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Archive for August, 2004

weird dreams and a long day

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

long day: did a ton of work, drove down to pick up my check to find that their payroll service mailed it out instead, so drove for an hour for nothing.
last night i had quite active dreams:

amity and i helped our friend, joey, load the scream into his van. as we finished sticking it in [...]

some recent events

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

working on things right now, so just some bullet points:

i turned down a $12,000/year raise from a job in massachusetts.
i now have more constantly available (and incredibly easy to do) work through my second job.
amity just went through excruciating pain and discomfort by drinking two and a half bottles of barium - sweetened with saccharin, [...]

rather personal and heavily filtered

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

a few things to put in here, really…this one needs to go in here first.
something that has bothered me for quite some time now but i've never really had the ability to put it into words, either to myself or to actually express to someone else.
when people find out that amity wants to die, their [...]

you know your “team building” went wrong when…

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

your manager apologizes to everyone at the end.
my manager took us all out to see a movie today and promised lunch. since she didn't check the drafthouse cinema (serve food/drink during flicks) schedule, we didn't get food. she brought us to see collateral.
the last thing i need to do when i have tons of shit [...]

Saturday, August 14th, 2004

yesterday i woke up and realized that i had dreamt of writing test cases (contract work) and this morning i wake up with the finale of “blame canada” stuck in my head. the first one makes sense to me.
had my annual evaluation/review/chat with my manager yesterday and it lasted two hours, involved discussion on and [...]