Well, since everybody's doing it, I might as well do it too.

I fired up my iPika and here are the first 20 songs it played on random:

1. like a prayer - madonna
2. sweetest goodbye - maroon 5
3. love will never do without you - janet jackson
4. hella good - no doubt
5. friday - david bedingfield
6. mindfields - prodigy
7. s-e-x-x-y - TMBG
8. XTC vs. Adam Ant - TMBG
   [same band 2x in a row? come on, iPika, you can do better than that!]
9. Get Right with Me - Depeche Mode
10. Staring Problem - No Doubt
11. Honey Child - Royal Crown Revue
12. Without the girl - David Bedingfield
13. What's New (Here We Go) - Pilfers
14. Comforting Lie - No Doubt
15. Wakko's America - Animaniacs
16. Hidden #5 - TMBG
17. Finished Symphony - Hybrid
18. Whisper - Evanescence
19. Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
20. Part of Your World - Little Mermaid

Things we have learned from this list:

• My iPika likes TMBG. I only have ONE TMBG album on it - why on earth did it pick 3 TMBG songs out of 669 possible songs?
• Athena is a big No Doubt fan. No surprise there.
• And yes, I'm a Disney geek and I have Disney soundtracks on my iPika.

And for the record: While I was performing the experiment, I got an AIM from my boss. "You there?" Apparently, she had been talking to me for the past 20 minutes over the cube wall while I obliviously jammed out to my iPika's serenade.

Heh.

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I have spent the day playing the GBA game, and God help me, my brain is going to liquefy.

I know, I know, no one is going to weep for me playing games while they're busy filling out their PTS reports.

But my eyes hurt something awful (I had to play on the computer so I could capture video) and I've been playing this same version since, oh, August. I thought we were *DONE* but we are NEVER done. Oy.

And I'm still in Mission 3 of 5.

[insert scream here]

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Hunthunt is going away for the weekend. :( He's going to see his parents, which is happy, but I always worry so when he's away, and I'll miss him. Meanwhile, we were informed 2 days ago that power is being cut off to this building all day Saturday, so even if I wanted to check my email *from home* I'd be out of luck. So I'm not sure quite what I'm going to do with myself while Hunter is away and I'm banished from work.

I have a feeling it will involve the shopping district and frequent use of my debit card.

But lest you think I'm completely financially irresponsible, I am planning on paying off one of my loans in its entirety this month (a $4k student Perkins loan.) It'll be nice not to have to worry about that - I just want to wait until moving is nailed down before spending the money.

Also! The government owes me $4000! Bitches! Stop stealing my monies! Tax refunds are like Christmas presents that someone took from your closet and wrapped up to give as a gift. Yarrrrrrr.

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I can't wait until the GDC (Game Developers Conference.) I'm going to take the whole damn week off and not feel bad about it. Well, I might come in on Moving Day (wednesday) of that week, but I doubt it. I'm just going to run around and network and drink free booze and go to Interesting Sessions by Interesting People.

Good times.

Of course, I'm going to have to put up the "Computer Science Lounge" protective walls, since I'll be volunteering again, and I'll be a) one of the few girls and b) one of the few people my age working for a big name company. Should be an interesting time nonetheless.

Now it is off to Crappy Catered Work Food with hunter and then The Apprentice! Huzzah! (If Omarosa isn't kicked out soon I will start throwing heavy objects at the television.)