It's like the office gods read my mind. For some strange reason, there is NO radio playing today. Yet I only just noticed it now. Why is that? I don't question it, I'm just enjoying the silence while it lasts. Could it be that the office people read my blog (or are screening my computer usage)?? Oops...
This is the only good thing that has happened to me today. My 7:45 am meeting was 20 minutes late - "traffic was heavy". Sure, I've used that one before. Traffic was heavy so leaving 5 minutes before the meeting time doesn't actually get you there on time. Then my 10 am didn't show up - and apparently I was supposed to call them to confirm the meeting date and time. Could be, my brain is fried - but I have no record of that. Then my 12 noon didn't show. No explanation whatsoever. Thank God my 6 pm confirmed yesterday. But who knows, there's a lot of time between now and then!!!
Ohh, stress...
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Monday, August 30, 2004
Anti-Mix 99.9
Songs I hate that I have been forced to listen to over and over again because the office radio is sitting on top of my office cubicle. Or, songs that are ok but I have now grown to hate because I have to listen to them 3-4 times a day. General hatred of Mix 99.9 and of this situation where I feel like I am back auditing my most hated client because I am listening to this stupid radio station all day!!!!
Top 10 most hated Mix 99.9 radio listen-while-you-work songs - by Woe:
10. Hoobastank - the Reason. What a shame. I liked this song. Until I heard it for the 100th time.
9. Nelly Furtado - Forca/Borso. Another shame. This really doesn't belong on this list. Another victim of office radio.
8. Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending. I might not have hated this so much. Except again - victim to repetitive nature of radio. Avril's first album seems a LOT better than the songs out from her second so far. Too bad.
7. Ashlee Simpson - Pieces of Me. Would've been an OK car song, except at first I thought it was Avril Lavigne singing - sorry Avril - then they played it a few too many times. What a wannabe - wannabe Avril, wannabe big sister. Plus, crazee stoopid spelling of name does not endear mee.
6. Counting Crows - Accidentally in love. Why does a love song have to sound so bad? Accidentally get taken off the air, why don't you...
5. George Michael - Amazing. What's amazing is this guy thinks he can still sing "good" songs. I liked it better when he was in denial about being gay. Come on guys, back me up here - don't we all wish the WHAM days were back?!
4. Train - Ordinary. A suitably bad song for an even worse movie. Ick.
3. ANY song by Nickelback.
2. Default - All she wrote. I think. Who can tell? Maybe Nickelback belongs here.
1. I've run out of songs that I can actually figure out the title for now. There are a multitude of songs out there that SUCK, so badly that I can't even figure out who it is that is forcing their horrible music on me, or what they think the song should be called. Woe's #1 most hated Mix99 song is dedicated to all those trashy songs out there that I am subconciously being subjected to every day, against my will.
Thanks for listening. At least you don't have to listen to it all again - and again - and again....
Top 10 most hated Mix 99.9 radio listen-while-you-work songs - by Woe:
10. Hoobastank - the Reason. What a shame. I liked this song. Until I heard it for the 100th time.
9. Nelly Furtado - Forca/Borso. Another shame. This really doesn't belong on this list. Another victim of office radio.
8. Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending. I might not have hated this so much. Except again - victim to repetitive nature of radio. Avril's first album seems a LOT better than the songs out from her second so far. Too bad.
7. Ashlee Simpson - Pieces of Me. Would've been an OK car song, except at first I thought it was Avril Lavigne singing - sorry Avril - then they played it a few too many times. What a wannabe - wannabe Avril, wannabe big sister. Plus, crazee stoopid spelling of name does not endear mee.
6. Counting Crows - Accidentally in love. Why does a love song have to sound so bad? Accidentally get taken off the air, why don't you...
5. George Michael - Amazing. What's amazing is this guy thinks he can still sing "good" songs. I liked it better when he was in denial about being gay. Come on guys, back me up here - don't we all wish the WHAM days were back?!
4. Train - Ordinary. A suitably bad song for an even worse movie. Ick.
3. ANY song by Nickelback.
2. Default - All she wrote. I think. Who can tell? Maybe Nickelback belongs here.
1. I've run out of songs that I can actually figure out the title for now. There are a multitude of songs out there that SUCK, so badly that I can't even figure out who it is that is forcing their horrible music on me, or what they think the song should be called. Woe's #1 most hated Mix99 song is dedicated to all those trashy songs out there that I am subconciously being subjected to every day, against my will.
