Wednesday, January 09, 2002
wee howdy. it has been a loooooong time since i have blogged. several reasons, but the main one is that game i was talking about. i had all last week off, and i pretty much spent all my time playing it. it is great fun..... very addictive though.
back to reality.... work still sucks, but you all knew that already. new years was uneventful, but you all knew that too, because you all missed the same party i missed.
anyways, work. 3 people just quit. we are down to 6 staff right now. that is including me, so it is really like 5 and a half. we have a meeting yesterday, and there are no plans to hire any new staff ever, now. not just no new staff until spring, no new staff ever. it should be pretty funny. it shouldn't effect me too very much, because the 3 people who left were the environmental education team. i've talked about them before, and how they didnt really do that much. well, they didn't do that much, but they did do stuff. education stuff, the stuff i really don't want to do. i mean, i don't like my job as it is, but throw in 30 3rd graders? blaaaaaaah. i seriously hope i don't get put on any of these stupid education teams. already, i have to work this saturday and help lead another freaking work party with a bunch of high school kids. dammit... working saturday is kind of going to suck, but i get monday off. that is cool :D it is almost like a 3 day weekend. well, actually, exactly like a 3 day weekend if you just ignore the 8 hours of work that sneaks in there. so yeah, we are all over worked, more or less. the difference is how people deal with it. our bosses just made us redo all these stupid maitenance plans that were done over the summer. basically, we had to rewrite a bunch of stuff because it wasn't in the format that our bosses wanted, that was the original goal. but then they scrapped that idea, and had us just update the stuff. so, anyways, i reformatted my part, but left all the stuff the same. other people basically redid their entire thing. one of my coworkers just said fuck it, and turned in the exact same thing that they turned in this summer :D i thought that was pretty funny.
other news in work (this is mostly gossip for ryan). there was a kind of impromptu meeting thing about the future of the foundation. this summer, our boss/president/founder resigned for about a week. what happened is this (i think i have told this story about 20 times). an efficiency expert type person was hired to figure out why the foundation sucked so much. the efficiency expert said it was my bosses fault. she wasn't pleased. she resigned, and said she was going to find a director, and a board for the foundation. if she didn't find one by november, she would shut down the foundation. 2 weeks later, she was back. come november, nothing happens. now, she has pushed that deadline back to june, basically because she hasn't done a damn thing. we still don't have a director, and 0, count them 0 potential board members. so we have this meeting. basically, she tells us the deadline is june 30th or something, and if she doesn't have anyone by then, she'll shut down the foundation. of course, she says she is going to honor her prior commitments, which will take about 4 more years after that. so yeah, my job isn't going anywhere, especially since they aren't hiring anyone. i could see the faces of everyone drop when she said she would be around acting as director until june. who knows who will leave next :) i have my bet placed in my head, we'll see how it pans out.
i haven't heard back from the alerton place yet. my dad said the guy talked to him, and that he had talked to the head of production, and they are still on the "seats opening in the next two weeks" drill. i don't have my hopes up anymore. i'll send in an email saying i am still interested in a few days, maybe. right now, it is looking like starflower all the way!
what else, that is about it for boring work. actually its not, but thats all i really want to talk about it now. on to new years. new years was fairly anticlimactic, after the party at airs got cancelled. i went over to blake and jays house and hung out with belligerent high school friends. i don't know why we were so belligerent. anyways, a few of us got over there, and blake and anna had just gotten back from the opera. we were waiting for allison and eric to show up. so, they do show up, then allison makes eric drive her home. we are like, ok, whatever, guess she doesn't like us or something. it turns out, eric had just broken up with her, hahahaha. so, yeah. that was the last of the high school relationships to die. except, anna ended up spending the night in blakes room with him. they so aren't broken up. they are still dating, just saying they "kind of aren't dating and stuff". you know the drill. it is actually kind of funny :D i really wish i could have gone up to bham to chill with ryan for new years. his new years sounded pretty much exactly how i wanted my new years to be. what a great binge that was, from the blog he wrote about it, shit. oh well, what you gonna do. i don't live in bellingham :P sometimes i wish i had gone to western instead of uw.
stupid old lady next door. they have been doing construction or something right in front of our house the past day. so basically, my parking spot in front of the house was in a no parking zone for 3 days. except, they didn't actually do anything, just put up the signs, and never actually constructed anything. so basically, when i got home for lunch, i parked right behind our next door neighbor on the street in front of their house. it worked well, i was just out of the zone, and both our cars fit. when i get home from work after going back for the afternoon, the car was moved, so it was too close to the no parking zone to park behind it, and to close to the drive way to park in front of it without blocking the driveway. that was a low blow :P so today, i got home for lunch, and there was no one parked in front of their house. so i took up one of the "spots" because there is still a no parking zone in front of our house. there was room for another car there, not that one showed up to park there or anything. anyways, after lunch, i go out to get in my car, and she is standing there, glaring at my car, turning, glaring at our house, turning, glaring at my car. who knows how long she has been out there doing this. so, i walk to my car, she glares at me. i glare back at her, so she scurrys into the garage. jeezus, what a petty old bitch. you know, old people aren't ALL bad, but too many are like her. it is old people like her that make me dislike old people as a whole, because they are so freaking retarded. i bet when i get back, she will have pulled her car out of the garage and blocked off the front of her house again. i should ram it. whatever. just gives me one more reason to want to resign the lease next september, just to piss her off.
