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[muji]

Today is what is supposed to be my office's Christmas party, but it has mutated into a retirement party for the man who is almost universally unliked in the office.

It's going to be a weird day. How are things where you are?

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[camwyn]

Things are good. I'm considering buying chainmail to use as a scrubber for my kitchen pots. My cats are happy. My flannel sheets are clean. I got to work close to on time, and ahead of my boss, and was able to resolve a Blackberry issue for the company pretty quickly. And yesterday I finally got a haircut I've been postponing for a few months; I basically walked into a local salon, showed the lady a picture of Boomer from BSG, and said 'Like that, but shoulder length'. Worked pretty well.

[sardonicynic]

Yeek. I hope that goes as well as it, uh, can. :/

Things are all right! It's a rainy Thursday in the Bluegrass; we are in the midst of a hellish death march to the holiday break at work; my bossladies surprised me with the sweetest Christmas card + Starbucks gift card; our office's annual white elephant gift exchange/luncheon is today.

(I'm hoping to see something that tops the deer-antler coffee mug tree from last year.)

In sum, things could be much, much worse! I just have to keep on keepin' on through next Friday, and then I have ten glorious days of no paperwork or deadlines. Aside from the fun ones, like holiday gift-fic and Yuletide. >:DDD

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Another for the things are good column. I've finally gotten to the wrap up point for my super secret Val plot and have started publishing it. Finale to be this Friday.

I'm also finally recovering from a chest infection. I hesitate to state this as the damn infection has been so back and forth for more than two weeks now.

I'm also inching my way to a healthier life style and my weight is going down.

My Yuletide project is fun and shaping up nicely.

And I've had Information Society's Peace and Love, Inc. in my head for days now. = ]

[sdelmonte]

It's the usual level of work related chaos for December. We are at once prepping for the Hanukkah season and for the annual New York Jewish Film Festival. I have to go cross town to the movie theater at Lincoln Center for the first press screening, and then rush back to handle other projects. And I have to come in to work consecutive Sundays, once to work with a photographer at a Hanukkah party and once to work the ticket counter on Dec. 25.

Somewhere in there, there might be some downtime.

[sdelmonte]

ETA: I didn't actually rush back. I stopped at a branch library next to the theater that used to have a lot of graphic novels. Not these days. And like a lot of libraries, they moved all the graphics novels to the young adult section. Why, oh why, don't the libraries know how many adults read graphic novels now?

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

I'm in Loyola hospital right now having spent a night in a not-so-grand-Quality Inn. I'm finally getting back into the internet (I missed a Zed EP??) and dealing with all the joys of that time of the lunar cycle. i've got cold pizza waiting for me for lunch (but GOOD pizza) and I'm pretty much going to end up waiting here in various outlets with my laptop all day.

Going to see if I can't be productive today with some sewing and watercolors.

[camwyn]

Anything I can do to help?

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

I've got Ibuprofen and hopefully my body will respond to the short sleep cycle with an allowed car-nap later(fun fact, they forgot to reset their clocks back from daylight savings, twice at the hotel). Anything you might have in the way of tolerable christmas music lists (I'll take youtube) or image fodder for surreal images would be love right now.

[camwyn]

Kung fu gecko will kick your ass first and ask questions later

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

I think the icon says it all.

[innerbrat]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A0DBW1D3

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

=o! *listens* =D!

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

Oh and in addition, I'm here with mom as a back-up driver since she's got about 5 tests today and one of them involve her getting anesthetic and being put under to get a tube shoved down to sample her lung tissue.

[camwyn]

Lovely. Here, have the Cracked.com list of six WTF-worthy protesters, including my personal favorite, a luchador on a motorcycle who wants his electrical workers' union back.

Warning: one of the entries involves clowns.

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

...oh good googly moogly clowns with the brains of scientologists no less.

[innerbrat]

This morning I have already unclogged the toilet that SOMEONE (Becca) clogged last night. Today I give the final presentations for 50% (actually 55%, but who'd counting) of my semester's courses, and in preparation for that I need to spend the day "drawing" illustrations for a children's book.

