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― benr1que, Monday, 16 October 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

99%

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: bored vs. garden-variety lazy

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the though of having to do actual work has led me to procrastinate something awful. therefore, 97% for me.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

completely

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

utterly.

― patita (patita), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

And yet there are lots of interesting things to do in the world. Even on the screen in front of you there are far more interesting places to be than here. You people are pathetic! Look, here's an interesting essay on consciousness by John Searle, just for starters:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19510

― the voice of reason, Monday, 16 October 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I am proud of my laziness. It gives me character.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I am working but that does not mean I am not bored.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The Leith Police dismittheth moi.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

At work too. I have a supremely crappy Brazilian book in front of me and I have to figure out what it's about and give it a call number. Wahoo!

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm converting old tables-based HTML pages into css based layouts. which is about as fun as watching paint dry.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Am confused about how something Brazilian can be crappy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Trawling federal regs for specific details on local implementation... oy.

― patita (patita), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

constantly flicking between refreshing thehold, my call stack, my email.

so far today thehold has been more 'frantic' than work.

― ste, Monday, 16 October 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh lordy. The HTML / CSS conversion is a hoot. I feel your pain.

The record for the book was utter crap, and I'm having to fix it, and give it proper subject headings, like:

650 0 Brazilian newspapers ǂz Brazil ǂz São Paulo (State) ǂx History ǂy 20th century.

63000 Folha de S. Paulo.

big excitement!

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i want drugs

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

ILX outage interestingly timed to coincide with largest pile of braindead-making busy work since being hired here. Luckily internet patrolling boss is out of town making myspace/youtube/etc fair game.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I have done my work for the day. Therefore I am feeling rather blase.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm building an insurance proposal for a contractor who does "guniting". I keep reading it as G UNITing and it is cracking me up.

Ned you rhymin ass motherfucker.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned you are our go-to guy to find out real ilx status, what's the dillio?

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

11% bored. i don't have to turn my term paper in until 3pm and i'm wondering if i should do another draft of it, although honestly i'm sick of thinking about it and i want it out of my hands already.

― jbr, Monday, 16 October 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Oy Jody, never raise the bar. They'll just expect something even more polished next time!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Current status is I'm waiting on Andrew. (There are a slew of other developments too.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

laurel, this is my last ever assignment for that class, and i don't think i have that prof again until next year. he is a pretty important (and omnipresent) guy within the department though.

― jbr, Monday, 16 October 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

44% bored. I have kind of a lot of homework to do for tomorrow and I am going to a concert tonight so I really should be doing it NOW since work is ultra quiet and boss is gone for TWO WEEKS YAY.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

(There are a slew of other developments too.)

Okay, Mister Secrets-Keeper.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It's his librarian thing. They are keepers of silence.

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I am bored. I have two apazines I need to write, and a mailing list discussion to re-kickstart (HI DERE WEHRE ARE WEE MEETIGN NEXT YAER?), so I think I'll go to the P.O. and buy stamps instead.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i really want to go buy a slice of pizza but I'm waiting for the vet to return my call. boo, boredom and hunger.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I am getting a slew of annoying, poorly cataloged books with questionable subject matter (i.e. WTF are you talking about?).

I need a drink.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, Mister Secrets-Keeper.

Nothing so mysterious. More like folks reviewing coding options and some practical suggestions to reduce the poxy fuling and etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I had planned to start uploading the results of the ilm 60's album poll, so my disappointment at losing ilx is tempered somewhat. Will go back to waiting for news.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/3733/clockbs0.gif

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

It would be cool if that turned into the screaming witch-face after 60 seconds.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

no it wouldn't. NOT AT ALL.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It just keeps ticking. Tick tick ticking. Much scarier than a witch's face, imho.

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Jessie speaks like one once burnt by the screaming witch-face.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I just had bacon, eggs, biscuits and grits for lunch. Does anybody else up in this thing wash the dishes right after they have something really unhealthy, to hide the evidence from yourself? "If the cleaning up was that fast, there couldn't have been so much cholesterol in it, right? Right!"

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

No way. I love staring at the pan full of bacon grease on my stove. No, not really. I just ate a left over fried pork chop for lunch, and immediately took my dish to the sink to clean it up, as everyone else has a properly balanced, food-group-representin' lunch. I was mildly self-concious.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Just eat lard. Then nobody can give you crap because you're being bold.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I just had bacon, eggs, biscuits and grits for lunch.

What, no gravy?

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I want to go to Waffle House.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought about making gravy, but I was more interested in the runny eggs and the grits.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Breakfast for lunch: Classic or Dud?

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Breffist for any time of day is KLASSIK.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

UH BRKFAST ANYTIME = CLASSIC, DUH

XP: haha

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

100% classic.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Deeply truly totally classic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Truly. Deeply. Madly. Baconly.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay then, I'll be back after breakfast-for-lunch.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i had breakfast for pizza saturday. gin gin gin gin gin then pancakes and eggs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

that's the dumbest c or d ever. breakfast is so fucking good.

― trees (trees), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

The postmeal coma is a bitch, though. That glass of milk is full of tryptophan or whatnot.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

quiche and soup and putting air in my tires. that was a fun lunch.

