Living Reflections from a Dream

Penelope Trunk (who I usually like) says: You can judge a person by their work space and that messy is bad. hurrumph! I've always found those with messy desks to be the more creative types.. as evidenced by my desk and the desk of all the designers I've ever worked with and the fact that our developers don't have so much as a piece of lint on their desks besides their computers. Now, I suppose I will get in trouble when someone will let me know that developers ARE creative in that they come up with new and innovative ways to do things. Absolutely correct! Maybe I mean visually creative, rather than logically creative, if that makes any sense?? I'm just digging myself in deeper here.. so I'm signing off.-----
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CNN explains why it's so cold in the Northeast US. I can't take it anymore.. in my entire life as a northerner, I don't remember it ever being this bad. I don't remember ever praying for a 30 degree day. waaaaaaa!!!-----
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Ever gotten on the same bathroom schedule with someone? Does this happen to guys or is it just gals? It happens to me at least a couple times a week. Now I go to the bathroom numerous times a day due to my pea sized bladder. So it's really amazing to me that I can synchronize with so many different people. And after the second time, there is the inevitable: "guess we're on the same schedule, huh?" comment. Today I tried to fake out my bathroom schedule mate by holding it as long as humanly possible before going. I get in the bathroom and there she is… and she tells me: "I just had the longest meeting thought I was going to burst". Of course…-----
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Actually I don't think any of our holidays are just another day off (though if someone could explain the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day I'd appreciate it). These types of holidays are to relfect on an important event or person in our history. MLK is a very important person who helped move the US in a positive direction. If you don't know that much about it him, today is the perfect day to learn:
> The King Center
> The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
> A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr-----
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The Syracuse Orangemen have defeated Miami 54 - 49 on the road. wo-ho!! Oh yeah and there is some football game today, also I think. hehehe-----
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Today after I left the house, I noticed that I had mistakenly grabbed 2 different gloves.. one hand from both pairs of black gloves I own. I immediately take them off. I can't be seen with 2 different gloves, right? How unfashionable! I traverse about carrying the gloves, although it's about 25 degrees out (balmy compared to recent days - but still cold!). Finally, there was a wind gust and I was whining in my mind: I'm cold.. my fingers hurt they are so cold.. waaaa! Then I look down and in my hand - the solution to my problems: unmatched gloves. So I put them right on and commenced being a fashion faux paus.-----
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Tonight one of my projects is finally launching.. which means I get to stay up until 1 or 2 am making sure everything is working properly, if it goes well that is. If it doesn't, it will be even later. Usually, I'm not involved on launch nights, I'm not sure how I got wrangled into this one. Anyway.. because of all this I didn't have to come in until the afternoon. Life is so much easier when you don't have to come to work in the am! I got up around 9, I went to the gym.. where most of the machines were wide open, no waiting (utopia!). There is a whole different class of people at the gym during the day than at night. The night people are on a schedule and the gym is usually crowded, so it's move, move, move. Get the most workout in the time you have there. Have an hour? 50 min. on machine of choice at level 10 until you drip of sweat. Go! Go! Go.. because there are people waiting for the machines. 10 min. to shower and change you you're out of there. The day folks are far more leisurely… they will ride that bike at level 1 for what seemed like 3 hours. And none of them looked stressed. They looked at me as if I was a visitor from the planet stressoid while I was doing my usual elliptical machine routine. After the gym I came home and was cleaning while watching Tom Daschle on tv. He called Bush's tax plan the "Leave no millionaire behind" tax plan. I would have missed that priceless gem if I'd been at work. Then I went to work on the uncrowded, quickly moving train. Got coffee at the store with no line for coffee. I need to change my schedule! I want this leisurely day life! Anyone have tips on how to become a lady of leisure??-----
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and being a girl from New England, who has done some time in upstate NY.. I usually like the extremely unsexy shitkicker, plow through anything, nothing gets in my way, comfort over style boots:

But recently, I decided perhaps I could get a little more stylish in my choices, so after seeing my sisters boots I have switched to these:

still not all that sexy, but I think a marked improvement..

of course, these are my favorite boots.. if only I could wear them in the snow.

