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Why am I sad about this...

Posted on March 12, 2008
And so Spitzer has resigned. I heard the news conference, I heard his speech, and I nearly cried. Why? Not because I didn't think he should resign, I did. Maybe because I felt misled. I believed that he was good for New York state, that he would bring his take charge leadership from the AG's office to the Governor's Mansion...

From Famine to Feast...

Posted on March 07, 2008
I have large amounts of time where I just sit at work and do nothing. This is not by choice, but rather due to the inability of my boss to let me do anything on my own. I'm held hostage by waiting for the next crisis/job/task to be given to me. Everything has to be vetted, and this takes time...

Ah Monday...

Posted on March 03, 2008
My cold seemingly cleared up over the weekend, which made me very happy. What didn't make me happy was coming into work this morning and finding that my e-mail system (and just mine, no one elses) was hosed beyond recognition. My sent e-mails are have no subject or recipient anymore and bear the same time stamp even though created over a full year...

I have a code in mah noze...

Posted on February 28, 2008
I can't breathe out of one nostril. This is extremely annoying, but no more than usual at work. I have to prod the paralegal to do the job they're being paid to do, I keep having my meetings at work rescheduled, and I'm exhausted. It's sad when the the highlight is a cold pill and a cup of chai...

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Damned if you do...

Posted on February 25, 2008
I know I whine about my job incessantly. For that I do apologize. I wish things were great, and that I enjoyed what I did everyday, but that is so far from the truth that it pains me to even think that I do this work. The issue that confounds me currently is this: I'm constantly being held to a standard that is impossible to meet...

How To Get Into A Fight At Macy's

Posted on February 19, 2008
Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Mine was three days thanks to the federal banking holiday, and I took it upon myself to stimulate the economy by going to the mall. I had a mission to purchase some knives. The spouse and I had tried to purchase these same knives at another mall a couple nights ago, and was told by the cashier in Macy's that she couldn't give me the sale price listed on the sign because it wasn't her department...

Happy Valentine's Day!

Posted on February 14, 2008
I know alot of people don't seem to like this holiday, or think it is one of those "Hallmark Holidays." Me, I've always enjoyed it. I enjoyed it when I was in grade school and everyone got a valentine from everyone else in little homemade mailboxes...

Baby, it's cold outside!

Posted on February 11, 2008
Like a good chunk of the country currently, it's cold here. I have the gloves and the scarf going on, and with the wood stove at home it's not too awful. I do have a word to the wise though regarding such fashion at times like these. A fur edged hood on your coat is fine...

Is February Over Yet?

Posted on February 07, 2008
Started a new project at work this week, which in itself isn't bad, it's just busy work. I get anywhere from 4-7 new deals a day, and I can review each in about a half an hour unless it's complex. Most of the problem comes in with keeping it all straight in the paperwork...

Super Bowl!

Posted on February 04, 2008
We enjoy football. Us, like the majority of television viewers watched the Super Bowl last night. And damn, was that a good game or what! And to think it didn't come down to a field goal at the end was particularly nice. I hate to have it all come down to a kicker...

Who Am I, Chopped Liver?

Posted on February 01, 2008
I like living near my job. I purposely try and reduce my commute, not so much for laudable goals like cutting down on greenhouse gases, but because it saves my sanity. As a result, I'm one of the closest employees to my firm. When the weather goes to crap, I'd rather not be driving in it, regardless of how far away my house is from work...

Full Circle...

Posted on January 29, 2008
It's been a while since I posted, but in the interim, the bathroom was finished...and perhaps I may be able to show a lovely before and after shot just so you get the full feeling. I got my teeth cleaned today, see? *grin* And most importantly, my mother and I were able to pick my grandfather up today...

Ooooh....walls!

Posted on January 23, 2008
I was going to write here and say that not much has been going on here. That's not exactly true. While on the work front things are still the same, at home we have shower walls. Yes. This is very exciting. Gone are the days of showering in a plastic drop cloth wonderland...

Things that make you go hmm...

Posted on January 17, 2008
I muddle through the days, though I've been living vicariously through the good news of others. I keep applying for jobs, but I never hear anything. Well, no, I take that back, I heard on a job I applied for last year, getting my ding letter a week after the job had been reposted in the paper...

Still hanging in...

Posted on January 14, 2008
I'm currently trying to leverage my networking into a new job. How progressive of me, I know. In the meantime I listen to the rest of my office whine openly and don't get involved. Each time I've whined to any one of them, I get the whole "oh, you're blowing things out of proportion" line...

