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7.19.2004

all systems fail

If a company is so professional and particular that they make you come in for three (3? 3! I wish I was kidding) interviews, wouldn't you think they'd be professional and particular enough to ever return a call from one of your references, and oh, I don't know, call you when they said they would absolutely, definitely have an answer regarding your employment.

Well, I thought so. Thought wrong again, as it happens.

As a result, I have gone completely insane. So insane that a segment of "I Love the '90s: 1998" has me Furby mad. Lucky for me, we have two living with us. Can you believe both are named Toto? I couldn't. They are sleeping now. I don't think the cat likes them. My panicked freakout over them not working (evidently the battery connection is oddly sensitive, etc.) was highly disturbing.

So is the upcoming week of work I don't want to do. There will be crying. Believe it.

Someone invented a new holiday. You have three guesses to pick who did, but when I tell you the name of the holiday, you will either need only one guess or have no idea (if you don't know, you never will, you see). The holiday? Ass Wednesday. Which starts Tuesday, a la Macy's famed one-day sales.

OK, maybe I get back to work now.

10 Comments:

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12:18 AM, July 19, 2004  
Blogger Kim said...

We have two Talking Electronic Pikachu, which are of the Furby genus or phylum or whatever, which we recently unearthed in packing mode. When you stop playing with them, they start to cry and their speech gets all slurred and their light-up cheeks get dimmer and dimmer as though they are slowly being gassed to death. There is no other way to describe it. It is horrible and traumatizing. I have to flip their little internal on/off switches (thank God they have them!!!) while they are still happy, otherwise I cry and cry. Now I think of you and Ass Wednesday and I cry and cry.

4:07 AM, July 19, 2004  
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