The last week of july has passed.

It's 10am on a wednesday, and my screen is already covered in stripes. The misaligned pixels stretch vertically across my layout, and as I zoom in and zoom out, they stretch and spread like a virus over my entire document, only revealing half-inch slices of my layout- not near enough for me to actually work on anything. It's going to be a long day. Maximize screen. Minimize screen. Quit. Restart. Typically my computer doesn't start this dance until after 3pm everyday, after I've eaten a full lunch and gotten into the groove of work.

H. from the customer service dept is testing out assembly instructions on the other side of the room, turning round and round a 80 x 80 cm wooden panel to see how it can become a play house. A cell phone goes off and is unanswered for about 2-3 minutes, sounding like a fake bird call. An engineer is filing down a joint on one product as his desk, a labored grinding noise, as clacking ladies heels walk away from the water cooler bearing a cup of hot tea. This is the office I work in.

Overview:

M: Video chatted with family
T: Dinner with a friend, got totally drenched in the rain
W: Dinner with a group to celebrate a couple getting married. Rained less.
R: Order-in dinner and Timon brought his laptop over to play battleship. j/k, we just worked. I'm designing a cover for a friend's book!
F: Cell group, Hagen daz ice cream, and half of "a series of unfortunate events". It was a beautiful california day!!!

This week shanghai was just getting over a typhoon. (K: what's a typhoon?) Think florida, water wars, and becoming a kite. Or at least that how I interpreted it! My umbrella was nothing but a nuisance! BUt hey, once your soaked, your soaked. I stood in the street 10pm at night and its just pouring- like the pressured stream on the massage setting on your showerhead. And you just watch the liquid floor be decimated by torrential bebes[gun] of water. wow. What power!

Another wonderous moment this week was when I was spray mounting some paper outside. I bent down and put my stack of papers, and my spray of spray mount, and proceeded to lay them out so there would be a large surface area to spray all at once. But alas, the wind had other plans, and great gust came and lifted my papers and blew away! Which ones should I be chasing?? ah. they fluttered away, semi-sticky never to be seen again.

The posted photo is an empty lot behind our office complex(which is land owned by a university). That heap of green and debris was once covered in snow. There has been some movement, but its still kinda of a trashed area. And in the distance you see more buildings popping up. This is our area, developing.

I have run out of oatmeal! bye