I’ve had entirely too much champagne, and I watched Lord of the Rings sweep the oscars, though I think Pirates got robbed. At the same time, htough, disney has plenty of oscars. I just wish johnny didn’t have to be in the middle of it all. I just want to reaffirm that he is at the top of my celebrity exemption list. He’s such a hottie.
And Sean Austin should have at least gotten a nod. He did an amazing job in the LotR movies. All the hobbitses got jipped. But he gave the best performance in my opinion.
Ok I’m tired, and i have to go to work tomorrow, so i’ll blog more about oscar tomorrow if everythign i have to say hasn’t already been said by our resident Kato, or Neko, our Oscar blogaholic.
night night.
Read phlome’s post and my comment on his post if you don’t get it:
I now have a new reason to hate this woman. It was just revealed to me by a fellow employee. She’s the reason I’ve been coughing up my lungs for the past week.
Half the office is sick. And if you look at the seating arrangements you’ll notice that those who sit closest to fish lady were the first to get sick and have gotten the worst case. I am the exception. I sit no where near anyone else, but everyone walks by here several times a day since I’m by the front door, and en route to either side of the office.
Not to mention, fish lady has come up here several times to tell me about her various requirments and requests.
Her first 2 weeks working here all she did was ask me to order stuff for her, stink up the offic with her fishy food and hack and cough and cough. And she’d just cough into the wide open air, not covering her mouth or anything.
She shouldn’t have even been in the office.
She gave us all SARS.
Oh and about the toilet seat cover incident. Boss had me order them for her, but when they arrived and I asked him who should install the dispesners, he said: “Why dont’ you have the person who asked for them install them.” I laughed and said ‘No, seriously”. She once asked me to order some office supplies, and when I told her that if she wanted it before the next month (when I place the next order) she could go by office depot and get it, she looked at me, both a shocked and appalled that I would ask such a thing of her and said, “ME!?”
Anyway. I’m back at work, feeling a little better, but my insides are completely coated with mucus and phlegm. Phlegm is such a fun word to write. Much more fun than it is to say. I always want to pronounce it the way it is written, “fleg- um”.
Anyway. Work still sucks ass (and not in a good way, as my dear Bostonian friend says). And I’m still trying to find somethign else.
I started applying to the U of T at A yesterday, then got stumped when it asked for my grades from my undergraduate classes - I’ve got to go dig up my transcripts now. I hope I dont’ need letters of recomendation. I hate those, and I don’t know who I’d get them from. I’m looking at the Masters degree in History at UT of A. Who do you get a letter of recomendation from for that? Maybe my bostonian friend who has his MA in History can help me out. But I’m so bad at staying in touch with old teachers, and he probably got some help from them. I’m a horrible networker. I’m so out of sight out of mind.
*sigh*
back to the grindstone
I’m at home today.
I feeling a little better today, and I think I’ve figured out what caused this all.
The construction in the office. All the dust flying around is in my lungs and causing iritation creating a phlegmy mucusy mess that i have to keep hacking up.
I’ll probably go back to work tomorrow, but not because I want to. Because I need ot get paid, and I havne’t yet found another job.
I’ll do some more job hunting today.
Not a whole lot to talk about today.
Oh, Zero-Effect - you’re 22″ monitorr arrived today. At least that’s what i am assuming it is.
I feel like crap today. It all started last week with a bit of a sore throat, by this weekend it had escalated to coughing and phlegm. Now I’m stuffy and achy too.
Throat is still soar and scratchy, I’m coughy and phlegmy, stuffy and sneezy, and I have a head and ear ache.
On top of all this the DAC would just die if I’m not here to type stuff up for him. He’s panicking over an auditor who is coming end of next week. in all reality he’s just over reacting. I’m giving myself til noon. If this doesn’t get better i”m going home.
Yesterday I stayed home, slept in a bit, since I was up late, and kept waking up with coughing fits. I slept ont he couch half the night, so I wouldn’t keep waking up phlome too. I then drove to Ft. Worth, took a clerical test at the Ft. Worth City Hall in hopes of gettign a job there, then drove down the road to the company corporate office to attend a 2 hour trainign session on our new travel agency.
I’m sure you’ve already read phlome’s update of this weekend.
Heres’ my brief input.
Great night out Sat. at the art bar etc. met some fun people. enjoyed ourselves thoroughly
Good night out Sun at the church. My first time there. I liked it, and wanna go back, a little more dressed up though.
I love my corsette, and I want another.
*cough* *cough*
back to work
I’ve got a nice long weekend coming up. I took monday off. I’m looking forward to sleeping in then going to a job fair, and dropping off a few resumes.
I was looking forward to having the whole day to goof off.
Well, turns out I have a meeting I “have” to go to in Ft. Worth at 3:00.
