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11/28/2007 20:03 #42323

After almost 4 years...I've succumbed
I don't get sick. It's like my thing. I hadn't run a fever or been sick other than some sniffles since December of 2003. No exaggeration. I get sick so infrequently that I remember each time I feel crummy.

I started to feel bad last thursday (a week before thanksgiving) and felt bad until thanksgiving, felt better thursday and friday and then saturday felt crummy again. on top of that we always travel during the thanksgiving holiday so I was away from home and my doctor until monday when he scolded me for not coming in for 3 years and then told me I had tonsilitis and sinusitis. Awesome. so I was ordered to stay home until thursday. So Monday-Wednesday has consisted of me sitting on my couch watching tv, checking bad gossip websites, napping and annoying my cat.

I suppose if I only get sick once every 4 years that's not that bad. It's weird, it was almost 4 years to the same weekend because I was sick the first weekend in December and its the last weekend in November. Crazy times.

Taking 3 days off from work has been amazing, I highly recommend it. It's great because I don't feel guilty about it at all, it was doctor's orders. Anytime I take off from work when I don't really need to makes me feel a little guilty. Basically because its really easy to make me feel guilty.

Good times, Sabres are playing well these days *knock on wood* I just knocked on my coffee table.

Come on Sabres!! 6 in a row!!*knock on wood again*
vincent - 11/29/07 20:46
Na, it was my fault. I went last night & my streak is up to 3 straight Sabres losses when I'm in attendance. Going to the game on Sat so bet Carolina...
jenks - 11/29/07 18:43
I take responsibility for the loss last night. I went to a game for the first time ever. I am sure it is all my fault.
tinypliny - 11/28/07 20:07
Best wishes for a speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedy recovery!! (pssst. but don't tell the office)

Take good care, there is a nasty virus on the loose this year (hmmmm... I need to make a post about it.)

11/07/2007 09:36 #42023

For those that might recall
A few weeks ago I went on a rant about the random guy in my office who has no job description to speak of.

Well earlier this week, I actually saw physical evidence of him working.

I should have taken a picture of it so that I'd have proof. But basically it was a memo to all the attorneys to notify them that it was time to decide how many holiday cards they wanted and to give him back the memo with their name and number requested and that their secretary would take care of sending them out. (technically he's supposed to call us their assistants but I digress)

It was a strange moment to see that he'd actually done something that we could point to and say: Look! Patrick actually doesthings!!!!

What a bright, shiny moment for Lipsitz Green.

In other news, after a friends of mine have and moderate to lots of success on match.com I decided to join. What do I really have to lose? I'm smart enough to know most of the traps to avoid (there could always be crazies out there who have new tricks up their sleeves) and I'm not exactly desperate for love and some of these profiles are good for a few laughs. One guys headline: "If you are what you eat, then I could be you by tomorrow" Simply charming.

So I joined and I've been talking to this guy who seems frighteningly normal...although actuallly a bit talkative (at least online). We had a good conversation going for a while. Although he said some things that were a tad...how shall I put this...gay? I mean its hard to judge because he was typing but he did get really excited when talking about his cat and how his future roommate has 3 kittens are really "tiny and cute". Also the fact that he's moving in with a female friend this weekend seems kind of odd. Now, whatever, I don't care who people live with. He clearly isn't interested in this chick because he's on match.com, but still, its a little odd. (e:mike) I totally have a mission for you regarding this guy, and I know you'll love it.
tinypliny - 11/07/07 22:57
So Patrick is the sub-supply orderer??!!
mike - 11/07/07 18:52
I LOVE MISSIONS! GIMME ME GIMME ME!
metalpeter - 11/07/07 17:53
What I'm going to say is going to be kinda mean sounding but it isn't. I myself do like cats and my sis has one who is very cute and very strange well they all are really. One of the reasons I don't have a car is there is nothing more depressing then being that single guy with a cat, might as well blow the brains out then. Maybe it is just watching to much garfield and you see what a loser John is. But when the only pussy you have is a cat it is very sad. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this guy and if he has 3 cats he know how to take care of them and all the good stuff that goes along with them. But if him having cats and the moving in with a chick is the only gay stuff that he said then I wouldn't worry about it. Hey you never know he might like both guys are girls or be a little bi-curious who knows. I have heard that match.com is a good place to meet people I wish you luck with this new guy but if he isn't the one to go out with I wish you luck finding someone else through the site.

