2003-11-24

 

Wow... We're closed Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. How am I going to get any work done?

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2003-11-21

 

Tracy's going in for surgery today. I feel a little less worried about it because she's going to the Margot Perot center, which is where Kimmy went and she has nothing but good things to say about it.
I sent her some sunflowers.

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2003-11-20

 

We're hiring. Know anyone?

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2003-11-19

 

Lunch table chat goes amok. The top three most evil entities of the century are:

1. Mengele
2. Courtney Love
3. DeBeers, the diamond cartel

A little something for everyone.

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Some days, I am a goddess. Some days, I'm just fragile. Today is a fragile day. Littleish things piss me off. I went to an appointment with a doctor who was supposed to be a sports medicine specialist -- but all he did was refer me to a hand surgeon for my cysts. I only want the damn thing drained, not sliced out of my hand again. And then there was no parking anywhere. Literally. 8th, 9th, and 10th street were completely full. I ended up parking illegally across the street, and hoping that no one busts me and tows the car. There was nowhere else to go. If I get towed, that will probably push me over the edge today. Like I said, I'm fragile.

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Yucky yucky errands to be run this weekend or early next week. They involve going to the Bowl. Now, the Berkeley Bowl is an amazing place, don't get me wrong. It also competes with Ikea for the "densest teaming mass of humanity" award. It's overwhelming. On the other hand, they also have amazing amazing stuff there, which is why it's the only destination for three pounds of wild mushrooms of differing types -- the core of our delicious stuffing. I also want a turkey, a Willie bird. Where can I get a Willie bird?

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2003-11-18

 

Weirdness in the kitchen at work. First, there was the attack of the Indian meal moths this weekend. The entire kitchen was infested with them something terrible. They had to throw out all the cereal, spices, tea, the toaster AND the toaster oven to get rid of them. The little worms were crawling in the outlets and falling from the top shelves.
Disgusting.
Then, today someone took a tupperware full of moldy pineapple and just left it in the dirty dishes next to the sink. Sarah's not having any of that. They're having an all-out search to find the "leaver of the pineapple". Thankfully, I am off the hook -- it's not like my tupperware.

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2003-11-17

 

News flash: I will not necessarily be a miserable old crone because I'm sans-kid. I might be miserable old crone, anyway, but my CF status is not the cause, according to this study.

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Sounds like my mother: "I gave up most of my life to do her job and she still thinks I owe her something." Run away, Branwen!

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"And I thought Star Trek fans were bad..." Read this and wince -- Why this Dune fan thinks that everyone should boycott Master and Commander.

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2003-11-14

 

Hard-core techno music coming from the lunch room. Must go investigate...

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Oh, and the friday five.

1. Using one adjective, describe your current living space. "safe"
2. Using two adjectives, describe your current employer. "casual" and "naiive" -- which will probably come back to bite me in the ass some day, but I'm speaking of the collective, not of any individual.
3. Using three adjectives, describe your favorite hobby/pasttime. "challenging", "satisfying", "expensive" -- bassoons aren't cheap!
4. Using four adjectives, describe your typical day. "calm", "safe", "sleepy", and "spoiled"
5. Using five adjectives, describe your ideal life. "healthy", "comfortable", "challenged", "loving", "successful"

I feel like I should explain the last one for some reason. I regularly beat myself up because I feel like I haven't done much with my life. For the ideal life, I would still have challenges, but overall have a feeling that I have been successful at something. To take the edge of the fact that I'll never find a cure for cancer...

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Dammit, Molly! Now I'm singing that damn song. And what's more -- I remember most of it:

Trojan Women
They conquered Greece.
Trojan Women
They wanted peace.
Trojan Women
They wander aimlessly along the shores.
They're gonna be a bunch of whores.
Mercy!
Trojan Women
Talthybios came...
Trojan Women
... with one evil aim.
Trojan Women
<I forgot these two lines...>

Cassandra goes to Agamemnon,
'cause she interprets messages from the sun,
but she says that we're all gonna die...
We don't believe her 'cause she's insane.
<I forgot this line.> Wait a minute, here comes Andromache...
with Astyanax,
her little boy,
that we're gonna throw
off the walls of Troy.