oh yeah, mel finally picked up her damn space heater with her boyfriend, and wasn't too please with its condition. talk about awkward. i was just like, i dunno what happened, i don't really care. so i just sat there and watched tv... i hope she isn't mad at me or anything, and i hope her boyfriend doesn't think i'm a freak for just sitting there silent while he stood there, and she went and snagged her lamp from downstairs. not that it really matters that much, but me and german ben were the only people home, and like i said, it was a don't know don't care situation. we just kind of sat there, and put our blankest looks on our faces to avoid any unpleasantness. at least that is done now. i just realized, i still don't have a key to the house, hahaha :)
so, i got to thinkin the other day. i dunno if this is really a saying from a movie or what not, but this saying came into my head uninvited "i like my women like i like my drugs". when it popped in, it seemed famous, and like i had heard it before. so, kind of funny, for me that means i like my relationships to be expensive, hard to find, and to last about 8 hours :D sounds a fairly accurate description.
speaking of girls, i had just gotten out of daoc (dark age of camelot, that game i am now addicted too) and out of the blue ali messages me on messenger. i'm just like, ok, that was crazy. so, most of the conversation was about this picture of me and her from the halloween party she had somehow gotten her hands on, and about how cute we were, and how good we looked together. pretty funny. she went on to talk about how she showed it to my mom, and she was like woah, who is that guy! i found the conversation humorous. turns out she is still going to UW, but still living in renton. she commutes every day. that has to blow dogs for quarters. i thought she had her liscense suspended until she was 21, but i guess it was 20. when she was 15 she stole her sisters friends car and went joyriding and crashed it or something, so i guess she got 5 years without a liscense... she gave me her new number, i'm tempted to call her, but i don't trust myself to not make the same mistake twice. i don't have ryans tolerance to keep sticking with it and getting fucked and sticking with it until it works out for like a year, only to get fucked again in the end. it would probably be worth it, ryan was pretty damn happy when it was actually working out, but i don't think i could handle it. also, i generally suck, so yeah.
i wish i was a pokemon, those pokeballs look pretty cozy. then i would have like entrance music and stuff, and i would get to pose and get a cool camera shot when i came out. and also, i would get like this cool spiralling camera shot of me facing down some other pokemon, breathing really hard, looking all tough. i just want it so i can have cool music and slow motion whenever i do anything. plus, the names wankmander, wankachu, and pokewank are just kind of funny :) pokemon have it made
back to reality.... work still sucks, but you all knew that already. new years was uneventful, but you all knew that too, because you all missed the same party i missed.
anyways, work. 3 people just quit. we are down to 6 staff right now. that is including me, so it is really like 5 and a half. we have a meeting yesterday, and there are no plans to hire any new staff ever, now. not just no new staff until spring, no new staff ever. it should be pretty funny. it shouldn't effect me too very much, because the 3 people who left were the environmental education team. i've talked about them before, and how they didnt really do that much. well, they didn't do that much, but they did do stuff. education stuff, the stuff i really don't want to do. i mean, i don't like my job as it is, but throw in 30 3rd graders? blaaaaaaah. i seriously hope i don't get put on any of these stupid education teams. already, i have to work this saturday and help lead another freaking work party with a bunch of high school kids. dammit... working saturday is kind of going to suck, but i get monday off. that is cool :D it is almost like a 3 day weekend. well, actually, exactly like a 3 day weekend if you just ignore the 8 hours of work that sneaks in there. so yeah, we are all over worked, more or less. the difference is how people deal with it. our bosses just made us redo all these stupid maitenance plans that were done over the summer. basically, we had to rewrite a bunch of stuff because it wasn't in the format that our bosses wanted, that was the original goal. but then they scrapped that idea, and had us just update the stuff. so, anyways, i reformatted my part, but left all the stuff the same. other people basically redid their entire thing. one of my coworkers just said fuck it, and turned in the exact same thing that they turned in this summer :D i thought that was pretty funny.
other news in work (this is mostly gossip for ryan). there was a kind of impromptu meeting thing about the future of the foundation. this summer, our boss/president/founder resigned for about a week. what happened is this (i think i have told this story about 20 times). an efficiency expert type person was hired to figure out why the foundation sucked so much. the efficiency expert said it was my bosses fault. she wasn't pleased. she resigned, and said she was going to find a director, and a board for the foundation. if she didn't find one by november, she would shut down the foundation. 2 weeks later, she was back. come november, nothing happens. now, she has pushed that deadline back to june, basically because she hasn't done a damn thing. we still don't have a director, and 0, count them 0 potential board members. so we have this meeting. basically, she tells us the deadline is june 30th or something, and if she doesn't have anyone by then, she'll shut down the foundation. of course, she says she is going to honor her prior commitments, which will take about 4 more years after that. so yeah, my job isn't going anywhere, especially since they aren't hiring anyone. i could see the faces of everyone drop when she said she would be around acting as director until june. who knows who will leave next :) i have my bet placed in my head, we'll see how it pans out.
