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mizzmarvel, a must-do quiz... 
I had to clip the long version of the description, too... James Madison - The emo president.
Maybe he was a little short, a little moody, a little sickly, but the man had a mind like a steel trap -- all the better for remembering anniversaries or your favorite pizza toppings or what song was playing the moment you first met. He was sensitive and brilliant, and you guys could have stayed up 'til 4 am just talking and talking and talking and never once gotten bored. Even better, he was totally laid back in his relationship -- his wife Dolley was the number one party girl of her time, and he totally let her be herself even though he was more into, well, politics. He was one of those stealth hotties -- the kind where first you're like "Madison? Yeah, he's cool. He's super interesting." Then eventually you're like, "I love that guy. He's my best friend." And then, one day you wake up and you love him to the depths of your soul and can't live without him.
Which friends would you be battling for Madsy's affections? Send them this quiz and find out.
24% of the people who took this quiz got the same evaluation
So now when people ask me what presidenteor resembles I'll be able to say with confidence, "James Madison!" Er. Of course that would entail people actually asking me what president he resembles, which unfortunately doesn't happen often. But it should, obviously!
And now for some unrelated snippets of my day at work, yesterday...
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As four of us (I think the fourth one may have been Donatello or Buck - I feel horrible that I can't remember. It was someone who's good at being the supporting role in the conversation, and chose to walk in the gutter and look up with fond expressions, so obviously not Mainertoo.) were walking out to the parking lot last night after work, Malibu mentioned that at this time last year we had peepers.
Diz asked, "What are peepers?"
"What are peepers??" I ejaculated (or something like that) "Where are you from??"
She pointed to the one star in the sky (probably Mars). "That planet just over there. What are peepers?" She's so used to being teased about being a bit dizzy that she's built up some pretty good comebacks. :)
To which we all responded, "They're little frogs!" and we each tried to do our own impression of what they sound like, a complete impossibility.
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The co-worker who used to be a sound man and comic artist (I have no nick for him at present) made a comment last night that he thinks society has become actually more conservative where nudity is concerned. He said his father (who he guessed was born in 1918) told him that when he was young a bathing suit was not allowed at the YMCA. Of course it was only men who swam there. I confirmed that my grandmother (born in 1917, I think) had no problem with same gender skinny dipping - she, my mother and I swam one night at the camp my grandparents had on the back side of Moosehead. He's commented before that he thinks the reason we've been told to not ask someone to take off a bulky sweatshirt if it's a pullover might be because our managers are afraid someone might see some belly. "I went to art college!" he said, "I've seen enough belly to choke a horse!"
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CeeJay seemed in a mood, yesterday, and I asked Donatello if he had noticed. "I stopped playing video games with him," was Donatello's explanation. "He keeps trying to convince me I should come back, but I'm sleeping better, eating better, exercising. It's good. I hate to break his heart, but it's really much better for me not to play video games. No, I have no idea what's up with him."
Nevertheless, on break CeeJay came over and sat beside Donatello and began enticing him, "You should come back and play games with me online. Eat junkfood, Donatello, you like it, you know you do." (Maybe not as amusing if you don't know that CeeJay has been throwing himself massively into eating well and going to the gym ever since he's been with ElvenGirl, and has been the biggest pusher to everyone else to do the same. Somehow he manages to do that AND play video games, but he doesn't have children and Donatello does.)
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When urged by another co-worker to find a new job, Style replied, "I want to stay with Derien." He was really using me as a stand-in for all the other co-workers who make it worthwhile staying in this job. As the first group people drift away one by one I find a little less reason to stay, but I know exactly what he means. And newer people do come in who fit, like the comic artist guy, like V - people who fit by being so bizarrely, charmingly, odd and themselves. (I have hopes that my new trainee may be one such - she has said about herself that she's rarely been accused of being normal.) I'm endlessly amused by the fact that Mainertoo will throw into a story, "That was the night I kissed Style. And of course I've already kissed CeeJay, so we all know where we stand here. Lance, I'll get to you." And then aside to me, "You don't have a problem with guys kissing, do you?" - like most of my co-workers he totally knows who I am and is fine with it and can tease me about it.
