Slowly Going Bald

"Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party, and you're gonna say it sucks, and we're all gonna leave and we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's someone who's more important she should be talking to, and it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack."

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Notes From My Department Meeting, 7.26.05

One of the managers is a gangly, goofy guy who can never match his socks to his pants. He just sits there like an 8-year-old.

CFD has painted her nails red, presumably to make a good impression at Show and Tell when she demonstrates how to play M.A.S.H.

The new girl looks like Blossom. Weird.

I keep realizing that I haven't been listening. Every 5 minutes I'll return to consciousness, only to be bored all over again.

Some British lady that's high up in the company talks for half an hour about something that doesn't apply to me. I spend the time drawing. (I can't draw well.)

If the British lady says "consortia" one more time, I'm going to have an aneurysm.

At one point a deep lethargy spreads through my body, not unlike a hibernating bear might feel. I yawn, and the department head looks at me and says, "Am I keeping you up?"

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Burninating peasants and the like? Surely.

You should have winked at the dept. head and said "Yes you are, baby. Yes you are."

By Kyle, at 11:35 PM, July 26, 2005

Why didn't anyone notice that you were moving your pen around a lot on your piece of paper, and not in the normal writing fashion?

I like your dragon's mangled-looking feet. It's interesting that you not only thought about a dragon eating her, but that you took the time to draw it.

You need a new job.

By Sarah, at 8:40 AM, July 27, 2005

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...a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces....

O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?

O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.

--Look Homeward, Angel

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

--John Stuart Mill

We have all read in scientific books, and indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name. This man walks about the streets and can see and appreciate everything; only he cannot remember who he is. Well, every man is that man in the story. Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself. We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

--G.K. Chesterton

We were, for the briefest of moments, something greater than the sum of our uncertain parts; we were youth itself, in all its painful glory and sharp joy.

--August Van Zorn

There is a time in the lives of most writers when they are vulnerable, when the vivid dreams and ambitions of childhood seem to pale in the harsh sunlight of what we call the real world. In short, there's a time when things can go either way.

--Stephen King

Film lovers are sick people.

--Francois Truffaut

Slowly Going Bald

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Notes From My Department Meeting, 7.26.05

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