a dark day at julia's office
today, they upgraded my computer to windows 2000. by doing so, they rendered me unable to install any kind of messenger by myself without asking. and by asking, i'd have to explain it.

an example of the potential conversation:

julia: "hi, i need to get yahoo messenger installed on my PC."
IT guy: "why?"
julia: "because i need something to distract me from my work."
IT guy: "um, no. in fact, hell no."

work officially blows now.