Alternatively, it's not as though all the teasing is completely without effect, or, though I hesitate to say it, possible harm. Comic Artist and Lizphan and a few others have started teasing one guy quite hard - they're both quite bold about it, yet understated and witty and he gets so angry and frustrated and doesn't know how to deal - he is not what you'd call quick witted, though he seems to think he is. I'm thinking it might be encouraging him to find a new job (he's the one who began encouraging Style to do so). Although this might be along the lines of What Jeeves Would Do, as I suspect it will be better for the rest of the team.
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I mentioned to Mainertoo that FIL has been oddly standoffish - I said 'to me,' and I think he's most standoffish to me, but that could well be my own famous self-centeredness talking. I know it's true he's also been so to everyone on PM shift. I'm thinking it's been since about Christmas. Lizphan suggested it might be because he went back to AM shift and might think that PM shift people are all mad at him for jumping ship, but Mainertoo said only, "He has some major issues going on right now." Which makes me think he's gotten in trouble again for being 'too friendly' to the line workers - higher up managers think that it's better to have the proles hate the Supervisors. I could be wrong; could be other things entirely. All I really know is he's looked harried and worn out every time I've seen him.
Well that's enough of that. And now that I've gotten stuff about work off my chest perhaps I can move on with my day off and have my weekend. Today is Friday, today is Friday! We've made plans to go to the gym, but I wonder if the museum might also be a possibility, being that it's free night. And/or a good dinner with a drink and ... dancing. (Or possibly 'dancing.') Yeah, I seem to want to have a major date with Eor. The weeks are too long and without enough Eor time in them.
mizzmarvel, a must-do quiz... I had to clip the long version of the description, too... James Madison - The emo president.
Maybe he was a little short, a little moody, a little sickly, but the man had a mind like a steel trap -- all the better for remembering anniversaries or your favorite pizza toppings or what song was playing the moment you first met. He was sensitive and brilliant, and you guys could have stayed up 'til 4 am just talking and talking and talking and never once gotten bored. Even better, he was totally laid back in his relationship -- his wife Dolley was the number one party girl of her time, and he totally let her be herself even though he was more into, well, politics. He was one of those stealth hotties -- the kind where first you're like "Madison? Yeah, he's cool. He's super interesting." Then eventually you're like, "I love that guy. He's my best friend." And then, one day you wake up and you love him to the depths of your soul and can't live without him.
Which friends would you be battling for Madsy's affections? Send them this quiz and find out.
24% of the people who took this quiz got the same evaluation
So now when people ask me what president
eor resembles I'll be able to say with confidence, "James Madison!" Er. Of course that would entail people actually asking me what president he resembles, which unfortunately doesn't happen often. But it should, obviously!And now for some unrelated snippets of my day at work, yesterday...
------------------
As four of us (I think the fourth one may have been Donatello or Buck - I feel horrible that I can't remember. It was someone who's good at being the supporting role in the conversation, and chose to walk in the gutter and look up with fond expressions, so obviously not Mainertoo.) were walking out to the parking lot last night after work, Malibu mentioned that at this time last year we had peepers.
Diz asked, "What are peepers?"
"What are peepers??" I ejaculated (or something like that) "Where are you from??"
She pointed to the one star in the sky (probably Mars). "That planet just over there. What are peepers?" She's so used to being teased about being a bit dizzy that she's built up some pretty good comebacks. :)
To which we all responded, "They're little frogs!" and we each tried to do our own impression of what they sound like, a complete impossibility.
--------------------
The co-worker who used to be a sound man and comic artist (I have no nick for him at present) made a comment last night that he thinks society has become actually more conservative where nudity is concerned. He said his father (who he guessed was born in 1918) told him that when he was young a bathing suit was not allowed at the YMCA. Of course it was only men who swam there. I confirmed that my grandmother (born in 1917, I think) had no problem with same gender skinny dipping - she, my mother and I swam one night at the camp my grandparents had on the back side of Moosehead. He's commented before that he thinks the reason we've been told to not ask someone to take off a bulky sweatshirt if it's a pullover might be because our managers are afraid someone might see some belly. "I went to art college!" he said, "I've seen enough belly to choke a horse!"
