Talking on the phone just made it worse. I just attempted a contrite email. We'll see. I've never been in a proper squabble at work before.
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01:57:09 PM,
Wednesday 7 February 2007
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Roommate watch: On the other hand, the Timothy Carney in charge of Reconstruction in Iraq is someone else entirely.
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05:53:22 PM,
Tuesday 6 February 2007
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I appear to have provoked a coworker into a towering rage. Some of you who had classes with me can probably understand how she feels. But that aside, I left her a phone message trying to smooth it over, but she hasn't called back, and skipped our weekly status meeting. I'm not sure what I can do. I'm in the right, of course, aren't I always? but I certainly could have handled it better. The Psychedelic furs suggest another cigerette.
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02:37:06 PM,
Tuesday 6 February 2007
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My bicycle has a flat back tire. I started riding it, and something was clearly wrong, at first I thought I was cycling into the wind (which was strong enough that you had to lean into it, and that my bicycle contrived to fall over) Next I thought it was my brakes locking up, they'd been stiff from the cold this morning, but no, they worked. Then I thought it was the mudguard, and it was catching, but not enough to slow me that much. Finally I noticed the tire was completely the wrong shape. On turning the bike upside down, a little nasty 1/4 screw, right through the tire. I carry a spare tube and a tire lever, but have never used them, and wasn't about to start at dusk, at 15 degrees, with nasty winds, so walked home. I am now trying to extract information on how to change my rear tire online. I don't even know how to get the thing off. I'd always hoped it would be the front tire. (And do I even have the right sized tubes? If so, where on earth did I get them?) Will have to go pick it up once the car gets home.
While all this was going on, a handful of geese flew in, honking, barely able to make forward progress against the wind. They came in fast, one of them did two honest to god front flips after hitting the lawn. Most of the others did side rolls which looked less painful.
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05:53:20 PM,
Monday 5 February 2007
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I possess 28 complete pairs of socks, falling into 11 distinct species. Seven of these species also contain an odd sock. There are no unique socks in my collection.
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02:32:11 PM,
Sunday 4 February 2007
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I am so far gone, immured in my cubicle, shut off from humanity, sparing not a thought for the tattered shreds of my basic human dignity, that I continue to wear my bright green cycling jacket under flourescent lights. I just haven't got around to taking it off. Yesterday I actually started typing before I remembered to take off my vulcan mittens.
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12:15:20 PM,
Friday 2 February 2007
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From the Globe:
April James, 32, said she saw one of the devices in a sandy area under the Longfellow Bridge about three weeks ago.
I kicked it first, then I picked it up, said James, a hairdresser who says she walks and jogs over the bridge nearly everyday.
It looked like a bomb. I picked it up, pulled the tape off it, and there were batteries, two on the top and three on the bottom.
James said she was not frightened by the device, which she said she returned to its original spot, near the sidewalk in front of the bridge, before continuing with her walk.
I should have moved it, put it in a bin James said, while looking down from the Longfellow Bridge in the area police had gathered to detonate the bomb just minutes earlier.
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01:52:45 PM,
Thursday 1 February 2007
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From CNN
"In a news conference, Rich told reporters he had advised his clients not to discuss the incident. Stevens and Berdovsky took the podium and said they were taking questions only about haircuts in the 1970s.
When a reporter accused them of not taking the situation seriously, Stevens responded, "We're taking it very seriously." Asked another question about the case, Stevens reiterated they were answering questions only about hair and accused the reporter of not taking him and Berdovsky seriously.
Reporters did not relent and as they continued, Berdovsky disregarded their queries, saying, "That's not a hair question. I'm sorry."
Also, I bet attorney general Coakley would like this one back: "It had a very sinister appearance," Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires."
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01:39:41 PM,
Thursday 1 February 2007
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Also, my antique print of James Sant's Soul's Awakening arrived. It is, um, yes. I need to stop by the crafts shop and pick up a frame worthy of it.
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12:56:33 PM,
Thursday 1 February 2007
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I missed an obvious point, and that's that TV and hollywood have been teaching us for decades that bombs all have LED's attached. It's just how they work.
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12:17:54 PM,
Thursday 1 February 2007
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Our town makes the news! Space aliens making obscene gestures! Natty dreads! Political refugees! Tolstoy quotes! In an extremely half-hearted defense of whoever made the initial mistake here, we were all told horror stories about bombing I-93 during the democratic convention, they even closed the highway. If the case isn't thrown out on it's ear, I'd be shocked and appalled. (I'm okay with some trumped up defacement of public property charges or something, but not the bomb hoax charges they're trying out now... there are actual bomb hoaxes, and this isn't one) All that said, I'm happy that whoever first reported it hasn't been reported. Mistaking silly ads for bombs is a better mistake to make, in the end, than mistaking bombs for silly ads.
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12:10:33 PM,
Thursday 1 February 2007
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Woodland camouflage while ice fishing. That is all. Well, also, imagine a picture of the ends of tree branches going into a smooth bit of black ice, with a bit of snow on the near the edge of the frame, and the pond bottom barely visible. I have no functioning camera at the moment. My little one is in pieces in a bag, I've dispaired of being able to attach the new LCD myself. My big one, the battery door is broken, and as a result it's an utter pain to use.
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11:40:09 AM,
Thursday 1 February 2007
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