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[sun_set_bravely]

The light by my desk has gone out. It's been shorting out recently, but I've always been able to jiggle it in just the right way for it to turn back on. But today, no such luck. Also, one of my bosses just asked me to undo and then redo a (small) mailing that I did this morning. Because they changed the letter. AHHH-gain.

I feel a little bit like Milton from "Office Space" today.

Edit -- 2:25pm. I just took the lamp in both hands and shook it with great vigor. And it came back on. Ha!

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[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

As long as your paychecks don't just stop without warning.

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

Wait -- that's not supposed to happen?

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[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Well, if you work for a non-profit, the checks keep coming, but their size convinces you they don't exist.

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[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

hahaha!

It's funny 'cause it's true.

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[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

hahaha!

It's funny 'cause it's true.

[heidilouwho.livejournal.com]

ummmm, yeah. we're gonna have to take that red stapler away from you....

so does this mean you've finally seen the great "office space"?

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

I have! When I finally watched it all the way through, I realized that I'd seen most of it, just in bits and pieces here and there.

[sonic-symphonic.livejournal.com]

"I just took the lamp in both hands and shook it with great vigor. And it came back on."

my dad, a new yorker, would do this all the time...and miraculously, it worked more often than not...

he calls this method of "shaking with great vigor" the "New York Way of fixing things"...

once you've accomplished this technique, you know that you've become acclimated to the city...this said, of course, with the assumption that you've already learned the "proper" way of pronouncing "Dog".

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

If we're talking the Lon Guyland way of pronouncing dog, then yes, yes I have become acclimated to the city. I can't even figure out how to spell that version. dzoag? dsoh-ag? I give up.

[sonic-symphonic.livejournal.com]

i couldn't spell it either...why do you think i moved?

or rather (rhetorically, of course):

[sonic-symphonic.livejournal.com]

why do you think i got run outta town?

*men tapping baseball bats in their hands*

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

"We don't like the sounda youse doawg, so why don't you get outta here. And don't let the Goethals hitcha on the ass on the way to Joisey."

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

so long as they didn't come and take your stapler!~paul

just reminded me of this story....

[bleppo.livejournal.com]

My father tells a story... (well, he tells a lotta stories, but this is one...):

When he was in the hospital in the ICU after his heart surgery, he was lying in bed one night when he realized that one of the many machines he was attached to stopped blipping. Huh. Seconds after it stopped, a nurse ran in. She looked at him. She looked at the machine. She gave the machine a good whack. The machine began blipping again and she left...

Re: just reminded me of this story....

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

hahaha! If I'd been in that situation, I don't know if I would have laughed or been really, really nervous. That's a great story!