Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery: Fuck the Overachiever

a memorable quote:

'So fuck the overachiever. Double-fuck the overachiever. If I were the CEO of my own company, I would probably be Michael Palin as the sergeant major in Meaning of Life: "Is there something you'd rather be doing than marching UP AND DOWN THE SQUAAARE!? All right, well off you go!"'

are you back from bermuda yet?

my upload ability has again gone off to bermuda without me.

i usually don't talk about politics with people, because it just makes me too angry. i think i need to remember this in the future.

another sunday night, another stint of paying the bills. wheeee. the thing that is very helpful at this point is that the state of minnesota has tracked me down and is sending me my 1997 tax refund. woo hoo for bureaucrats.

hmm. i am posting to my blog using opera. opera gives me a teeeeeensy tiny little window up in the left hand corner of my screen. the window is this big:
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that fills it all up. how odd.

this is a picture of my enormously fierce dog, and the slightly less fierce one that i live with.

tonight i am going to go out and see air traffic controllers in action. it's interesting knowing people with strange and unusual jobs.

i say good morning to people, all the time. usually at work, this gets me a double-take. then i explain to people that it's always morning, somewhere and then they just wander off, looking at me oddly out of the corner of their eyes.

this is my secret ploy to get a reputation for being strange. well, that and having given up wearing a bra to work. do you know how much you'd have to pay me to get me to work somewhere where i was required to wear a bra again? (no, no, it's more money than even that.)

and in dog news, she figured out how to get into the bag of dog food. the dog is now very full. we plan on feeding her again on tuesday. maybe.

currently, we are waiting for a bid to come back to put in a central airconditioning system for the lower unit of the house, and then a separate bid to do some wonky thing that includes putting in forced air heat and central air conditioning for the second floor. i'm expecting that it will be slightly less expensive than the taj mahal, but only slightly.

i think i'd like to be done with house maintenance stuff for a while. it's very tiring making appointments to have people come tromp around the house and then they want to talk to me, and then there's the phone tag afterwards... eeew. no good.

woo! here i am!

hmm. is my ability to upload back yet? hello little upload ability, i miss you....

and now i am at work, and all my coworkers are jealous. one of them said "hey, jazz queen, what's that playing?"

nathan nathan nathan, who i love love love, made me a mix cd. hurray for nathan! i will bring it to work tomorrow, and all my coworkers will be jealous.

better day now. not so cranky. now, the messing with the template.

i am having a cranky day. cranky, cranky, cranky.

i left work at about 11, to go pee in a cup (hurray for mandatory drug testing in hard to find skanky little buildings in the suburbs. or something.) and then stopped at home to check on the dog. the dog is still being a bit sick, so i called the vet and waited for a call back, and then called into work (when the callback was not immediate) and my team lead who i wish i could clone said that i should stay home and take care of the dog.

getting some puppy kisses helped my mood for a while.

then i worked on some stained glass and used up the rest of my solder. [grumble grumble] soldering the glass was good, though.

and now i am upstairs writing cranky email. hurray.

here is a link to a picture of me at the supercon party at convergence. did i mention how much fun convergence was?

well, somebody finally got off their butt.

woohooo!

The young woman finally piped up: "Gosh, it sounds like y'all just spent your whole lives helpin' other people. Why?"

Said Ruth without hesitation, "Common decency."



(sacbee Voices - Molly Ivins)

random stuff about me:

• my favorite colors are green and blue.


• i am a science fiction fan.


• i've actually only read about two thirds of the books in my house (but that's still a lot).


• i like little dogs.


• i like girls. but not in the same way that i like little dogs.


• i own a duplex with nathan, and my sister lives in the bottom of it.


• i live in the city, and at this point, you couldn't pay me to move back to the suburbs.

this is a link to a page that has links to pictures of my dog and my stained glass.