crap festival! i have worked hard today, i tell you. sheesh. well it was fun work, though. i'm going to be on tv. :P heehee. it's actually hilarious. i'm going to be on the PSTN - postal service training network. hahaha. it's going to be too funny. but today i got to drool over lotsa cool equipment like the remote control that allows me to switch the cameras over from a view of my professionally-made-up face and professionally-styled hair to the view of my computer monitor as i take students through the software in question. it's so freaky. i mean the postal service is like its own little city. we have our own stylists, camera crew, producers, the whole shebang. i get to be a talking head. all my dreams are coming true, ma! or some shit. it will be cool though. this is a massive boost to my job security here, and that's always nice. cause i really like it here. especially as i hear more and more complete bullshit filtering out from the hole i used to work in. but i won't talk about that now. i don't want you to see my cry, diaryland.

speaking of ma, if you checked out fu today you will have heard bout the ice storm. yeah it was a bitch. somehow it missed us. it hit like ten feet north of our town somehow. but my family on the other, in the northern part of the state, had their shit all fucked up. i was desperately trying to get hold of my 65-year-old mother to find out if she had frozen to death and couldn't get her! i was kinda freaking. but my sister went by there and found mom hanging in like the tough old broad that she is. she's had no power for about 48 hours now. her big complaint? freezing cold? no. no showering? no cookin? no tv? nope. she couldn't get any coffee. nobody in town had power, therefore, nobody in town had coffee. god we are so much alike. scary, eh. anyways, she seems to be doing okay, but says that the town is completely effed up. every single tree that has seen seems to be destroyed. and it's a fairly old town by oklahoma standards, so there are hundreds of huge lovely trees. she estimates that 90% of them will have to come down. power, phone and cable lines are laying all over the ground all over town. she says at night it's like a ghost town. they even instated a curfew and allowed no cars out on the streets after dark. pretty freaky.

i have a stomache. that is all.