Feb 20 2008
signs indicate you’re having a good day
I think maybe I’ve been a little complain-y lately. Sorry about that. In truth, I am doing pretty well, other than the fact that I would like to stab winter in the face. Today, though? Today I’m going to be working until about 8:30, and the following things have already happened:
1. My computer has been making that grinding noise again. Which is, you know, not good.
2. The database I need to use to do my job has gotten into the habit of just disappearing.
3. Today is a major deadline for some work stuff and I spent all morning being buried under a mountain of paper.
4. While I was opening the mail this morning, I removed a piece of paper from an envelope, unfolded it, and discovered the presence of dried blood on it. Dried blood! I think there should be a rule, and it should go like this: if you bleed on a piece of paper, DON’T MAIL IT. And if you have to mail it, don’t mail it to me, Princess Germophobia.
5. I put some files down on my desk and knocked over my coffee cup, which apparently contains about a gallon of coffee, since it was half full and I ended up with approximately a half gallon of coffee on my desk. This of course happened while a bunch of people were in my office and I had to keep myself from swearing out loud. And then I had to decaffeinate my desk, rewrite all my notes and throw away my desk calendar. And everything smells like creamer. I don’t even like creamer but the work coffee is unpalatable without it so I deal with it. Even so, I don’t want my desk to smell like it. Boo.
6. The phones are broken so there’s no calling outside numbers. This is excellently timed, since today is Big Deadline Day and all.
7. I cannot get that song out of my head. You want to know what song? “Low” by FlowRida. I hate that song. And is it FlowRida or Flowrida or Flow Rida? I don’t know for sure, but what I do know is that it looks like the word “Florida” was grievously wronged. Or is it actually Florida? FloRida? Flo Rida? (Flowbee?) Whatever it is, one thing is true: catching oneself working along and muttering “she turned around and gave that big booty a smack” is kind of… what’s the word? Terrible? Yes, that works.
So yeah. Swell. I just wanted to get that out of my system and onto the internet where it belongs. Anyway, if you can clear up that FlowRida/Flowrida/Flow Rida/Florida/FloRida/Flo Rida/Aunt Flo issue, that would be great. Cheers!
Sorry about the bad day…
And I believe it’s Flo Rida. Hopefully that gives you a little boost in your day (or at least makes it possible for you to concentrate on less trivial things)!
come on, how can randoming screaming out “WITH THE FUR!” not cheer you up?
Here, have this song in your head instead. It is possibly just repetitive enough to get stuck into your head easily.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-AWQPhqYueo
I … am still stuck on the dried blood. Is there a shortage of envelopes somewhere?
i am sorry your day was yucko, wife. mine was too!
Dried blood!?!? Who sent that to you? Maybe it’s like a stalker thing - it sounds like one step up from fingernail clippings.
(Sorry if now you think you have a stalker. From the credit card company or something.)
Further discussion on your favorite rapper:
http://www.greghoward.net/index.php/weblog/lawdy_miss_shawty/
Yes, dried blood. It was like this. Without spending fifty hours explaining my job, I will say that there’s this deadline for this form that had to be turned in, and the deadline was yesterday. People either use the form that was sent to them or print one off the internet or whatever. So I opened the envelope and unfolded the stack of paper that was inside. And noticed the dried blood and said “Gross! Grossgrossgrossgrossgross!” And then I looked more closely at it all and discovered that the form with the dried blood was BLANK. They sent another copy of the form that had been filled out, but the one with the blood was blank, and therefore completely unnecessary. So for no reason whatsoever, they mailed me a form with dried blood on it. I officially hate them forever and ever.
Thanks for clearing up the Flo Rida issue.
And I hope everyone had a better Thursday. Mine has been okay, except I’m really cold.
Okay, so they sent dried blood on PURPOSE. That’s extra creepy.