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almost four months ago, i told you about my filing for divorce; in just a week, i'll be walking out of the dane county court house an unmarried woman.

this fact is still foreign to me, which is probably why i have no desire to overtly celebrate.

this summer has been a crazy, awesome, scary, exciting, sad, thrilling, adventure from which i've learned a lot about human nature and myself. i couldn't have gotten through this without the help of someone very special and important to me.

it's amazing how much more me i am now. i love it.

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some time ago, i decided not to say "bless you" when someone sneezes; i'm not religious, and i don't like presuming others' faith.

there are a lot of sneezes where i work (i think it has to do with the air quality), and when i hear a coworker sneeze...

note: it is impossible to keep ones eyes open during a sneeze.

they get my usual response:

the coworkers expect this kind of behavior from me. sometimes i get a response like, "who run barter town?"

it only gets awkward when i accidentally exclaim this somewhere out in public and the person doesn't know me and my unusual ways.

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companies try to do things to make their employees at least moderately pleased with coming to work for 40 hours a week. sometimes they offer free bagels, or celebrate a large project with a little continental breakfast get-together, even having a company picnic after which you're allowed to knock off early. the one that gets me tho is as follows:

you get that little "new email notification" while in the middle of something important.

and it's a pdf from the hr department with some reasonably incongruous graphic next to the content (which, for all intents and purposes, should be removed, and the text of the pdf should be simply emailed so i don't have to launch another application just to read the email).

we joke about this as "jeans currency"; what the company thinks happens immediately following the receipt of the email is this:

what actually occurs:

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