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am i really on vacation?
when i left the office on friday to begin my week long vacation from hell, my bag was filled with last minute work that needed to be done before i could really go on vacation.
so after spending part of my saturday in white plains buying books that i will be reading on my vacation, i came home to spend three hours doing work work. yuck. congress organizers need their session times so of course i had to finish entering those. keep in mind it wouldn't be the conference toolbox if i were able to do this without any problems. the transportation track's sessions are in toolbox netherland and the ethics and licensure track is having issues with the acronym i have given it. this unfortunately called for an email to the help desk. we'll see how that works out in my absence.
finally relieved of my work i thought finally i could enjoy my first sunday of vacation. i decide to visit the l word message boards and discover a user who is having problems playing the daily contest to win the ipod. so of course i go into tech support mode, like i do every day during the week, and provided instructions for emptying their cache.
i think i am finally done with this work stuff. i've got movies and books, some laundry and dishes to take care of, and a bed to spend some time with.
on a side note, i will really be pissed off if the office gets closed because of the noreaster. i am convinced this will happen because i am on vacation.
// posted by stacey on 11:07:00 AM // |
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
my ipod is two weeks old
ok, i won't bore you to bits about the ipod. i still love and cherish it. and yes, it still makes extremely happy.
apple is also doing its itunes giveaway contest where you can win a free song if you drink pepsi. i'm a coke drinker so this makes me sad, but i will admit to buying the pepsi just to see if i am a lucky winner. yesterday i was but not today. so now i'm bumming out cuz i gotta drink pepsi now.
on a work note today has been sucky. i'm 2000 abstracts short of where i need to be for congress. some organizer took an email list from on of our sites and his using it to promote another organization's conference. all my conferences are now far behind on their deadlines. pvd still sucks and cbc has been on vacation the first half of the week. thankfully she will be in tomorrow and i will be on vacation next week.
this place really sucks sometimes!
// posted by stacey on 1:34:00 PM // |
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Friday, February 18, 2005
overheard in the office
apparently judy's cat, angel miguel, looks like a cougar. some person called her up just to tell her that cougars are making a come back in the states. and now according to judy so are red tail hawks. oh and one them caught a pigeon and proceeded to eat it on judy's building and a bunch of crows wanted the pigeon to. she knew it was a pigeon because the feathers fell down in front of her. she thinks it might be pale male's offspring who is slumming it in queens.
// posted by stacey on 2:11:00 PM // |
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peaks and valleys
this is one of the best ways to describe my job. it covers all the emotional aspects of caring about what i do to hating it because it is the spawn of the devil. my stress levels rise and fall and along with the stress is the work load.
on many days there is simply just too much work for any one person to handle. then there are days like the one i am having today. i finished my work at 9:00am, yes you read that correctly.
i have already visited all the websites that i go to during down time and am now lurking on a new l word message board. this seems to have taken up a good 45 minutes. woohoo!
thankfully i do happen to have two movies with me, taking lives and twisted. i think that i will have to break one of them out if i am going to get through this afternoon.
oh, and i do have a staff meeting at 11. i think this will be the first staff meeting that i have ever looked forward to -- only because it will take up an hour of my day!
back to the l word message boards.
// posted by stacey on 10:08:00 AM // |
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
green day
you know i recently downloaded green day's american idiot and i must say i have been listening to it nonstop. i highly recommend this album.
would it be cool if a volunteer walked by when these lyrics were blasting from my cube?
well maybe i'm the faggot america.
i'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
now everybody do the propaganda.
and sing along in the age of paranoia.
// posted by stacey on 10:43:00 AM // |
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"jeans" update
so now we think that the real reason phil sent that dumb email about not wearing jeans is because the executive management committee, that consists of some key volunteers, will be at headquarters tomorrow. sometimes one of them will escape and wander through the department especially since we're on the same floor as the conference room.
when the board of governors would come in for the annual spring meeting email messages about spring cleaning and attire would be sent.
the thing is that is all phil had to do was say the emc is coming please dress appropriately just in case they walk around. instead he had to pull the i have the biggest dick around thing, you must do what i say.
today i wore corduroys because you see i understand and can respect the emc thing. i do not however, tolerate the dick thing. ;p
// posted by stacey on 10:30:00 AM // |
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
i wore "jeans" today!
ooh, what are you gonna do big boss man? report to hr, i don't think so! well actually he might if he actually sees me which so far he hasn't. not that i haven't tried. i have made numerous trips to the network printer. i just might have to go dance outside his cube.
ar also wore jeans today and intends to keep on wearing them. judy wore casual pants that from a distance look like jeans due to their pale blue denimy-like color.
my productivity has been high today even though my violation of the dress code should suggest otherwise. i have completed seven major tasks today and all before 11:30am. impressive. i say he should leave us alone while we're still productive and before we stop caring about our work.
dick, dick, dick is all i have to say.
// posted by stacey on 11:19:00 AM // |
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Monday, February 14, 2005
sometimes you just need to remind people that you are a dick!
just in case any of us forgot.
Dear TP staff:
Particularly when it comes to "jeans", it has been pointed out that in general, the ASME dress code is not being followed.
Please, I remind you all that we are not to wear jeans aside from the designated Fridays.
Please refer to the employee handbook on the intranet for specifics on our dress code.
thanks
Philip
i particularly like the fact that he put the word jeans in quotes. it adds a nice touch, as if jeans aren't really jeans. if this is something that is a problem company wide then how come the director of hr didn't send the email? or if our new managing director has a problem how come he didn't send it?
mind you this man will never say hello to me when he walks by my cube every morning. or that everyone in the department is severely overworked and very unhappy. that he is the one who sits on documents for months but yells at the journal staff about their journals being late.
not once has he ever thanked us for our hard work but instead has only provided us with the company line on how positions can not be replaced or how he never planned on the department being so thin because people unexpectedly quit. but he probably counts that dumb ass pizza "party" (see i can use quotes too) has his way of saying thanks. but we actually had the pizza because he was too cheap to take us out to a real restaurant like all the other directors in the company did.
no, it is more important to him that he reminds everyone in the department that he is the director and the biggest dick wad to ever walk the face of the earth*.