i haven't heard back from the alerton place yet. my dad said the guy talked to him, and that he had talked to the head of production, and they are still on the "seats opening in the next two weeks" drill. i don't have my hopes up anymore. i'll send in an email saying i am still interested in a few days, maybe. right now, it is looking like starflower all the way!
what else, that is about it for boring work. actually its not, but thats all i really want to talk about it now. on to new years. new years was fairly anticlimactic, after the party at airs got cancelled. i went over to blake and jays house and hung out with belligerent high school friends. i don't know why we were so belligerent. anyways, a few of us got over there, and blake and anna had just gotten back from the opera. we were waiting for allison and eric to show up. so, they do show up, then allison makes eric drive her home. we are like, ok, whatever, guess she doesn't like us or something. it turns out, eric had just broken up with her, hahahaha. so, yeah. that was the last of the high school relationships to die. except, anna ended up spending the night in blakes room with him. they so aren't broken up. they are still dating, just saying they "kind of aren't dating and stuff". you know the drill. it is actually kind of funny :D i really wish i could have gone up to bham to chill with ryan for new years. his new years sounded pretty much exactly how i wanted my new years to be. what a great binge that was, from the blog he wrote about it, shit. oh well, what you gonna do. i don't live in bellingham :P sometimes i wish i had gone to western instead of uw.
stupid old lady next door. they have been doing construction or something right in front of our house the past day. so basically, my parking spot in front of the house was in a no parking zone for 3 days. except, they didn't actually do anything, just put up the signs, and never actually constructed anything. so basically, when i got home for lunch, i parked right behind our next door neighbor on the street in front of their house. it worked well, i was just out of the zone, and both our cars fit. when i get home from work after going back for the afternoon, the car was moved, so it was too close to the no parking zone to park behind it, and to close to the drive way to park in front of it without blocking the driveway. that was a low blow :P so today, i got home for lunch, and there was no one parked in front of their house. so i took up one of the "spots" because there is still a no parking zone in front of our house. there was room for another car there, not that one showed up to park there or anything. anyways, after lunch, i go out to get in my car, and she is standing there, glaring at my car, turning, glaring at our house, turning, glaring at my car. who knows how long she has been out there doing this. so, i walk to my car, she glares at me. i glare back at her, so she scurrys into the garage. jeezus, what a petty old bitch. you know, old people aren't ALL bad, but too many are like her. it is old people like her that make me dislike old people as a whole, because they are so freaking retarded. i bet when i get back, she will have pulled her car out of the garage and blocked off the front of her house again. i should ram it. whatever. just gives me one more reason to want to resign the lease next september, just to piss her off.
oh yeah, mel finally picked up her damn space heater with her boyfriend, and wasn't too please with its condition. talk about awkward. i was just like, i dunno what happened, i don't really care. so i just sat there and watched tv... i hope she isn't mad at me or anything, and i hope her boyfriend doesn't think i'm a freak for just sitting there silent while he stood there, and she went and snagged her lamp from downstairs. not that it really matters that much, but me and german ben were the only people home, and like i said, it was a don't know don't care situation. we just kind of sat there, and put our blankest looks on our faces to avoid any unpleasantness. at least that is done now. i just realized, i still don't have a key to the house, hahaha :)
so, i got to thinkin the other day. i dunno if this is really a saying from a movie or what not, but this saying came into my head uninvited "i like my women like i like my drugs". when it popped in, it seemed famous, and like i had heard it before. so, kind of funny, for me that means i like my relationships to be expensive, hard to find, and to last about 8 hours :D sounds a fairly accurate description.
speaking of girls, i had just gotten out of daoc (dark age of camelot, that game i am now addicted too) and out of the blue ali messages me on messenger. i'm just like, ok, that was crazy. so, most of the conversation was about this picture of me and her from the halloween party she had somehow gotten her hands on, and about how cute we were, and how good we looked together. pretty funny. she went on to talk about how she showed it to my mom, and she was like woah, who is that guy! i found the conversation humorous. turns out she is still going to UW, but still living in renton. she commutes every day. that has to blow dogs for quarters. i thought she had her liscense suspended until she was 21, but i guess it was 20. when she was 15 she stole her sisters friends car and went joyriding and crashed it or something, so i guess she got 5 years without a liscense... she gave me her new number, i'm tempted to call her, but i don't trust myself to not make the same mistake twice. i don't have ryans tolerance to keep sticking with it and getting fucked and sticking with it until it works out for like a year, only to get fucked again in the end. it would probably be worth it, ryan was pretty damn happy when it was actually working out, but i don't think i could handle it. also, i generally suck, so yeah.
i wish i was a pokemon, those pokeballs look pretty cozy. then i would have like entrance music and stuff, and i would get to pose and get a cool camera shot when i came out. and also, i would get like this cool spiralling camera shot of me facing down some other pokemon, breathing really hard, looking all tough. i just want it so i can have cool music and slow motion whenever i do anything. plus, the names wankmander, wankachu, and pokewank are just kind of funny :) pokemon have it made
