So I guess I should give a quick update of my life, since it's been so long since I've written here. My sweetie and I are planning our wedding. We've changed our wedding plans quite a bit, based on changing ideas about what kind of wedding we want, where we want it, how big we want it, etc. But I think it's worth it to put a lot of effort into it, so that we'll have something worth remembering. Plus, I like seeing her get excited. She'll think I'm full of crap when she reads this, because of how anal I am about little things.

I'm working at Telus as an Operator. I had no idea there was a job that would make you want to shoot yourself, just so you wouldn't have to go to work listen to the idiotic voices in your head. I do some things that I know are helpful to some people. I help deaf people make phone calls, and natives living on reservations have to call 0 if they want me to call 911 for them. Can you believe there are some people in this country that can't call 911?? But most of what I do is type in a number that someone wants to call and then I hit one or two more buttons so they can go through the automated system. Because they can't figure out how to do a collect call, or whatever else they want to do. And they don't realize, or care that going through an operator costs more for pretty much everything. And that pisses me off because I never needed help from an operator. I know there are some people who can't dial because they're disabled. But I'm griping about the lazy morons who don't make any effort to figure things out for themselves. The most common types of calls I get are people wanting to make collect calls, or people who dial 0 when they should dial 411 if they want to look up a number. Or I ignore them if they call to complain about their phone service because they don't want to call customer service and wait on hold for about a minute or two. People piss me off.

Based on what I've seen on gameshows on tv lately, the dumber you are, the more money you can make. I figure you can make $25-30 grand on a good day on Jeopardy. But you can make double or triple that much if you go on "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?" or "1 VS. 100". And you might only have to answer 5-10 questions, then you can back out. My favourite question on Fifth Grader was: "What star is closest to the earth?" The lady who was playing took a wild, desparate stab and guessed the Sun, but you could tell she was really going out on a limb. I admire her willingness to take a risk. I would love to go on one of these shows. Only problem is, I don't think I could manage to waste as much time telling my entire life story every time I have to answer a question. That's one more thing I like about Alex Trebek; he kind of cracks the whip if people spend too much time dicking around. With things going the way they are, eventually we're going to have a show where they ask questions like, "What's one plus one?" or "What colour is blue?" I'm caught between feeling superior to lesser beings around me and weeping for the fate of our world.