How dumb is it that I’m bugged that a woman I was good friends with in my early teens accepted my Facebook friend request but didn’t answer my email when I friend requested her, but after I accepted an ex-boyfriend’s friend request (after a little discussion back and forth with him about WHY he wanted to be my friend — result: non-nefarious) the female friend added him as a friend then wrote on his wall? I’ll give you a hint: It’s pretty fucking dumb.
The evening’s subway adventure: Got a seat on the E train going home. The middle of the train cleared out at one point and street performers started dancing and flipping all around the car. I had my earbuds in and was reading a book so I completely ignored them. They’re really not supposed to do that, mostly because it’s not safe, but also because they’re not supposed to play boomboxes in the cars and they were playing one.
The IT director made a snarky comment to my boss today that he’s been waiting for 6 weeks for a simple project to get done and maybe he needed to put me on the job because he hears I get things done. I yelled over to him, “I’d be happy to if [my boss] will let me” to which my boss replied at the director “she’s busy.” Heh. It’s not untrue, I am very busy, but this project is on my plate for a part of it, just one step before it goes to my plate has been sitting on a few other people’s plates for a very long time and I already offered to handle it or help others out with making it happen. We’ll see what we see. Today it’s all hands on deck to get a truck packed for training in New Jersey. I’m not doing the training, just packing the truck.
Hopefully this afternoon Dawg and I will go see the Thanksgiving Day balloons up close and personal. The stars have to kinda align just right since Dawg has a busy schedule but it’s rumored I’m getting out of work early if we’re all good little workers. We’ll see what happens.
I hear the Hot Blogger Calendars have shipped. I can’t wait to put mine up at work! That should stir up some interesting conversation… “Why is it always October?” *giggle*
No Cereal Wednesday this week. Sometimes even with two people who could do an episode life is just too crazy busy. I didn’t understand that so much back in Vermont, but New York City is a very different beast. 
This just in: Dawg does have a special announcement over at Cereal Wednesday so please go check it out. (No, I didn’t know this before I wrote the last paragraph or the paragraph above it. After I wrote them I looked over at Dawg’s computer and saw he was writing about HBC on CW. We are brainily connected.)
November 26th, 2008 at 1:09 am
I don’t really get Facebook, so I understood only about half of that first part.
And I’ve lived her my whole life, but I’ve never gone to see the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Hmm…maybe one of these years.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:26 am
- I have no idea how dumb. I lost track halfway through the first sentence.
- It’s like a movie with this happening in it !
- Okay, how many employees willing to do extra work can they have ? That’s crazy !
- I keep forgetting that this parade thing exists.
- Seems like yesterday that they were still shooting…
- Cereal, cereal.. yeah. Stuff. (Sorry, I just don’t eat cereal anymore.)
November 26th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Enjoy the balloons!! I’ve gone a few times. Be prepared – it’s gonna be crowded!!! But it’s really cool watching them inflate, especially tomorrow when you see them on TV, you’ll think that you knew them when…LOL.
Hey – have Dawg tell you about when we marched in the parade. We were right in front of the X-Men!! (Oh, and if he doesn’t have a copy of the song we recorded & sang that day, I do. But it’s on cassette! )
Happy Turkey day to you guys!
November 26th, 2008 at 8:40 am
What’s a facebook? Someone said “use wiki” and I thought that was used in scratching and ripping in the 80″s “wikiwikiwiki”
November 26th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Oh, he got to be October? That’s awesome!
November 26th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Sometimes the good friends from your early teens are still after the boyfriends. Nefarious? Perhaps. Case in point.
I love that Poppy gets things done. Maybe after you complete all the projects at work, you can bring in a boombox and entertain with a performance like the E-train dancers. No?
I really, really hope your stars align and you and Dawg get close to the balloons. With your camera. I must live vicariously through you.
The HBC’s are almost too hot for words. Like being brainily connected.
Have a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving!
November 26th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Just as I got to the part about “why is it always October?” Norah Jones came on singing, “The Nearness of You.” Totally sexy song. And so appropriate.
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 26th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
It’s so cool he is October!
I can totally seeing you be kick ass Poppy at work
November 26th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
You and Dawg ought to film one of your subway adventures…. make it into a video and post it. I’d be a fan right away.
November 26th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Facebook can be a quagmire of perplexion.
Hot Blogger calendar? Have you been nominated?
November 26th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
@Dan, I think she’s referring to Dawg being October…but I could be wrong
Thanks for todays post, it brought back an old memory of visiting Italy. I was on a subway when a street performer walked in (typical) and began playing an accordion. 3 notes into the song, he realized there were two police officers behind him. After much apologizing he backed out the doors at the next stop…it was hilarious but you probably had to be there…
November 26th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
/delurks
I swear we’ve been permanently scarred by that place, though I’m sure that’s true of all HSs.
Not stupid. Just makes you wonder how much you really were friends with that person, or if they were having that ’should I add that person as a friend’ discussion internally (didn’t you blog about that?)
November 26th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
BEE-bzzt, Facebook is holding very little meaning for me these days, other than a way for me to passively know that my friends and family who don’t blog are doing ok.
Creature, I like convolution.
Brian, didn’t quite get to the balloons. Oh well. Happy Turkey Day to you.
Dear Wah please become a hipper IT Guy thanks Poppy.
Avi, a little birdie told us he did.
Sharon, the woman who is talking to my ex-boyfriend but not me is a steadfast lesbian. She tried dating a boy once but it didn’t take. So, I know she’s just writing to him to catch up. Which makes me wonder… (see my comment to NAT)
Finn, happy Thanksgiving! I’ll check out the Norah song.
Turn, I don’t appreciate half-assed so I try not to do half-assed. I think work appreciates this.
Marty, my adventures are my own. Dawg doesn’t ride the subway much, he has his “office” with him for work and his truck with him when he doesn’t. He has to be able to get places fast when he needs to.
Dan, I was nominated! And got some votes! But I didn’t win, and the calendar is already out.
Jeremy, I feel so uninformed — I had no idea there was a subway in Italy.
NAT, *pout* Why won’t she talk to ME?!?????!!!???? But she talks to him. *pout* Sigh, whatever. Did you just call FB “high school”??! Hehehehe!
November 26th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I would be all about I Pod and a book on the subway – even standing I love to read.
Happy Thanksgiving. See you soon.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
I am so buying you a boombox for Christmas.