Thursday, February 28, 2008

I Could Never Get the Hang of Thursdays, Either

Me: What does today feel like?

Co-Worker: What do you mean?

Me: Doesn’t it feel like it should be Friday already?

Co-Worker: No, not really.

Me: Oh man, if you asked me, today feels like it should be Friday. This week is dragging like the seventeen ton anchor of a cargo ship full of Wal-Mart knick-knacks.

Co-Worker: It’s Tuesday.

Me: I know! That’s what makes it so bizarre. I’m telling you, my internal clock thinks today is Friday. I have Loverboy’s Working for the Weekend rattling around in my head. And I have all day. It’s been like this all day. Today feels like it must be Friday.

Co-Worker: I can see how that might be a problem, I guess. That’s a horrible song.

Me: Right. Absolutely. But haven’t you ever had one of those days where you felt like it was Thursday or Friday or whatever, but in reality, it’s just a dumb old Tuesday afternoon and Friday is about a week and a half away? You are sitting at your desk, thinking, “Man, this week is taking forever to go by. I don’t think time could pass any slower if we started suspending it in a full jar of molasses and left it sitting out in the snow overnight.” Or like if you ordered a pleasant Friday afternoon a couple weeks ago from the Day Catalog and the nice customer service person says “Sure, I can order that for you” but it turns out all the Fridays are on back order, but they expect a new shipment any moment now and then they offer you two Wednesdays instead and they’ll email you once they get Fridays in stock?

Co-Worker: Um, no?

Me: Or! What about those times when you have absolutely no idea what day it is. Say, you are about to go to lunch and think, “Hey, the Deli has that Rueben special on Tuesdays. That sounds really good and yummy. I wonder if it’s Tuesday.” So you take a wild stabbing guess and say “Tuesday” and it turns out to be wildly off and it’s Friday and it’s not even morning anymore, but it’s 3:46 in the afternoon and you totally forgot to even go to lunch. That never happens to you?

Co-Worker: Um, if I don’t know what day it is, I don’t usually guess, I just look at a calendar.

Me: Oh. Well, this week is totally dragging is all I’m saying.

Jon scribbled this mess on 02/28/08 at 12:02 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Public Humiliation, Part 421

Beat Down from Jon Deal on Vimeo.

(give it a few shakes of a lamb’s tail to load)

This is the second piece I read at the Live Blogging Extravaganza.

More here from Pete and I’ll have the rest there as well. Probably one a day.

Jon scribbled this mess on 02/26/08 at 09:41 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Monday, February 25, 2008

More Excuses

An exhaustive list of why I haven’t been writing much lately (or this week).

Fighting a Nazi infestation in the backyard

Going through the video frames from the SLC BLogging Event one by one, to erase the boogers I unknowingly sported

Pushing my toe rash grant money application through the CDC bureaucracy

I gave up caffeine last week and I can’t rub two synapses together and form coherent thoughts

Acid flashback

Still in a staff meeting from last week. Send help and provisions!

Ran out of vowels and haven’t had a chance to get to the store

Hillary keeps calling and asking for advice

Bad pickle at lunch. Been burping dill for days. Can’t shake it.

Wait, I have a Web site? How long have I had one of those?

Anyway.

Posting will be light until I feel like it. Suck it, people.

Wait, that came out wrong.

I’ll be back in a week or so.

Though I will have video from the Live Blogging thing-y up Real Soon Now™.

Jon scribbled this mess on 02/25/08 at 10:27 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Is This Some Kind of Opposition Research Thing?

Seriously.

And don’t you think that instead of the line, “Any glass ceiling, she’ll break it” the line should be “Any old pants suit, she’ll wear it”?

I have to wonder, don’t you think that someone on the other side, either from Senator Obama’s or McCain’s camp has to be planting this stuff?

Jon scribbled this mess on 02/21/08 at 09:46 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Do NOT, Under Any Circumstances Look These People in the Eye

We did a Bloggers Live thing this afternoon.

Ten very smart, very funny people reading various entries from their blogs.

SO AWESOME my face hurts thinking about it.

I’ll be cranking on the videos of the reading for the next little while. I’ll post them as soon as I’m done compositing Brad Pitt’s head and torso onto my fat frame. Anyone have Industrial Light & Magic’s phone number?

I kind of forgot to take pics right at first, but I did take a few.

You should have come.

We missed you.

Jon scribbled this mess on 02/17/08 at 10:28 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

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