Still it leaves me with most of the dat free. If I can make it to the job fair at 11:00 when it starts I’ll spend about an hour there. Then I’m going to a couple of city halls around her to submit for jobs that pay more and provide better benefits. The one I really want is in Ft. Worth, coincidently enough. But you have to take a clerical test before even submitting an application. I know I can kick some serious ass on those tests, so that’ll help. They’ll select candidates based on their scores, then narrow down from there.
It’s easy for me to get past the initial phase of most interview processes. I just can’t close the deal. And it’s very wearing.
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Ok - so one of the excuses i’ve made about not going back to school has been financial. Well that’s that financial aid is for right? So since I completed my taxes last weekend, I thought I might as well do my FAFSA too (that’s Free Application for Financial Student Aid in case you’ve forgotten). I listed several graduate schools and universities in the area. So now I’ve got to decide what I’m gonna do. Do I commit myself to a career in academia? With it’s low pay, beurocratic politics, and difficult positions to find, with summers off? Or do I resign myself to the corporate life with potential for higher pay, beurcratic politics, and difficlut positions to find in this crappy economy, with no summers off? Seems that a corporate career would hold more opportunities down the line, but right now there’s nothing that doesn’t pay crap. Crap that I could probably be making w/out my current college degree.
Academia is calling to me now, but I fear that I curse myself to a life of poverty. I’m tired of being “po’ like Kenny” as Phlome is apt to say (and myself as of late -ever since I realized I fall into the class of “the working poor” according to my taxes.)
I have a feeling post folks who read this blog will shout “Join the world of Academia, it’s what you want!” An MBA might be more usefull, but I honostly feel like it’s a cop-out. Everyone’s going for their MBA these days. And it still leaves many choices down the line. But is that necessarily a bad thing? So if I get a Masters in Psychology and/or History, I’m relegated to one option, really. Teaching. Preferrably at a Community College. I just really don’t know what I want out of life.
“I don’t want to work, I just wanna bang on the drum all day.”
Yeah, I need a drum.
Do you think in blog? Do you compose your blog sometimes while wandering around the grocery store, or driving in your car? I do. But I’ve alwasy kind of thought in blog, just didn’t know I was doing it. I often will run monologues or even diallogues through my head. I guess you could say I carry out conversations in my head. It’s more like I’m imagining what kind of convesation would insue if I were to bring up a topic to somebody.
I was doing this en route to Arby’s monologeing/blogging an entry about fried peppers. It’s a recent pseudo-obsession of mine. I love fried peppers, fried jalapenos, and chile relenos are at the top of my list right now.
The last several times i’ve eaten at a tex/mex chain resaurant i’ve ordered a releno of sorts. If you don’t know what they are here is a brief description:
Imagine a big pepper, or several smaller peppers, stuff it with either cheese, or chicken or beef, add some spices and bread it in cornmeal then bake or fry. I dont’ really know. What I do know, is that sometimes when I order one, they’re amazing, sometimes they’re so hot I can barely eat them, which isn’t necessarily bad. But a cheese stuffed chili rellenos isn’t that great. I prefer the beef stuffed so far.
Arby’s pepper poppers are pretty good, fried peppers stuffed w/ some sort of cream cheese or sour cream mixture. (dipped in ranch of course!)
Applebees has some pretty good stuffed jalpenos’ too.
I haven’t tried Sonic’s jalapeno bites yet, or chedder peppers -dont’ remember which name they’ve given them.
Anyway, there’s some sufficeint rambling for your entertainment!
What does it say about a person when they get all excited about Thursday because the new advice column will be published?
Slate has an advice columnest, Dear Prudie, she’s the daughter of Ann Landers, and therefore neice of Dear Abby.
Her new column comes out every Thursday. Mrs. Manners (MSN) used to publish her’s on Thursday’s too. Now it’s either Tues. or Wed.
I don’t know why I get so excited about it.
In other news, I’m hoping to create a costume as much like this as possible for Dragon Con. If anybody happens to run across any other pics of Ms. Peta Wilson playing Mena Harker, let me know. I need a good detail pic of her corset to take the guys at Shades of Gray. I may have them custom make me one. Of course that’ll cost an arm and a leg. Maybe we won’t use leather, but something close to it like, pleather, if it’s too expensive.
Was just checking out Neko’s site, and PlainJane commented on her likeness to Thora Birch (Neko’s that is).
I agree wholeheartedly.
I seem to be one of those people that looks familiar to a lot of people, but doesn’t look famous. About once every month or so, if I meet someone new, they say, “Do I know you from somewhere?” In many cases it’s a near impossibility that we know eachother. But I evidently have a look that looks like a lot of people. I’ve actually met at least one of my doplegangers, and have seen a picture of another. It’s a little unsettling sometimes.
Anyway, I wanna look like somebody famous. One time while playing one of those silly games girls play in middle school, a version of truth or dare, one of my friends was required to name a celebrity I looked like. The closest thing she could come up with was Jennifer Gray. This was pre-nose job. I don’t agree.
Well thats’ about all I have to say…for now.