*some of you may wish to point out that george w. bush is the bigggest dick wad around but he is actually the biggest fuck wad to ever walk the face of the earth. there is a very big difference.
// posted by stacey on 5:51:00 PM // |
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005
i got it
and all i can say is that i am higher than cloud nine right now. i can't believe how happy this small device has made me. there is a part of me that is worried about that but right now that is very small and my joy and happiness far outweighs those concerns.
cynthia has just said i should not be concerned and that she understands it completely. so no more guilt about feeling happy damn it!
i'll take a picture of it and post it when i get home. i was gonna take a picture with the camera phone but i don't think it will do it the justice it deserves.
i am so fucking happy that i will go ahead and say it. yes, right now it is better than multiple orgasm sex!
// posted by stacey on 1:01:00 PM // |
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005
one more and
it will be mine. my beautiful new 60gb ipod photo. i get so happy just thinking about it that i am sure this is not normal. i think it is a combination of new gadget excitement and the fact that i haven't really bought anything for myself since november. those damn holidays and property taxes.
tonight i start the preparations for the new ipod. of course this means i have to clean my desk so that it feels welcomed and can be properly displayed to anyone who enters the room. i must also export all the photos in iphoto on my ibook and import them onto my imac so that everything can be loaded onto the new ipod. then i must prepare the old ipod for my mother and sync everything up for her. wow that was a lot of istuff.
i do have the feeling that this is going to be a long 24 hours and that i won't be able to sleep tonight. yes, i know i am that excited about it and yes, it is disturbing.
the only thing i can hope for is that i have a bust day, but right it doesn't appear that this will be case. i finally got my session allocations from ming but i can't really do anything about them until we have a finalized session schedule. so very annoying.
// posted by stacey on 9:04:00 AM // |
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Monday, February 07, 2005
ipod love
when ipods first came out it was like being a part of some underground cool club. we often greeted each other with secret handshakes and nods. ok, well maybe not the handshake but definitely the nod. we still have our underground club even though everyone and their brother has an ipod these days. as always, you can spot a true member of this club by the nods or by the geek talk on the morning commute.
i spotted one such member of the club this morning when we pulled out his 10gb ipod (also known as the 2nd generation ipod). for the record i have the first generation ipod that was 5gb. these early adopters are easy to spot because the ipods were thicker and did not have the curvature on the front that the new ipods have. so of course i had to start talking to the ipod man and then is friend pulled out her fourth generation ipod (the ones that return to all the commands on the scroll wheel).
it was nice to experience the ipod love at 7:30 in the morning. i hope they are on the train on thursday morning when i can show them the ipod photo that i will be sporting because i'm going to get that on wednesday.
you now things are bad when that is the only thing that gets you out of bed -- thinking about the ipod you're gonna get on wednesday. just thinking about it makes me very happy. ooh, i can't wait.
// posted by stacey on 9:03:00 AM // |
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Friday, February 04, 2005
i love new york
i knew there had to be a reason why i still live in new york. there are people here of have common sense.
A judge declared Friday that a law banning same-sex marriage violates the state constitution, a first-of-its-kind ruling in New York that would clear the way for gay couples to wed if it survives on appeal.
// posted by stacey on 4:03:00 PM // |
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well its friday afternoon
and nothing much is going on. cbc has left for the day and chrissy is blowing bubbles in her glass of water. just a quiet day (aside from the water bubbles.) i'm almost finished updating my website, the professional looking side of it at least. i'm not sure if i want prospective employers to see that i rag on my company in the blog.
blowing bubbles in any type of drink really annoys the hell out of me.
i still need to finish my status reports but i think that can wait til next week. now i can hear raj talking about a link i added to the site for him. i think i'll have to redo the link according to what i hear and expect an email from raj in a matter seconds. i really love doing the same thing over and over again! get it right the first fucking time!
btw, my subway sandwich was very tasty today, even though the bread was a little crumbly. zaida being stuck on subway all week and me not bringing my lunch worked out well.
// posted by stacey on 3:17:00 PM // |
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Thursday, February 03, 2005
the bird
after i got home and let julie out i noticed that princess the cat was way too interested in something on the hall light fixture. then i saw it. a bird. not just any bird but a wild sparrow. this bird was tempting my, i only eat cat food that comes out of a can or bag that says cat on it. (we won't mention the occassional dog food that comes out the bag that says dog on it.)
it was like her instincts kicked in and she decided that she actually kills birds on a regular basis. she decides to stalk it through the house. mind you, not once has she ever decided to try and catch one of the mice. when one of the other cats has caught a mouse and dropped it in front of her she has just sat there not interested. she followed it back into the dining room and then into the kitchen.
after some screams from me and some swipes with a broom to get it out of the fake ivy, it finally realized that it belonged outside. princess too decided that food is better when it comes from a can that says cat on it.
// posted by stacey on 6:26:00 PM // |
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005
searching for stacey cooper
i admit it, every once in a while i search for my name in google. it amazes me that my really old website stacey's place of worship is the first search result. i must go check out those meta tags cuz they must have really good to get me the top spot.
i also found this listing - On the Cooper-Stacey reduction in Dicke coherence due to relative motion. interesting.
i had mcdonald's for lunch today. the last time i ate there was a year ago. now i can feel the big mac in my stomach.
// posted by stacey on 1:36:00 PM // |
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