okay, so it only took three tries to actually get the first blog posting to publish. actually, the status is still pending as we speak so it may not be published. eh, whatever. no one is ever going to read this bunch o' crap anyway, so who cares. goofing off at work yet again, trying not to focus on the pending doom that is invoicing. i mean, these disbursement requests are going to head into an endless pit of moronic patter that is known as the DC finance office, so why should i really even bother? i just had a disbursement from last october (that would be october of 2002, better known as three months ago) that was held for absolutely no reason. the grantee called me to ask where the payment was, and i had to track it down. the DC finance guy said that it was, in fact, sitting on his desk because he needed a clarification on an issue. unfortunately for the grantee, he'd asked for that clarification two months ago, and had promptly received it from me. did he do anything about it? NO. so what happened? the invoice sat and sat and sat and sat until the grantee called me and said, what the hell? and i had to call DC and go, what the hell?

morons.

in other news, my teeth still hurt. okay, not my teeth, since the teeth aren't actually there any more (wisdom teeth surgically removed last friday). but my gums and stuff hurt still, and i still can't open my mouth very far. what's with that? i guess no blow jobs for now. not that i was offering. but hey, chipmunking my food is fun, really. you should have seen me trying to get my mouth around a burrito yesterday. what, i thought it would be soft enough. didn't think about the mouth-spread part. doh.

oh weblog of love, why will you not work with me? :(