Monday, June 23, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
One Side of a Conversation …
… that I had yesterday afternoon with a co-worker:
Thanks! Yep, Ann Taylor. I just got it. No, I literally just got it, like five minutes ago.
Because I was walking outside on the way back from lunch and a pigeon pooped on my sweater.
No, I’m dead serious. It was in two places on my sweater and all over my wallet.
But did you see what I was wearing earlier? It was a green-and-white argyle sweater, and the poop landed on the white part right in the middle of my chest. And I’m not sure I knew this before, but pigeon poop is not white. It looked like I dropped a Hershey bar on myself. Even just in the four blocks back to the office people were staring and I really didn’t want people staring at my chest all day, so I had to get this.
Oh, sure, I love an excuse to shop. I’m not denying that.
You’d think, but this isn’t even the first time. When my husband and I went to visit his folks when they were living in Dallas, we went to the aquarium there and in the rainforest exhibit, a parrot or a toucan or something pooped all over my sweater then, too. And that one was cashmere! I was so pissed.
No, you’re fine -- it’s totally funny now. It wasn’t funny when I was walking around wearing pigeon poop, but it’s funny now. See you later!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Anniversary
Because M is an incredibly good sport, we spent last night -- our fourth anniversary -- at a Twins game. The tickets came courtesy of Tom, one of the outside counsels used by M's company and an all-around mensch who helps M keep his sanity at work. Turned out to be good seats, too!
The cute couple next to us, who took the picture above, have been married thirty years.
The All-Star ballot. Had to vote for some current Twins and my former boyfriend.
Home-town Joe.
Shortstop Brendan Harris. Pros: He wears the short pants, which we likey (the long pants look more like pajamas than baseball). Cons: His performance at bat.
The Good Doctor, Justin Morneau (the best thing to come out of Canada since the round meat on eggs benedict), just before he homered up to the second deck. Boom!
Ladies and gentlemen, closer extraordinaire Joe Nathan.
And on the walk home from the train, we saw two bunnies and six kitties. It was a good night!
Shortstop Brendan Harris. Pros: He wears the short pants, which we likey (the long pants look more like pajamas than baseball). Cons: His performance at bat.
The Good Doctor, Justin Morneau (the best thing to come out of Canada since the round meat on eggs benedict), just before he homered up to the second deck. Boom!
Ladies and gentlemen, closer extraordinaire Joe Nathan.
And on the walk home from the train, we saw two bunnies and six kitties. It was a good night!
P.S. We were especially tickled to be sharing June 17 as a wedding date with some very happy couples in California.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Do NOT "Suck on This"
Last year, I documented here how much I like my business line within the company. It’s small, it’s entrepreneurial (compared to the other business lines here), and the people are just great. Proof of that: a bunch of them are big fans, as I am, of “The Office.” This is why there’s a Schrutebuck and a photo of a Support the Rabid bracelet posted in our common area.
I’ve also documented here how crappy the systems-conversion-slash-merger was this year. The fallout is, well, it’s still happening, but things calmed down for me around June 1. Before that, it was pretty bad. One of the things that helped was knowing I could come into work on any Friday morning and, say, open my Outlook inbox to see an e-mail from our associate general counsel reading "Fashion show at lunch!" or "It's just noise coming out of an ugly scientist."
On a particularly ugly Friday (it might have been the Friday before our annual conference – the same Friday I actually broke down in tears during a phone call with our CIO, Jeff), Tammy opened my office door, slipped her hand in, and slapped a huge Post-it on the back of my door. It read SUCK ON THIS. I laughed so hard that I almost fell out of my chair. (If you saw the episode, you know Michael’s going-away present to Toby, his nemesis in the office, is a Post-it reading SUCK ON THIS wrapped around a rock. If you missed it, go here.)
That was at least three weeks ago and every time I close my office door, I see the Post-it and laugh. I thought a couple of times about taking it down, but then Tammy will come into my office for something-or-other and see it and laugh, and I’ll decide to leave it up some more. You know, for office morale.
Well.
I just met with a very nice person from Compliance (which, you know, is like Legal and HR – they’re not the department you want to mess with in a corporate environment) whom I'd never met before. The meeting was in my office. John came in, introduced himself, was very cordial and pleasant, and sat down. I got up to close the door and as the door was 90% closed (really, it was like it was in slow motion), I realized that the giant neon Post-it reading "SUCK ON THIS" was still there. I froze.
John saw either the Post-it or the horror on my face (which made him then look at the Post-it) and kind of looked at me.
"Um, do you watch ‘The Office’?" I asked.
"Sometimes, but not often," he replied.
"Oh, see, this is a joke,” I said feebly, “because one of the characters… you know, it's probably not the best thing for me to … anyway, I'll just take this down now."
He didn’t say anything else about it or reference it on his way out, but I sorta gotta wonder whether I’ll get the call from HR.
I’ve also documented here how crappy the systems-conversion-slash-merger was this year. The fallout is, well, it’s still happening, but things calmed down for me around June 1. Before that, it was pretty bad. One of the things that helped was knowing I could come into work on any Friday morning and, say, open my Outlook inbox to see an e-mail from our associate general counsel reading "Fashion show at lunch!" or "It's just noise coming out of an ugly scientist."
On a particularly ugly Friday (it might have been the Friday before our annual conference – the same Friday I actually broke down in tears during a phone call with our CIO, Jeff), Tammy opened my office door, slipped her hand in, and slapped a huge Post-it on the back of my door. It read SUCK ON THIS. I laughed so hard that I almost fell out of my chair. (If you saw the episode, you know Michael’s going-away present to Toby, his nemesis in the office, is a Post-it reading SUCK ON THIS wrapped around a rock. If you missed it, go here.)
That was at least three weeks ago and every time I close my office door, I see the Post-it and laugh. I thought a couple of times about taking it down, but then Tammy will come into my office for something-or-other and see it and laugh, and I’ll decide to leave it up some more. You know, for office morale.
Well.
I just met with a very nice person from Compliance (which, you know, is like Legal and HR – they’re not the department you want to mess with in a corporate environment) whom I'd never met before. The meeting was in my office. John came in, introduced himself, was very cordial and pleasant, and sat down. I got up to close the door and as the door was 90% closed (really, it was like it was in slow motion), I realized that the giant neon Post-it reading "SUCK ON THIS" was still there. I froze.
John saw either the Post-it or the horror on my face (which made him then look at the Post-it) and kind of looked at me.
"Um, do you watch ‘The Office’?" I asked.
"Sometimes, but not often," he replied.
"Oh, see, this is a joke,” I said feebly, “because one of the characters… you know, it's probably not the best thing for me to … anyway, I'll just take this down now."
He didn’t say anything else about it or reference it on his way out, but I sorta gotta wonder whether I’ll get the call from HR.
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