my program moved buildings over the weekend, and we're now occupying the space that used to be occupied by baklaguy's employer ( Read more... )

Friend: whut up dude

Me: woot woot! I had an awesome weekend. got f'd up closing down the bar/club both friday and saturday night. hang over on Sunday was abated thanks to magic elixir Alka Seltzer Morning Relief. We had our first real practice sesh with our new guitarist and we're gonna rock face even harder than we did before ( Read more... )

Transcript of an email conversation with a co-worker of mine: Me: hows it going??

Co-Worker: ok… I’m bored..

Me: [Boss] not giving you enough to do? ;-)

Co-Worker: he’s giving me random stuff to do…. like making a binder of empty pages… !!!?!

Me: Dood that's really weird.

Co-Worker: tell me about it! Its to “help him remember”... I wanna ( Read more... )

I got this done sooner than I thought! For the benefit of those who have no desire to read a four-page account of my moving weekend shenanigans, I have placed the story behind a cut; But here are a few of the things that I learned through the course of this experience that I think everyone can benefit from:1. Champagne means I love you, especially ( Read more... )

Co-worker M., W., and I just went down for our morning cup of coffee; I also got a cup of yogurt. As we were walking back to our cubes, I took a sip from my iced macchiato and simultaneously dropped the plastic spoon for my yogurt; Then, in a moment of brilliance I forgot that I had coffee in my mouth and looking down at the spoon on the floor, ( Read more... )

The main copier/printer used by the IT Practice is called "Venus" (yes, we're the sort of yuppy organization that gives our copiers names of planets and conference rooms the names of movies). It's one of those bigger, fandangled copiers that can staple and sort and what not.... and it's always jamming or broken for some reason or another, mainly ( Read more... )

So apparently my troupe has gone icon wild. I must say it provides for much amusement ( Read more... )

So my boss and I had a funny conversation yesterday ( Read more... )

UGH. I am now officially a victim of petty office politics, and as such do not currently have access to the web at work, so now this job is a COMPLETE fucking waste of my time as opposed to a vague waste of it. Oh well. time to buy a sketch pad and a book on writing screenplays and find non-internet associated ways to keep sane ( Read more... )

Gawd. People have been weird and awful today. We had 5 different people calling literally every 15 minutes, like they didn't understand that no matter how much they call us makes no difference in how quickly their respective banks contact us with new information. A couple just wouldn't believe us when we said that Federal law requires we hold ( Read more... )