All kinds of free food!
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taylweaverSo yesterday at work, as usual, I got free lunch. Because those of us in the office have eaten pizza way too many times, it was not pizza. For reasons that will becoem clear shortly, it needed to be dairy. So they ordered from Circa. Yay Circa!
Then we had free dessert - we all got called into the conference room for a "meeting" - then, as many of us expected, the lights went out and a birthday cake arrived, complete with candle. It was Carvel. Very enjoyable - especially the crunchies in the middle.
Then I stayed late, and also got free dinner.
These past few days have been very mindless at work - further photocopying - the machine ran out of toner, then got new toner, then started making the grinding noise again - this time, without anything heavy sitting on it - and the "photocopy man" has yet to return to look at it." I have spent way too many hours in that room... On the upside, the vast majority of the medical forms are done now...
I also got to sort crackers. Peanut allergies make life complicated. We have five groups that need snacks and two have peanut allergy kids who can be around peanuts but can't eat them, and two groups have kids who can't even be around them. We got snack crackers in variety packs, and of seven flavors, two were peanut - and in twice the quantities of the other flavors - and one was cheese - with possible traces of peanut. We decided the cheese crackers were more dangerous - because they were less obvious. So this meant repacking the crackers.
For this part, I did get to think - and play on excel - I love it when it changes numbers for me. Two groups got peanut butter crackers but no cheese crackers, two groups got only the four totally non-peanut flavors - and one got all the cheese crackers. Plus some that were peanut butter - but I did kind of feel bad for that group...
Then I got to do more mindless work - actually sorting the crackers.
So I think I am ready now for a job that involves actual thinking....
The proof: I was bored enough that I found the thumbtacks in the elevator to be entertaining. I would rearrange them on the bulletin board every time I rode up or down - and someone else was doing it too - and riding up and down at least as often as I was - and I was up and down a lot, because all of the snacks were on a different floor - it was somehow a very entertaining game. I feel like that is not a good sign....
Then we had free dessert - we all got called into the conference room for a "meeting" - then, as many of us expected, the lights went out and a birthday cake arrived, complete with candle. It was Carvel. Very enjoyable - especially the crunchies in the middle.
Then I stayed late, and also got free dinner.
These past few days have been very mindless at work - further photocopying - the machine ran out of toner, then got new toner, then started making the grinding noise again - this time, without anything heavy sitting on it - and the "photocopy man" has yet to return to look at it." I have spent way too many hours in that room... On the upside, the vast majority of the medical forms are done now...
I also got to sort crackers. Peanut allergies make life complicated. We have five groups that need snacks and two have peanut allergy kids who can be around peanuts but can't eat them, and two groups have kids who can't even be around them. We got snack crackers in variety packs, and of seven flavors, two were peanut - and in twice the quantities of the other flavors - and one was cheese - with possible traces of peanut. We decided the cheese crackers were more dangerous - because they were less obvious. So this meant repacking the crackers.
For this part, I did get to think - and play on excel - I love it when it changes numbers for me. Two groups got peanut butter crackers but no cheese crackers, two groups got only the four totally non-peanut flavors - and one got all the cheese crackers. Plus some that were peanut butter - but I did kind of feel bad for that group...
Then I got to do more mindless work - actually sorting the crackers.
So I think I am ready now for a job that involves actual thinking....
The proof: I was bored enough that I found the thumbtacks in the elevator to be entertaining. I would rearrange them on the bulletin board every time I rode up or down - and someone else was doing it too - and riding up and down at least as often as I was - and I was up and down a lot, because all of the snacks were on a different floor - it was somehow a very entertaining game. I feel like that is not a good sign....
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Date: 2005-06-24 05:53 pm (UTC)Leet
Date: 2005-06-24 09:40 pm (UTC)Wow, your writing is really hip! "Teh" is a word often used in the hip 1980s computer slang known as "Leet", which does all sorts of silly things, such as replace letters with numerals that resemble them. (For example, the word "leet" could be spelled "1337".)
The word "teh" is used not only as a misspelling of the definite article "the", but also as a signifier that another part of speech is being used as a noun. (This is similar to the way the Greek definite article can be used to turn another part of speech into a noun. One example of this is the so-called "articular infinitive" το ειναι, "the to be", i.e. "existence".)
An example of this usage of "teh" is the following sentence:
"This is teh sucks."
Shabbat Shalom,
Triptolemos
Typos rule!
Date: 2005-06-27 03:14 pm (UTC)Re: Typos rule!
Date: 2005-06-27 04:34 pm (UTC)I don't usually comment on people's typos, but teh has occupied a very special place in my heart ever since, um, 16 weeks ago, when I first learned about it.
I like "teh" because it reminds me of the articular infinitive in Greek, and of the inverse process known as "verbing". To quote Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes: "Verbing wierds language." Yay, Calvin!
Re: Typos rule!
Date: 2005-06-27 10:32 pm (UTC)Re: Typos rule!
Date: 2005-06-27 11:13 pm (UTC)No, no! I am indifferent to most typos-- it's just that teh occupies a special place in my heart, as I said above.
Although I would not usually make the following point, I find it wonderfully ironic that Taylweaver has misspelled my pseudonym in the context of a conversation on misspellings....
R, have you still not figured out who I am...?
Re: Typos rule!
Date: 2005-06-27 11:15 pm (UTC)Oh, and how did you know that I was a "him"?
Re: Typos rule!
Date: 2005-06-27 11:53 pm (UTC)Midda K'neged Midda
Date: 2005-06-28 12:51 am (UTC)Well, I guess your response is only appropriate. מדה כנגד מדה.
Over the next few days, I shall probably drop a few hints, until my true identity gradually becomes obvious.
Hee, hee! The blogosphere is fun!
Re: Midda K'neged Midda
Date: 2005-06-28 12:57 pm (UTC)OK-- I'm sorry.
Date: 2005-06-28 01:05 pm (UTC)I'll stop. But from this your last posting, I think you know who I am.
I noticed that you just deleted your previous posting on this topic.