― patita (patita), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Bacon makes me crave coffee, if this is wrong I don't want to be right.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

That's why it's best to consume a pot of coffee while eating a gut-busting, food-coma-inducing breakfast.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I had breakfast for pizza the other day if you count the veggie sausage patties I devoured after midnight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i just had a pb&j and veggie chips (bleh). vet still hasn't called! boredom has eaten my brain. need chocolate. or cheese.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

On other message boards I see people I think are chaki or jaymc or somebody, but then it turns out they're not. ILX > BCO et al.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Does it make anyone else sad when your boss, who happens to sit right next to you, sends you an email about scheduling a meeting with just the 2 of you?

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Sad? Or nervous?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

No, not really nervous. Just sad. Like, I sit one cube over. It's not that far a walk. I can hear you typing, yet I get an email instead. It's weird.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

totally normal (but still kinda dumb) if the scheduling email also reserves the room in some weird office intranet system.

― patita (patita), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I guess it does. And she's a supervisor, so I guess she has to document these sorts of transactions. I've been at my job for over a year, and still in training (UGH!). Hopefully tomorrow's meeting discussing me getting rid of my Jr. Cataloging wings and being cut loose. Fingers crossed.

Regardless, it still makes me sad. LACK OF HUMAN INTERACTION MAKES MOLLY SAD.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

TRADE LIVES WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO BE SADDER.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

makes sam happy. I am an introvert bordering on hermit.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

that's the dumbest c or d ever. breakfast is so fucking good.
-- trees (meltingglacier...), October 16th, 2006.

Other c or d's I am considering:

Totally compatible life partners
Breathing
Finding money on the street

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Does it make anyone else sad when your boss, who happens to sit right next to you, sends you an email about scheduling a meeting with just the 2 of you?

this made me neither happy nor sad but it did get the song "just the two of us" by grover washington jr. to start playing in my head immediately. thanks lady.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

ouch. sorry. if it makes you feel any better, that song is now polluting my head as well.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

that's ok. now that it's been in there a while i feel like going home and sexing someone up. so watch out chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

otto midnight is an excellent handle for a serial rapist.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

LACK OF HUMAN INTERACTION MAKES MOLLY SAD.

That's why I'm considering looking for another job.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I like what I do, but sometimes I wish I could be on the reference desk, fielding fancypants students' request for articles "they like, need in 10 minutes for class."

Okay, maybe I don't need to deal with people.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to say, Molly...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Fucking students! I'll take my socially-awkward catalogers and uniform titles any day.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

otto midnight, on the pipeline.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to deal with students!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

and we know what you mean by "deal with" congressman foley.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Uppity undergrads are no fun at all. First, you'll want to slap them for their poor choice of footwear (must you really wear flip flops in January?), and then you'll want to slap them for their flippant attitude toward you, the person who is trying to help them out with their information needs.

(woah -- long day -- i could still use that drink)

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

flippant-flops

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

...sometimes I wish I could be on the reference desk

It's a trap!

― ObieRef (nklshs), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

No no! I assure you it's not.

I've been dealing with crappy OCLC records all day and have been venting. And, I don't even like baseball.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

No, not really nervous. Just sad. Like, I sit one cube over. It's not that far a walk. I can hear you typing, yet I get an email instead. It's weird.

-- molly (molly.dah...), October 16th, 2006. (later)

Not saying you're like this, but I've been dealing with a co-worker who I've had to resort exclusively e-mailing with because her "word of mouth" is a lot harder to back-up when she fucks up.

The other day, I e-mailed her about some work that wasn't getting done. Fifteen seconds after I hit send, she's paging me over the intercom. So when she tells me to substitute A for B and it comes back to bite the company on the ass, I'll have no record of her ever telling me to do the switch. Fuck that.

Again, not saying that's why your boss is e-mailing you like that, but maybe it's just for accountability purposes.

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

How Bored Am I?

So bored that I dug up these posts from my blog circa 04. I remember being really proud of myself at the time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38139000/jpg/_38139327_ap_faces150.jpg

yo we ain't cavin to no demands/whether terrorists or taliban/iraq or afghanistan/or the 911 commisheeyan/they axin us to testify seperately/mufuckaz desperately/hoping to get answers/they can suck my george dubya dick/cuz i got my halliburton mufuckaz back/bob kerrey axin us questions wack/about what we did and didn't do to prevent terrorist attacks/at our own insistance/we don't testify under oath and haven't since/that day in januar-ay when we got appointed to this office/mufuckaz disrespect/but the PATRIOT Act'll keep em in check/mufuckaz time to bow down to your rulers that you didn't elect/i'm george dubya, my bitch dick got my back/when we testify, we testifyin without givin no facts/that's just the way it is for us modern day royalty/civilians brain-washed and programmed for loyalty/KING GEORGE FOREVAH MUFUCKA yo yo carlyle group reprazent!

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# posted by nick @ 11:51 AM

http://www.greatdreams.com/political/dick-cheney-2002.jpg

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# posted by nick @ 3:12 PM

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I don't think it's because I'm fucking up or anything, as I think my boss likes me, and is happy with what I'm doing.

I was just talking to her, and I'm under the impression it's just procedural dealings. Well, fingers crossed, anyway.

― molly (molly d), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

carlyle group 2004 mufuckers

haha

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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