Non Sequiturs

Sorry my posts for the past week are a bit off. My contract job for McKesson ended and I had to scramble for a new position. I found one, but unfortunately I had to work both jobs for one week. I think I worked over a hundred hours last week. Because of my crazy schedule (four sixteen hour days in a row), I barely had time to sleep, let alone blog. To make matters worse, the new job pays $7 an hour less and they do not allow us Internet access on our individual computers. It's money, which I am not going to turn down, but the working conditions are far from ideal. Even more insulting is the president of the agency that hired us. He comes in acting like he is our "friend" when really all he is doing is undercutting the market and making everyone miserable. He promised a big bonus if we worked over 65 hours last week. So we were expecting something pretty substantial. $250 was the bonus. After taxes and everything, it would worth about nothing. So I am patiently working this project hoping something better comes around the corner.

I don't know why, but this cracked me up:



And this scared me. I hate clowns. Really and truly. A friend of mine's co-workers put this together for him in his office because he hates them too. I would have killed my co-workers for this.



Lyrics Rattling Around My Head:

"There is so much here.
There is so much that defines you
in the things you keep inside and never show.
It is really clear.
There is more behind that smile
as you're walking down the driveway in the snow.

These are the things about you.
These are the things about you.
These are the things about you I know."

Ivy
"These Are The Things About You"

"In this painting
the whole world is navy blue
I run home from the mailbox
in all the dim of five o'clock
to see you.
Cars and trees go by me,
you are in the yard
and in my arms again
Oh happy, oh happy, the end,
the end , the end
Happy, oh happy
the end."

Innocence Mission
"Happy The End"

"Down to Santa Rosa and over the bay
Across the grapevine to LA
We got deserts we got trees
We got the hills of Beverly
Let's burn the hills of Beverly

Walk with your credit card in the air
Swinging nachos like you just don't care
This is a slow, sick suckin' part of me"

Pavement
"Unfair"

"(Don't have to be) A big bucks Hollywood star.
(Don't have to drive) A super car to get far.
(Don't have to live) A life of power and wealth.
(Don't have to be) Beautiful but it helps."

Pet Shop Boys
"Love Etc."

Appealing Things:

Driving with the windows down
Red velvet cupcakes made by Chris
The Reader's Encyclopedia
Dogwood trees
Gay Willow
Fresh sheets on a Sunday night
Venice

Annoying Things:

Working in an office on the weekend with no air conditioning
Rude people at the gym who do not say hello when you say hello to them
Folgers coffee