my co-director gets offended by the weirdest things and it's getting on my nerves...not to mention his people skills are weird.  not exactly bad, not exactly good...i think "weird" does it justice.

he is VERY overprotective of his wife.  she cooks for him every day and he always brings food into work to have on his break.  sometimes he'll bring ( Read more... )

when was the last time "awareness" solved anything? breast cancer awareness, alcohol awareness, obesity awareness, childhood learning disability awareness, wiccan blood worship sacrifical ritual awareness....

yes, i am now very aware, thank you...

awareness is a total fucking crutch.  as long as we make people "aware" of problems, apparently they'll ( Read more... )

i made it exactly 26 years without firing a gun.

i think my unabashed hatred for guns has been slowly eating away at my excruciatingly religious, absurdly far-right, intensely anti-gun control, drastically patriotic co-director dave (i will run out of adverbs before i run out of fox news-isms for him).  it's reached a point where i like to poke fun ( Read more... )

milwaukee's ghetto is bonkers.  straight up bonkers.

it was my job to pick up beer yesterday morning before the brewers game for tailgaiting.  i stayed downtown w/ ann on saturday night, and i know how to get from downtown to miller park...i just don't know where to get beer.  i was just banking on finding a kwik trip or something along the way.  ( Read more... )

the fact that obama's speech today is considered "controversial" because it's directed at school children thoroughly pisses me off.  we ran a news package about it this morning with a bunch of reactions from moms, some of which included a couple zingers along the lines of:

"i'm worried that it may be, um, socialistic."

"i don't agree with a lot of ( Read more... )

seriously, this one wins...it just flat out wins:

yesterday afternoon rani and i went to the Joynt to have a beer while we waited for our laundry to dry.  at the end of the bar were two guys having a conversation.  they were both pretty drunk to the point where they were slurring words, and i'm pretty sure they didn't know eachother because they ( Read more... )

booking a campsite is hella tarded.  the DNR website had ONE remaining available campsite listed at point beach so i tried to reserve it, but by the time i finished the online booking process the campsite was gone.  then i tried devil's lake, which also had only one site left, and the same thing happened, so i tried peninsula state park and it ( Read more... )

i didn't get to bed until midnight last night, got up at 3:30, took my adderall, drank my coffee and got to work only to find out that i didn't have to be there until 7...AND i got stuck working saturday morning.  3 more hours of sleep: down the toilet.  plans to go home this weekend: down the toilet.

FML

i've determined that normal people with one  ( Read more... )

this was an actual conversation at my cousin's wedding reception this weekend:

MY COUSIN IN LAW LAURA: should they really be playing the Hellen Keller song right now?
LAURA'S FRIEND ERICA: what do you mean?
LAURA: wasn't Hellen Keller German? there's a lot of Germans here....
ERICA: was she? i don't know...
LAURA: yeah, she was the girl that the Nazis ( Read more... )

POWER STRUGGLES
our chief news director died of a heart attack a few days ago, on the 4th of july.  i didn't feel much like partying after that.  it was sudden, nobody saw it coming, and now our news room is in the early stages of anarchy.  the vacancy is currently being held down by two interim chief news directors, one of whom likes having an ( Read more... )