The worm *IS* the spice...
10:30am
Good Lord. The Christmas jazz. It's seeping in through the ceiling tiles
and window panes. It is being piped through our PA system!
It harms us, precious! Ahhh!
Pandora, save me!
(these words seem ironic, given mythology)
===
10:45am
Not even my noise-cancelling ear buds can save me fully from the awful
music.
It's not that I am not full of Christmas spirit, I mean, I watched all
the Charlie Brown Christmas specials, I'm hankering for some old
Christmas movies, but when it comes to the music... that worn out, bland
music... I am just sick of it almost as soon as it comes on. It's the
same songs, and I understand there may be some value to tradition (by
association to memory, not by virtue the status of 'tradition')... it's
just... ugh.
Bah, I'm going to go throw rocks at trains. Mentally. I need to renew my
Christmas spirit!
In reality, though, I'm going to make scholarship awards. Ho, ho, ho!
I'm like a scholarship Santa. No belly comments, please.
===
11:00am
Oh yeah, the events of yesterday were relatively meh:
Wake.
Work.
Return.
Car battery drained by cold.
Kick dust.
Doodle.
Early bed-time.
Failed.
Get up, search laundry for valet key.
Doodle.
Bedtime.
Success.
... and this morning... also meh:
Weird dream.
Wake.
Search domicile for key.
Failed.
Work.
So, yeah. I had made a date that had to be broken. Curse you, key!
(/shakefist) ... but the best laid plans and what not...
I won't let batteries or keys ruin my day, though. The Christmas Jazz,
however... may prove defenestrating by the time 4:30pm rolls around.
===
11:05am
Just got a Christmas Douche on the phone, woo!
The person did not receive a disbursement of their an institutional
stipend, which is annoying to be sure... so they call, which is the right
thing to do, but is immediately hostile... which is the WRONG thing to
do.
A word of advice if you have an issue: Start nice, get angry. Don't start
angry.
This may be in some part my own issue, I don't respond well to jerks.
When a student is a jerk, I don't think "squeeky wheel gets the grease"
... I think "Big douchebag gets the mental middle finger"...
Anyway.
===
11:30am
What!? Hackers was rated one of the worst tech movies of all time...!?
... BUT THEY HAX0RED TEH GIBSON!1!!1!!!! ...
Sure, it was only rated so by CNN. They also rated Johnny Mnemonic as one
of the worst... (which it was pretty bad, actually, but it was based on a
page-long story in William Gibson's Neuromancer, so I have a soft spot
for it) ... anyway...
What does CNN know?
Hackers was great because it was comically attempting to depict hacker
culture. It wasn't the technology, it was the cultural portrayal that
makes the movie the true "gem" that it is.
Plus the soundtrack was amazingly awesome.
===
11:35am
Late for lunch with the old Scholarship crew! Ahh!
Looks like we need to run a system process, too, which means I can't make
awards for the time being. Perfect timing.
Let's hope it doesn't last too long... I gotta get this shizzle on!
===
1:10pm
Spinach enchiladas are awesome. Officially.
Awards can be made again! Victory!
===
1:30pm
Crap. The rest of the ACGs came through from Records and Registration.
1084 more awards, 1687 status changes. Another month worth of work.
Not my day.
===
2:30pm
Scanners are gross! They did not do the Loneliest Tentacle justice.
Curse you, foul machine! (shakefist)
I am shaking more fists today than the Boston Tea Party...
===
3:00pm
So, weird.
My ID logged into some random machine that was misnamed in the last
couple of days.
No one has my login information at all. Very confusing.
Maybe my VNC shows up funny? I don't know.
On an unrelated music, this Christmas music is just driving me insane. Even the fricking COMMERCIALS ARE USING IT! AHHH! AHHHHH! SHUT UP!
===
4:00pm
Okay, time to slather the internet with 100% pure Marc tripe... cracking down on awards that need special attention that have been passed to me and I'd like to get em done before I go... happy Thursday! Wish me luck in finding my valet key.
If I don't find it, I'm calling a cop to come jimmy the door... woo!
