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08/02/2007 23:07 #40364

What?
Today a maintenance man in my building asked me if i was in high school. what? maybe once or twice in my life has anyone ever thought i was younger than i am. never 5 years though. what? when i was 19 someone thought i was 28.

crazt.
lizabeth - 08/12/07 13:20
It's funny - when I was a young teenager, I'd get mistaken for an older teenager, but by the time I was and older teen, people thought I was younger than I was.

Now I'm not college-age anymore, but I'm back in classes with kids about 8-10 years younger than I am, and they have no clue that I am so much older. One of my TAs nearly fell over when he found out I was older than he was. Yet I'm never carded at bars or grocery stores... maybe I just don't look like the type to try to get away with something illegal.

I guess it pays to look younger than you really are - I figure I'll really appreciate it when I am 40 and can still maybe pass for 30.
metalpeter - 08/03/07 18:05
I wonder if he was hoping you would say something like "well I could pretend if that would make you feel better ya wanna see me in my private school uniform". Or maybe he thought that if you where in HS that you had a hot mom around his age. But that being said often telling a lady's age is very tough some 16 year olds look 28 and vice versa.
tinypliny - 08/03/07 16:00
hmm.. it looks like a chat-up line, unless ofcourse you wrecked the building plumbing with something high-schooly.

07/24/2007 15:09 #40237

always tired
Ok why am I ALWAYS tired.

I just put my head down on my desk for about a minute and dozed off. What? It's 2:30!

Oy. My shoes are too big. I'm not sure what to do about this. I know there are inserts you can get to make them fit more snugly but I'm not sure where to get them. I used to use them when on wardrobe crew at the park, but they were always provided for us.

I've been typing the same document for almost 2 hours. Looong explanation short: Once in awhile we get a document that requests that we admit certain things about certain documents, and we have to respond. We have to retype each request for admission which is 1 long sentance, and then leave a space for a response. There are 270 requests in this document. I started yesterday off and on, and have been doing a couple here and there all day, I'm only up to 206.

So I went to school and got my degree in Theatre. Now I'm a legal secretary...yes the correlation is apparent to me as well...? I feel like I should be disappointed or like saddened by the fact that I'm not working in my chosen area of study; but the truth is i'm not at all. I'm totally fine with it. I have no interest in or desire to be out there stage managing. Like absolutely none at all. I still love theatre and I love seeing plays and reading them but I just don't want to stage manage right now. It's too much stress and pressure and even though I'm good at it I have no desire to do it. Probably in a couple of years I'll be interested...probably. There's always the possibility of grad school in the distant future... eh, maybe.

whooopeeee!!
lizabeth - 07/24/07 16:10
You know, you're not the only theatre person I know who is doing something completely different and not regretting it. A friend of mine got her theatre degree, did stage managing for a few years, got really sick of it, and now does event planning and managing for a catering company. She still loves theatre, too, but she's perfectly happy doing something else for a job.
mk - 07/24/07 15:52
there's nothing like the classic fall asleep at your desk in the early afternoon. you just ate some lunch (maybe delicious kettle corn), it's probably a nice temperature in your office, you're probably in a cushy chair...oh yeah. it's nap time. feel no shame.

07/22/2007 00:13 #40202

agknarn harry potter
if you're one of those LAME-Os who don't read harry potter...i feel bad for you.

thats all i'm gonna say cuz i can't give anything away or at least (e:mk) will kill me.

book 7. 14 hours straight (almost).
imk2 - 07/23/07 07:36
what's the difference between the british and american version?
jenks - 07/22/07 17:33
that was my thought at first too lilho "ah, they're just stupid magic kid books" until a my-age friend of mine said 'i dunno, they're pretty good' and I tried the first one- and I was hooked. just picked up #7 (I know I know, 24hr late!) and am looking forward to spending the afternoon in the hammock reading. But first I need a refresher since I already forgot what happened in #6.
lilho - 07/22/07 11:51
wow. thanx. i guess im super lame. i never got into that wizard shit, and i doubt i ever will. you will be offended probably, but it just kind of bores me.
ladycroft - 07/22/07 05:42
haha! at first i thought you said 'if you're one of those lamos that reads harry potter'...i was gonna pull my wand on you ;) it was released here in doha as well, but i want the US edition so i'm waiting for a care package. they only have the British version here.

07/17/2007 07:56 #40143

workload
effective yesterday at work (my 6th day there btw) we were reassigned to different attorneys.

the attorney i used to work for is a really nice guy who has a very heavy case load. he works a lot with another attorney who also has a very heavy caseload. Mary, another secretary now has both of them. I have an attorney who is also a really nice guy who works for LFP, Inc. aka Larry Flynt's company. he gets Hustler sent to him every month, awesome. he reviews a lot of other people's work and doesn't generate a whole lot of his own.

anyway, yesterday Bill, the new attorney, gave me 1 thing to do that took, no lie, 2 minutes to do. i spent the rest of the day cleaning and helping Mary who was running around like a chicken with her head cut off. eventually i get a new attorney they haven't hired yet, but i have no idea when that will be. so work shouldn't be too stressful for at least the next few days.

woohooo.



metalpeter - 07/17/07 17:35
I admit I haven't seen one of that brands mags in a few years, it used to be very good. But I do have a question if you know it. There is a brand of Snowboards and clothing called Hustler is that owned by the Magazine or is it a different company?
mike - 07/17/07 08:16
awesome! do you think you will get to go to fancy hollywood parties with Larry Flynt?

07/10/2007 21:50 #40043

howdy
Two days down at the new job. So far so good. The attorney I work for is really nice and really patient. He's really understanding about the fact that I'm a little lost and overwhelmed, and he's very willing to help me out when I don't understand something. Let's see how long this lasts, haha. I actually work for 2 attorneys but one of them is leaving the firm on Friday...was it something I said?

yep. thats about all that's new. Europe was awesome. Milan is kind of gross and covered in graffiti but it was neat to go, I don't plan to go back. Madrid I would definitely go back to, it was cool. We didn't get to go out at all, so sometime I want to go with friends so we can go out on the town on a saturday night or something. It would be a great city to go to as a couple.


i love the show Whose Wedding is it Anyway. It makes me want to get married. Not that I didn't want to get married before, but it makes me want to plan a wedding and try on wedding dresses and pick out flowers and stuff. It looks like fun even though I'm sure it would be wicked stressful if you were actually the one getting married.

i can't get over how much this bride's dress and veil do not go together. i can't describe it, but its a hot mess.