2 March
So, I wake up this morning, rub the sleep out of my pretty little eyes, turn on the Today Show and see Kurt Browning skating at Rockefeller Centre in a blizzard.
I look out the window, and yep, it's snowing! The last goddamn thing that I need is another performance during a snowstorm, but nope, that's what I get for my opening night!
God hates me.
Speaking of God, I wrote yesterday about not knowing what to give up for Lent, and Lisa wrote and suggested giving up reading on-line journals.
The funny thing is that just the day before I got such a whiny email from her about how I don't read her that I thought it was from me (I had said publicly that I wanted to read her, but kept putting it off because I have to read four years worth of archives) and therefor, I read all of 1997, so when I got her email I said, "Look, do you want me to read you or not?!"
But yeah, that's what I'm doing. And I won't read notify emails either, so if anything really interesting happens, if Elphaba or Carrie have their babies, for instance, can someone let me know?
And I only just started reading Slickery, too...Ah well, it's not supposed to be something easy.
So yesterday I got an award at work. No, seriously!
They had the five and ten year awards, which they had last year at the company party, but now we are not having the company party anymore, ostensibly because people were upset because spouses weren't invited, but really because senior company members would get loaded and hit on underlings. Now we are having this stupid weekend picnic instead, that nobody will go to, because who wants to spend a weekend day with the same people that you see all damn week?
Anyway, we had the awards, which I called the "Too Bone Idle to Quit Award", and I was last, alphabetically. The Sales Rep King, now the new CEO, told a little something about each of the recipients, extemporizing when he knew the person well, like he did with me.
He didn't say the names until the end, he tried to have you guess, so when he said, "This person used to be the receptionist here, which anyone would realize is a dangerous position, knowing her colourful way of expressing herself!" I knew that he meant me. He went on and on about how entertaining and funny and original I am, and then said, "Back in 1010, my office was very near the front desk, and I would hear the greeting change from the beginning of the day, when it was, "Good morning, Company That Must Not Be Named!", to, at the end of the day, "What?!"
It's fun to be the company character. Actually, also yesterday someone came up to the new(ish) guy and called him "baby", and he said, "You really shouldn't call me that!" and was talking about it after the guy went away, about how inappropriate it was and all, and I slid my chair out and said, "I call people baby all the time here at work!" and two people immediately said, "O, it's different with you."
That is my goal in life, to always make it different with me.
O yeah, and the award was a pin with the company logo, a personal letter from the president of the company, and a catalogue where you can pick out one thing that you want. There's some good stuff in it, too, it's not as chintzy a gift as one would expect from The Company That Must Not Be Named!
Okay, gotta go, it's my opening night, I must shave my legs.
Today's horoscope:
Emotional needs are a focus on the job--yours or someone else's. Your shoulder might be required to cry on.
One year ago today:
O, o, and you did that Xmas show where you brought the jam and wouldn't let the retarded girl say her verse! That was hilarious!
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