Good Lord. The Christmas jazz. It's seeping in through the ceiling tiles
and window panes. It is being piped through our PA system!
It harms us, precious! Ahhh!
Pandora, save me!
(these words seem ironic, given mythology)
===
10:45am
Not even my noise-cancelling ear buds can save me fully from the awful
music.
It's not that I am not full of Christmas spirit, I mean, I watched all
the Charlie Brown Christmas specials, I'm hankering for some old
Christmas movies, but when it comes to the music... that worn out, bland
music... I am just sick of it almost as soon as it comes on. It's the
same songs, and I understand there may be some value to tradition (by
association to memory, not by virtue the status of 'tradition')... it's
just... ugh.
Bah, I'm going to go throw rocks at trains. Mentally. I need to renew my
Christmas spirit!
In reality, though, I'm going to make scholarship awards. Ho, ho, ho!
I'm like a scholarship Santa. No belly comments, please.
===
11:00am
Oh yeah, the events of yesterday were relatively meh:
Wake.
Work.
Return.
Car battery drained by cold.
Kick dust.
Doodle.
Early bed-time.
Failed.
Get up, search laundry for valet key.
Doodle.
Bedtime.
Success.
... and this morning... also meh:
Weird dream.
Wake.
Search domicile for key.
Failed.
Work.
So, yeah. I had made a date that had to be broken. Curse you, key!
(/shakefist) ... but the best laid plans and what not...
I won't let batteries or keys ruin my day, though. The Christmas Jazz,
however... may prove defenestrating by the time 4:30pm rolls around.
===
11:05am
Just got a Christmas Douche on the phone, woo!
The person did not receive a disbursement of their an institutional
stipend, which is annoying to be sure... so they call, which is the right
thing to do, but is immediately hostile... which is the WRONG thing to
do.
A word of advice if you have an issue: Start nice, get angry. Don't start
angry.
This may be in some part my own issue, I don't respond well to jerks.
When a student is a jerk, I don't think "squeeky wheel gets the grease"
... I think "Big douchebag gets the mental middle finger"...
Anyway.
===
11:30am
What!? Hackers was rated one of the worst tech movies of all time...!?
... BUT THEY HAX0RED TEH GIBSON!1!!1!!!! ...
Sure, it was only rated so by CNN. They also rated Johnny Mnemonic as one
of the worst... (which it was pretty bad, actually, but it was based on a
page-long story in William Gibson's Neuromancer, so I have a soft spot
for it) ... anyway...
What does CNN know?
Hackers was great because it was comically attempting to depict hacker
culture. It wasn't the technology, it was the cultural portrayal that
makes the movie the true "gem" that it is.
Plus the soundtrack was amazingly awesome.
===
11:35am
Late for lunch with the old Scholarship crew! Ahh!
Looks like we need to run a system process, too, which means I can't make
awards for the time being. Perfect timing.
Let's hope it doesn't last too long... I gotta get this shizzle on!
===
1:10pm
Spinach enchiladas are awesome. Officially.
Awards can be made again! Victory!
===
1:30pm
Crap. The rest of the ACGs came through from Records and Registration.
1084 more awards, 1687 status changes. Another month worth of work.
Not my day.
===
2:30pm
Scanners are gross! They did not do the Loneliest Tentacle justice.
Curse you, foul machine! (shakefist)
I am shaking more fists today than the Boston Tea Party...
===
3:00pm
So, weird.
My ID logged into some random machine that was misnamed in the last
couple of days.
No one has my login information at all. Very confusing.
Maybe my VNC shows up funny? I don't know.
On an unrelated music, this Christmas music is just driving me insane. Even the fricking COMMERCIALS ARE USING IT! AHHH! AHHHHH! SHUT UP!
===
4:00pm
Okay, time to slather the internet with 100% pure Marc tripe... cracking down on awards that need special attention that have been passed to me and I'd like to get em done before I go... happy Thursday! Wish me luck in finding my valet key.
If I don't find it, I'm calling a cop to come jimmy the door... woo!