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Feel like I should use this more though most people are migrating to tumblr and twitter.

I'm reading this good book called Land of the Invisible Women. It's about a female Muslim, Western trained doctor and her time working in an ICU in Saudi Arabia.

Today I went to get coffee with a coworker. She observed that I'm normally not a coffee drinker ( ( Read more... )

Bite me Uncle Sam.

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I got a letter from the IRS saying I owe $6,000 because I did my taxes wrong. They even slapped me with an accuracy related penalty. Oh the irony.

Loving the Olympics. Not loving NBC. Not only does the tape delay drive me batty, but the commentators they hire must seriously be from the dregs of broadcasting school or wherever announcers come from ( Read more... )

The situation from my last entry has mostly resolved itself. We now do this polite cordial coworker dance where we pretend like nothing has changed even though he has been avoiding me like the plague and I'm ok with that.

Made my annual post Easter candy sweep. 50% off and yet somehow I managed to spend $24 in Easter candy. Sometimes I scare myself ( Read more... )

Barely escaped jury duty. I was called up as the last batch for alternate jurors, but the old dude in front of me got the last spot. Phew. Though I think the defense attorney would have dismissed me anyway. He was giving me the stink eye ( Read more... )

While I am not planning on voting for Mitt Romney, I honestly don't understand why he and Obama keep coming under attack by GOP voters for being "too smart ( Read more... )

So I'm working with these two dudes out of Washington DC who are supposedly suuuuper busy and suuuuuper important. So of course the peon (that'd be me) has to do all the grunt work like typing up letters and reports. That wouldn't be a problem except that they demand that I send everything to them to review before I send it out and then proceed to ( Read more... )

My friend just texted me:

Every kiss begins with k
Too bad ugly starts with u

Now my nose hurts because there's milk tea in my nasal passages.

For my non-American flisters I realize this is random and unfunny.
Quick explanation: Kay Jewelers is a mall jewelry store chain. Their tag line is "every kiss begins with Kay".
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I guess I really haven't driven around much because the toll workers are a lot friendlier than they use to be.

Me: Good morning!
Toll guy: I love you
Me: ..... Thanks?
Toll guy: Really. I really do.
Me: OK. Bye.

I've been running into some weird stuff on the road lately.

Also, US Appeals court rules Prop 8 as unconstitutional.
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