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Moving up in the world
Monday, July 14, 2003
I think this page is going to have comments now - it's been hard to make any of the different commenting hosts work with pitas, but I think I’ve figured it out - thanks to some folks on the tech support message board.
The only downside to this is that now I can't imagine all the people that would be commenting on the page if I actually had comments - it's like when you leave your cell phone at home and all day you're thinking about who might have called you and all the messages you're probably going to have when you get home, then you get back and check it only to see that no one had tried to get in touch with you, your friends don't care about you anymore and you're basically a loser for having assumed anyone wanted to converse with you at all.
So I guess what I’m saying is, please leave comments, puh-leeese. I want to know you were here and I want to have that fun back and forth banter in my comments - not just the ”cool page. check mine out.[followed by url]” that seems to run rampant in the guest books.
come-on guys. I’m counting on you.
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i guess everyone has to grow up sometime
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Well after another late night of partying, I find myself tired as fuck at work. I need a pick me up, and since I couldn’t find any cocaine in the bathroom – it will have to be the blog. [insert P.S.A. here – “Blogging, my anti-drug”] So what’s up with Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore? I guess I can’t blame Ashton; Demi is definitely hotter than Brittany Murphy, and there are lots of men who date women that are almost half their age. I guess I’ve always just assumed that was because girls are so much more mature than boys. Oh well, I don’t really care – I hope they’ll be very happy together.
I think maybe I’m getting blogged out. This morning, I was beginning my daily tour through my favorites and realized I just didn’t feel like reading them. Now is this because I’ve become bored with them? Or because they’ve becoming boring? I guess no one can be a blogging genius all the time, but I had really come to expect a lot from the blogs I read and, well they’re just not delivering like they were in the beginning. The magic is gone. I remember when surfing the web was like a treasure hunt. Each site was linked to new and exciting possibilities. I guess I was just a wide eyed newbie, but sites like Textism – What would you have done differently and the stutarded post about 24 hour home depots were like gold, and I wonder now, have my expectations just gotten so high that these great authors can’t generate the type of posts I’ve grown to expect? And if this is the case, what can I possibly do about it? I guess since it is just past five o’clock I’ll head home and not think about it till tomorrow. Until then let’s all hope the web muses visit my favorite sites and hit the writers with some great ideas.
i take it all back. every last word. The bryan adams blog came through like a champ. it's funny interesting and he links to this awesome game. My best is 1182. if you can beat that you've got my respect. cuz it's not easy, but it's totally addictive. you're going to love it!
Ally signed off at 05:14 p.m.
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A different drummer....
Tuesday, July 8, 2003
Location: BTC
Description: cute black dress, fab black shoes
Emotion: amused and bemused
I just don’t even know where to begin today. I guess I could start off with my co-worker’s obsession with online weather radars. He checks his three radars about every 10 minutes, and makes statements as to how soon it will be before the rain starts. “It’s going to start raining in 30 seconds. 1….2…3….4..5” all the way up to 30. But around 20 he starts counting slower if the rain hasn’t appeared yet. Then he says 30 real loud and points to the window as if to show me where the rain will be coming from. It was absolutely hilarious the FIRST time he did it. Now I’m not so amused. I guess next I would also have to tell you about the song that a blood donor sent into our website. He was thinking we could use it as a PSA. It’s called………wait for it……….tiny little prick yes, that’s right tiny little prick. I haven’t laughed so hard since the time (today) when the man from the Republic of Texas Army called and said his organization would like to hold a drive at the center, and to boost donations they wanted to raffle off a RIFLE. That’s right, a gun – a big gun to one lucky donor. Who are these people!?! Today has been totally weird.
*They say every little bit helps and I think in this case, they might be right
* Invinciblegirl! has a declaration of sorts on her site today. I considered writing one myself and then remembered I’m to lazy for that. So check her out and imagine what I would have written
*I wish I knew more code so that I could have a random quote come up every time someone accessed my page the way defective yeti does. Today it said – “You’re either drinking for me or against me.” – funny stuff
Ally signed off at 05:28 p.m.
