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i don't care for small talk, which is probably why i don't say hi to people i knew forever ago when i see them in public. i avoid it because summarizing my last 10 (or in this case, 12) years in 5 minutes makes me feel weird. you try it.

so we're sitting at la hacienda, waiting for our check when a couple and a child are seated adjacent to us, behind kurt. the waiter gets the kid a high chair and the dad takes the regular chair to fill the space taken up by the high chair, and before the dad turns around, i think to myself, "he looks like he'd be uncomfortable here."

so he turns around to come back to the table, and he ends up being someone i went to high school with. half the reason i didn't want to approach them is cuz i already figured out what they were going to tell me; since he was seated with someone else with whom i went to high school.

they seemed to be doing well, and that was enough for me.

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i'm in a 4-hour training today, perceptive communications; i took it 4 years ago. but someone thinks the entire web group needs to participate in team-building activities.

then, next week, i'm in a 3-day kaizen event to develop a process around a tool that doesn't work. talk about being set up for failure.

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i hadn't ordered sushi since last wednesday night... they've been effing up my order by sending a regular spicy tuna roll instead of my favorite spicy tuna HAND roll. there's a huge difference, and if you don't know what that difference is, you haven't lived.

anyway, i ordered again last night since i've been good about eating what's in the fridge for a couple nights. they messed up again.

i'd call them to complain, but no one there speaks very good english...

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a while ago, i talked about starting a podcast of public works; i was going to begin with some short tale from the brothers grimm or aesop, but they're all really silly now that i'm an adult (at least the shorter ones—the ones that you don't remember from childhood).

they're like, "the fisherman and his wife were on their boat, cleaning their day's catch, and one of the fish jumped back into the water so the fisherman dove after it. the moral is: don't expect a fruitful harvest!"

lame.

anyway, i'm happy to report that alice's adventures in wonderland is a public domain work, so i think i'll start podcasting with that story. it's a personal fave.

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so we have kind of a weird set up at home when it comes to the "home theater". i can't claim to know wtf all those cords are for cuz i didn't hook them up, all i know is that i haven't been able to rca my iPod ever since kurt got his hard drive recorder. so i got one of these for much cheaper off of a much shadier website. it works so great! i can have the ipod sitting on the table in front of me and use it as a "remote" to listen to tracks through the stereo.

awesome.

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i played sim city 4 for like 8 hours yesterday. it's a lot cooler than sim city 2000.

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i think a huge difference between me now and me 10 years ago is that i don't think i know everything and i'm okay with that.

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so, Kurt and i are gunna go to Takara for my birthday. hopefully, they'll feature the eagle roll again. it's some fanciness with crab, avocado, roe, lettuce, and i don't even remember what else.

i do hope there aren't a bunch of 'kids' and their sake bombs. ugh.

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my computer seems to hate me. a secondary hard drive started making a weird humming noise... so i decided to back up all the stuff onto my thumb drive and reformat it. of course, the drive is slowly dying. it's over 5 years old; and only 20 gigs.

so i bought a 250gb drive for only $70. over 5 years ago, that would have been unheard of.

*&^@!^&%! dammiT! it looks like i lost all my digital photos from 2004-present. :/

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i'm feeling kinda sedentary, bored, unchallenged, and unmotivated.

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i've never been one to give a rat's ass what people think of me. even with purple hair and a ridiculous (i say that now) amount of facial piercings that made me look like a friggin' pin cushion, and baggie jeans where i could fit both of my legs into one of them (thanks for letting me look so silly, mom :), and a chain wallet whose chain clanked into things while walking down state street.

i'll never forget my last trip to walmart. i was probably 17ish, and there were two "old" ladies (sixtyish) in line in front of me. they had the nerve to ask me how i thought all those holes in my face would make me look when i was 30. i told them it didn't matter, as long as i didn't end up looking like them.

*gasp!*

that shut 'em up.

and i still have a couple of those holes in my face.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson summed up success thusly: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success!"

a friend of mine sent me an article exploring the meaning of success. so what if it's written by a man for men? i'm a guy's gal anyhow.

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okay, i promise not to continue telling you about my hair, but i found another one. in the EXACT spot the other one was in! did it grow back that fast?! is it true that if you pluck it, they'll spread?! omg.

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i just shared with coworkers how often and how much my recent sushi habit has cost me. it made me blush.

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so, i've been having intermittent back problems since last november, when i bent over to toss the hairtrap into the bathtub drain and stood up to muscle spasms, the pain of which i had never experienced before in my life.

fast forward to a month ago, where every monday through thursday, some time between 1:30 and 4, my left arm and leg would start tingling. the only thing that seemed to relieve it was to stand up and walk around. it is/was not really painful, just really annoying. a quick google search narrowed down my ailment to one of three things: an aneurysm, fibromyalgia, or spinal misalignment/sciatica. i opted for the last one and went off to the chiropractor. it doesn't seem to be helping... but it does get me outta work 30 minutes early once a week.

since standing up is the quickest-acting remedy i've found, i asked the responsible parties at work to raise my desk; this was finished yesterday with positive results. it's at a height that i can stand or sit in a tall chair, without straining anything, and i'm happy to report that there was no tingling yesterday until i got into the car to come home. and that only lasted a couple seconds.

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Violent Acres ｻ Archives ｻ Sometimes Mediocrity and Lies Go Hand in Hand

it's hard to lie about stuff that really is insignificant (or because you have to maintain anonymity). VA tells us how and why she does it; and how it may result in unbelievable stories.

sometimes i wish i were an anonymous blogger. i have a few things to get off my chest that are just a little too personal to put out into the world.

i envy VA cuz of that, sorry.

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i stopped dyeing my hair roughly 8 or 9 months ago and no one really noticed until recently, since my natural color is much darker than orange. i jokingly said i was growing it out to check for greys. well... i just found the first one. this doesn't help my mood re: significant birthday coming up.

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i've been playing since 9 this morning.

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a million years ago, i installed sim city 2000 and played it for hours and hours and hours and days.

today, i was cleaning out a drawer of cords and programs and an old digital camera to give to st vinny's and found my sim city 2000 install disk.

i haven't installed it for fear that i will play it forever.

i also haven't reinstalled the sims or the sims 2 since getting my desktop back up and running.

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today is testing me.

though, i think this little guy will make my mood brighter:

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told ya! i made the happy poo this afternoon.. the yarn was acrylic and my smallest needle wasn't small enough, but here it is:

kurt thought i should put a sad face on the other side and use it at work to indicate my mood.

(click images for larger view—if you really want to.)

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