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2002-02-06 - 2:27 p.m.
This morning I blew my nose
really hard and there was this weird sensation in the corner
of my eye and I thought, 'Hey, if I did that underwater would
I blow bubbles?"
That's the kind of action-packed
morning I had.
Today I'm waiting for the plumber
to come - not because the toilet is plugged up (thankgod), but
because the pipe below our kitchen sink is leaking. Have I bitched
lately about how we don't have a dishwasher? Well, we don't.
So, until the sink gets fixed the dishes are piling up. I guess
I could do them in the tub or something but that just seems really
gross.
I was a little reluctant to
call the plumber. I used to work at a Kinko's, O Lo Many Years
Past, and I ran this big monster machine called the DocuTech.
And if the DocuTech went tits up, you had to phone a Xerox repairman,
who worked on call and were usually in the middle of dinner with
their family when it broke. The first time I called, a really
grouchy older guy (who probably hated all Kinko's clerks and
rightfully so) showed up, opened the machine, immediately pulled
out a piece of paper that had jammed it, shot me a look of pure
disgust and walked out the door. And forever after when I called,
I always got the same guy who would say "Are you SURE it's
broken? POSITIVE? Did you look for PAPER?"
Anyway it made me all squirrely
about calling the damn thing in, and I actually got pretty good
at fixing it myself. I kind of feel the same way about the sink,
like the plumber is gonna show up and do something insanely obvious,
then berate me for having caused him to miss his baby's first
steps or something.
Kinko's. What a fab job that
was. "Oh look, I got a raise! $7.25 an hour!"
Not that we deserved better - we were always doing shit wrong
there, especially with the lamination machine. Once a lady gave
me her sonogram to laminate. Well, apparently that kind of paper
is heat sensitive - the laminating machine turned it completely
black. Another time I laminated someone's super rare map of Europe,
only to watch helplessly as a huge fly got sucked into the machine
and was forever encased in plastic, right on top of France.
My comeuppance for being such
a crappy worker is that now whenever I need something from a
Kinko's, I always get the clerk who is so stupid, they look like
they apparently suffered recent shock treatment therapy. "I
need a passport photo, please." "UNNNNNHHH?" "Passport
photo." "GAAAAAANNNNH."
:::
So I'm doing a new design for
this journal. It's driving me batshit. I know just enough HTML
to wing it using an editing program, and whenever something goes
wrong I get all confused and frustrated and stare at the code
for hours scratching my head and breathing through my mouth (if
you want to help me figure out this REALLY ANNOYING javascript
problem shoot me an email).
I got all Big Spender and opted
for the 'gold' membership. Oh yeahhh.
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Did you want to read about:
2002-02-05 - evil
recruiters and things stuck in my head
2002-02-04 - an
unexpected surprise
2002-02-02 - being
hungry, Hugh Grant
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I have moved. - 1.03.2005
Obviously, a work in progress. - 12.27.2004
Happy holidays! - 12.24.2004
Listen, I am not a complete dick, it's not like I want Joe to die alone surrounded by cats or something. - 12.23.2004
Plus I am convinced my butt is extra big when it's upside down. - 12.22.2004
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