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mostly personal anecdotes where I sometimes try to be humorous

(maybe not always, Not everytime, but sometimes)

  • Cubicles

    Last week I was fishing around for blog ideas and my cousin suggested something along the lines of people who forget they’re in a cubicle farm and thus end up sharing too much on personal phone calls. I can’t relate. Sure, I work in a sea of cubicles, but everyone goes all secret agent when…

  • For Susan

    Susan, who is both an amazing person and is hands-down one of the most amazing meeting facilitators ever (she makes meetings both worthwhile and fun), told us about the following fun little “performance art” piece: And since I’m in a YouTube frame of mind, I thought I’d pass it along.

  • Young at Heart

    A grab bag of some random thoughts… After I graduated from college, my mother gave me a copy of Robert Fulghum’s book titled Uh Oh. In truth, without cracking it open, I decided it was silly, overly simplistic and a better choice for anyone else but me. I finally did read it (a sure sign…

  • Daylight Savings

    …or Daylight Saving Time, if you prefer. I was informed the latter was the proper term, but really let’s just cut to the chase. I hate it no matter what you call it.You see, I’m not a morning person and getting up an extra hour early, even if it means I’m leaving less of a…

  • Dungeons & Dragons: Goodbye to Gary Gygax

    I remember my first exposure to Dungeons & Dragons. It was the “it” game in the 1970’s and because it was the “it” game my mother grabbed a copy from the local Toy Box (it was the overpriced mall version of Toys R Us back in the day – before Kaybee). Knowing my mother, she…

  • Ringing Endorsement

    “I like Obama because he doesn’t use all them dictionary like words.”(NPR interview on All Things Considered, Feb. 27, 2008) I’m sold!! Anyone who successfully runs a campaign without using words from the dictionary has my vote. I propose we institute The Jabberwocky Award for Excellence in Glossolalia (psst, your dictionary like word for the…

  • Geek Conversations

    Co-worker: I’ve always wondered why Rogue doesn’t fly in the X-Men movies? Me: Do you want to know? Co-worker: Yes. Me: Are you SURE you really want to know? Co-worker: Tell me. Twenty minutes later after covering both the history of Rogue in the X-Men and a smidge of the alternate universe the Age of…

  • The Universe is Out to Get Me: And it’s Eyeing You, Too!

    Somewhere out there in the net is a beautiful post discussing the idea that the universe is inherently mean and is out to get you. Yes my friend, the universe has you in its sights and you’d better start running a little “z” pattern (which you really run not because it will help you escape…

  • I Can Has Cheezburger

    Somedays, I need a little I Can Has Cheezburger pick-me-up. From their archives…

  • Everything Happens for a Reason

    WARNING: Yes, every now and again you get an actual warning before a post because I can feel something very un-ladylike is about to spew forth from my fingers – it’s when my writing becomes less whatever it is and more about channeling Louis Black. In other words, I’m ANGRY and on the edge of…

  • Valentine’s Day

    So, I’m a day late, but yesterday I was sugaring up on Lindt chocolate (only to regret it later) and I couldn’t possibly focus on posting while chocolate was sitting on my desk staring me down. (It never blinks. Why doesn’t it blink?!?!) I spent some part of the day making mental lists of all…

  • Blog Housekeeping Notes

    Hi all! I’m about two whole minutes from slumping over in my chair for no real good reason – lack of oxygen, lack of iron, Sam slobbered all over my pillow and left big gross soppy wet spots on it leaving me with an untested pillow, plus it’s like what… the crack of 7pm. It’s…

  • Value

    A recent headline read “Nurse and Social Worker Among the Dead” and I had to wonder if I was supposed to be more upset because it was a nurse and a social worker versus a burger girl at the mall. Personally, if it were a place I frequented, I think I’d notice and miss the…

  • The Big Blue Mess

    I’m on vacation. Yes, a real bona fide vacation. A long over-due break from everything – this is where I sit in my robe, look around the house and occasionally attack something with Clorox for eyeing me funny (and flaunting its dirt). My last vacation was in May 2007 and the one before that was…

  • Empathy

    I have a condition – well, actually several and though I feel a little shy about presenting them in such a public forum, my hope is that some good will come of it. My conditions or issues or problems or whatever euphemism you want to apply to make yourself feel more comfortable usually manifest after…

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