Archive for
June, 2004
June 30th, 2004
Talking politics is a quick way to make friends and enemies these days. Personally, I have tried not to discuss politics or religion in my journals or with my friends “back home”. For the most part I discovered that some people tend to take both subjects way too personally and feel the fanatical need to convert everyone they know to the “right” way of thinking which is of course always their way. Some of my friends “back home” had a penchant for getting into loud, angry, pissing matches over politics, religion, and sometimes even books and movies
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Tags: politics, dysfunctional drama, George W. Bush, outsourcing, Afghanistan, Gay Rights, abortion, pro-choice, WMD, innocent, detainees, Homeland Security, Terrorists
June 28th, 2004
MJ in all of her hyperactive wisdom convinced me to take a glass art class. Now I know that those of you who’ve been following my life for a while might feel a bit panicked at the idea of someone with a penchant for slicing open her left hand with everything from scissors to a manual can-opener taking a class where they allow her to cut glass into shards and use a grinder, but I made it through the first class with just a small glass splinter.
The class itself is all the way in Lisbon Falls so now I’ve
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Tags: Anne Rice, discombobulated
June 24th, 2004
Monday, Jennx left a comment about a fear that is lingering from her first job about being called into her boss’ office because only negative things happened the few times she was. I’ve been thinking about that and looking back over my 10+ years of job experience since college. I have a similar fear/paranoia issue about being called into my boss’ office. In fact, I’m really uncomfortable with any private conversations with my boss.
This wasn’t always the case. I loved my first two bosses in my first two non-customer service jobs.
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June 20th, 2004
Have I mentioned how much I love living in a small town. I never thought I would. I always thought I was too much of a city girl to like living in the woods on the edge of a small town.
But I do.
I love that I don’t have to set my alarm clock on Sunday to get my newspaper before someone steals it. In fact, if I don’t remember to go out and get it, it’ll still be there Monday morning.
I love that there are walking paths in
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June 20th, 2004
I don’t know exactly how long I’ve been having this recurring dream. I can’t recall if it started before i lost my job or after or even if it started after I moved and started this job. I do know that I’ve had it quite a few times and it’s a bit disturbing.
I dream that I’m at work in an office building. It’s not my old office building but it’s not my new office building. I believe it’s somewhat big and white but it’s not a sky-scraper. It has a parking below but
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June 20th, 2004
So, I got my butt out of bed early on Saturday morning to head over to PortConMaine 2004. The website indicated it was an anime/gaming convention. I thought it would be a good place to go meet other gamers and hopefully find people like me, adults who play roleplaying games and Mayfair Empire Builder Games (gotta love crayons).
I perhaps should have suspected something when the girl taking money at The Table of the Gods (registration) was surprised I was paying for a 2 day pass. It was $20 for both days. I think one
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June 18th, 2004
In the days prior to my involuntary separation of myself and my previous job, I was quite the busy bee. I had a 2 week vacation coming up and wanted to get everything set up and cleaned up in case someone needed something while I was away because I simply didn’t want them calling me in New Mexico on vacation. I updated documentation that was out of date and no one else would touch. I resolved several long-standing issues and set things in motion to have them moved into the production environment. I documented the things
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Tags: paranoia, anxiety
June 16th, 2004
Well, I finally got my copy of the report and here is what it says:
Note: I am vehicle 1 and the guy who hit everyone is vehicle 2
“Vehicles three and four were stopped in traffic waiting for traffic to clear. Veh 1 was trying to make a lane change. Veh 2 tried to avoid Veh1 but contact was made. Veh 2 could not stop in time to avoid Veh 3 pushing her into Veh 4…”
The last few words are difficult to read. The little picture shows Vehicles 2, 3, and
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June 16th, 2004
O.K. So the insurance company representing the truck in the front of the accident and the driver who hit everyone has been calling and leaving messages on my answering machine. My Insurance company told me they would call and talk to them. However, the evil insurance company won’t return my insurance company’s calls. So I called this morning and talked to the evil insurance rep and told him that I couldn’t speak with him but he was welcome to talk to my rep. There were a few brief words and basically he told me that the
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June 16th, 2004
O.K. I’m working on making all kinds of updates to the nmallory.exit-23.net suite of sites. Mostly I’ve removed a few unnecessary journals like the book and picture one.
Because of issues with my hosting service, Nothing Tastes As Good (my weight loss journal had become too large to update without causing server issues that resulted in them locking my account randomly. So, I sadly downloaded the site to my laptop and removed it and did a fresh install of the GreyMatter journalling software.
Because of those same issues, I cannot make any
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June 15th, 2004
Note: Written on 5/27/04…no idea why it wasn’t posted previously…
Life in a Northern town is kind of quiet. One one hand I’m bored and I would like folks to do things with outside of work but on the other, I’m not homesick or particularly lonely as of yet. I actually feel a little guilty about not missing everyone tons and tons to tears but to be honest, toward the end, I didn’t feel very close to some of them. I just think we were all getting on with our lives — though I had that emotional distress
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Tags: Shrek 2, migraine
June 15th, 2004
So far June isn’t going real dandy.
On June 1rst, I was driving to work on I-295. It was overcast and rainy and the traffic was heavier than usual due to people leftover from the Memorial Day weekend. Exit 6A is where I usually get off the interstate and it is one of the more poorly designed off ramp in that at the beginning of the ramp, it’s actually an entrance ramp for cars wanting to get onto the interstate. After the entrance ramp, the interstate widens into a three lane for a few feet so that cars
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Tags: car accident
