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Anger and flowers

Zannah — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:32:45 +0000

You want to know how to make my blood boil? Close a help desk ticket of mine without resolving it. I don’t care what company it is, what the service is that you’re supposed to be providing me, or how big or small the issue I reported was. If you haven’t resolved it or are still waiting to get some information from me, DON’T CLOSE THE TICKET. Morons.

Have some pretty to end your day. These are our anniversary flowers.

Then which way do we go? THAT WAY!

Zannah — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:26:18 +0000

I don’t mean to turn this into a look-at-the-funny-pictures-on-the-internet kind of blog, but sometimes I can’t help myself. That’s been happening a lot. Besides, it still counts as inane. No false advertising here.

(From reddit, where I have been spending too much time.)

I’m still here

Zannah — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:12:49 +0000

I will eventually get back to using words in my blog posts, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen tonight. Have some comics instead.

I didn’t see that coming. Comic from here.

You’ve got to go to the page this came from to see the ideas he rejected. I like the first three.

Isn’t that always the way?

Zannah — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:24:08 +0000

The Bloggess recently discovered Doctor Who. She pinned this…

…on her Pinterest page. It came from here and here, and since I’m not caught up (and I’m putting off being caught up because who wants to wait a year?), I’m not looking too closely at those.

But I’m SO happy she’s hooked. I’m a new convert, and I want to convert EVERYBODY ELSE. Because that’s how it works.

I need to take better notes

Zannah — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:39:27 +0000

There was something I was going to write about, something John said or did, but I don’t remember what it is. I had a very frustrating day that went straight into an online midterm review. That went pretty well. I feel better about the exam, at least. So instead of whatever it was I was thinking about earlier, you can have these instead.

1. Look! An adorable baby goat playing king of the mountain and being adorable!

And 2. This (from reddit) makes me laugh every time I look at it.

I think I need to see Madagascar. Jungle animals doing hilarious things sounds really appealing at the moment.

October is the prettiest month

Zannah — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:17:06 +0000

When it’s sunny. I like the color of the sky. And the leaves. And we’ve had so much rain that the grass is still green everywhere. I should take a picture.

Taken from my car window on the way home from work. I could crop the road out, but you get the idea.

Enough with the pretty – prepare for meanness ahead.

Here’s a tip you’ve heard a million times, but it’s important: If you want a job, PROOFREAD YOUR RESUME. I read a pretty bad one recently. If you’re not very good with that sort of thing, find a friend who is. I don’t have high expectations for this person because she apparently can’t punctuate her way out of kindergarten. Oh, let’s be generous. Elementary school. Also, she listed “Blackberry (Curve)” as one of her skills. I don’t even know what that means. Maybe she can program for that platform? Impressive! Then say so. She’s not a programmer, though, unless she REALLY doesn’t know how to present herself in her resume, so I’m assuming she means she knows how to use a Blackberry. That’s not a skill. My 6-year-old niece can find her way around a smart phone.

I’m not trying to say that I punctuate everything correctly all the time. (For instance, is it resume, resumé, or résumé? Does the accent depend on something or are there just multiple acceptable forms?) I do, however, tailor my writing style to my audience, and my resumé (I like this one best) is flawless. (I know. Arrogant, much?) It might not get me hired, but it won’t get me dismissed out of hand. Grammar is important, people!

/rant

Now, watch me post this with some hugely embarrassing typo I didn’t notice.

Wasted day

Zannah — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:31:18 +0000

My brain left. Packed a suitcase. Bought a train ticket. Said goodbye to the dogs. Walked out the door. (Sounds like a country song.) I have been completely useless all day.

Want to see the cutest puppy paw ever?

Side A

Side B: Teddy bear paw!

This is what happens when my brain skips town. I go through my camera and look for cute pictures. I can’t even complete this thought. Going to the gym. Might clear my head. My empty head. If you’ve seen my brain, please give me a call. I’d like it back.

Compromised

Zannah — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:45:56 +0000

Hmmph. That title didn’t come out the way I meant it. Anyway, here is a picture of the wall of books in the dining room (that used to be the family room) with all of the books lined up at the front of the shelves.

We bought two more bookshelves last weekend (the two in the middle, not that it matters) and brought down the two that were in our bedroom. Those two are on the opposite wall from these. They’re all 100% full and I’m using three shelves of the bookshelf to the right of the TV in the other room (that used to be the living room). The four bookshelves in the library (which used to be the dining room) have been emptied of fiction and are slowly being filled with non-fiction books from upstairs. I moved my little desk (which used to be Dad’s little desk) into the bay window in the library so there would be room for another shelf in the dining room. Got all that? There might be a quiz.

Now for the compromise, since as I mentioned the other day, I’m not completely sure I like having all the books forced into a line. (Where are their souls? Down with conformity!) Tell me what you think.

If I had another wine rack, I wouldn't need to do this. But I kinda like it.

They’re not the greatest pictures (I’m not the greatest photographer, to say the least), but you get the idea. The only thing I’m not crazy about is how the books behind the vases and the pictures and the bottles of wine are hidden. I know they’re there, but the casual browser (because so many of those come waltzing through my home – this is somehow not a real concern now that I’m writing it down) does not.

Do you like it? Do you hate it? Indifferent? That seems most likely.

The duplicates. All 54 of them. Anyone craving a copy of The Mote in God's Eye?

It’s no secret – the dogs run this house

Zannah — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:08:32 +0000

Roxy is mad at me because I’m making her wear a sock again. I noticed last night that she was obsessively licking one of her rear paws, but there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with it when I checked it out, and it didn’t seem to be hurting her, so I left it alone. Then this morning I heard the licking noise again (horrible noise), and when I got her head away from the paw, I could see that she’d managed to lick ALL OF THE FUR off two of her toes. It’s kind of gross. And again, except for the hairless part, nothing looks weird, nothing looks irritated, there’s nothing stuck in her paw….her nails could use a trim, but I’m fairly certain that’s not what’s bothering her. So I wrestled her into a sock and used electrical tape to hold it on. Now she’s pouting.

Riley is jealous because Roxy got to sit in my lap while I put the sock on her. All Riley has ever wanted is to be a lap dog. All 80 pounds of him.

If you can’t tell if someone is taking something, is it really stealing?

Zannah — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:40:33 +0000

It’s already sad that Borders is going out of business, but who would have guessed they’d be funny about it?

John pointed it out to me the last time we were there, clearing out the science fiction section. (Well, that part was only me – I’m why you can’t find any of the books you’ve been looking for. Sorry.) But really, it’s great that invisibility cloaks are 20% off, but what’s to stop you from just grabbing one and running? Other than the obvious.