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I added a "most commented" on entry box over there on the left.. the code for which I blatently ripped off from scripty goddess, which certainly is one of the coolest sites. I mean how nice can some people be to share all this cool stuff??-----
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today I drove through an anti-war rally in Watertown, MA. Bush keeps saying that polls say a majority of people support the war in Iraq, but I've got to tell you the protesters has signs that said "honk for peace" and other sayings like that and it really seemed as if everyone was honking. Maybe this isn't a scientific survey or maybe quite, little Watertown, MA is a bastion of anti-war people... but I found it interesting.

I get the FAIR media newsletter and I was going to say something like this, but Nonsense Verse said it first and better than I would have.

Meanwhile, Intellectual Properties explains Marie Claire's hypocrisy.

And I have yet to hear anyone outside of the business community that thinks Bush's tax plan is a good idea. I really hope Bush continues to behave in his current insane manner.. all the easier to defeat him in 2004.

AND the Atlantic Monthly has a series of articles, written in collaboration with the New America Foundation, this month around the "Real State of the Union". They focus on domestic issues, which is a refreshing change from the current Administration's focus. Definetly an interesting read.-----
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A friend of mine sent me this today: you rock. It made my whole day..-----
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Which OS are You?

I'm almost never punctual..-----
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I'm not sure if places outside the US have the 40 oz. beer (approximately 1.5 liters according to my patented "eyeball" method of measuring), but we do. It seems to only be sold in liquor stores - I've never seen them in bars - and often consist of "malt liquor" (another item that I've never really been exactly sure what it consists of. It looks like beer - some beers come in the 40 oz. size). This overflowing beverage appears to be purchased primarily by college aged males and homeless people. I can sort of understand the appeal for the homeless.. it's one bottle to carry, can be disquised in a paper bag.. but why would anyone else desire such a beverage? Who can finish it before it gets warm? Just wondering..-----
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When I was in college in upstate NY, the bookstore sold a t-shirt that said that.. but that was nothing. The northeast might as well be anarctica (where is Shakleton when you need him?). Both Dave and Jody give evidence of our plight. Me? I'm curled up next to the radiator with a cup of hot chocolate wishing I could work from home tomorrow.. what am I talking about, I mean wishing I was in the caribean.-----
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Someone sent this to me today and I nearly split my pants laughing... make sure you read the small print.
Clone of the Attack.

I'm seeing a whole new side to Condi...-----
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AIDS Panel Choice Wrote of a 'Gay Plague'

Fortunately, this afternoon AIDS Nominee Withdraws From White House AIDS Panel -----
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I'm SO into having a day to cavort and just enjoy life.. wouldn't it be great if it were world wide?

Click above to support Cavorting Day!

link spotted at the blag-----
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On the train on the way home, I saw an ad for ZipCar which said:

350 hours/year having sex

What is wrong with this picture?

Now by my math, that means a whole hour of sex almost every day of the year.. do you know anyone who has sex for an hour almost every day of the year? Am I missing something?

I'm living the wrong life! Of course if I spent over an hour every day looking for parking, I'd want to kill myself.-----
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I've got a big glass of soda and some Junior Mints.. and I'm ready to be appalled by our President. How oh how will he top "axis of evil" from last year? I'm sure he won't dissappoint.-----
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Tom Friedman has an excellent column in the NYT today (reg. req'd).

I hope we don't go to war (especially without the support of the UN, which will only enrage a good part of the rest of the world). I believe that King George wants a war for a number of reasons: oil, distraction from domestic problems, setting himself up for re-election, revenge for dad, and perhaps even to rid the world of their wmd.. Most of which I think are the wrong reasons... But I've also been following Saddam's behavior for some time now and this much I know: he is one crazy ass mofo and he really needs to go. I would love for him to go into exile in some other arab country (though someone would have to continuously keep an eye on him). Maybe as Tom says, it is possible to bring a little freedom, modern education and women's empowerment to that region of the world.

