Thursday, January 31, 2008
courtesy of adam, i bring you a list of every reason why the hulk ever hulked out. it's pretty amazing.
my favorite that hadn't already been pointed out:
87. Foolishly running in and trying to help a man who brought a lit cigarette into a room full of toxic vapors, only to have an explosion throw him across the room and into the row of heavy C02 containers, which all fall on him
1:33 PM
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
have fun
shameless promotional post:
so, starting on Friday and going until (ideally) the end of May, i've signed this poor sucker up for a blogging contest, although officially i think it's a blogging challenge since there's no prize. i mean, no real prize, you still get motivation and self-gratification knowing you made it the full 4 months. so.. i think everyone who reads this has already signed up, but if i have stalkers (and hannah), you should join. it'll be fun.
also, i'm probably going to be out within the first week. the last one of these i did, i lasted until a week before the end of the contest (that one had a money prize, it was officially a contest) and then lost, and that was just devistating. it's better to get it out of the way early on, right?
12:27 PM
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
to you
oh hey guess who got a new job? i start in two weeks and all i can think about are the upsides of how cool this is going to be. and then i remember that my current job has no dress code, and i can walk there, and i can wake up at 8 and still be at work by 9, and how awesome my co-workers are. and then i think about how i'm going to have to wear heels and leave my house by 6:50 (hopefully 7 if all goes well) to be there by 8 and... stop. this is what the real world is like, right? it can't be perfect, or i'd live in my work building and do my shit in pajamas. considering the early morning-ness and the commute, i'm still pretty fucking amazingly excited.
1:59 AM
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Monday, January 14, 2008
wish me luck!
job interview in the morningggg! *scared*
as much as i love working at booklog... this is super exciting.
10:07 PM
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
tis a gift
another simple pleasure in life:
given the fact that i work in a software company testing software meant for bookstores, let me explain something about my workplace. possibly (probably) since it's located in one of the more populous gay neighborhoods in Chicago, at least half of its imployees are gay. they're very open about it; everyone who missed the annual company party was straigt, so there were 3 (exactly) out of about 20 couples who were parters of the opposite sex.
which makes it funny that one of our groups of customers (major, major clientel) is Christian stores, other otherwise religious. Usually christian, however. I think we have one Jewish store customer and that's probably it for non-christian stores. Who, notably, probably have no idea they work with a largly gay company. funny side note: when the company first started out, the two (gay) VPs, Carrie and David, went to a christian trade show to sell our product, and someone asked them if they were married. they had to pretend not to be outraged.
so it happens sometimes that i have to do testing on a christian store's database. creepy as this may sound, it sometimes has its perks. like today, i've been making many sales on an item titled "Gigi the Pink Ballerina", although the space alloted for the title in the register isn't quite long enough. so it comes up as, in all caps no less, "GIGI THE PINK BALLER". If that doesn't scream gayness, i'm not sure what does.
1:15 PM
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