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16 November 2005
Someone just said to me: "You rock my face off!" What'd somebody just say to you?
"keswick, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?"
"The thing about Jews is, if you get in a fight with them, grab them on the thigh. The inside of the thigh; they're flabby there. You pinch, and it hurts like hell."
No, seriously, I was just told that. So I turned back to my desk, bewildered, until my interlocutor left on his own.
Crazy to hear shit like that. Last night, I overheard two guys passing beneath my window. One said:
"So we know he likes wine, and beer, and pork. He likes to eat pork; rice and beans, and pork. So we know he's Spanish."
Earlier today I was standing on the loading dock, smoking a cigarette and this guy I know who lives in the building above my office was talking to me, then he said, "ok, I gotta go to the bank, I'll see you faggots later."
The funny part is that he is flamboyantly gay and I was the only person there. I laughed so hard that I got that awesome side pain.
Heh, jrossi4r. I just misread that as something like "when's wolfdaddy coming?" and had a serious ACK WTF!? moment.
Today I heard "Can you write me some instructions on how to put stuff on my iPod?" as well as "Show me how to get email on my phone, and write me something for that, too."
To which I said "Sure thing!" because they're paying me 13/hr. I also wrote a mini FAQ on how to use BitTorrent. Yeah, I'm a dirty whore.
But I'm going in for a second job interview tommorow, after which I'll hopefully just be a plain old vanilla corporate whore again. I actually get to demonstrate my k-rad cat-5 terminating skills. Woo. Err, *yawn* I mean.
But I think I'm going to have to (mildly) bluff my way through Windows Server 2003, XP and RIS. *goes back to consuming data like an industrial metal shredder in a scrapyard*
Then there was some guy at the laundromat shouting happily into his cel phone in Spanish, but all I caught was guapa, rapidamente, claro and por que? so I had to fill in the blanks with my overactive imagination.
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