Tuesday, May 31, 2005
A Random Eclectic Mess
NP: Artful Dodger, "Wayside"
This is going to be a little rambly:
Usually when there's a staff meeting at work, there's about a 2-3 day heads-up about it. Today the heads-up was all of 30 minutes. So of course at that point my Bombshell Sense was tingling. Fortunately, since I was there (half the day) on Friday and plus had some know-with-all on something else, there was no real bombshell, at least not to me. It actually turned out to be the shortest staff meeting (17 minutes, which is off from their usual 75 minute average) I can remember in 2+ years. Damn, have I been in the same place for 2 years?
But here's the fun part. I'm oficially under a gag order due to what certain people THINK I may know, but in reality I don't know anything.
So it was pretty uneventful day at work and then I get home and see a note on my door, which gives me all of 10 days to figure out my living arrangements. Which means I have until June 10 to figure out if I'm staying in my apartment (probably not) or start the trouble of finding another place by August 1st. At least this time around money isn't going to be an issue and I can afford a slightly better place. And there's no reason I shouldn't get the deposit back. But you know, there's that whole displacement thing to deal with. The thought had occurred to me that moving day was soon, but I didn't realize how soon.
On a happier note, tip-off for Game 4 is in an hour. Hopefully the Pistons are sufficiently distracted by the whole Larry Brown mishmash to remember to guard Wade and Shaq. And yes, at this point it IS Wade and Shaq and not the other way around.
This is going to be a little rambly:
Usually when there's a staff meeting at work, there's about a 2-3 day heads-up about it. Today the heads-up was all of 30 minutes. So of course at that point my Bombshell Sense was tingling. Fortunately, since I was there (half the day) on Friday and plus had some know-with-all on something else, there was no real bombshell, at least not to me. It actually turned out to be the shortest staff meeting (17 minutes, which is off from their usual 75 minute average) I can remember in 2+ years. Damn, have I been in the same place for 2 years?
But here's the fun part. I'm oficially under a gag order due to what certain people THINK I may know, but in reality I don't know anything.
So it was pretty uneventful day at work and then I get home and see a note on my door, which gives me all of 10 days to figure out my living arrangements. Which means I have until June 10 to figure out if I'm staying in my apartment (probably not) or start the trouble of finding another place by August 1st. At least this time around money isn't going to be an issue and I can afford a slightly better place. And there's no reason I shouldn't get the deposit back. But you know, there's that whole displacement thing to deal with. The thought had occurred to me that moving day was soon, but I didn't realize how soon.
On a happier note, tip-off for Game 4 is in an hour. Hopefully the Pistons are sufficiently distracted by the whole Larry Brown mishmash to remember to guard Wade and Shaq. And yes, at this point it IS Wade and Shaq and not the other way around.
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Light at the end
Ever have that thing when you're sick that this is how it's going to be forever and you just have to adapt to it? That's how I felt last week. I had a doozy of a viral infection, but of course I didn't have the lack of stubbornness to stay in bed for the two weeks I was sick. So I plodded through it, mostly because I have a non-physical-type job and thought I'd be OK.
All the while wondering if I would ever get any better. It's like that whenever you get sick. You forget what you ever felt like at 100%. It's kinda like how the human body registers pain at the time but doesn't actually remember it when healed.
But fortunately, I did. Which is fortunate, because it's not fun to try not to laugh when you know it's going to cause a coughing fit.
All the while wondering if I would ever get any better. It's like that whenever you get sick. You forget what you ever felt like at 100%. It's kinda like how the human body registers pain at the time but doesn't actually remember it when healed.
But fortunately, I did. Which is fortunate, because it's not fun to try not to laugh when you know it's going to cause a coughing fit.
Sunday, May 01, 2005
5 AM on a GD Sunday
Well, this is rare...I think this is the earliest I've been awake on my own volition that didn't involve needing to catch a flight out of the country. It's a big drop-off considering the furthest I've gone today is the kitchen.
It's mostly because I made the fatal "let me just rest my eyes for 5 seconds" mistake sometime around 8:45 pm on a Saturday evening. I'm trying to fight off the last remnants of a cold so going out wasn't in my plans anyway. Or perhaps it's a better review of the movie "Warm Springs" than I can ever do by writing about (and which, incidentally, came back on about 30 minutes ago so I'm re-watching it as I'm writing this).
It's mostly because I made the fatal "let me just rest my eyes for 5 seconds" mistake sometime around 8:45 pm on a Saturday evening. I'm trying to fight off the last remnants of a cold so going out wasn't in my plans anyway. Or perhaps it's a better review of the movie "Warm Springs" than I can ever do by writing about (and which, incidentally, came back on about 30 minutes ago so I'm re-watching it as I'm writing this).
