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03 July 2006

Who else has to work today? Besides me, of course. My train was EMPTY this morning.

post by: sisterhavana at: 10:26 | 29 comments

I'm at work... not getting a whole lot done, but I'm here.

posted by BoringPostcards 03 July | 10:28

I was meant to be at work today because it's not a holiday in England but after my nightmare drive home last night (2-hour journey turned into 6 hours) I took a day's holiday today.

I've spent most of the day indoors with the fan on. It's far too hot to be outside.

Send snow!

posted by essexjan 03 July | 10:31

I'm at work. I have a lot to do, and I've managed to piss away the whole morning. Oh well...

posted by gaspode 03 July | 10:42

I'm at work.

posted by box 03 July | 10:45

I'm not at work. Whether I should be or not is debatable, but fuck it.

posted by mullacc 03 July | 10:55

I'm at work, in the physical sense anyway... here in Canada today would be the official day off for Canada Day (July 1st).

posted by clevershark 03 July | 10:58

Me. I'm at work. Kind of working. Kind of hung over.

posted by Specklet 03 July | 10:58

/me burps, wallows

I did the sensible thing and took the day off. My new kidneys are due in from Bangalore at three, and I have a party I have to make later on. Wish me luck?

posted by trondant 03 July | 11:01

I'm at work, reading the web, slipping out to run errands, and trying to figure out when I can respectably leave for the day.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 03 July | 11:11

I'm at work, but no one else is so I'm doing all the back-ups.

posted by small_ruminant 03 July | 11:13

I'm hoping to be at work today, since I have a zillion things to do.

posted by cmonkey 03 July | 11:14

Good luck trondant.

I'm here. Fiscal year starts July 1. Local governments panic. Solution? Call me and scream "OH MY GOD WE FORGOT TO BIND INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR 06-07!!!" Actually, that mostly happened Friday. I still have a lot of paperwork to slog through.

Keep me hoppin' bunnies!

posted by rainbaby 03 July | 11:15

I'm at work, mostly peering at what I did on the weekend, hoping it all still holds up and I can head out around lunchtime.

posted by tangerine 03 July | 11:20

I;m at work. In my business, other people's holidays are often our bread and butter. So be it; at least I get to be at fun celebrations.

And I'm taking Thursday and Friday off in revenge and hope enjoy a (relatively) uncrowded beach. So there, vacationers.

posted by Miko 03 July | 11:52

Not working. Big tasks for the day are:

* load out lightshow equipment from the Purple Church

* buy swimsuit for GF and try to convince her to wear it (so we can swim in public places.) This is likely a fool's errand and no doubt will lead to some sort of interesting situation, not necessarily a good one. But one must try.

Feel free to offer advice on the question of "What does one do when a GF insists on swimming nude?"

posted by warbaby 03 July | 11:56

I'm at work. There were thunderstorms all night, and I'm really tired.

posted by halonine 03 July | 12:00

warbaby: give a girl a place to hang her bikini, of course. I mean, as someone once so elegantly put it, "Duh!"

posted by trondant 03 July | 12:20

I just did my work for the day, recording some audio commentary via phone for an upcoming (like in 6 weeks) MSNBC.com feature. If this works out, in time (like a year or two) I might work my way up to doing Olbermann's show on the TV channel. Yeah, sure. I'll be their resident expert on cartoon characters.

posted by wendell 03 July | 12:20

Feel free to offer advice on the question of "What does one do when a GF insists on swimming nude?"

Join in. IT'S NAKED TIME! NUDITY IS FUN!

posted by jonmc 03 July | 12:33

I'm working, it's a beautiful July morning in Santiago, Chile.

posted by signal 03 July | 12:38

Those shitfucker bosses of mine made me come in, because it's month-end and quarter-end, and so I hit my desk to find out that I'm training someone new to do my daily work. During month-end and quarter-end, the busiest times of the year. What shithead makes these decisions? (Actually, I know who, and I know they're going to hell, so it's all just fine).

Anyway, it's been hectic to say the least here. They want me here tomorrow, but they can blow it out their ass. Buncha fucking pricks.

posted by Hugh Janus 03 July | 13:13

. My train was EMPTY this morning.

good: crowded trains are kinda lame

posted by matteo 03 July | 13:29

I'm at work. All my contacts are off today, so I have nothing to do. Hopefully they'll let me go early.

And I haven't been able to get to metachat all day, it was just timing out until now.

posted by kellydamnit 03 July | 14:40

GodDAMNIT, why doesn't my boss go home so I can sneak out? She wasn't even supposed to be here today.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 03 July | 15:02

Followup: pink bathing suit accepted with thanks. Some concern that it might be too small (unlikely, but the concern was expressed.) Thank god it wasn't too big.

The suit was in the window of a thrift store run by some very nice little old ladies. When I got the suit, the LOL put the flower lei that was hung with it in the display in the bag, too. And then she winked at me and grinned. Like I said, very nice little old ladies.

Jon, the issue wasn't getting naked, the issue was not getting naked so she would go swimming with her friends.

posted by warbaby 03 July | 15:05

Just promise head later if she behaves. Tremendous motivator.

posted by trondant 03 July | 16:54

Dudes!!

posted by Hellbient 03 July | 18:07

Just got back from work, here. And tomorrow I will have to put in a couple of hours. Really. But then I am off. OFF!

posted by carmina 03 July | 18:14

I worked today (and I worked all weekend). I was supposed to receive the final draft of the director's foreword to drop into a book that's going to press in Hong Kong in LESS THAN A WEEK. Never arrived. So I have to be able to check my email all day tomorrow so that I can edit it and send it to our designer (in Belgium) ASAP. And people wonder why the hell we have DEADLINES in publishing.

posted by scody 03 July | 20:41

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