Monsters will walk the earth...

So, does anyone know how to make AT&T answer their phones? Even though this stolen wireless has gotten more reliable, it's still super-sketchy and I've already had to use it to pay my freaking bills because, oh, AT&T was supposed to turn my DSL on more than a week ago. And I've probably spent more than two hours of my daytime minutes (plus a lot of free minutes) on hold with them. This is just... I can't even think of a word for it. I couldn't even log into my account this afternoon, either, which makes me think something deeper is the problem here. I really, really don't want to have to get cable internet, though. I have absolutely no use for cable TV, and if I had it I'd feel obligated to watch it. Stupid, stupid AT&T. And they had the nerve to send me a bill for this month. If I ever get a hold of them... I'm thinking of all the anger I have bottled up at other things and people, and I'm hoping the poor service rep that gets my call has the foresight to give me to a manager (or at least someone they don't like) when I ask them to.

In other news... today was the most mind-bendingly boring day of work ever. Ever. I ran out of work ten minutes into the day, was indirectly whined at for not being trained properly in one of my new tasks, and then spent most of the day staring at CNN and filing things. And fixing the copy machine. Things are probably going to get turned a bit upside-down, though, because one of the girls that works on judgments is leaving. Her last day is next Friday, and I'm jealous. Really, really jealous. It's also going to shake everyone around, and I'd bet most of my paycheck I'm going to have to keep doing the same boring crap (not that the rest of the work isn't boring repetitive crap, but at least it's different boring repetitive crap). But, once I actually have internet, I'm getting started on my teach abroad applications. If I'm not out of there by February, or if I don't at least have a viable, concrete exit strategy... someone is going to need to shoot me to put me out of my misery.

P.S. Once I can find the setting on my webcam that un-myspaceifies everything, I'm going to make an embarrassing video of me attempting to play something on my mandolin so all of you can laugh at me.

"I never thought I'd be complaining... about my G-string"

So, youtube eats my webcam encoding up and spits it out as unrecognizable pixels. Any people with a morbid enough curiosity know any video hosting sites offhand (that have decent enough servers as to withstand my connection often crapping out)? You'll get to hear me play my mandolin, and be awkward, and laugh after I say "g-string" and realize the absurdity of saying something like that on a video you plan to post on the internets.

Also, if any of you knew my youtube account, you would've been able to witness a slow descent into madness illustrated in videos that survived online for about two minutes each, culminating with "This is the last time I try this. I'm always pixels going wooooo, wooooooo. Random chords!"