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I’m a Tom Petty fan.
I’m not a fangirl (that’s a level of devotion saved for very few celebrities, like Seth Rogen and Jack Bauer [NOT Kiefer Sutherland, just that particular character] and Keith Olbermann), but I like his music. I probably burned through at least 3 copies of Full Moon Fever before I was […]

First off- Sorry, Amazon.com.  Apparently it wasn’t all your fault, and I have removed the offensive post about you.  I should have known never to doubt you…. and you have no idea how happy I am to know that you are, at least kind of, innocent.  I’ll go back to saving up for that Kindle […]

We kind of have an unspoken rule here at work- “look busy.”
I can’t exactly knit at my desk, nor can I sew, or do other useful things that some folks can get away with, but if my work is done, I can do pretty much anything short of Karaoke so long as it resembles […]

I’m proofreading a construction manual.  This manual is intended to be kept on hand by all construction managers, and thus, it must be easy to read, fairly simple, and, most likely, waterproof.
It was written by the Boss of Construction.  He’s a nice man, I swear.  He does excellent work.  The grammar?  Notsomuch…
Capital Offenses:

“Ill placed” quotation […]

I didn’t sleep well last night.  It was largely due to the weatherman’s late night speech:  “Chickie, a tree is SO going to land on your house.  You’re lucky if you see the highway for WEEKS!  I hope you’ve got lots of spam… hahaha!  You’re going to need it.  Might ought to move your truck, […]

A coworker came into my office yesterday and was surprised by what I was listening to.  Granted, my preferred XM Station, Lucy, was a bit angry at the moment, and I can see how Rob Zombie may not be everyone’s idea of appropriate workplace music.  Anyhow- he made a suggestion that I immediately took him […]

Remember this post?
It no longer applies.  The LSU testing center just called me and informed me that they’d re-evaluated their grading procedures and decided that I’d passed.  I’ll have to wait a few weeks to get my paperwork dealt with, but I get to be a full-fledged, “commission expires with life”, legal in every parish […]

I’m really trying not to fall off the blogging bus, but honestly, I have an excuse this week!  A pretty good excuse… which brings me around to today’s poll:
If you walk into a coworker’s office at the lunch hour (after returning to the office with your own lunch) and she is sitting at her desk […]

The CPA that handles the “big” stuff for my work and his son have been Rickrolling one another back and forth for the past few months.  I found this out when the son (who works here for the summer) mentioned it in passing.
A few hours ago, the CPA asked me to turn on LogMeIn so […]

“When you get really angry, you should close your eyes and count to 10 really slowly while breathing deeply.  That way, when you punch a bitch in the nose, you’re not out of breath and you can run like hell.” — coworker Sara