July 2005 Archives
someone just asked me if i'm counting the days i've got left at work.
no. but good idea!
let's see: this week is probably my last "normal" week at work since both my bosses take off for about a month of vacation next week. then, there will be two weeks of "oh my god it's the 05-06 season and z is leaving and train and rush and ahh!!!" when they come back in september. then i'm going to fuck off.
so, to be more mathmatical, not counting the sick days, i've got... including today... 33.
that's my lucky number!
posted some more photos, of our trip to the Eel River and of my trip to the zoo with my nieces.
it is true.
i am now wasting more time than ever playing The Kingdom of Loathing.
what is KoL, you ask?
it is the only thing that is keeping me from losing my mind at work. where else can you mix cocktails, eat lihc eye pie, and battle the bat king?
nowheres i tells ya. nowheres.
so if you're bored at work, check it out. and perhaps join the Furry Ant Co. clan so like me, you can be subservient to people twenty years younger than you.
it's refreshing.
in a very odd turn of events, i'm going to be making a movie.
for my almost-father-in-law's company. they've got a tech product that doesn't exist yet and need to promote it at a trade show. so i'm gonna produce an industrial video for them. with my friend tedly.
let us now take a moment to give tedly props. tedly's feature -- that's right, he produced/co-wrote an indie feature -- just got picked up for distribution. it's called First Time Caller.
anyway. uh. it's not like i'm working (full-time job) or busy (wedding planning, anyone?) or stressed (married? married?) so why not?
if ted and i do everything ourselves, which we're gonna, it'll be lucrative. if we start hiring crew, we might as well sell plasma.
today, at work, we had the staff appreciation lunch.
i got an award.
for being an all-around dog's body.
this is my life. i'm not kidding. that's what they said when they presented the award. our executive director asked me what a dog's body was. i said, "i dunno. i didn't write that."
i'm glad i didn't wear my "Your Failed Business Model is Not My Problem" t-shirt today. it was in my hands this morning then i decided i felt more sandwitch lacking so i wore my lacking-sandwitches t-shirt.
i look fabulous.
it was pretty nice to be singled out since i've already given notice and they know they can't milk me for the goods. they gave out a bunch of these awards. they do it every year.
so yeah, i can put that on my resume. an award winning member of the SFS staff.
the brownies were good.
we watched a movie last night. it sucked.
the movie, Lost in America, is about how this ad exec and his wife leave their secure and stifling traditional lives to live like "easy rider." it stars albert brooks and julie hagerty as husband and wife.
basically (and yes i'm going to spoil this turd of a film) they liquidate their assets and buy a winnabego (much like some friends of ours) to find themselves on the road. except, ha ha, in their first night in vegas hagerty goes nutsy-cuckoo and blows their entire savings at the roulette table. seems leaving her stifling life was a bit too liberating for her.
ha ha ha. $100,000 lost. so they fight. and have a brief adventure or two. then get really really crappy jobs in podunk nowhere. then, after one day, decide they should "eat shit" and beg for their old lives back at a loss.
which is what they do. the end.
My Summer Vacation by Double Yang
This year my family went on summer vacation. We went camping on the Eel River. We had to carry all of our stuff in packs and it was really hot. Before we got to the trail we stopped because I felt pukey near a trailer. Some guy came out to see what we wanted. He had an ax handle and two knives and a pit bull. We talked about dogs. Then we had to go.
When we got to the river there was a class of hippies there. We were sad because we thought we would have the whole area to ourselves. And because we hate hippies. Luckily Cornflower or Patchuli or whatever her name was decided that it would be best for us and her class if they stayed out of our way. We didn't see them practically at all!
my job got posted today. and my boss put a little note on our e-board about my departure.
i cannot wait to be gone.
we got our marriage license yesterday.
happy firth of forth!
yes. we all love this holiday, the day after the forth of july when we compound our celebration of our crushing defeat of the redcoats with some general relief that we are not eating scotish cuisine.
today is the firth of forth! put down that fried Mars bar! no more black pudding for you!
ah yes. good times.
and how was your weekend?
i was at montgomery yesterday, waiting for my moms. there were all these people walking around. they were doing stuff.
it's wee-ahd. society? what the hell is that? what makes a creature wake up, scrape the hair off their face, knot something uncomfortable around their neck and spend all day speaking into a plastic handle? what makes an animal shove their feet into protective coverings that put them at higher risk of injury, mold their hair into complicated patterns, and spend the day trying to get people they don't know to buy things they don't need for an organization of people who have mutually agreed to behave like a bunch of rapid wolverines on meth?
i just don't get it.
