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February 6th, 2006
 | 02:23 pm - Current Music: Moxy Früvous -- I Love My Boss
I'm not actually listening to Moxy Früvous right now because I'm at work and am restricted to the music on my MP3 player. I do love my boss, however, or at least, I appreciate the fact that she has a good sense of humor.
While we were sitting in Country Kitchen in the wee-hours of Sunday morning, the topic of conversation somehow turned to the song Pac Man Fever. On a whim I whipped out my cell phone and left a message on my boss' voicemail:Hi Karen. This is Colin. I'm calling to let you know I won't be in today. I've got the Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu, and a case of Pac Man Fever. With any luck I'll be in on Tuesday. I'll talk to you later. Bye. I don't know how your boss would have handled this, but mine forwarded the message back to me, and preceded it with a short message of her own:Colin? Karen. I got this message when I came in on Monday. I want you to listen to it and try to lie more convincingly next time. She really didn't expect me to come in.
We have a dry-erase board in our department which is used to announce absences, schedule changes, etc. When I arrived at work this morning, it read:February 5
Heidi out
Sue out @ 1:30
Colin for sure out with:- Rockin' pneumonia
- Boogie woogie flue
- PacMan fever
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Of course, this isn't half as funny as what I wrote on the board last Thursday. I'd taken Friday off for B-Fest and my boss had written "Colin out" on the board just before she left. I fixed it so that it read, "Colin: out. Hot pants: in." That's comedy gold, that is.
But I digress. I mention all of this because suddenly this afternoon I feel under the weather. I have a headache, my neck is stiff, and my eyes are sore. I got a good night's sleep and felt fine up until about an hour ago, so there's no easily-traced physiological reason for me to feel like this. I thought some caffeine might help my headache, but (being a not consistently bright person) I decided to have some of the AEG's coffee. Astute readers of this journal will remember that I hate flavored coffee and declared that I would never drink it again.
Today's flavor is "Carmel Candy" and it's so pungent that it's made my headache worse. I could take the rest of the day off, but I'm not going to because I'm pretty sure I'm fine. Still, this afternoon will probably be a little rough.
Current Mood:  Not fantastic
Current Music: The Dark Crystal soundtrack, das über-edition
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My dad offered me some kind of coffee Christmas blend as we enjoyed a few episodes of the George Reeves Superman TV show (talk about comedy gold; some of those episodes are downright charing in their camp). It tasted like every foul burning thing I ever left on the stove too long... except in liquid form. I suddenly understand why the oldschool coffee lovers bemoan the current state of affairs, where everything is a "heavy" roast -- literally burned. I'll stick to coacoa beans, I think.
I think my bosses have pretty good senses of humor, but for some reason I'm under they impression they think I don't. I have no ide why that is.
~Sean You know what? I think that particular unpleasant Christmas blend is actually popular with my coworkers. I hate that stuff. Denis Leary has a rant on his album Lock & Load which is simply entitled Coffee, and is a perfect (if overly pissed-off) summation of my opinion of coffee that tastes like anything other than plain, black coffee. Denis Leary overly-pissed off? Now that is a scary thought. Do you work for those guys or are you just found of their logo? I love that logo. ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/47651066/3939925) | | From: |  seanorange |
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| Date: | February 7th, 2006 04:26 pm (UTC) |
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Whose is it?
~Sean Colin, help me with this. Charlie's company is the one that makes SpermWear, but I can't remember the name of the company off the top of my head. Do you happen to know? | | From: | sacredspud |
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| Date: | February 7th, 2006 07:47 pm (UTC) |
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Sadly I don't recall, and I'm not sure I want to get caught searching for it at work. Either way though, it's a great logo. Yes, I work for the company, it's called Minitube (and this is Charlie, btw :) ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/72843475/1057055) | | From: | xoshua |
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| Date: | February 6th, 2006 09:18 pm (UTC) |
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i want bosses like that. well, really, just dry-erase board fun like that. Yeah... Remember when I used to write clever things on the board we had at Washburn Street? I really miss that. Being clever, I mean. | | From: | xoshua |
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| Date: | February 7th, 2006 07:26 am (UTC) |
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i miss the cheaper rent, and free laundry, and a better parking, and... well, i miss more than you being clever. how about i leave it at that? Two simple words: Früvous RULES! Dude, don't you like anything that sucks? Well, anything that I like that sucks, you would also like. I don't think Colin would exactly care to be sucked by a perverted man in bad makeup.... you forgot Space Invader's Wrist... I've never heard of that ailment, but I can totally see how one would get it. Space Invaders Wrist was the name for Carpal Tunnel back in the 80s... I wouldn't take a day off over it, but I've got a wicked Soul Callous going. your boss is cool, hope you're feeling better. We've got to go to Mother Fools sometime soon. :) |
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