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So is this secretly “make your co-workers miserable week” or something? I walked into my boss’s office this afternoon and told him that I really wanted to strangle a certain co-worker. Fortunately, my boss is a nice, supportive guy who said he understood there was already a pretty significant line for that event. Also, he told me that I was right and the other person was wrong. (That wasn’t all that hard as it was true.) But that at least gave me the ammunition I needed to make the person get out of my way. Hope everyone else’s work starts to go smoother…

Who knew there was such a big “don’t really care for Las Vegas” club? I’m part of that too. Never been there; don’t really feel the need to go.

Also, I appear to be a member of the “put stuff in quotation marks” society today. Which I’m not usually; I’m more a parentheses, hyphens, & ellipses kinda gal. And semi-colons. Gotta love those semi-colons.

Rifty, hate to be unsympathetic about class-to-class distances, but I went to a school where there were 20-minute breaks between classes because that was not an unusual distance to have to walk (Michigan State University, Go Spartans!, I bleed green and white, etc. etc. etc. except that I’m not really that big of a sports fan so who cares anyhoo?). I fondly remember my freshman year when my 8:00 class was at the other end of campus and I had to cross the tundra to get there, pretty much still in the dark. Really, that’s what the field was commonly called. And there was a good reason for it. It was not a pretty winter. As for the “Going to class is an exercise in the conservation of gravitational potential energy.” line…I’ve forgotten all my physics, so I’m unable to process this. Sadly, I haven’t seen Remember the Titans, but I’ll be insanely jealous anyway. Just because.

May I have some of those cinnamon buns, Lissla? They sound good. Dinner was ravioli in sage brown butter. With sage from my garden because it’s so warm there are still leaves that haven’t dried out. And dark chocolate with hazelnuts again. Because it’s good for me. The newspaper said so.

I am once again grateful not to have any pukey pets. Really, I like animals, but having to clean up after them and keep them fed and keep litter boxes clean or keep them walked…I’m just too lazy. Also, the finding someone to take care of them when you’re out of town part would make me crazy. So I feel free to pet and admire everyone else’s pets.

Puggy, hope the nose is getting more cooperative. I have a teeny tiny bit of a sore throat and am speaking to it very sternly every 1/2 hour in the hopes of averting illness. I don’t have time to be sick…!!! Besides, I was already sick back in October and November. So, there! :stuck_out_tongue:

I read Shogun a really really long time ago. Might have been in high school or early college. All I remember about it is that I liked it.

I’m sure there was more, but I’ll spare you the extra rambling…

Is it Friday yet? (Almost…almost!!!)

GT

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Oh, I saw it Mika. You’re well on your way to being a crochety old woman :: ducks and runs ::

Okay, the gravity thing really quick. If I lift something up to a certain height it gains a certain amount of gravitational potential energy (GPE), and if I then put it down, it goes back to having exactly the same amount of GPE that it had before I touched it, so we say that GPE is conserved. The RPI campus is composed almost solely of hills and stairs. You can take it from there.

Thanks Ashes[sup]2[/sup]!! I’ll be sure to use them. :smiley: And gt, thanks for being jealous anyway. I’m back now from Boone’s talk. Sweet stinky CHEESE that man is long-winded. And a bit over-fixated on racism, IMHO, but given what he did, I suppose that’s his thing. He was fascinating to listen to, and he has a kickass sense of humor. His advice on a pickup line? “Excuse me miss, I seem to be lost. Can you tell me how to get to Cuba?” :smiley:

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Are you kidding? Isn’t that one of my rights as an old women? Being crochety?

Besides, I just turned 30, and you know what they say about 30 year old women?

It’s all true. :cool: Right, Drae?

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Er, as for the rest of what you said, it was all in English, and I liked all the words, but together it makes little to no sense. And sound suspiciously like Physics. :dubious:

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I’ve got boots older’n you. :stuck_out_tongue:

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How about that Vegas trip, then?
Your wife is going to leap through the screen and strangle me.

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If you have boots older’n **Mika[/ b], you probably have SOCKS older’n me. I’m 21.

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Are there any MMPers in Vegas?

I only ask because the wife and I are taking a trip out there in February.

To look at buildings <snerk>!

Actually, we’re going because people say you have to do Vegas once in your life, and this is our once. Besides, I want to play some poker.

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I think so. Mandy the Martian and her child-husband got rid of two cats a couple of weeks ago because they were hard to take care of. Yesterday, they got a doberman puppy. I’m really pissed about it. If they didn’t have time for cats, which are pretty much self-sufficient, how they hell are they going to raise a dog that needs intensive training? When she said they got the dog (from a puppy farm, no less), I said somethng like, “Well, I guess you needed something to fill the whole the cats left.” I think she understands that I do not want to hear her bitchin’ about the dog in the days and weeks to come.

The rocket to Pluto launched yesterday. I’m kinda excited about it, even though we’re going to have to wait nine years for the first pictures to be received. But I think it’s pretty sweet just how fast this thing is moving towards its goal. But that’s just the science geek in me talking.

My girl cat stays away from me during the day, but at night jumps up onto my bed and tries to hump my arm.

Viva Las Vegas!!!

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Today I went swimming as usual, but I had a problem. The very cute female coach for the Grampa Fish swim team I usually share the pool with decided to do some laps herself. Every time I caught sight of her purple swimsuit, I lost count of my laps. :smack:

My male hormones still work… :wink:

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Just wait till we hit 35–isn’t that when women are supposed to reach their sexual peak? :wink:

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Well, I did say he was an alien.

gt, I hope you have better luck than me. Nose is still dripping. Thank Og, though, quitting smoking has taken the punch outta the coughin up part…I think…so far.

bobbio, of course your hormones is workin. Last I knew those bits don’t get removed during your type of surgery. :smiley:

sean, mandy has just been lowered in my book from mildly amusing to evil ho. Poor lil puppy. :frowning:

I think it’s gonna be chinese for dinner tonite. Some spicey lomein noodles are soundin pretty nummy.

