I’ve been listening to a lot of Rasputina lately - bit of a switch from Skinny Puppy, but I’d forgotten how good most of their songs are. Plus, I mean, cellos.

2005 is treating me well so far, and I think I’m in a good place compared to January 2004. I still have Chris and I love him even more now than I did last year (or the year before that). Both of us have good jobs that we like, and neither of us lives in a hell hole anymore because we live together in a new apartment that we adore. Now if only we could tame Tigger the Hellcat From Hell.

It was a bit of a shock to go back to work after a week and a half off. The jolt to my sleeping schedule was nothing compared to what I used to go through at the start of every spring semester, but still. I get up at 5:30am when I’m working because of a secondary part-time gig I like to take care of in the morning, and I just don’t think that’s a good time to be awake by anyone’s standards.

It’s probably good that Chris and I have had to scale back our WoW time since we’re both back at work - it was to the point where our blinds were constantly closed to avoid glare on my monitor and there was definitely at least one day last week when I didn’t get dressed at all. We were probably farther down the path to Shut-In City than either of us would like to admit. Now I come home from work and get in an hour or two, then eat dinner and let Chris play. In theory, anyway.