There’s nothing like the feeling of singing along with Harry on my iTunes as he covers a George Jones song (‘She Thinks I Still Care’) loudly while at my desk at work.

LET THAT SILLY NOTION BRING HER CHEER!

Singing of Harry, to all the people who stop by my cube and make comments like “oh, do you like Harry Connick, Jr?” Shut it. Its not funny. You’re not being cute. No, actually I can’t stand Harry and I just have posters of him in my cube to make the workday even longer and more torturous…

My one gig a year, Alumni Band, is nearly upon us. I dug my marching sax out from behind the couch and found my plastic reed still intact and seemingly bacteria free… at least to the visible eye. I’m so out of shape… this parade is going to hurt. But out-of-shape-fossil high step is still 100% better than the junior “mediocrity is our goal” band. GET YOUR KNEES UP!

its now 5:54am… I’m on my second redbull of the morning… things are starting to be bleary.

I’m ready to get home and go to bed (thank you black curtains) until LOST is on at 7pm. I need to watch that season premiere again… crazy good stuff. TV season… it is upon us. Its like a sport. For Thursday night I have to enlist 3 VCR’s to get everything while I’m out for dinner with Jeff & co… sad, I know. But it will be nice to have on Sunday afternoon when i’m too tired to do anything else. Though I do need to get to see ‘Serenity’ this weekend… i’ve been waiting for that movie forever.

suddenly I feel sweaty and need to brush my teeth. meh.

As I cross into my 22nd hour of continuous waking, I ask the following questions:

• Why do I make filenames so long? They are hard to type repeatedly at this time of the morning.
• Is my cat still sleeping peacefully on her side of the bed at home? Or has she stretched out over to my 1/3rd of the bed in my absence?
• Did anyone see ‘The Amazing Race : Family Edition’ that started last night? Wasn’t Phil’s eyebrow pop at the beginning amazing? Could you believe that woman from Florida kept asking if Pennsylvania was a state? What else would it be? Maybe it was a “town” like SoHo in NYC. Who are these people who got seriously lost between New York and Pennsylvania? Hello… everyone speaks English and there is a gas station like every three miles?! And that first family to be eliminated… how crappy would you feel to be Philiminated less than 500 miles from where you started, still in the US? And the stupid girl who was wearing flipflops at the Roadblock.. FLIPFLOPS? on TAR?! oh the shame and stupidity.
• Why am I considering moving out of my apartment to get away from neighbors that I can hear talking, existing, etc when right now I’m at work and totally freaked out because I’m alone and there is no one around at all?

ok… back to testing…

I haven’t been up past midnight on a weeknight for anything other than Bonerama since a time I cannot recall. But thanks to a web server migration taking place right now, I can make the following observations from my cube at work:

• I’m more tired now that I thought I would be because despite looking at my cell phone, as it was plugged in and charging, multiple times and telling myself not to leave it at home, I left it at home.
• The moon is amazingly cool out right now. I saw it perfectly as I drove around the bend at work. A Halloween-esque orange crescent hanging low in the sky. I would’ve taken a picture, but I forgot my cell phone.
• There are good things on TV in the late late night hours… like 3 hours of the X-Files on TNT or original British versions of ‘Who’s Line Is It Anyway?’ on Comedy Central. I thought they’d completely stopped airing that show. I need TiVo
• Speaking of things I need… only 20 shopping days left until my 29th birthday. Celebration plans forthcoming.
• There is no one in Hy-Vee at 2:05am on Wednesdays. The one lone checkout lady looked a bit annoyed that I was even existing.

Its going to be a looooooooooong morning…