The downside is that they, quite frankly, little rented rooms. Easily affordable, but they're basically holes in the wall. Anything decent gets rather expensive rather quickly, and that's with roommates. Alternately, I could get a place a little closer to home, and it'd be FAR more reasonably priced, as well as being a lot closer to all my friends and school. Granted, it'd be more of a drive, but it'd be a lot easier on the rent and everything. I suppose I'll have to look into that this next week when I'm off.

I suppose one of these days soon I'm going to have to break down and get myself a cell phone as well, as much as I really don't feel like paying for it. Alas, the price we pay for modern life. Of course, I also have to go out and get some more grown-up clothes while I'm at it. Two pairs of khakis and one pair of black dress pants isn't going to cut it for long, me thinks.

Oh well, enough for now. Post this biotch.