This is a "guest" day.
An enjoyable evening last night at the movies. 2, 4 and Mom invited me to join them at the Novas for The Bourne Ultimatum, which was decent flick. We could do worse come 12/24.
2 was quoted in the QC Times today for her work in an event at the museum yesterday. Way to go!
Long days for all of our teams on the gridiron.
Have a great day.
BCOT
Philosophy, History and Commentary from Lt. PC
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My apologies for not posting an entry yesterday. A couple of weeks ago I restarted my computer only to face the "blue screen of death". Since I spend so much time each day in front of the computer already (particularly mon-fri), this hasn't posed TOO big of an inconvenience. Although much to my disappointment, I haven't been able to check my facebook in forever (can't log on from work) - which means i've been neglecting my birthday well-wishers. Other than that, it's probably been a good thing that I am spending less of my precious free time randomly trolling about the internet. And it's definitely a bonus that James is no longer playing his stupid video games.
I dont have that much to add here of any social value. One of the assistants at work had her baby yesterday, so she is out for however long we are governmentally required to give her off. It was very appropriate timing, considering we held her baby shower on friday. Her husband even came. Apparently my assistant, who hosted the shower, didn't tell him until an hour prior to the shower, because he can't keep secrets. Luckily, he was able to make it, since he doesn't have a job, so he had no lunch plans anyway. He put on an inside-out black sweatsuit and came on in. No shave, and if i had to put money on it, i'd guess no shower. I didn't ask, though, so I mean, I could be wrong. Of course when he got here, he had to have someone from our firm clear him through security, and clearly since the one throwing the party was decorating, his wife ended up taking the call and the surprise was ruined anyway. Not that anyone particularly cared. All us 'guests' were pretty much focused on figuring out how quickly we could get at the chicken parmesan take out without being rude. The dad-to-be did look really oddly out of place though with everyone else wearing businessy attire. Even without our suitcoats, since it was casual Friday. And even though I was wearing some black tights that I later decided were really ugly. Still not enough to make up for the inside-out sweatsuit. So anyway. Now they have a daughter and everyone keep their fingers crossed for her. She has the proverbial snowball's chance of being normal.
Since that assistant is now out, we have a temp that will be helping out until she returns. She is exactly what you would expect out of a temp. She is sort of like that old intern on Gray's Anatomy. She talks too much at inappropriate times. This morning the big kahoona asked how her weekend was. I mean people- this is a classic 'I don't care about the answer' question. Clearly the appropriate answer is, 'fine, thanks!' or some variation thereof. instead, the question initiated a 25 minute conversation which inevitably led back to the temp's experience in the chicago marathon. It's like six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Every conversation somehow connects to this topic. For those of you curious, she quit at the 12 mile mark, and put a bunch of footage of the experience on youtube. apparently CNN or some news network picked up the footage and she thinks its the biggest. deal. ever. The first time i spoke to her i was literally running toward the door on my way to lunch, and she somehow initiated a conversation that lasted no less than ten full minutes. Each of which i ticked off while simulateously giving her an annoyed i'm in a hurry look and checking my watch. I was really hoping that my total failure to respond to any of her comments would lead the conversation to it's death, but this was not to be. I finally had to interrupt her and say - I'm sorry to be rude, but i'm meeting someone for lunch, and i'm now ten minutes late. We'll have to finish this conversation another time. aka, you can talk at me again later. She has also been absent perhaps 40-50% of the time in the week and a half she's been training here. We're all REALLY optmistic for the rest of the maternity leave. Luckily, we aren't actually doing any work around her anyway, so it's not a big deal.
So anyway, that's my view from the cube... Everyone get pumped for the big game Saturday!
Have a good week!
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