We had an open house at work last night, which meant that we all had to take the stuff off of the top of our cubicle walls, meaning that I had to take the stuff off of the top of my cubicle walls, because I'm the one with all of the crap around here.

My stuffed hedgehog family had to come down. They are sitting in a pile on the right corner of my desk. The Raccoon, who has to look at a row of hedgehog butts all day long, was relieved.

The party was catered, and there were all of these tuxedoed 20-year-olds walking around, serving and setting up and things. I grinned at one of them after coming down the stairs from doing my FedExing, and asked him what company he worked for. I didn't recognize the name, it wasn't one I used to work for. I told him that I used to do his job, and that I could barely stop myself from clearing plates.

The sweet little waiter laughed politely, and really seemed to mean it, too. Clearly an actor. It really was funny, though. It's not as though I haven't been to lots of parties since I stopped doing catering, but I wasn't at this party, I was adjacent to it.

Everyone at the party was wearing a dark suit, every single solitary one of them, black or navy suits. I felt rather conspicuous when I had to walk through them to go out and get my pretty late lunch--bopping through the sea of dark suits in my jeans and sweatshirt and black leather jackets, pink ponytail bobbing.

And I kept thinking that I'm so lucky that I get to live my life my way.

So, Mom is still having trouble with her computer.

MOM
What is the thing, the soft thing where you make copies of things, not a hard drive, a soft thing.

KYMM
Software?

MOM
Yes. Wait, what's software?

KYMM
Everything is software.

MOM
Except the hard drive.

KYMM
Yes, I mean that everything on your computer that isn't machinery is software.

MOM
What is the thing, though, if you don't want to keep something on your hard drive?

KYMM
A floppy disk?

MOM
Yes, that's it! Why couldn't you tell me faster?

KYMM
Because I couldn't figure out what the hell you were talking about.

MOM
A sloppy disk, yes.

KYMM
No, wait, that's floppy disk, with an F.

MOM
Really? I've always said sloppy disk. I'm glad you told me before I went to the store and asked them for a box of sloppy disks.

KYMM
Yeah, me too!

MOM
What are these little circles? It says insert the cd into your, o, it's a cd.

KYMM
Did you just call a cd a little circle?

MOM
Stop laughing at me! It says insert it into your cd/dvd drive, do I have one of those?

KYMM
Yes, of course you do.

MOM
I thought I was supposed to put this in my cd player.

KYMM
It's the same thing.

MOM
O, I thought I was supposed to put it in my other cd player, my boom box. Wouldn't that work?

KYMM
No, Mom, it really wouldn't.

MOM
Why not?

KYMM
Because it has different information on it, not music.

MOM
Now, the first circle is blue, the blue circle says that it's a backup for my operating system, what does that mean? And there's another circle, an orange one...

(At this point I dropped the phone laughing.)

KYMM
You know, Mom, the colour doesn't really matter.

MOM
O, I thought you would know, that you have an orange one and a blue one, too.

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