"I wish I'd gone on the adventure you're starting."

- Written by our programmer in a card my department is giving to our writer, who is getting married in five days

On Friday around 3 pm, the fire alarm went off at work for no good reason. It's one of those high pitch piercing, infect-your-brain kind of sounds. After a few minutes of it not going away, the head of the company ran back to tell us all "that's enough. go home." Didn't have to tell us twice. We (me & the girls) were out of there in less than five ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just gong to snap ( Read more... )

how am i just now figuring out that you can lay out html websites in quark?

it's so easy! it's just like laying out a book, only exported instead of printed. hot shit! if i knew how easy it would be, i would have been designing web sites a long ass time ago.

I cooked myself a dinner last night. For the first time in a very long time, I made something from scratch with no recipe, and it turned out a notch above edible. As simple as it was (fried tofu and veggies with ginger and lemon over rice) I was proud of myself ( Read more... )

Set at Taint last night. As I expected, the audience was less than desirable as a whole. Small crowd, which can be fine, except that they also were quiet and passive and acted bored. My sources overheard complaints that they'd seen these numbers before. Which I can completely understand, but do bands have new songs every show they play? I guess you ( Read more... )

It's Friday, it's payday, it's sunny and I'm eating solid foods again.

You might say things are up in the air ( Read more... )

There are cupcakes in the lunchroom, and twice now I've walked by, thought "oh, cupcakes!" and picked one up. Only as I raise it to my mouth do I go "oh shit, I can't eat this" and put it back. Twice. Remembering not to eat is difficult for someone who's used to eating anything and everything in sight ( Read more... )

girthy.