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hannibalvJanuary 8, 2002
I was dragooned today into providing assistance for a motivational stunt at work. I wrote a mock-wire story about it-really, the creative equivalent of a pile of toenail clippings. Anyway, it was frighteningly well-received. This troubles me on a number of levels:
1. Will I be expected to be funny now?
2. I was told, about 90 minutes later, that it had made me "famous". Aw, hell, I need that like I need a tertiary navel.
3. No, you can't see it.
4. I hate "motivational" crap.
5. I intentionally put things into it that I knew my supervisor would tell me to take out. Except she didn't. Now I need to worry about who does read the thing.
I was actually getting a little agitated about it by the end of my time on that project. I'm a big fan of routine, and not getting in trouble, and this was messing with both of those valued concepts.
There are new windows in my room. They look really good, and are significantly better insulated than the old ones. The downside is that, now, I get really annoying amount of sun (I know, for me, any sun would be annoying, but this is blinding) in the mornings. Hopefully this will be remedied with curtains or such.
The treadmill that was purchased months ago was finally moved to its final home today. It had been doing little but sitting in the front hallway. Now it's in M's room and is her problem.
For people who have read the Harry Potter books only once: I just started rereading Book 1. In the first chapter, go check out the identity of the owner of the motorcycle Hagrid is riding when he delivers Harry.
Today's Link Of The Day is Sam the Goat. Go, read, be glad you're not Sam. http://members.darktech.org/majikland/sam/index.html
JHR
1/9/2002 4:18 AM
I was dragooned today into providing assistance for a motivational stunt at work. I wrote a mock-wire story about it-really, the creative equivalent of a pile of toenail clippings. Anyway, it was frighteningly well-received. This troubles me on a number of levels:
1. Will I be expected to be funny now?
2. I was told, about 90 minutes later, that it had made me "famous". Aw, hell, I need that like I need a tertiary navel.
3. No, you can't see it.
4. I hate "motivational" crap.
5. I intentionally put things into it that I knew my supervisor would tell me to take out. Except she didn't. Now I need to worry about who does read the thing.
I was actually getting a little agitated about it by the end of my time on that project. I'm a big fan of routine, and not getting in trouble, and this was messing with both of those valued concepts.
There are new windows in my room. They look really good, and are significantly better insulated than the old ones. The downside is that, now, I get really annoying amount of sun (I know, for me, any sun would be annoying, but this is blinding) in the mornings. Hopefully this will be remedied with curtains or such.
The treadmill that was purchased months ago was finally moved to its final home today. It had been doing little but sitting in the front hallway. Now it's in M's room and is her problem.
For people who have read the Harry Potter books only once: I just started rereading Book 1. In the first chapter, go check out the identity of the owner of the motorcycle Hagrid is riding when he delivers Harry.
Today's Link Of The Day is Sam the Goat. Go, read, be glad you're not Sam. http://members.darktech.org/majikland/sam/index.html
JHR
1/9/2002 4:18 AM
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An almost PR-ish job?
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Date: 2002-01-09 02:44 pm (UTC)here's something for you to check out:
at the end of book 4, when harry is telling dumbledore and sirius about what happened with lord voldemort, there is a passage that still drives me nuts because it's hinting at something, and I don't know what....
(harry has just told them that voldemort had his servant cut harry's arm so he could use harry's blood to help him regain his body, that it would make him stronger and would give the protection that harry's mother had left him by dying for him to voldemort as well--meaning that voldemort would be able to touch harry from now on, instead of being burned as in the past)
"For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw something like truimph in Dumbledore's eyes. But next second, Harry was sure he had imagined it, for when Dumbledorehad returned to his seat behind the desk, he looked as old and weary as Harry had ever seen him."
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?! Ack. Anyway, thought I'd be a geek and send this to you to mull over. Incidentally, the third book is my favorite, and I've been playing the casting game with a friend, trying to figure out who will be playing Sirius and Lupin...