chores I hate

-laundry
-dusting
-ironing
-paying rent
-mopping the floor
-laundry
-making the bed
-waking up for work

war isn't good business unless you make stuff that blows sh*t up

Watching people get fired or laid off is not fun. Suddenly I'm in charge of every last aspect of billing for my office. Can you tell how excited I am?

Maybe if we made exploding video tapes....

Okay, watch me try out my new technology skills.

Potty Emergency!

It's funny how much you don't realize that you have to pee really badly until you don't have access to a restroom.

There was a water main break this morning on the street where my office is located and so our whole building has no water. So, our office has been on a mission to find a guerilla restroom.

Raquel finally just said we should do what the bums do, pee in our back alley. "Hell," she said, "Our fire escape even looks out into the alley, so feasibly we don't even have to go downstairs."

She was laughing when she said that, but still serious.

I suggested we just put a bucket or a Big Gulp Cup in the back for all to enjoy. There were groans to that one, which really surprised me. I mean, what better way to really get to know your coworkers than to all share a pee cup in the back of the office? Seriously. (please tell me you know I'm kidding.)

In any case, before our office comes up with too many more scary peepee ideas (by office I mean "me & Raquel", and by scary peepee ideas I mean...well, you know), I hope our beloved Boston Water & Sewer Commission can fix the break.

If not, the office will just be more interesting because we'll all be jumping up & down with our legs crossed.

Does this make you wonder at all if the Iraqis enjoyed watching what happened on 9/11? Scary and sick.

Last night I watched a wonderful movie that I'd been meaning to see for sometime, "Life is Beautiful." Roberto Benigni won best actor for it a few years back, and now I can see why! It was both a happy and sad movie. Really powerful, so go see it.

On other things, why do I read books that just make me angry? Right now I'm reading this Ann Coulter book called "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right." I wouldn't call myself a complete liberal, and I wouldn't call myself a conservative. It sounds like a cop-out, but I think I am a moderate for the most part (which makes voting an interesting task). I'm hoping the book gets better soon, I'm about 20-30 pages into it so far and all she's doing is complaining and giving all these examples of how liberals blame conservatives for everything bad in the world. Okay, those are examples, but come on, give me something more interesting to read about...I'm hoping she moves into an explanation as to why conservatives aren't so evil instead of just complaining about the "name-calling liberals!" Sheesh.

seafood and change

I was walking back into work today after lunch and there was a homeless man sitting on the stoop outside my office. He was rattling his cup of change at me and asking for some more. On the stoop next to him was a big ol' red lobster on a paper plate. And he's asking me for money?

Weekend Warrior?

What a weekend. I went on a retreat to the Cape, but found it hard to really enjoy myself knowing that people were being slaughtered and shot up and bombed over in Iraq and Kuwait. I'm still not totally clear on how I feel about this war...I keep going back and forth. I do think Bush is an idiot most of the time and his foreign policy is questionable, to say the least, but then again--Hussein is a horrible dictator who's had 12 years of diplomatic efforts thrown at him, with no changes. Sigh.

I told Amy the other day that if women were the majority as heads of state around the world, we would not have to worry about all these stupid macho man pissing contests between countries.

Although women in power...hmm, they'd probably just cry a lot and have babies. Haha. Kidding, that's from Comedy Central.

You have to try to keep some sense of humor and sanity these days, maybe turn off the TV for a bit and try to step back for a second to think and pray or whatever you do to keep clarity and hope. I vandalize cars, for example, but you know, some folks hold candlelight vigils or give hugs or meditate. But I say there's nothing better than taking a baseball bat to a windshield to help one wipe away those feelings of "What can I do to help in these traumatic times?" and "Why are all my damn March Madness picks losing?"

But well...whatever side you're on with the war, at least support our troops, whether you think they should be in Iraq or not.

ah, my first post to my new blog....and I've got nothing interesting to say.

Except this: I am not very good at picking teams for the whole March Madness thing. Thankfully the pool I'm in isn't for money. Yet somehow I think I'll not be hearing the end of ridicule for picking Manhattan over Syracuse for some time now.