You can tell I'm a Minnesotan...
Jan. 16th, 2003 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msfledermaus...because I've been wrapped in a blanket on the couch, reading Neil Gaiman and eating ice cream after coming in from the cold.
Work was the usual too-busyness. I've been sneaking minutes here and there to make little origami toys out of 3X3 post-its--a more noble use for them than my badly scrawled reminders. Lately over and over people at my work are being told "Not to nest' and being discouraged from putting up pictures or postcards or anything like that. I think they won't be happy until everything is blank and white, like the rest of the building. But my tiny subversive menagerie is portable. I can hide my happy rebellions from unkind eyes or take them home. Take that. I fold paper in your general direction!!! "Your mutherrr was an "amsterr, and your fatherr smelled of Elderberries!"
I keep looking at home-ownership manuals and trying to plan ahead for a small house. Money is tight, the economy's spiraling downward like a winged pigeon, and I'm dreaming of houses to decorate. Feh. I'm crazy, yes indeedy I am.
I still haven't bought any knitting stuff. It's been too cold to enjoy shopping, so I've put it off until this weekend, when I will shop like a desperate woman because next week will be even colder than this one...and I need new leggings and all kinds of warming stuff. And maybe some books. and oatmeal soap. And rose-scented bubble bath...with glitter in it.
Which reminds me. I have a small project I want to try...you'll find out more if I'm successful. Iiii got a seeeecreeeet.....
Work was the usual too-busyness. I've been sneaking minutes here and there to make little origami toys out of 3X3 post-its--a more noble use for them than my badly scrawled reminders. Lately over and over people at my work are being told "Not to nest' and being discouraged from putting up pictures or postcards or anything like that. I think they won't be happy until everything is blank and white, like the rest of the building. But my tiny subversive menagerie is portable. I can hide my happy rebellions from unkind eyes or take them home. Take that. I fold paper in your general direction!!! "Your mutherrr was an "amsterr, and your fatherr smelled of Elderberries!"
I keep looking at home-ownership manuals and trying to plan ahead for a small house. Money is tight, the economy's spiraling downward like a winged pigeon, and I'm dreaming of houses to decorate. Feh. I'm crazy, yes indeedy I am.
I still haven't bought any knitting stuff. It's been too cold to enjoy shopping, so I've put it off until this weekend, when I will shop like a desperate woman because next week will be even colder than this one...and I need new leggings and all kinds of warming stuff. And maybe some books. and oatmeal soap. And rose-scented bubble bath...with glitter in it.
Which reminds me. I have a small project I want to try...you'll find out more if I'm successful. Iiii got a seeeecreeeet.....
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Soul-sucking job...
Date: 2003-01-16 05:40 pm (UTC)But I went to a high school where a large portion of my peers were fundamentalist Christians who were hell-bent on saving my soul. Compared to them, my workplace is nothin' but a bunch of pikers. And I'm the only one who can fix their goddamned copiers. I will find more and more ways to rebel than they can ever dream of trying to stop. I'll flyer the neighborhood! Sneak glitter into the high offices!!! Light incense indoors and run away!!!Chant in backwards latin under my breath!!! Muahahahahaa!
Re: Soul-sucking job...
Date: 2003-01-16 06:50 pm (UTC)But I went to a high school where a large portion of my peers were fundamentalist Christians who were hell-bent on saving my soul. Compared to them, my workplace is nothin' but a bunch of pikers. And I'm the only one who can fix their goddamned copiers. I will find more and more ways to rebel than they can ever dream of trying to stop. I'll flyer the neighborhood! Sneak glitter into the high offices!!! Light incense indoors and run away!!!Chant in backwards latin under my breath!!! Muahahahahaa!
>>The same thing happens with the copier where I work. People just leave the damn paper jammed in the machine. "Oh, someone else will fix it!" Yeesh. Of course, the copier is straight out of the Flintstones era, which doesn't help. Even the Xerox rep said he'd never seen a 1090 before. Heh.
You could always make voodoo dolls of people you don't like and "accidentally" leave them around the office. :)
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Date: 2003-01-16 09:44 pm (UTC)"nesting"
Date: 2003-01-16 11:00 pm (UTC)Re: Soul-sucking job...
Date: 2003-01-16 11:34 pm (UTC)I'd pay to see that! :)
This must be just like livin in paradise....ba ba bum....
Anyway, how about randomly unplugging and replugging in network cables on the managments PC's? That was always good for a hoot back in the day....
Re: Soul-sucking job...
Date: 2003-01-17 05:28 am (UTC)Pity I like the IS guy.
then there's the old "Limburger in the heating duct" trick in the main offices....but that means I'd have to *buy* limburger. It might still be worth a shot, though:)
Re: "nesting"
Date: 2003-01-17 05:32 am (UTC)this jerk even tries to tell me what colors of copy paper to order.
The irony is it's a non-prof that's world-reknown for innovative, groundbreaking creative work...sure, as long as you have a really big grant and probably come from another country:P
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Date: 2003-01-17 05:36 am (UTC)Re: Soul-sucking job...
Date: 2003-01-17 05:43 am (UTC)I'll just keep my rebellions quiet and subtle and try to keep my spirits up. I need this stupid job.
Re: Soul-sucking job...
Date: 2003-01-17 09:20 am (UTC)If your gonna do the food in the duct thing go all the way.
Use shrimp.
Trust me. :)
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Date: 2003-01-17 09:27 am (UTC)regardless, i guess it's apparent that i'm a MN transplant because i *LOVE* ice cream!
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Date: 2003-01-17 02:18 pm (UTC)Re: Soul-sucking job...
Date: 2003-01-17 02:18 pm (UTC)