Jennie

i'm back working today - i'm still rocking a cold but i can speak and my brain feels less foggy, hooray. it was really uncomfortable yesterday. the air was so hot and not a breeze despite balcony door and windows wide open - i felt like i was trapped in some merchant-ivory production playing a malaria-stricken nerd as i kept falling asleep and waking up ridiculously sweaty and out of it. but, ta-da, am better today.

work seems intent on not awarding me any sales commission, though. as of monday we have a new system that awards us tiny bits of money for our sales if we reach certain numbers.. but every day i've been taken out of our project just as i'm on the cusp to enter commission-earning numbers and put on that new project i'm being trained for. fine. but then today i come in and as soon as i logged in.. the calls died off. it wasn't until the exact time of my first scheduled break that people suddenly started calling in and so now everybody, including people who've been working less than an hour, have made sales except for me. HA.

i'm refreshingly bored at home. it's been really nice to sleep on a real bed and to not have to consider what time it is when i want to listen to/watch something that might bother the roommate. i bought another couple of dvds - dvd-sales continue to be an addiction for me whenever i have a tiny surplus of money. i bought a swedish movie i recall as being uneven but with one of my fave swedish actresses, and aileen: life and death of a serial killer which had nick broomfield's first aileen wuornos movie, the selling of a serial killer on it as a bonus.

i've watched the selling of a serial killer by now and it really is fascinating and very, very sad. i feel frustrated by aileen wuornos' situation in the movie. watching the clips of her outbursts in courts, seeing clips of the people around her misuse her trust.. argh. very sad stuff.

and may i say.. i had no idea charlize theron was THAT dead-on in her portrayal for the movie monster. i used to think her dentures messed up her speech too much but aileen really did sound like that. and aileen's girlfriend and christina ricci.. really.. really.. really look nothing alike. :)

think i'll watch the newer broomfield doc tonight. it was a bit much to watch back-to-back. and then probably dodgeball to get some laughing going. yeah.

ETA (because i'm too bored to make a new dull entry, haha, let's contain it alllll in this one..):
for the first time in weeks i cooked tons last night.. i cooked chicken bits (cutting raw fillets into bits = new level of grossness. YUCK!) and made a really yummie pasta dish.

you know what? i'm a pretty decent cook. as in.. i like what i make. hehe. i suspect that if i actually used recipes rather than "inventing" things on the spot, things might get even tastier, but for now.. totally content. so why then do i desperately want to go out and buy something for lunch now rather than go eat what i brought in of yesterdays yummie food? i'm such a loser. PAH.

:)