The Mighty Kymm-9 June 1999

9 June

Rotten day at work yesterday.

There is a certain person with whom I work that I loathe so much so as to almost froth at the mouth at the sight of him/her. At the end of the day, I was so frustrated that when I went back into Shipping to send out my stuff, I exploded in fury.

Me: "I hate (person in question)! He or she is the worst person alive! I hope he or she gets hit by a car!"
Nik: "Invite him/her to your theatre!"

Perfect.

After the worst day at work, Tracing and I went to see Limbo, the movie that Diane said most would either love or hate, nothing in between. We were firmly in the love camp.

I am a Sayles fan, Passion Fish being one of my favourite movies of all time, and whomever described David Strathairn as the thinking woman's crumpet was right on the money.

This is just a wonderful movie, great perfs, strong story, and, as Diane said, one hell of an ending.

So yesterday, when I asked people to guess which line in this article is the line that I shout out whenever seeing the commercial for The Civil War, the phrase that makes me laugh out merely by thinking it, the funniest phrase in all the land, I didn't actually expect people to do so!

I especially didn't expect everyone to get it wrong!

The top two vote-getters were "These songs practically bitch-slap the audience into giving an ovation" followed closely by "The wait for Stephen Sondheim's next work is growing Kubrickian", both fine examples of humourous sentences, but not the one that sticks to me.

The only correct guess came from my friend Lee, proving that real-life friends know you the best! The following is her correct and winning answer, the prize being a link to her page that she will have to collect in the future if she ever starts one:

"Hi, Kymm. About that Wildhorn/The Civil War review, was the phrase - ON YOUR FEET, PEOPLE OF BAYONNE? I bet it was, I can just hear you saying that again and again. Let me tell you, I once had a roommate from Bayonne, and what I should have said to her was "ON YOUR FEET, PERSON OF BAYONNE, AND MARCH OUT THE DOOR AND DON'T STOP AND TAKE YOUR WHINING, WIMPING BOYFRIEND WITH YOU".

But I digress. Personally, I like "bitch-slap", although it does lose major points for sounding both misogynist and anti-canine. But still, should I ever feel goaded into applause by a sustained high note, I will know the unique sensation of being bitch-slapped. Who says there's nothing new in the theatre today?"

Last night on Diary L someone posted something along the lines of it's not what she would consider hard work to run a web ring. After wiping away the tears of laughter, I replied:

"You're entirely right. It's not any work at all to add people to a webring, the program does all the work for you. What IS work is dealing with 1000 people in the ring and 200 in the queue who need to have the ring on the right page and using the right coding and not trapping people in their frames and having seven entries and updating monthly and having accessible archives and READING INSTRUCTIONS PROPERLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd say that about 1/3 of the people applying to the ring get everything right the first try. That means that the other 2/3rds need to be written to and told of their errors and then they need to be checked again the next week and need to be reminded of their errors, etc etc.

It takes one entire weekend day to get through the queue, this is why I rarely get through the ring. Thank God for nice people who send me non-working and dead journal links, though again it's finding the time to move them to the queue and ask if they are planning to start up again and if they meant to remove the ring and it's no webrings pages allowed, remember? and when they moved did they MEAN to not tell webring?

It ain't the ring, it's the ring members. Not all of them, of course, not even most of them, and I wouldn't give it up, but sometimes it's like trying to corral 100 baby ducks."

Ah, that was a lovely vent, thanks very much for indulging me! By the way, anyone who has written me in the past asking if I meant you, I don't mean you. And yes, there is more than one of you, so I still don't mean you!!

Today's horoscope:
Attending to financial matters is advisable. A bit of budgetary analysis could save later headaches.

One year ago today:
"I'm going to be in the conference room for sexual harassment."

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