Happy birthday, Tom! I hope the end of the day is better than the beginning.
ita, I'm sorry. Here's to money suddenly appearing in the budget.
shrift has had a day. May she not have one like it tomorrow.
I've never been to Boston, so I can't comment on the relative rudeness of its denizens. I love NYC to bits. It fits my personality well. I don't get in anyone's way and they don't get in mine. DC is a bit too slow for me. Even though I've been here for almost 16 years, I find myself walking at New York speed which means I'm a half-mile ahead of everyone else.
Don't get me started on tourists. They do the stupidest shit. It was 6 pm and everyone is trying to get home from work. I leave the parking garage and attempt to make the turn onto North Capitol Street. There is a woman STOPPED in the crosswalk blocking all traffic so she can take a picture of the Capitol. We've got the right turn arrow, and I tap my horn to give her a clue. The rest behind me aren't so polite. She doesn't move. I roll down my window and tell her to stop blocking traffic and her husband takes offense. I get the finger, but they get a ticket for jaywalking because there was a Capitol Police officer nearby.
juliana - 'member when we got stopped short on the Wharf because the tourists were looking at the FIRE TRUCK???
I believe NKOTB will be on the Today show tomorrow. I have no DVR.
I FAIL.
Must go to my parents house this weekend and dig out my t-shirts.
ita, I hope they renew or you find something fast. I'm sorry.
This weather is ridiculous. Mixed in with the rain are fat soggy clumps of...wait for it....SNOW. I guess it is technically slush. And ice pellets.
aims, you want I should record and burn you a DVD?
juliana - 'member when we got stopped short on the Wharf because the tourists were looking at the FIRE TRUCK???
Yesterday I almost stopped because I was about to step in front of someone taking a picture of something in Union Square. I looked to the other side of me and it was 3 police cars. PARKED. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. So I walked right into the picture.
aims, you want I should record and burn you a DVD?
I will love you FOREVER!!
Joe might feel differently.
I would literally never get to work if I waited for there not to be someone taking a picture across the sidewalk. I would be more mystified about the people taking pictures of random buildings because they have the Wall Street address....except my pictures from London when I was in college are pretty much like that. "Hey! That sign is funny! Stop and take a picture! Everyone pose around the funny sign! Ha ha ha!!! YEAH LONDON!!!!" So.
Dear Lord, just when I thought this place was cleared out so I could get some printing done in peace without interruptions or conflicts over copier use, a co-worker who's on vacation showed up after hours to look for some textbooks to copy. And brought her husband. And gradeschool age kid. I am never getting out of here.
Ooh, I clicked on ita's link. But I like this shirt, it calls to the evil biologist in me. Or something.
I also like the one that says "Medium Pimpin'" and shows some coins...
Stuffs Frank Iero in FedEx
Please include Bob Bryar, Trudy. I have the feeling we're going to need him.
HEY NOW. I (and smonster) need Teh Bryar and Teh Iero at 7 p.m. SHARP tonight. And tomorrow night.
oh gods i'm willingly going into a moshpit filled with teenies. i'm willingly going into a moshpit filled with teenies and i will be SOBER.
juliana - 'member when we got stopped short on the Wharf because the tourists were looking at the FIRE TRUCK???
Oh Jeebus. Yeah. And I'm sure I'm in more tourists' pictures than I care to think about.