Update! How timely.. Bob from town without pity has just sent me the most amusing song about Georgie & Iraq.

Also, tonight at 9:20 (approx.) on c-span you can see John Kerry's (D-MA) speech on foreign policy.-----
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Really good for me fruit cup or sinful muffin as big as my head?? Both are available in the little coffee shop in the lobby What to do, what to do?

Eating the fruit cup is good for me, low in calories and will make me feel good about myself. I am suppossed to be on a healthy eating plan leading to a smaller version of myself (aka diet). With the fruit cup, I will be hungry again before lunch time.

Eating the sinful muffin as big as my head will make me very happy, and it has so many calories and so much fat that I won't be hungry for lunch (not that I know this from experience or anything). But then I will be hungry around 3:30 and the situation can get ugly. But then I can just have a snack and then eat a salad for dinner.

hmm...

** Update: Muffin, it was. Although it was blueberry, so that can be considered just as nutricious as fruit cup, yes??-----
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I'm listening to the developer in the next cube on a conference call - first thing he says is: well, what happens is a C++ socket is instantiated.. blah, blah, blah. So I send him an email that says: you are dead sexy with your C++ socket. He is not amused with me. I have to do something to get the week moving, don't I?-----
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1. WINE: white, crisp, fruity
2. Going the movies in the middle of the day
3. Behind the Music - I'm incapable of turning it off. I despise Motley Crue and I've seen their Behind the Music 7 or 8 times (of course it has it all)
4. Staying in bed all day on a Saturday reading a good book
5. Blogging/Reading Blogs when I have a million other things to do.. like right now

Who star freed after child porn arrest. I will be so disappointed and disillusioned..-----
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Top 5 Deceased artists to go back and see in concert if you could time travel

1. The Beatles
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Miles Davis
4. The Doors
5. Billie Holiday

Honorable Mentions: Allman Brothers, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong, Woody Guthrie, Spinal Tap (before their drummer spontaneously combusted)

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C-span is showing a speach by Bill on foreign policy. I miss Bill.. I know he is slightly flawed (but in comparison to what we have now? please... )

Here he is.. go listen to what he has to say.
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Damn Superbowl.. the guy who lives downstairs and his friends are wasted and they have decided for some ungodly reason that they can sing The Sweater Song (If you want to destroy my sweater. Woah woah a woah. Pull this thread as I walk away....). Kind of an annoying song, even when done properly by Weezer, but performed drunk by buffoons - it's excrutiating! This is what happens when friends let friends drink too much at their Superbowl party. grr...-----
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I did it... I installed Movable Type. See what can happen when you have artic like weather and you don't want to go outside? (it's like in Dr. Zhivago when Dr. Z and Lara spend a whole Russian winter inside and hear coyotes - ok, it's not that bad) In my previous attempts I had an incorrect filepath to my db. It's always something stupid that trips me up! I'm sure there are formatting snafu's from place to place.. OH.. and I imported all my Yaccs comments (thanks to Phil Ringnalda - who is such a rock star. He answered a question of mine when I started using Blogger Pro).-----
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But that isn't going to stop me from going to the Filene's one day sale at lunch. A girl has to have her priorities!
But there is hope for the future.. Pete Bouchard (how cute is he?) says it may be near 40 degrees on Sunday. Get out the shorts and t-shirts (ha!).-----
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This is a photo my friend from DC sent me from the rally on Sat:

I wasn't going to post it.. but then a guy I work asked me if I'd heard about Bush's plan to give tax breaks to small businesses who buy SUV's. Now, I didn't have time to pay attention to the news yesterday, but it was absolutely inconceivable that even Bush could suggest such a ludicrous thing. So (just like Ren when he finds out there is no dancing in Bomont) I said: "jumpback!". And I googled it and sure enough.. this is another proposal from Bush. I am about to jump out of my skin with anger. Could he possibly want to take us more in the wrong direction? Should we not be trying to lessen our dependence on oil rather than encourage the consumption of gas guzzling pollution machines??-----
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