My Car Is Too Smart For Me...

Posted on January 10, 2008
While I can't seem to control to what's happening to me, I can control my car. To that end, it's been telling me "oil change - 9,000." My mileage is 9,125, so I had made an appointment to get my oil changed. I brought it in this morning only to be told that in fact my car was too smart for me...

I Need A New Job!

Posted on January 08, 2008
My job made me cry yesterday. After a morning of being berated in front of a law clerk, told not to speak to a client unless given permission to do so by my boss, and otherwise feeling humiliated yet again, I took a lunch at my own house and cried. My end of year review was great...

No Dakar Rally?

Posted on January 04, 2008
I just read on the news that my favorite road race of the year, the Dakar Rally, has been cancelled due to security issues. Namely, after the killing of four French nationals in Mauritania before Christmas caused the French government to advise against travel to the country...

What's up with this negativity?

Posted on January 03, 2008
Two days into the work New Year and things are already sucking. Got the first snarky e-mail of the year today which led to a rather uncomfortable argument, been stuck doing a document index all day (why am I doing it...because I've come to believe I'm relied on more for my data entry skills than anything lawyerly I could possibly do)...

Happy New Year!

Posted on January 01, 2008
We arrived home late last night, home to find a nice pile of snow where our driveway was, causing us to have to break out the snow stuff and do some cleaning up straight away just to get the luggage in the house. It's a stunner to go from 80+ degree weather to freezing and snow, but hey, it's all part of the deal...

No Shower? No Problem!

Posted on December 24, 2007
When faced with a finite deadline on a holiday weekend, do not tear apart your bathroom. Your problems will expand to fill every last bit of the time that you have. Having Saturday, Sunday and Monday before we leave for warmer climes, we tore apart our shower enclosure to replace the tub and surround...

Ah, the holidays...

Posted on December 19, 2007
We never travel during the holidays unless we absolutely have to. Even then we keep it to car travel, since the idea of fighting endless lines at the airport fighting with surly TSA employees is not a way to bring cheer to our lives. That all changes this year...

Happy Birthday to me!

Posted on December 17, 2007
It's that time of year again, the snow is falling, people are shopping, and Beanie is one year older. Is 33 any worse than 32? Probably not. Though the number itself seems to have some heft. The spouse and I have been together for a third of it, and I've lived in my house now for a quarter of it, and it's divisible by 11...

Snow Schmow

Posted on December 14, 2007
Hope you survived your brush with bad weather yesterday. Me, I got stuck at work for a while for no reason whatsoever. I wasn't actually doing anything, but was told I could leave a whole 1/2 hour early. I put my foot down far earlier than that since the only one at risk in that deal was me...

Let Me Check My Calendar...

Posted on December 12, 2007
It's the time of year when you're pulled in three directions as once. This week alone we have one holiday dinner, one firm dinner, and a holiday party. Throw into the mix work, a possible snowstorm, a bathtub to pick up, a trip to the bank, and I barely have time to eat lunch let alone get ready for any of this...

How Big Is It?

Posted on December 10, 2007
The weekend was a success in that we nearly melted our credit card. You know you're spending money when the fraud department starts calling. Why? We bought a big TV. How big? 60" big. Or as my mother puts it, "Will it melt your retinas?" Yes, I think it will...

SERENITY NOW!

Posted on December 05, 2007
The deep breathing isn't working, and I'm seeing spots, so I'm hoping there's something cathartic about blogging. I have a good memory. Strike that...I have an excellent memory. I remember whole conversations in detail. To commit these amounts of detail to memory require me to pay close attention...

O Rly?

Posted on December 03, 2007
The weather sucks, and I had to drive in it. But to make things worse, I have an appointment this afternoon that I have to nonchalantly leave for without causing any to-do. I can't see this happening smoothly. In a perfect world I'd like to take the rest of the afternoon off, but I'm sure that won't happen...

Slight Clarification on Yesterday's Post

Posted on November 27, 2007
After recounting my story at home yesterday evening, it was suggested that I fully explain the situation at the Burger King drive-thru. If you, like me, watched an abnormal amount of football over Thanksgiving weekend, you saw a commercial that involved women in a minivan trying to take out the Burger King guy for making a certain new sandwich...

Rain rain go away...

Posted on November 26, 2007
I hate to drive when it rains. It's not that I don't have confidence in my driving skills, though, in full disclosure I must say that since my accident I drive on wet roads like they're covered in ice. I hate driving in the rain because it seems that rain makes drivers stupid...

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