Whoa, oh...
Trojan Women.

At least, that's how I mostly remember it. Now, what could I be doing with those brain cells if not remembering a high school project song?

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2003-11-13

 

Stevie has his projects, and I have mine. He is working on his novel, and I am determined to make all the jumps in that one stinking song on DDR. It's taking my time. I can't really practice bassoon right now, though, because my wrist is still all swollen. Yuck. That's it. If the weather/high pressure systems here are so schitzophrenic, then I definitely need to find a doctor to drain that damn cyst. Double yuck.

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Let's face it. For all my self-supposed hugeness, I am still a hottie. No, really. I must be. Or people would stop hitting on me, right? I mean, there must be some hottie-ness in there that they're keying on, right? Three hits in two days from not-completely-repulsive guys. Good for my ego, if nothing else.

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2003-11-12

 

I've decided that I need to exercise more. Not to lose weight, though I don't think that would be a bad thing. But because I'm depressed, and exercise raises my mood. Expecially lifting weights -- I guess because I can get out my anger there and then it just leaves me. I know that I can also do that on the pillow... but (let's face it) I'm not much of a meditator. I want to be... well, maybe I want to want to be a good meditator. Big difference. I need to meditate on that. <grin>

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BWAH! Bad headline writing at its finest: Girl Scouts hunt beavers and fur flies.

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2003-11-11

 

Amen, Sister. Read this, read it many many times.

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FAB! One of my favorite TMF Posters has his own site, with his own tales of the Ducklings. A recent one is Political Ducklings, referenced here for your enjoyment.

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2003-11-07

 

And while I'm working on lists, here's the friday five:

1. What food do you like that most people hate? Uhh... that's a hard one. Lemme come back to that.
2. What food do you hate that most people love? I don't like olives. And I don't really like French food. This has caused me some grief here at work. They dote on restaurants like "Gregoire's" and "The Townhouse" (not really French, but Frenchesque) and "Nizza la Bella". It isn't that I don't like the food there at all... it's just too damn heavy for my tastes.
3. What famous person, whom many people may find attractive, is most unappealing to you? Any number of scraggly musicians. Doesn't do much for me.
4. What famous person, whom many people may find unappealing, do you find attractive? These are hard this week! I totally have the hots for Viggo Mortensen, but he hardly qualifies as unappealing. And for Clea DuVall. DAMN that girl is FINE. Again, not even close to unappealing. I dunno, I guess.
5. What popular trend baffles you? That's a long list. For these purposes, I think I'll say "knock-off designer items." I just don't understand why someone would pay out to LOOK like they can afford something they can't. WHO CARES? Why is a logo so important? I just don't get it at all.

And thus ends this week's Friday Five.

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Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist. Shamelessly swiped from a TMF posting, and most certainly not descriptive of many Christians I know... OTOH, dead-on about some other Christians I'm actually related to...
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and 'dehumanized' when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the 'atrocities' attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in 'Exodus' and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in 'Joshua' including women and children!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most 'tolerant' and 'loving.'
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in 'tongues' may be all the evidence you need to 'prove' Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a 'high success rate' when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

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2003-11-06

 

My battle cry:

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Striding across the mountains, clutching buzzsaw hand extensions, cometh Bethanye! And she gives a mighty roar: "I'm going to pummel you faster than the speed of sound, then make toast!"

Find out! Enter username: Are you a girl, or a guy ?

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2003-11-05

 

See this? It says that MoMo passed the Bar. Lemme say that again:
MoMo passed the Bar Exam!!

I am so proud.

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Skipping book club today. I didn't read the book. I've been working on Molly's scarf!

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