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Just the Facts, Ma'm.
Monday, July 7, 2003
Location: BTC
Description: my fall back "i woke up late" dress
Emotion: concise
I promise(maybe)a longer update later tonight, but until then:
*Willie picnic was fabulous!
*Other people's stories is the site i'm addicted to now
*By the end of this week my room will be clean and organized
*My sister should be coming to visit at some point - and i'm very excited about that.
*the fotolog has a pic of the princess' new tatoo - i think it's just royally awesome.
*still need a nickname for the other roommate (the one that sleeps there) I'm accepting suggestions from those of you that know her. and I've already nixed bootylicious
Ally signed off at 04:44 p.m.
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The land of the free.
Thursday, July 3, 2003
Location: BTC
Description: casual Thursday!
Emotion: tired and expectant
What with the recent Supreme Court decision, and the fact that we're celebrating our nation's freedom this weekend, there have been quite a number of sodomy themed posts on the Internet. And I think that’s just lovely – I’ve collected a few of my favorites for your reading pleasure, some funny, some thoughtful – anyway if anyone has any other like themed sites, let me know – I’ll post ‘em up.
Wahington Post article
gay’s vs. swingers
lilywhite intentions
stupidevilbastard
and this is just a HILARIOUS site – you have to check it out.
Everyone have a fabulous 4th of July, don’t do anything I’d do.
Ally signed off at 04:08 p.m.
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Whistle while you work
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
Location: the BTC
Description: super comfy shirt I stole from my mom last time I was home
Emotion: pleased
My buddy, the Boss has a very interesting post today. She asks a question that is probably relevant to a lot of us out there in cyberspace.
When training someone about the intricacies of your job, how do you work in the 4 to 5 hours spent reading blogs and doing general surfing?
Do you stretch out your daily duties until your replacement can only infer that you are a sloth and they are going to be superior to you in every way? Or is it better to add extra responsibilities that you don’t normally undertake to make the trainee feel like the job takes a full 8 hours a day? Both of these options seem to be lacking. With either solution you miss out on checking your blogs, or even updating your own. Plus the trainee doesn’t get a true sense of what the job actually involves. There is, of course, always option 3 – be straight with the trainee, let them know that you have commitments, not only to the work you do for the company, but also to the internet authors you read and the websites you visit. Chances are the trainee will be pleased as punch and probably show you a few sites you haven’t discovered yet. (Could I sound more like an advice columnist? I think not.)
Ally signed off at 11:14 a.m.
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Scary
Tuesday, July 1, 2003
This is the scariest quote i've read in a long time.
Over the last 40 years, Wal-Mart has grown into the nation's biggest employer and the world's largest retailer. Every two days, Wal-Mart opens another superstore. It has more people in uniform than the U.S. Army. Last year, it banked about billion in profits.
Does anyone else think that it's very possible that someday children will read in history books that walmart was the beginning of the end?
Ally signed off at 05:06 p.m.
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It's meant to be....
Tuesday, July 1, 2003
Location: btc
Description: last clean shirt I own (must do laundry)
Emotion: lethargic
although i think astrology is a bunch of hooey, i'm always down for a good internet quiz! at least with quizes you get to be the master of your destiny. anyway - i ran across this one, and i have to say it's pretty much right on.
With Which Harry Potter Male Are You Most Sexually Compatible?
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Ally signed off at 11:25 a.m.
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Stupid should hurt
Monday, June 30, 2003
Location: Hogwart’s School of Wizardry (I wish)
Description: white shirt that everyone compliments, but I don’t like
Emotion: that feeling when you’ve just finished a good book – but your kind of sad that there’s not more of it to read.
So I’m done with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and I’m only going to say one word about it because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone, so here it is………..whoa.
I’ll repeat………….whoa.