Thanks for listening. At least you don't have to listen to it all again - and again - and again....
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Random Thoughts of the Day:
Random # 1:
Why am I blogging? Like anything I have to say or think is really interesting to people anyway. Isn't blogging really just an arrogant presumption on the part of the blogger that not only do I have something worth saying, but that millions of other people out there, not to mention my friends, also want to listen to me?
Random #2:
Besides which, blogging is HARD. Do you know how long it took me to set up the template?? I feel like I've earned an honourary CS degree from Waterloo. As I stand on the podium to accept my diploma, I say my little speech - "Thanks to JCL and J, without whom this computer would surely be mashed against the wall in a fit of blogging frustration." For those of you now unwillingly subjected to my blogging - blame them.
Random #3:
ALADDIN IS COMING OUT ON DVD!!!!!! Save the date - October 5!!!!! This eclipses my earlier excitement over the Star Wars DVD release. Yayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!! "A whole new world...."
Random #4:
Will my Europe trip blog EVER be completed now that I've started this one?! I think we all know the answer to that...but I'll keep trying...
Random #5:
I guess now I'll have to learn online/offline etiquette from GY!!!
Why am I blogging? Like anything I have to say or think is really interesting to people anyway. Isn't blogging really just an arrogant presumption on the part of the blogger that not only do I have something worth saying, but that millions of other people out there, not to mention my friends, also want to listen to me?
Random #2:
Besides which, blogging is HARD. Do you know how long it took me to set up the template?? I feel like I've earned an honourary CS degree from Waterloo. As I stand on the podium to accept my diploma, I say my little speech - "Thanks to JCL and J, without whom this computer would surely be mashed against the wall in a fit of blogging frustration." For those of you now unwillingly subjected to my blogging - blame them.
Random #3:
ALADDIN IS COMING OUT ON DVD!!!!!! Save the date - October 5!!!!! This eclipses my earlier excitement over the Star Wars DVD release. Yayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!! "A whole new world...."
Random #4:
Will my Europe trip blog EVER be completed now that I've started this one?! I think we all know the answer to that...but I'll keep trying...
Random #5:
I guess now I'll have to learn online/offline etiquette from GY!!!
Friday, August 27, 2004
True Love
Every day, if I can get my butt out of bed and on the way to work on time, I see this couple from my building walking to the subway. It's been going on for years now. At first, I went to work really late in the morning (during my horror years) so I would see this one old Asian man - probably about 60 years old - walking slowly home by himself from the subway. I would wonder where this guy was coming from so early in the morning, and figured he was just out for his morning exercise.
This year, after leaving the Firm, I finally had time to notice that he was in fact walking his wife down to the subway every morning and then walking back home afterwards by himself. Where his wife goes, and why, is beyond me - and irrelevant. I realized as I shuffled tiredly along behind them that this is what love is - a couple well into their retirement years, the wife physically unable to make the 15 minute walk to the subway unassisted, the husband uncomplainingly escorting her as they walk, arm-in-arm, or hand-in-hand, chatting quietly to each other the entire way. Or maybe, the husband has nothing else to do in the mornings, and would rather make a useless trip to the subway station, if it meant having a quiet moment alone with his wife.
I used to get annoyed at how slowly they walked in front of me, and my sole objective was to pass them on the sidewalk so they wouldn't be in my way. Now - seeing both or either of them is an inspiration to me. I hope all my friends and family can find such a partner to share the rest of their life with.
This year, after leaving the Firm, I finally had time to notice that he was in fact walking his wife down to the subway every morning and then walking back home afterwards by himself. Where his wife goes, and why, is beyond me - and irrelevant. I realized as I shuffled tiredly along behind them that this is what love is - a couple well into their retirement years, the wife physically unable to make the 15 minute walk to the subway unassisted, the husband uncomplainingly escorting her as they walk, arm-in-arm, or hand-in-hand, chatting quietly to each other the entire way. Or maybe, the husband has nothing else to do in the mornings, and would rather make a useless trip to the subway station, if it meant having a quiet moment alone with his wife.
I used to get annoyed at how slowly they walked in front of me, and my sole objective was to pass them on the sidewalk so they wouldn't be in my way. Now - seeing both or either of them is an inspiration to me. I hope all my friends and family can find such a partner to share the rest of their life with.
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