very

nice. we have to write self reviews here and then we give that to our boss and then they can know what we do and then they write our review. well, little big man sent out an email to us asking for our input on his self review. he went on and on about how he wants us to be honest. rrrrright. there is no way that i am telling him how i really feel while i still work here. i'm sure that no one has the balls to do so. it will equal more chaos or no job. he surely knows this and i think it is one huge set up cause the man has been screwing up hard lately and he needs all of these letters to present to his boss to show that he is doing a good job. i think it is a brilliant plan, but i believe that i will have to counter that plan with a plan of my own. i'm going to see if everyone would want to send it in via an anonymous email account. there are a few ways that this can fail a) someone rats me out for coming up with it b) no one uses it but me c) the idiots here put their name on it anyway d) some are going for a major kiss ass either way. i really don't have it in me to praise him and i can't see how a few others would want to either. am i being evil or am i just trying to be fair? maybe i can stand outside of his office with a petition and gather a small sit down in the lobby or i can just keep correcting him in front of everyone like usual. other than that, while i was walking around with a pen in my hand, i marked all over my shirt. yay!

when

i sit really still, i can barely feel my headache. i combated it with tylenol and mountain dew and it is much better, but i feel it lurking. there is a fine line between enough caffeine to help my head and too much caffeine that leads to an upset stomach. the specialist is down to about thirty days for her arrival back here in the states. i think she has had an official count down for about three months now. probably more like a year. it's going to be cool to have her around. i didn't really get to hang out with her before she left. the girl and her have the same sense of humor and i am prepared to become the butt of many jokes. i am also prepared to come in third at games instead of second. i assume that we should play risk a few times and get that out of our system prior to her arrival. i want to throw everyone in my car and drive to my parent's farm for some camping this summer. i can almost feel the warm air and smell the grass. i assure you that the five hour drive is most certainly worth it. we can just lay around in the grass and stare off into space listening to little creatures scamper around. then everyone can see how fast i can run when i see a snake, or a twig that resembles a snake, or wind that goes through the leaves like a snake or if i just start having a memory of a time i saw a snake. it's almost my birthday month bitches!!!!

the specialist

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the girl's little sister. the other half of the world's largest human movie database. she wants to be a marathon runner. i will buy boca burgers for her. i think she might be able to beat up the girl now.

four

hour long meetings are awesome. key things that i love about them: sitting next to someone who would be angered by you doodling, people going way off topic and making it even longer, getting cold air blown on you and then getting sweaty hot, then getting cold air blown on you and certainly then getting sweaty hot, breaking your pen, running out of mountain dew, sitting in front of the guy who keeps slamming papers around, watching the guy who keeps dosing off, getting asked a question when in your head you have been thinking of a shopping list and have no idea what the question was, thinking that you are almost done and then they go off topic again, tapping loudly, noticing that you have been tapping loudly and at the end realizing that the guy who ran the meeting didn't cover the actual reason that you were in the meeting, but in fact covered the opposite.

yesterday

i took the day off and slept and slept. in the morning before i called in i thought of things that needed to be done around the house to justify my staying home for more reasons than making sure that big al and kimono made it off alright. i came up with a pretty good list during my between snooze alarm napping, but as soon as they were out the door, i crashed and didn't get up until i would have been getting off of work. so screw the list. then i went to bed early. heh. it was a good weekend though. big al and i discovered that we have had matching keyboards this whole time and that kimono is the only one that can truly play them. the girl got to see a different side of me. i think she approves of the spontaneous interviews about various products and loud noise making. i'm glad that my core gets along with my other half. that goes for the newbies too.