10/18/2007 01:31 #41698

Free Legal Music Download
So I just downloaded Radiohead's album. Why? not because I like Radiohead, but because it was free.

I say, why not give them a chance and get a free legal download? So I did. I can't say that I love it, its not really my kind of music, but why not, I didn't loose anything except some space on my harddrive.

Any thoughts on if this free download or at least download only thing will catch on or if it should catch on?
paul - 11/07/07 12:34
So how was it? Do you have the link.

10/11/2007 09:26 #41590

people
I love meeting people without middle names. It's like they're from another planet.
tinypliny - 10/18/07 23:48
And Mike?? Is your middle name Confirmed? So you are Mike Confirmed Visco??? Wow.
tinypliny - 10/18/07 23:46
I have no middle name and I am from another country. So Cheers! Nice meeting you too! :)
mike - 10/11/07 11:33
my dad's side of the family doesn't believe i nmiddle names, though some people picked them up when they were confirmed and added that as a middle name.
leetee - 10/11/07 09:40
My husband, (e:Uncutsaniflush), does not have a middle name. In fact, he mentioned this in a comment to (e:Zobar,41574). Are you saying he should dress up as an alien for halloween?

10/10/2007 15:14 #41575

That guy
Category: work
This entry is dedicated to one of those "that guys" every large office has.

This is dedicated to the "what exactly do you do here?" guy.

He has an office, or at least a cubicle, and he always looks busy. You just have no idea what he's so busy doing. There's no apparent input or output.

He's never the guy you ask a question of. No one ever says "I don't know, check with Hank" or "That's really Hank's area of expertise, he'll know what to do". No, you never need to talk to that guy. He's usually quiet and keeps to himself and doesn't really talk much, thus eliminating any possibility you will ever know what his function is. He's listed under a generic or totally vague title such as "Assitant Administrator". There are no real clues as to what his function is.

My "that guy" at LGSC is Patrick.

His desk is on my floor, in a work area smaller than that of the guy listed as "Facilities Supervisor" who refills the office supplies. He's hardly ever at his desk, suggesting he is somewhere doing something important.

The only clues I have to his function are: I once saw him photocopying a whole bunch of packets for distribution. However, since I did not receive one of these packets, I have no idea what their content was. Second, he occasionally sends out faxes...yet they're always addressed to the same person.

Our usual interaction consists of passing each other in the hall where we exchange customary awkward greetings and move on with our lives, or (and this is my favorite) in the kitchen.

For some reason, in the afternoons if I happen to have found myself chained to the copier, which is located in the kitchen, I will encounter his water drinking ritual.

After lunch, he goes to the bathroom, then comes into the kitchen and turns on the purified water faucet, let's it run for a few seconds, and proceeds to fill a styrofoam cup of water and drink it while standing at the sink. He then repeats this system at least once, sometimes twice. He then tosses out the cup and returns to his desk to continue doing whatever it is he does. One would think...hey Patrick, you know, you can take those back to your desk and drink them at your leisure. There's no need to chug them like you've just escaped the Sahara. There will be more later.

I also never see him come into work or leave. Considering I sit right by the elevators and the only stairwell you can get to other floors through, I'd notice. He either lives under his tiny desk or he's so busy with all his "work" he needs to work overtime.

Oh Patrick and your weird glasses and super awkward existence. What would the 4th floor be without you?

No really I want to know, what would be the difference?

I don't want to know what he does. It would kill all my fun. I just pretend he's a secret agent.
tinypliny - 11/07/07 22:51
I always meant to read this blog, but only got to it today. How fascinating!! Hahaha. :)


On to episode two...
mk - 10/10/07 15:59
hahahahhaa I loled at this blog. I love wackos, especially the part about the Styrofoam cup.
janelle - 10/10/07 15:36
I love the little nuances of workplace interactions and rituals. I could write post after post about stuff like this.

And actually, at my workplace, I'm the person who looks busy (I'm actually not) and I know people walk by my office thinking, what the fuck does she DO here? I was this mysterious figure in the corner office. Now I'm the mysterious figure in the cubicle.