100%
99%
TS: bored vs. garden-variety lazy
the though of having to do actual work has led me to procrastinate something awful. therefore, 97% for me.
completely
utterly.
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:
I am proud of my laziness. It gives me character.
I am working but that does not mean I am not bored.
The Leith Police dismittheth moi.
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!
I’m converting old tables-based HTML pages into css based layouts. which is about as fun as watching paint dry.
Am confused about how something Brazilian can be crappy.
Trawling federal regs for specific details on local implementation... oy.
constantly flicking between refreshing thehold, my call stack, my email.
so far today thehold has been more ‘frantic’ than work.
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!
i want drugs
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.
I have done my work for the day. Therefore I am feeling rather blase.
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.
Ned you are our go-to guy to find out real ilx status, what’s the dillio?
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.
Oy Jody, never raise the bar. They’ll just expect something even more polished next time!
Current status is I’m waiting on Andrew. (There are a slew of other developments too.)
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.
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.
(There are a slew of other developments too.)
Okay, Mister Secrets-Keeper.
It’s his librarian thing. They are keepers of silence.
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 really want to go buy a slice of pizza but I’m waiting for the vet to return my call. boo, boredom and hunger.
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.
Okay, Mister Secrets-Keeper.
Nothing so mysterious. More like folks reviewing coding options and some practical suggestions to reduce the poxy fuling and etc.
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.
It would be cool if that turned into the screaming witch-face after 60 seconds.
no it wouldn’t. NOT AT ALL.
It just keeps ticking. Tick tick ticking. Much scarier than a witch’s face, imho.
Jessie speaks like one once burnt by the screaming witch-face.
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!”
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.
Just eat lard. Then nobody can give you crap because you’re being bold.
I just had bacon, eggs, biscuits and grits for lunch.
What, no gravy?
Now I want to go to Waffle House.
I thought about making gravy, but I was more interested in the runny eggs and the grits.
Breakfast for lunch: Classic or Dud?
Breffist for any time of day is KLASSIK.
UH BRKFAST ANYTIME = CLASSIC, DUH
XP: haha
100% classic.
Deeply truly totally classic.
Truly. Deeply. Madly. Baconly.
Okay then, I’ll be back after breakfast-for-lunch.
i had breakfast for pizza saturday. gin gin gin gin gin then pancakes and eggs.
that’s the dumbest c or d ever. breakfast is so fucking good.
The postmeal coma is a bitch, though. That glass of milk is full of tryptophan or whatnot.
quiche and soup and putting air in my tires. that was a fun lunch.
Bacon makes me crave coffee, if this is wrong I don’t want to be right.
That’s why it’s best to consume a pot of coffee while eating a gut-busting, food-coma-inducing breakfast.
I had breakfast for pizza the other day if you count the veggie sausage patties I devoured after midnight.
i just had a pb&j and veggie chips (bleh). vet still hasn’t called! boredom has eaten my brain. need chocolate. or cheese.
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.
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?
Sad? Or nervous?
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.
totally normal (but still kinda dumb) if the scheduling email also reserves the room in some weird office intranet system.
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.
TRADE LIVES WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO BE SADDER.
makes sam happy. I am an introvert bordering on hermit.
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
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.
ouch. sorry. if it makes you feel any better, that song is now polluting my head as well.
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 is an excellent handle for a serial rapist.
LACK OF HUMAN INTERACTION MAKES MOLLY SAD.
That’s why I’m considering looking for another job.
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.
I was going to say, Molly...
Fucking students! I’ll take my socially-awkward catalogers and uniform titles any day.
otto midnight, on the pipeline.
I want to deal with students!
and we know what you mean by “deal with” congressman foley.
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)
flippant-flops
...sometimes I wish I could be on the reference desk
It’s a trap!
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.
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.
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.
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!
# posted by nick @ 11:01 AM
yeah i’m that nigga o’reilly/gettin all wicked and wiley/all y’all smiley liberal pansy ass mufuckers you know it’s on/too far gone/ain’t no comin’ back/your shit is wack/feel the factor/tear your shit up like a velociraptor/fair and balanced/like al franken be on my phallus/like i shatter y’all peacemongers crystal palaces/while ann coulter workin’ her talents/her lips on my dick/and i ain’t talkin’ bout cheney/ain’t no mufuckers can save me/rush try to play me/but i’m the most for real no spin zone mufuckahz can’t clone the baddest nigga alive O’REILLY BIYOTCH!
# posted by nick @ 11:51 AM
respect the dick/cuz i don’t respect shit/executive accountability/i defy with agility/manning my station/secret undisclosed locations/profiting from the invasion/i helped provoke into an oil-rich rogue nation/you wanna talk secret societies?/biblical prophecies?/fuck that, i’m making millions at the expense of america’s security/h-a-double-l-i-b/u-r-t to the o to the n/and it’s just beginning/conflicts of interest don’t mean shit/to an america obsessed with bullshit/like who brad pitt/cheated on rachel from friends with/dick cheney/ain’t no mufuckers can play me/already halfway to hades/might as well go down makin a shit ton of money/my name is DICK now come on bitch and SUCK ME/carlyle group 2004 mufuckers
# posted by nick @ 3:12 PM
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.
carlyle group 2004 mufuckers
haha