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absolutely fucking brilliant

Just go read this. Then send it to everyone you know.

start me up...shut me down...

ConEd -- Manhattan's power supplier -- is urging all business and residents on the East Side to power down unessential appliances. Apparantly they're having some problems with the power lines. We've already been told that we may have no power to the office building later today -- in which case, SNOW DAY! In August, no less.

On the other hand, "snow day" in 104-degree weather (112-degrees with the heat index)? Not so fun. I'll stare at my blizzard pictures and look at a real snow day!

too damn hot

This comic strip says it all.

The air conditioning is mostly broken in my office...today is gonna SUCK. >:/

so stealth, I'm like a FRICKIN' JET

Yo. So flip-flops have been forbidden footwear in our office this year, which blows. Done right, they are some of the cutest summer shoes, after all.

Anyway, everyone's been wearing them to and from the office, and changing into "other shoes" upon arrival. Today, however, I have chosen to ban the ban: I have been wearing my flip-flops ALL DAY! Call it my little personal act of rebellion, but not so much: I've been sneaking around the office, trying to walk quietly and not make that unavoidable "whop whop" sound one wears when wearing flip-flops. C'est impossible. And so I'm looking like one giant DOOFUS while trying to be all stealth.

Hey, we've got a heat index of 104 degrees out, and our office air-conditioner is running at only 2/3 capacity -- it's like a swamp in here. So clearly the heat has gotten to me. I'll start hearing "White Rabbit" any minute now, and start running around the cubicle maze muttering, "The horror...the horror..."

more fun with spam

More spam phrases of note: "sourly heartfelt," "find pursue," and "deprivation comrade."

...and then, I woke up

I had written the best blog entry EVAH! It was all about love and relationships in New York City, and everything that I wrote was so true, and everyone I knew read it and loved it, and thought it should run in New York magazine, and they were just on the verge of calling me, and...

Yup. So instead of an incredibly insightful treatise on love (and 42), you get this.

Bah.

gasp, moan, whimper...

I want one, I want one!!!

I want one EVEN MORE than a Nick Cave Doll!

not me, no, nope...

I've...uh...never done this. No, not me. Not ever. No.

: looks up at sky, whistles innocently :

(Great strip, by the way. Daily reading highly recommended!)

posters we all should have!

Everyone should have at least one of these in their office...even more if you're trying to get fired. I find the "planning" one especially apt this week. :P

: tap, tap...:

...is this thing on?

I just upgraded to Movable Type 3.31...let's see how I do now. :) I haven't installed any of the sooper-dooper stuff yet -- but the base system seems to be up and running.

w00t!

oui, wheeeee!

A little tipsy -- had a wee bit too much wine with dinner. :) Since I started with a really empty stomach, um, erm...

R and I were watching "Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within," and I started muttering things in French. "Non, tu chantons tres MAL!", etc. Since my French sucks butt, I eventually resorted to such little-known phrases as "Le Thingy!" "Je veaux le thingy!" "Je suis une thingy!"

Let's face it: I probably sound like a drunk Pepe le Pew right now. Vive la France!

total epic cuteness...

PENGUIN CAM! PENGUIM CAM! PENGUIN CAM!!!

...

That is all.

we come from the land down under...

So it thunders and rains. Then it stops. Then it happens again. Stops. Again. Stops.

WTF?

Clearly, this is God's way of keeping me from a pedicure. >:/

In other news...hugs and support to my friends in Astoria without power for the fifth day. I know for a fact that my former apartment building is affected -- and the bullshit keeps getting shoveled. One day, ConEd says 2,400 are without power...and that's now been upped to 25,000. No big difference, eh? And it's an area with a lot of elderly residents, who also have no food, either...no power, no fridge, no food.

Hope the lights are on soon, guys...