Re "I don't know what it is about the clerks at the Mysterious Galaxy store..." I'm pretty sure I know exactly why the people in that photo look so crabby. As a former bookstore employee I am still sometimes horrified by how hard I slaved for so little reward ( Read more... )

I thought I was ok, but then my body went all wrong and I had to go to work anyway because I'm a good person and did not want to screw my co-workers. Half of it was my own fault - lack of sleep and food - the pain and loss of blood were not my fault at all. I drove to work on adrenalin, which didn't last, and I got paler and shakier over the next ( Read more... )

Of all the boneheaded misguided verbal poop of the Olympic commentators, here's the most amazing. Katie Couric, oh how I hate that moron Katie Couric. During the parade of nations at the opening ceremonies, when the Iraqi athletes walked out (to cheers), Katie Couric said, "Iraqi athletes have a tortured past, literally!" You could tell she thought ( Read more... )

Martina, who has a killer grin and loves me wholly for no good reason other than I haven't given her a reason not to, was drawing a picture. I thought it was a snowflake or a spiderweb - lines radiating from a center. Then the lines forked, and it looked sort of like a bug, and then she enclosed the whole thing in a circle, which looked a little ( Read more... )

I looked up an old boyfriend to see if I could find any current photos, and was pleased to see that he's looking pretty ragged these days. Pale, greasy, and satisfyingly chinless. I try not to hold on to too much spite, but this guy turned out to be quite a tool and it's always nice to be reminded that I'm better off now. I'm better off for many ( Read more... )

Today I sat my boss down and told her all the things I think she's doing right, which is a lot, and yeah I laid it on a little thick, but it was all true, and I was banking on the theory that not many people have thanked her yet for all the work she's putting into this new job, which also turned out to be true. So she was very quickly overcome with ( Read more... )

I just hate it. My job. It's not the new director's fault - she seems like a very kind woman who will eventually do a great job of running the place. In the meantime, I'm helping her create a brand-new program, and it's taking a lot of time and energy and I just don't care that much about the place anymore. And I am so tired of little kids. My day ( Read more... )

Too much happened today and I ache all over. I have to do the same thing tomorrow. I don't want to ( Read more... )

Yesterday I drove so far out of the city that I saw a sign for the rodeo.

Bra commercials are new to my world and I love the one in which a lady claims her new bra makes her feel "like I got a facelift for my entire body!"

The Building Gets Quiet for a Lady. I remembered about this, while it was happening. Someone did a very nice thing ( Read more... )

Logan makes fun of me, and I can't really blame him, for watching Starting Over. As a cross between self-help and reality tv which airs during the day and aimed entirely at women, it sometimes gets undeniably hokey. As a connoisseur of crap, I am not unschooled in the ways of totally useless, Lifestyle-brand nauseating pap for ladies. I maintain ( Read more... )