-------------------
CeeJay seemed in a mood, yesterday, and I asked Donatello if he had noticed. "I stopped playing video games with him," was Donatello's explanation. "He keeps trying to convince me I should come back, but I'm sleeping better, eating better, exercising. It's good. I hate to break his heart, but it's really much better for me not to play video games. No, I have no idea what's up with him."
Nevertheless, on break CeeJay came over and sat beside Donatello and began enticing him, "You should come back and play games with me online. Eat junkfood, Donatello, you like it, you know you do." (Maybe not as amusing if you don't know that CeeJay has been throwing himself massively into eating well and going to the gym ever since he's been with ElvenGirl, and has been the biggest pusher to everyone else to do the same. Somehow he manages to do that AND play video games, but he doesn't have children and Donatello does.)
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When urged by another co-worker to find a new job, Style replied, "I want to stay with Derien." He was really using me as a stand-in for all the other co-workers who make it worthwhile staying in this job. As the first group people drift away one by one I find a little less reason to stay, but I know exactly what he means. And newer people do come in who fit, like the comic artist guy, like V - people who fit by being so bizarrely, charmingly, odd and themselves. (I have hopes that my new trainee may be one such - she has said about herself that she's rarely been accused of being normal.) I'm endlessly amused by the fact that Mainertoo will throw into a story, "That was the night I kissed Style. And of course I've already kissed CeeJay, so we all know where we stand here. Lance, I'll get to you." And then aside to me, "You don't have a problem with guys kissing, do you?" - like most of my co-workers he totally knows who I am and is fine with it and can tease me about it.
Alternatively, it's not as though all the teasing is completely without effect, or, though I hesitate to say it, possible harm. Comic Artist and Lizphan and a few others have started teasing one guy quite hard - they're both quite bold about it, yet understated and witty and he gets so angry and frustrated and doesn't know how to deal - he is not what you'd call quick witted, though he seems to think he is. I'm thinking it might be encouraging him to find a new job (he's the one who began encouraging Style to do so). Although this might be along the lines of What Jeeves Would Do, as I suspect it will be better for the rest of the team.
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I mentioned to Mainertoo that FIL has been oddly standoffish - I said 'to me,' and I think he's most standoffish to me, but that could well be my own famous self-centeredness talking. I know it's true he's also been so to everyone on PM shift. I'm thinking it's been since about Christmas. Lizphan suggested it might be because he went back to AM shift and might think that PM shift people are all mad at him for jumping ship, but Mainertoo said only, "He has some major issues going on right now." Which makes me think he's gotten in trouble again for being 'too friendly' to the line workers - higher up managers think that it's better to have the proles hate the Supervisors. I could be wrong; could be other things entirely. All I really know is he's looked harried and worn out every time I've seen him.
Well that's enough of that. And now that I've gotten stuff about work off my chest perhaps I can move on with my day off and have my weekend. Today is Friday, today is Friday! We've made plans to go to the gym, but I wonder if the museum might also be a possibility, being that it's free night. And/or a good dinner with a drink and ... dancing. (Or possibly 'dancing.') Yeah, I seem to want to have a major date with Eor. The weeks are too long and without enough Eor time in them.
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Ohh, not bad!
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Your work people sound really interesting. What's your job?
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Mind you, I don't think much of the organization - the management also treats us, the screeners, as though we are dumb - they acted as though it was a huge honor to change our official title to "officers," it gives us so much more self-respect don't you know. Yet they continue to act like we're all replaceable cogs and completely unworthy of any consideration as individuals. And I have to agree with her that the rules don't make sense - anyone who works there learns to throw up their hands and go, "It's the government!" or they don't last.
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