Bleh...

[mousme]

Okay, I've been a good girl today and I've had lots of water (part of my ongoing crusade to develop new and healthy habits; let's see how long it lasts...), but I still feel kind of bleh.

No, I have no better word for it.

How is it that I can drink three 710ml bottles of water (that's 2.13 litres) and still feel thirsty? Is it just that I didn't notice before when I was thirsty, or what?

I have forsworn french fries for the most part as well. This is going to take a more serious effort of will than simply refilling a water bottle a couple of times a day, since the cafeteria here has fries and they're basically the cheapest thing you can get. However, they are also lethal if I want to keep fitting in my pants. :P

So, looks like I'll actually have to plan ahead and brown-bag it to work, which in theory shouldn't be all that hard. After all, I did it when I was working at Erb and had to drive two extra hours each day and was working lots of overtime. Mind you, there was no cafeteria at Erb, so there was that extra incentive to brown-bag it rather than spend half of my lunch break driving somewhere and paying ridiculous amounts of money on restaurant food. Having the cafeteria downstairs means a little extra willpower on my part will be needed.

Well, here's hoping. Good intentions and all that, right? *revs up motor of steamroller*

In other news, I officially work for the most boring branch of the Technocracy ever.

Do you remember the R.O.U.S. that I got for my desk at work? Yes, the Ikea Rat. Well, there have been complaints. Yes, Virginia, there are some petty people at work. Part of me suspects it's the same people who complained about my having an unopened book on my desk back in July.

The R.O.U.S. has duly been moved to a less conspicuous spot (my boss thinks he's cute, so he gets to stay as long as he's not in plain view), just as my reading material now goes in a drawer when I'm here.

All I can think is that it's a damned good thing I didn't bring in my Cthulhu plushie. I might have been fired instantly.

Definitely another good reason to scrape together enough money for those classes.

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday Phnee!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

Oh, and...

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Regarding the water thing: I read somewhere, many moons ago, that we've essentially learned to ignore thirst, and that once we start actually drinking the right amount of water, our 'natural' thirst comes back. Thus feeling more thirsty than you did before. Annecdotal evidence seems to support this theory...

Good luck with the eating healthy and brown-bagging thing. Your downstairs neighbors are planning to try to do the same.

Re: Oh, and...

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Aha. So that's why the more water I drink, the thirstier I get...

Re: Oh, and...

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Makes a certain amount of sense.

*goes to refill water bottle*

[elanya.livejournal.com]

water is the best thing ever.

Also, happy Phnee day :)

At the place where I work...

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

In the conference room across from my office, there is a rubber duck mounted in the line of sight of the video conferencing camera. His name is Howard, and he attends all meetings, even the ones where no humans are present on our end to talk to the people at the other offices who insist upon dialing us in.

Re: At the place where I work...

[mousme.livejournal.com]

*dies*

See? Now *that's* a company with a sense of humour.

Ye gahds! Where ARE my manners?

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

A most Happy Birthday to you, dear Phnee, and fond wishes for many happy returns of the occasion.

Something I've always been meaning to ask you: Is "Phnee" your actual given name, a truncation or other abbreviation of your actual given name, or is it a nickname? It's so unusual.

Re: Ye gahds! Where ARE my manners?

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

That one's my fault, but I'll let her tell the story :)

Re: Ye gahds! Where ARE my manners?

[swestrup]

Its a short form of her real name which is Phneeeeee-donk-bleep-bleep-whirrrrrrrr-poing!

She was named after modem sounds.

Since you asked...

[mousme.livejournal.com]

"Daphné" is my actual given name (actually, there's more than that since I'm a Roman Catholic, but we'll just say it's that to keep it simple).

However, most anglophones have the unfortunate tendency to shorten that to "Daph," which irritates me to no end. My name has two syllables, it's not that hard to articulate them both.

Poor fearsclave was on the receiving end of one of my tantrums when he used that abbreviation, and, in true fearsclave form, he set about trying to find a new nickname for me.

It took him nearly two years to find one that stuck, but eventually he settled on "Phnee," (the last syllable of my name if you're pronouncing it in English), and it worked. I'm more willing to accept that one-syllable variant of my name since actual effort went into finding it, rather than it being simply the result of verbal sloth.

Delightful

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

Daphne is a very cool name, and those who would insist upon shortening it to "Daph" are just dapht!

Phnee is also clever, and I salute the redoubtable and industrious fearsclave, especially since you like the nickname.

Now the only mysteries left are the meaning and pronunciation of the word mousme, which has absolutely nothing to do with rodentia!

Re: Delightful

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Daphne is a very cool name, and those who would insist upon shortening it to "Daph" are just dapht!

Har har. :)

Now the only mysteries left are the meaning and pronunciation of the word mousme, which has absolutely nothing to do with rodentia!

Indeed.

It's a word from an Arabic dialect (don't ask me which one) which means "little girl." My father uses it as a pet name for me and has since I was very small. It's pronounced (more or less) "moose-meh."

Re: Ye gahds! Where ARE my manners?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, and thank you for the good wishes. :)