February 05, 2005
thank god i'm not middle class
Today, god took it up a notch and put a guy with tourette's on the treadmill next to me. yes, tourette's. $500 says that I could have brought in a doctor and he or she would have watched him for five minutes and said "yes, I agree with your layman's diagnosis. That guy's got tourette's." between all the randoming clap, shouting "go! go! go!" and what sounded like chirping, it's a wonder I was able to stay on the treadmill. A couple of times he was silent for 3 or 4 minutes and I'd forget about it and then there'd be a clap-clap-clap "GO GO GO GO gogogo!" and I'd miss a step and trip. I know that this is not his fault and I wasn't mad or anything, but I have to admit I was relieved when he got off the treadmill about 20 minutes into my run. and it was nothing compared to the Guy Who Walks Backwards on the Treadmill Throwing Punches Dangerously Close to My Face. That fucker deserves to be banned from every gym on earth. Plus he wears Converse classics to work out in, which might make him look cool but is just really, really bad for your feet.
I was stretching after getting home from the gym and watching the Airline episode with the best line ever (and also the title of this entry). I was about to write a long entry explaining the awesomeness of it, but I found an entry on someone else's blog which sums it up nicely.
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December 05, 2004
hinge snapped on powerbook
so i'm a little wary of using it, which is why i haven't been posting. my apologies.
i'd had it left open on the table (afraid of closing the lid) and the screen mysteriously turned black and white. figured one of the wires to the LCD had gotten pinched and fucked it up, so frustrated I gave up on it. then it occurred to me to plug it into the plasma tv (HAHAHA PLASMA TV) and it was still black and white, which is when I realized a) graphics card is fucked or b) one of my lovely cats had stepped on the apple key + something, turning the screen black and white. turned out to be the latter, and everything is now fine (well, if you ignore the fact that the LCD is held on by one hinge which is sure to break one of these days. grrr.)
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hinge snapped on powerbook
so i'm a little wary of using it, which is why i haven't been posting. my apologies.
i'd had it left open on the table (afraid of closing the lid) and the screen mysteriously turned black and white. figured one of the wires to the LCD had gotten pinched and fucked it up, so frustrated I gave up on it. then it occurred to me to plug it into the plasma tv (HAHAHA PLASMA TV) and it was still black and white, which is when I realized a) graphics card is fucked or b) one of my lovely cats had stepped on the apple key + something, turning the screen black and white. turned out to be the latter, and everything is now fine (well, if you ignore the fact that the LCD is held on by one hinge which is sure to break one of these days. grrr.)
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November 21, 2004
fuck
tomorrow is going to suck.
tomorrow, i am:
1. closing one thing
2. being on a conference call about another thing i know nothing about
3. supervising one first year on some research assignment she understands better than i do
4. trying not to let on that above first year knows more than me
5. supervising another first year with some delaware filings
6. supervising a paralegal on a bunch of UCCs
7. trying to get my client to respond on a tiny thing it will take two minutes to address but that she STILL hasn't responded to
8. MAURITIUS! yes, still not over, and very much active
9. looking through a bunch of llc agreements on some busy work assignment some partner gave me
10. keeping 5 partners happy
fuck.
and i'm supposed to go home for thanksgiving wednesday morning. is this going to happen?
on an unrelated note, what the HELL happen to michael's sister/the woman from ally mcbeal on Arrested Development? Did she get plastic surgery? Because she looks...different.
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my car was "relocated"
I went to move my car today because I saw some spots near my apartment. C. had to work, so I set out alone to the spot where C. said she parked it, only it wasn't there. I then got very angry and stomped around the neighborhood looking for it and called her and yelled at her for not remembering correctly exactly where she parked it. Then I figured it got towed, because that would be my luck, having to pay $3k to get a $2k car out of impound.
I desparately hoped it was just stolen, which, although somewhat of a hassle having to file police reports and what not, at least meant it would be out of my hands, stripped somewhere in queens (my poor baby!)
C. called 311. The NYPD had "relocated" my car.
"Why?"
"Dunno" said the NYPD woman.
Now, I don't know about you, but when I hear "relocate" I think about what the Nazis did to the Jews.
My car had been "relocated" to Prospect between Jay and Bridge, marginally in DUMBO. It appears from mapquest to be located directly under the BQE (an expressway).
I am waiting for C. to get back from work so she can share in the joy of trying to find my "relocated" car in a neighborhood I know nothing about under the expressway.
Serial killers, homeless people, crackpipes, hyopdermic needs and my car. Fun.
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October 18, 2004
so I'm watching the playoffs
and the camera guy is panning the seats after the red sox do something good and stops on a picture of this fat chick in a red sox hat hugging a little boy and looking all happy. the fat chick is this bitch who tried to get me thrown out of college junior year (loooong story) and, considering that she's a big ugly bulldyke, it's unlikely that was really a little boy she was hugging. shiver. it's a small, small world, folks. and with that i say: GO YANKEES. fucking bitch finally made me give up my yankee hating ways. crush the red sox. make them cry. and don't give that girl (and i use that term loosely) another hotdog. is there a 7th inning cutoff on those?
wow, who knew that in the course of 5 seconds (Granted, they were repeated over and over--I rewound it several times on the time warner tivo-esque thing to doublecheck. I have no doubt it was her. Last I heard bitch was terrorizing Boston) I could turn into a lesbian-hating, yankee loving, fat-baiter.
go yankees, go. derek jeter is my personal hero, and the yankees don't win because they buy all the good players. they win because new york is better than the rest of the country (especially that fat lesbian haven of massachusetts).
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