have you ever woken up and just been filled with this enormous sense of dread? i've been fighting this one for the past couple of days. it seems like everything in my life is getting all stirred up at once, and so even the bad things feel like giant mountains of bullshit.

the girlfriend has left to return home. to be honest, she lived here all year. she's going to new york for school in the fall, so she's moving back home with the 'rents until then. the problem: the 'rents live 2 hours away.

i got a speeding ticket a couple of weeks ago. work has decided that this is a massive felony, so they won't hire me on full-time until i take care of it. a speeding ticket. seriously. they sent me this email:

[the company] cannot hire you on full time until you pay the pending speeding ticket off. Once this is taken care of and you have a receipt from payment let me know.

a speeding ticket. i would like to point out that my job requires me to sit at a desk in front of a computer. i drive to work and home from work. i never have to drive for work. ever.

and then the speeding ticket siuation gets weird. i was covered under my grandmother's insurance policy. i didn't have the most up to date coverage card in my car. the cop puts no insurance down on the ticket. says all i have to do is get the insurance company to write a letter saying i was covered on that date. no problem.

except the insurance company doesn't want to write the letter.

so now i have to go in there, switch the policy over to my own name, and hope to god they'll cut me a letter saying the car was covered on the date in question. all that and i still have to pay a shitload of money and go to traffic school.

do i drive any slower? nope.

oh yeah…they fired the big boss, here at work. he was sitting here, joking around with me and a few other people, and twenty minutes later…he's gone. they're sending out emails saying that all the passwords are changed, effective immediately, and that we should not discuss this matter with anyone (so, of course, i post it to my blog). everyone here was a little creeped out, to say the least.

to close out my troubles, the temp agency i work through called me and said they don't have my time sheet for last week. i know for a fact that i filled it out, but i didn't get their message until i got home at about 11:30pm, last night. so i cal them back, leave a voicemail. i called them again earlier today, before i came to work. they didn't get my message. the girl there pulls out the time sheet and says "well what do you know? you're right there! i must have missed it." then she tells me that she'll call payroll and make sure they didn't. this is the third time they've screwed up my paycheck. i'm looking forward to working for [the company]. maybe they won't screw it up as often…

so here's to the rest of the week going a hell of a lot smoother.