That is all for Harry. So this was a pretty eventful weekend. I drove the convertible for the last time down to Houston and returned it to it’s rightful, yet CHEAP, owner. I came back on Saturday for a great party hosted by Sir Didymus. We were visited by two of the princess’s (princess’?) friends. They’re always fun, then last night I found myself at Guy Forsyth with the music man and several of the care-free crazies. Guy Forsyth is just amazingly hot and makes me swoon every time he smiles or sings – which is pretty much constantly at his concerts. All in all I would label last weekend as a success.
I’m a complete and total dumbass. Yes, my mom always said, “stupid should hurt”, and believe me if it did I would be doubled over in pain. For weeks at work we’ve been attempting to come up with a way to tell if one of the field recruiters has reserved a specific date for a mobile team – the software we use doesn’t really have any way of doing it, and twice already one of has given out a date as an option to a client, when another recruiter has given that same date to a different client. So, we’re brainstorming and we decide that a dry erase calendar would be perfect – you could easily mark the dates you’re holding and then erase them once you’re done. It was a perfect idea – and I have to admit, it was my idea. Well we go through all the channels in order to get a dry erase calendar – evidently since it’s not your typical office supply; there was some sort of approval that had to be given. While we were waiting for this approval to happen we fashioned a makeshift calendar out of 11 by 17 sheets of paper with the four upcoming months printed on them – it was working quite well, it just looked messy because once a date was selected the other “saved” dates had to be scratched out – this was a problem that would be quickly remedied once we had our nifty dry–erase board. Well we finally got the board on Friday. We hung it today and I took on the job of writing the upcoming 4 months on the calendar………..with a SHARPIE! Yes, that’s right folks. The nifty dry erase board is now only effective if you want to save drive dates during the months of August, September, October, and November. I can’t believe I did that. I’m generally SO much smarter than that. At least I’d like to think so. The one saving grace to this is that the other Field Recruiter, Ernest can’t figure out what’s wrong with the board. He figures we just need some cleaner and it will come right off. I just haven’t told him yet, that there’s not much chance of that. The incriminating blue SHARPIE! Is sitting here in my pen jar taunting me like a heart under a floorboard. It’s miserable. Stupid and deceitful, just two more reasons that I know I have a special spot reserved in hell.
Ally signed off at 05:17 p.m.
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Laugh out loud
Friday, June 27, 2003
Just a quick link to something funny. my favorite part is the [crickets] it's just two funny for words. And now, without further adieu - The Mighty Geek
Ally signed off at 02:57 p.m.
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The Friday Five
Friday, June 27, 2003
Location: work
Description: causal Friday jeans!
Emotion: eager
So there’s this thing called the Friday Five and it’s popular among bloggers and the like, and seeing as how I fancy myself a blogger and the questions today are about vacations (my favoritest things ever) I think I’ll give it a shot.
1. How are you planning to spend the summer [winter]?
For the first time ever I don’t have a summer, I’m in the straight up “real world” where you work year round (unless you’re a teacher in which case, you have to deal with children so I don’t envy you that much). So I’ll be working, but trying to make it down to the river to go tubing as often as humanly possible
2. What was your first summer job?
CSR for Copydotcom – a copy center like Kinko’s but cooler. It was one of the higher paying summer jobs I ever had as well at 10 dollars and hour. The highest was working as a clerk for the US census; they paid 12 dollars and hour.
3. If you could go anywhere this summer [winter], where would you go?
Italy and Amsterdam, with stop-overs in Germany and London.
4. What was your worst vacation ever?
The first part of our vacation, summer before my freshman year of high school was just awful. We drove from Houston, TX to Canada - and by we I mean, Mom, Mimi, Papa, Lauren, IV, Rose and myself. That’s seven; count them 7 people riding for way to long in a suburban. The second part of the trip, the cruise around Alaska was sublime though.
5. What was your best vacation ever?
Spring break junior year and Spring break senior year have to tie. Junior year we drove to Taos and senior year it was New Orleans. Both trips were just amazing and it makes me kind of smug that I never resorted to the “oh, it’s spring break – I’ll go get drunk on the beach like everyone else” mentality. The cruise with all my girls after college has to rank up there pretty high, it’s out of the top two because of my disappointing experience with a Jamaican bartender.
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