July 2010
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It's really just surprising how long this took me
So wow. I cried a lot today at work. In front of, you know, everyone. The people who noticed were very nice about it, and asked me:
Do you want a chocolate bar? (No.)
Do you want a glass of water? (No.)
Do you want me to watch the phones so you can go cry in the washroom? (Yes.)
Would it make you feel better if I gave you this candle intended for one of the execs gift bags? (Umm, yes.)
I am...
Things that make no sense to me
short-sleeved sweaters, especially those weird square-ish ones that were popular in like, 1987
how two women in my office complain that I never smile and then other people constantly tell me I’m always smiling… which one is it then?
that my sister and I made plans to meet up at a subway stop, left at random times and ended up on the same train, on the same car but then only...
Thanks ever so much industrial designer Brooks...
Sometimes I forget sort of important things, like events and appointments and this is why I obsessively update my dayplanner. However, sometimes I forget about larger things, such as the existence of various technologies. This morning I was stewing about how tonight I have to do laundry and also pack for a weekend in Ottawa. Aurgh! I thought. I will wash everything and then I have to hang it...
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Tempting, but no.
The company I work for has a sales centre off in a different building and the sales staff is infamous for being difficult (this office is too hot! we need more pens! we need more bottles of water!). One of them came by (to pick up, no joke, more pens!) and struck up a conversation with me, in which he asked if I wanted to come to the design party after work today.
He was all, “You know,...
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People ain't no good.
This afternoon I got to deal with the most unpleasant bicycle courier of all time!
Most of the time we have the same six or seven couriers and they’re all really nice and ding at me when they ride past me on the street. But today this guy came in to pick something up for another company, and there was nothing sitting there. So I calmly explained to the courier that without a contact...
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Awkward moment of the day
I was walking along St Clair at like 5 pm and some guy sticks his head of the passenger side of a van and goes, “Yo, you look good, those earrings are nice.” I was wearing the most nondescript pearl studs ever, but it was uh, nice of him to notice.
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clean freak
I’ve never actually used Lysol wipes before, mainly due to my mother’s personal vendetta against anti-bacterial products. But now my deskmate has strep-throat and I am wiping down my keyboard and our shared phone on an hourly basis, imagining each time that I’m killing those wiggly little purple and green worms from the commercials. I hate strep throat the most! It always leaves...
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Currently missing: endless free coffee
I was feeling really nostalgic about working at Starbucks yesterday morning when I was standing in the line waiting for my bar drink. All the employees at the one near my work are extremely competent and friendly and know my name and I sense that working with them would be a lot of fun. But then someone at cash called, “grande non-fat latte” and the bar person called it back to affirm...
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My library has all the seasons of the West Wing on...
If anyone needs me, I’ll be over here fangirling over Josh, especially season two PTSD Josh.
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Five things I have done this summer: - spent two days at a cottage on an island, during which people kept saying, “Isn’t this just like a horror movie?” including when we found the giant axe above the fireplace - celebrated my six monthversery with Peter - spent a weekend at a cottage with an underutilized tennis court, where it rained so much that I finished two books, but then...
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Tylenol PM is my new BFF
I have the suckiest cold right now. I hate being sick, but I hate it more when people tell me why I’m sick. They keep saying things like, “You’re sick because you work in an office!” “You’re sick because of air conditioning!” The thing is, getting sick is just a part of living in society. Even my parents, the most hermity of hermits (and I mean that in the...
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This afternoon! In the office!
Other receptionist: Going home to celebrate?
Dutch guy: Wooden shoe?
Har. Har. Har.
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