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So my card came back along with a basket full of gifts and even a birthday cake. They're so funny.

The Birthday card that was here on Tuesday has now disappeared off my desk. I asked my co-workers what happened to the card they gave me and they are all "I have no idea what you are talking about. Why would someone give you a birthday card, your birthday isn't until tomorrow?" So I am really annoyed. Someone is messing with me and I don't like it. Something is happening. What could it be?

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I got a birthday card from my co-workers today, which was nice. Except not everyone signed it, so I ran down and asked the girls downstairs why they hadn't signed my card, but they didn't know about it. Apparently I'm going to get "a more specialer" one from them on Friday. Then we were planning what we are going to get when we go on our Early Friday Escape cruise on the Portland Spirit. It is $20.00 for the boarding, but that is all paid, because we have a gift certificate for a project that we worked on. But then we still have to pay for drinks and the buffet. There is also a Celebration package which is a cake and a bottle of champagne for $30.00. There is also a boarding souvenir photo in frame for $10.00. Which will probably be kind of cheesy, but I want one. I always get the cheesy souvenir photo when I go to Las Vegas and to Disneyland. We are thinking we are going to probably need to bring between $25.00 and $30.00. But then they yelled at me and told me to stop planning my own birthday and to just worry about my own food and drinks. Anyway, it should be fun. I don't usually do too much for my birthday and I don't usually get any presents.

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I have been working at my job for sixteen months as a temp. No benefits. No paid holidays. I applied for my permanent position here four months ago. That would be a promotion, since there would be more responsibilities, a job title, $1,000 more a month and full benefits. Four months and they haven't as yet gotten around to scheduling interviews. Supposedly the interview committee is meeting this week to decide who to bring in to interview from the 100 applicants. I have been practicing interview questions like "What does diversity mean to you?" and "Why are you interested in this position?" Even though this would be the job that I have been doing for the last sixteen months plus more work to do, once I get an interview, there is still no guarantee that I will get MY job. Stupid.

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I have a lot of work to do and my pile of filing gets bigger and bigger the more I ignore it, which doesn't seem fair. Filing is this never ending process like laundry.

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I've been reading alot since there is nothing on t.v. except for So you think you can dance and Gossip Girl reruns. I'm really liking the website www.goodreads.com

Friday is my birthday and my friends from work and I are going to cruise down the river on the Portland Spirit, which should be fun.

 The Portland Spirit vessel and her sister ships are the Northwest’s premier dinner ship fleet.  We offer Willamette River Cruises and Columbia River Cruises from Portland Oregon aboard the Portland Spirit, the Willamette Star, the Crystal Dolphin and the Outrageous Jetboat, and from Cascade Locks aboard the Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler, as well as high-speed excursions aboard the Outrageous Jet Boat.

This is the band that will be playing:

Echo Helstrom

Echo Helstrom, the "orchestral rock band." It's the violin and upright bass added to the usual rock array that makes them so. That, plus adventuresome arrangements and songs that run the gamut from chamber music to punk rock with much else in between. Echo Helstrom is "a combination of raw emotional power with sophisticated melodic beauty (Joseph Gallivan)," it's "Kurt Cobain meets Leonard Bernstein (The Oregonian)". Echo Helstrom, not quite straight-ahead rock nor top 40 pop. It's unique, original, and word is spreading fast about the "dreamy yet observational songwriting [with] surprising flashes of rock aggression (The Oregonian)."

 http://www.echohelstrom.net/

Then Saturday I think I will go and see The Dark Knight, which I hear is awesome. I'm excited to see it, I love Christian Bale and Heath Ledger looks so amazing.

Eddie Izzard is tonight and I am so so so so so so excited!!!  Just a few more hours and I will be there! YEA!! Wooo Hooo! Can I get a "HELL YEAH!" ?

Westbeth Entertainment presents Eddie Izzard Stripped Monday, July 14th - Tuesday, July 15th $45.25 - $62.25 Tickets: The PCPA box office, Ticketmaster Information for Mon, Jul 14th: Time: 8 p.m.         .

	Comedian and actor EDDIE IZZARD, adored by fans and critics alike for his lightening quick wit and surreal humor is back and starting the largest comedy tour of his career. Izzard’s new one man show fittingly titled STRIPPED will hit North America this April with performances in 34 cities. Critics have described Izzard as everything from the "funniest man in pretty much all of the known universe," to "a human search engine," to "a surrealist maestro of historical and scientific trivia”, and "a one-man Monty Python crew." Izzard won acclaim in the U.S. with his first one man show, DRESS TO KILL which debuted on HBO and won two Emmy Awards. His last record breaking tour, SEXIE, sold-out 15 cities, including a week at New York's City Center, and a week at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. In between tours, Izzard has earned rave reviews for his acting talent seen on television in the hit FX series, THE RICHES; on the big screen in Steven Soderbergh’s OCEANS 13; and on Broadway, where he starred in the acclaimed revival of A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG. Izzard received a Tony nomination for "Best Leading Actor in a Play" for his performance.

I cannot tell you how upset I am that the Hana Yori Dango Final will not be subbed until it is released on DVD. That is very upsetting. I was counting down the days and everything, only to be upset my the news of that.
Even worse is I have no idea when the Hana Kimi SP is supposed to come out! Yikes. Disappointing.

Anyway, there are roughly nineteen days until the final book in the Twilight series is released. I've already reserved a book and I hope I get to the party, lol. I better not be working that night.

Since being a bad girl hasn't really made me very happy, I think I'll try being a good girl. Good girls don't call guys. Good girls don't kiss on the first date. Good girls don't have sex on the second date. Good girls don't make out with a boy until she's gone out with him for a month. And good girls don't have sex with a guy until 90 days after her first date with him. Which kind of sounds like good girls don't have any fun, but I don't want guys to always think of me as just a piece of ass. I want a guy to want to be my friend. I want a guy to want to stay around and get to know me. Instead of just taking off after two or three dates. So from now on I will be the new good me and I will not put out. At least not right away.

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