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It's A Slob's Life
I got a new dress on Saturday. I wore it to my post-opera party Saturday night and to work this morning. In the about six total hours I've had this dress on, I have spilled on it:
wine (white, thankfully, and not my fault, either; some chick wasn't watching where she was going and ran her wine glass right into my elbow)
coffee
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Oh, for Pete's sake
Now I have to be afraid of my stupid SHOWER CURTAIN, too? Sigh. Well, add that to the 1,000 other things on the list of Things I Should Be Afraid Of That Just Might Kill Me Or At Least Give Me Cancer.
Culture of fear, people. Culture of fear.
Now excuse me while I drink water OUT OF MY TOTALLY TOXIC NALGENE WATER BOTTLE. -
Pamper Me! And Other Weekend Stuff
In just over an hour I will be heading to a day spa here in town for a couple hours of totally useless indulgence. I got a bonus from my employer for 5 years of faithful service and I decided to take a chunk of that and blow it on a massage and facial. What better way to celebrate five years of cubicle dwelling than by being kneaded, squeezed, ( Read more... ) -
Ineptitude
I am so incompetent at sewing that when the button on my pants fell off, instead of trying to sew it back on I used a safety pin in its place.
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Ah, the 80s...I just can't get enough
I went to my office building's cafe to grab something for lunch. The music that was playing over the PA system while I waited for my vegetable wrap was Depeche Mode's "See You," from their underappreciated (IMO) 1982 album A Broken Frame. For those of you who don't know I am a Depeche Mode FREAK of the highest order. They are my most favoritest ( Read more... ) -
Quickly: Marine Corps Historic Half
The race was Sunday. I finished in 1:56:46 which means I met my goal of a sub-2 hour half marathon. It also means I set a new half marathon PR by about 11 minutes. The course through Fredericksburg was lovely, the crowd support was abundant, the Marines were unfailingly polite (I got called "ma'am" more times on Sunday than I ever have in my entire ( Read more... ) -
Sounds of the Past
A short while ago a strange sound was heard in my office. My co-worker and I looked at each other, puzzled. Finally I said, "Is that...a typewriter?" Indeed it was. The rattling of a typeball was once the dominant background noise in probably every office in America. Now it sounds alien and out of place. I didn't even know we still had any ( Read more... ) -
Ball's (I said balls) in your court now...
So the letter to the editor I wrote last week ran in yesterday's newspaper. There was another letter in rebuttal to the original that ran the day before mine. Let's see if the A2 News continues its tradition of back-and-forth by printing a rebuttal to our rebuttals. Or at least a letter in support of the original indignant writer's letter. Which ( Read more... ) -
People Unclear on the Concept
Dear folks on distribution list:
Use "reply," not "reply to all." I do not need fifteen bajillion emails in my inbox.
Thank you,
Someone who knows how to distinguish between the two.
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