"I didn't know you could draw," I hear you say.

That's because I can't.

[misslucyjane]

Yuletide is done and uploaded.

Edits for Novel#3 are chugging along.

Job interview in three hours and my blood pressure is staying normal. That's a good sign.

[muji]

MY YULETIDE IS SO LESS THAN DONE. It got hard on me.

[misslucyjane]

KEEP CALM AND KEEP WRITING.

[agonistes]

Iiiii drove my mother to work downtown so I can play in Atlanta while she works. Currently ensconced at the 10th and Piedmont Flying Biscuit. A good life decision. And I have a semester's worth of backlogged non-scholarly reading on the Kindle, and I'm pretending Yuletide doesn't exist because I am drawing a huge blank, and all in all I cannot complain!

[the_gene_genie]

Quality, in the main! Got my Uni essay in under the deadline on Tuesday, and while it's not great, it is done. Proceeded to kick arse in a certain history semiar, which led to half hour discussion after class with my favourite professor, who is now likely to supervise my dissertation next year. Which I am \o/ about, and he is D: about, because I don't speak French. He will have to translate stuff for me. But I know he'll do it anyway, because he is awesome, and is already going to speak to a Noted Historian on my behalf at the end of Jan, re: French resources I will need.

And today I went shopping for the first time in about two years, and got all my Christmas presents, plus new Skechers for myself. Tonight, I will bake Christmas stuff, do my last bit of Uni admin for the term, and watch my new Gavin and Stacey boxset. Tonorrow, I'll go to my last lecture which is not a lecture, but a talk by another Noted Historian, who is a friend of Professor Awesome. After that, said Professor Awesome is taking his students - all seventy of us! - to the bar, to buy us a drink.

I love him.

And right now, there is coffee and B.B King. It's a good week!

[gorgonfondness]

Today will be another day at work at the cafe, though it will be the day when we have taco salads on special. This means the grill is likely gonna get slowed down and it'll probably be up to me to do everything I can on the cold side so General Manager and Boss Lady can help keep the grill going.

This is also the day before payday. Yay payday being tomorrow.

Also, thanks to us having the country radio station playing in the kitchen all the time, I've had Red Solo Cup stuck in my head. Why is that song so retarded and catchy?!

[ceitfianna]

I slept and I get to help with hosting dogs at the library today. This week has been far too long and it's not over yet.

My Yuletide is creeping along though I have the ideas, the words aren't happening as I'd like. The good news is I'll be heading back to the East Coast on Monday and I think that should be a fun road trip.

I'm hoping to have my holiday cards printed and sent out this weekend so they'll go out before Christmas for once. The weather's decided to not be terribly cold anymore or raining so today should be pretty.

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

I just finished the one thing I needed to get done today. I intend to spend the rest of the day doing as little as possible.

[kd7sov]

I am done with finals!

Now I need to recover the tabs I managed to get Firefox to lose last night...

Also figure out Christmas presents for my mother, sister, and sister-in-law.

And maybe even tag my threads.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Today is a day.
I keep having to restart/backtrack on my knitting project, people keep stopping in the middle of hallways, and the grocery store was out of anise extract.

Here's to hoping the other two grocery stores have some or those cookies just aren't getting made.

[nocarename]

Moving tomorrow.
Paniced deadline today for a thing I didn't know about before lunch yesterday.
Emergency backup monitor for the desktop stopped displaying for more than thirty seconds at a go last night.
*Drains half liter tea mug.*

Could be worse.

[mountain-born.livejournal.com]

My entire office has lost its mind.

I can't even begin to tell you how it happened. Only that we have now degenerated into random hysterical giggling, while periodically spouting things like: "Hot pants! Eddie Murphy! Hot tubs! Popeye! Justin Timberlake in a box!"

I'm blaming sugar overload. You would not believe the number of cookie trays floating around this office this week.

[hey35andholding]

Busy! Massively busy, but I'm starting to catch up at last.