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Friday, Mar. 14, 2003 @ 3:34 p.m.
The cute graphics instructor just proves my point that cute = dumb. Every weekday, he brings me the rosters and I tell him "Only on Fridays H., otherwise bring them to the front desk". Every Friday I can't find his rosters and they turn up at the front desk. Every. fucking. week. I am so sick of the sound of my voice repeating the same words to him over and over and over again.I swear I am going to kill him. Or lock him in my basement and make him my love puppy. Seriously, he should not be teaching.
In other news, V. is going to the Philipines for vacation and he said he'd bring me back a cheap Asian knick knack. Yay!
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003 @ 2:03 p.m.
Weekly Wrap-Up:1. What do you like best about Spring? What do you like least?
I'm really more of an autumn/winter person, but I do enjoy that feeling of new life and renewal that comes in the spring. Humidity and bugs are the downside.
2. What is your favorite Spring activity? Why?
I like barbecuing, because I like to eat (hee) and it's a good way to get some friends together and hang out.
3. What do you do to celebrate the end of winter? Why?
I usually make a point of going to the beach for one of the first spring weekends. I love the ocean and it's something I really miss during the cold, rainy months.
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003 @ 10:42 a.m.
From CNN.com:This just cracked me up. Some town in Idaho bought it and they are going to display it.
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Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!
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1. Do you like talking on the phone? Why or why not?
I don’t like talking on it just to be talking. I see it more as something to use when I need specific information about something. I’m not sure why but I just never was one for talking on the phone, even when I was a teen-ager. It’s funny because my mother can talk on the phone all day.
2. Who is the last person you talked to on the phone?
My mother!
3. About how many telephones do you have at home?
Technically I don’t have any. I live in a mother-in-law cottage and even though I have cable, water, and power coming in from the main residence the owner never got a phone line installed. I use my cell phone for all calls; another reason to not talk on the phone a lot is it can get really expensive.
4. Have you encountered anyone who has really bad phone manners? What happened?
All the time. Usually I have to just try to ignore it as it’s part of my job to talk on the telephone and chewing someone out for having bad phone manners would be considered “bad customer service” (though I am not in retail). I have told people who were exceptionally rude that if they didn’t stop shouting and/or cursing that I would hang up on them; I don’t think I should be expected to take that.
5. Would you rather pick up the phone and call someone or write them an e-mail or a letter? Why or why not?
If I need to know something right away I would rather call because then I’m not waiting around for an answer; but if I just want to keep in touch then I would rather send an email because it’s more leisurely and the person can read and answer it whenever they have time.
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Mom called yesterday afternoon. She said that Phil had his one-week post-surgery vision test and it’s holding steady at 20/25. He’s talking about playing raquetball again, when they move to Louisiana. He played it for years when I was a kid, but he had to stop because he couldn’t see the ball. Apparently one of their neighbors back there is a physical therapist, and he just opened a gym but he doesn’t have anyone who knows anything about raquetball. Phil might give instruction in it a couple times a week or so.
She also told me that Granny had quite a scare last week. She went grocery shopping, and when she got home she was greeted by the sight of the bottom of Grandpa’s shoes. She thought he had died, but it turned he had simply fallen and was unable to get up. He was okay, though. They both have those medic-alert things (you know, those awful “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” commercials), and when she asked him why he hadn’t pressed the button he was all “I don’t want some stranger coming into my house and finding me lying on the floor!” “Oh but it’s all right for you to scare me half to death, thanks a lot!”
I swear, if you looked up “stubborn” in the dictionary you’d find a picture of my grandfather. And Mom wonders where I get it.
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“The one film you can’t afford to miss!” Why, are the producers going to pay me to see their piece of shit action movie? Because that’s the only way you’ll get me to watch it. You know when an action movie comes out in March, as opposed to summer when all the block-busters open, that even the producers know it’s a pile of puke.
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We are about to have what is probably going to be the final winter storm. It was gray and windy all day yesterday, and the air held the promise of rain but only let go a few stray drops. I can feel it cranking into gear, up there in the clouds, waiting for the right moment to burst forth and unleash the torrents. It’s supposed to rain until Monday.
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Happiness is…having a bunny curled up on your stomach, while you softly sing “Wild Horses” to her. (The Sundays version.)
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away,
Wild, wild horses, we will ride them someday
What’s weird is I hadn’t listened to that album in months, and I put it in my Discman yesterday evening; then at the end of last night’s “CSI:” episode they used that song. Huh!
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5 things:
~Bad Batz Maru
~Nutella
~Strathmore art pads
~sagrado corazon de Maria
~Ryoan-ji Zen garden
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You have an entrancing kiss~ the kind that leaves
your partner bedazzled and maybe even feeling
he/she is dreaming. Quite effective; the kiss
that never lessens and always blows your
partner away like the first time.
What kind of kiss are you?
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~S.