Tupug

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Is it 35? I thought it was just general 30’s. Hmm, so I’m still rising, eh? :wink:

I dreamt about another Doper last night. I’m not gonna say who, since it wasn’t an MMP’er, but basically we went to a haunted house together and it was the SCARIEST haunted house ever. But lots of fun! And then we stayed up and watched horror movies.

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To my knowledge, it’s 35-45. Which isn’t a peak, it’s a plateau.

I feel very, very sorry for the man I inflict my sexual plateau upon. I hope he’ll have health insurance.

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I just had to share this one, since I don’t have a forutne cookie this week.

A man wanted to get married. He was having trouble choosing among three likely candidates. He gives each woman a present of $5,000 and watches to see what they do with the money.

The first does a total make over. She goes to a fancy beauty salon gets her hair done, new make up and buys several new outfits and dresses up very nicely for the man. She tells him that she has done this to be more attractive for him because she loves him so much. The man was impressed.

The second goes shopping to buy the man gifts. She gets him a new set of golf clubs, some new gizmos for his computer, and some expensive clothes. As she presents these gifts, she tells him that she has spent all the money on him because she loves him so much. Again, the man is impressed.

The third invests the money in the stock market. She earns several times the $5,000. She gives him back his $5000 and reinvests the remainder in a joint account. She tells him that she wants to save for their future because she loves him so much. Obviously, the man was impressed.

The man thought for a long time about what each woman had done with the
money he’d given her. Then he married the one with the biggest boobs. Because men are like that.

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FCM do keep us updated on FCD’s recovery and the puking cat. Maybe it was just general cat hairball puking. Cats like to do that.

I get to wash wine glasses this weekend. Well, my dishwasher gets to wash wine glasses. See, we ordered a thousand wine glasses for work. What? Doesn’t every work place need wine glasses with their logo on ‘em? Anyways, we estimate that we will need 400 wine glasses for the upcomin’ do next Thursday night, so we’re washing 500 of 'em this weekend being as they are brand new and all. You wash extra just to be sure. Now, for the really tacky part. We’ll be using the wine glasses for champagne. :eek: That is just so wrong. I’m not pouring, thank Og, cause I think I’d get my gay license pulled for doing such a fox paw as that. IMAGINE! Pouring champagne into a wine glass! :eek: TRES TACKY! QUELLE UNCOOTH! It’s something one would expect someone from UCLA!*

[sub]Un*-C**ultured Lower Alabama[/sub]

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I never really had a desire to go to Vegas, but I went anyway and had a fabulous time. I didn’t drink (well, maybe a little) or gamble, but we went to some shows, like the Tournament of Kings show at Excalibur. It was fun, 'cause we got to eat brocolli with our hands.

My cat’s pukey pretty much all the time, but she can get away with it 'cause she’s almost 20 and we let her do what she wants.

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Cripes–I very well COULD be Spat’s mom…I am 43.

But I am NOT your mother! Gack. Paging Mrs Robinson…

Coolness exponential (trying to retain some o’ that GRE math-heh) for interviewing whoever that is. I vaguely remember something with that title, but never read/saw/heard of it in detail…

I went to school in the foothills of Colorado! Some of those inclines were quite challenging to a prairie girl like me. Then I went to Iowa for the rest of my schooling–no prairie there–if anything, the bluffs were steeper! :eek: So, I am quite familiar with the concept, although I have no idea what you are talking about…
and speaking of sexual plateaus…<snerk>. It keeps getting better, ladies, that’s all I’ll say.

Eye place would not make my son new glasses. Rx is too old (doc has not changed his script in past 2 years, but tell them that). Doc’s office would not release Rx because script is 2 years old (on his chart that he has the same script, but tell them that).

So, upshot is that #2 son goes to eye doc on Tuesday for exam and new glasses.
Sometimes I feel like I’m dancing but noone told me the beat.

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I’m, ahem, 42 and all I have to say is …

Lemme hear you say AMEN sister!!!

:wink:

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I’m back! I was out sick for two days. Boy, two days of mostly sleeping does wonders for a person.

But then, after two days of feeling shitty, I come back to find out that my boss did something crappy that’s going to make ME look bad. Gah! I’m sooooo glad I’m leaving here soon.

At least KeithT’s coming for the weekend. We’re going to go check out the place where we want to have our wedding. Then I’m going out there next weekend and we’re going to have dinner with some of family friends (my side), stay with his parents, hang out in Milwaukee, meet his grandparents, and hopefully get an engagement photo taken so I can submit the announcements to the newspapers. So if I can survive a few days of work between now and then, I’ll have a nice weekend.

I was hoping to move to MN around the same time **KeithT **does, but now I’m thinking it wouldn’t be bad to move sooner. My job’s really getting pretty sucky. :frowning:

Oh, and Vegas really is cool. I don’t drink and I don’t gamble and the first time I went (for a work convention) I was totally dreading it and thinking I was going to hate it. But it’s really a cool city and worth visiting once. Especially if you like hot weather and relaxing by the pool or going to the spa or eating constantly or taking day trips to Hoover Dam/Lake Mead and the mountains and seeing all the different casinos and stuff. I definitely recommend it even if you think it’s not the kind of place you like. Normally, I prefer cities with history and museums and stuff, but really Vegas rocks.