The simple answer is that my dream job would be writing for a living. And I do that. So I already have it. Awesome :)

I suppose if you want to get even more technical though, my dream job would be writing whatever I want, likely fiction. (Is it silly? I've always wanted to be a Young Adult book author, probably some HOPEFULLY cool young adult novels which I think are often a lot better than people give them credit for, being 'kid's books' and all, but I wouldn't even mind cranking out some semi-formulaic series as well!) In that case, I'm not quite there, but I still get to write blog entries for work which is basically whatever random thought or rant I want to throw down a few paragraphs on, and we're encouraged to have a bit of a smartass tone in our comments on the headlines and such so... it's not quite the DREAM, but it's better than like when I was first checking to see if any writing jobs existed for me and I'd come up with "technical writer for car maintenance manuals" or something like that :P

Flip-flop woman at work is driving me crazy. First by the fact that she's WEARING flip-flops! I mean we're fairly casual, I could probably get away with wearing jeans every day if i wanted to and they were NICE jeans, no holes and fringies and crap. But isn't flip-flops pushing it a little? Not to mention she's our front desk person and as far as I know, they've kind of held them to higher dress standards because that's the first person visitors see and all that good stuff. Nothing extreme, just prefer you don't wear jeans, look clean and professional.

I don't consider flip-flops professional. Plus on Friday I swear she was wearing some sort of peasant top and BIKE SHORTS!!! Maybe no one said anything then because no one looked closely enough and just saw black that ended about at the knees like where 'dress' shorts would be. But trust me, these were no dress shorts. They were skin-tight and they were bike shorts...and I don't know if I want to see this woman in bike shorts to begin with. But even on a Friday I think that's pushing the boundary of casual more than anyone should in a semi-professional environment.

This was actually claymation (which in general is creepier than animation to me) and I don't remember what it was called but it was this kids show with a snake (i believe) on the ground and a monkey in a tree. It was supposed to be teaching some lesson because the monkey was all like "I'm awesome! I'm in this tree and you're a stupid snake so you can't get up here" (hmm...maybe it wasn't a snake, i imagine the snake being able to slither up a tree) ANYWAY, and miscellaneous animal on the ground explains why he enjoys being on the ground instead so the monkey gets jealous and jumps down but there are thorns surrounding the tree and he dies. I know it's just claymation but he frickin' DIES by falling into thorns! I never felt so disturbed as a kid as when I saw that little clay monkey get impaled by fake thorns.

Oh yeah, close second would be that bird lady in 'Spirited Away'

Um, well I don't remember the first friends that didn't stick around too well because HELLO! That was over 8 years ago :P I can't remember if the leftover thai food in my fridge is from sometime this week or last week. Don't ask these things of me.

BUT....my first LJ friend EVAR was Zuwarah and she's still here under the name of kwins 
And I'm pretty positive my second LJ friend EVAR was  xdiscomposed  who has gone through approximately 712 names since I first met her but I really want to say the first one I had on my list was becoming_x

yahoo, could you take this off your home page please??? Sure, I get it once I took the time to read that it's supposed to be a chick with big hips and huge knockers (and no head obviously) but I can't help thinking at first glance every time "Why is there a turd on my home page?!"

...and so it begins!

What? Hockey game of course :P I'm rather annoyed that it has to be on this late (just starting now) because I probably won't be up for the end of it. But that's what we get for being in the Western Conference and having to play games in California. You know...WESTERN DETROIT! Sometimes I'm just afraid that city is going to fall into the Pacific Ocean (Detroit...? Nah, it's more likely to fall into a black hole :P)

No score yet.

Go Wings.

holy poop!

I was just involved in a high-pressure IM situation. I was trying to placate like four people at once over separate IM conversations and often finding out that people who SHOULD have talked to people hadn't and...I felt like I was instructing people in a foreign language and balancing on a tightrope and trying to keep two rabid animals from killing each other ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

I am exhausted from about an hour of frantic IM-ing. That was worse than an elliptical machine :P

YAAAAAY!!!! Boss just came by and said "Let's close up shop at 2:30"

I happen to not like to pry into people's secrets (and hope that means they'll treat me the same.) True, it's a little different on a potentially larger scale like this but basically I am generally happy with what I do and don't know. It's very possible there are big government secrets being kept from me that would have some sort of effect on me (good or bad) if I knew. But I've also gotten along just fine with the knowledge I have. How could I guarantee my life would be better in any way if I had access to this knowledge? I'd rather stay how I am because I compare it to learning people's secrets on a smaller scale as well. Any time I've done any digging into someone else's secrets it has had a negative effect. To me, that's a warning...

But if I really really really just couldn't resist for some reason....well I was just too big of an X-Files fan so I think I'd have to check if there's REALLY any recorded alien activity or not. Too bad about that caught and jailed forever so I can't tell Agent Mulder ;)

ok, I couldn't let this one go. I even made myself giggle.

So our new format to the stories on our screens seems to be: story across the bottom banner, and summary, quote, pun, etc. along the right side banner.

From today:
bottom - Electronic Arts allowed their hostile takeover plans for smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software to expire, believing they could not complete the deal before holiday shopping season.

side - Merry Christmas.

We'll pwn ur company l8r, lolz!

love, EA