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Sometimes when you're not feeling the best you can feel, going to work can be a real downer and drag. But sometimes it can be a real laff. Today was such a day.

My consultant, M, is a very, very funny guy. He reminds me a lot of Jon Stewart actually. Conversely, our project manager is very much a man's man but also has a very healthy sense of humor. So, yesterday M and I were talking about the new gay cowboy movie, "Brokeback Mountain" and then I had to call R, our project manager, about something. He wasn't there so I hung up. When he called back, I had this wicked idea to answer the phone and say, "Hey, M wants to know if you'll go see Brokeback Mountain with him.." But, when I answered the phone, M interupted me and shouted, "Hey, R, do you want to go see Brokeback Mountain with me?" R laughed and said "Yeah, sure, do you want me to wear my cowboy hat and jeans.." I got really mad because M stole my thunder and I kept yelling, "HOW DID YOU KNOW I WAS GOING TO DO THAT?!" and M told me how predictable I am and he could just tell I what I was up to.

So our status meeting came around today and M announced that there should be a team outing of just the men to go see this movie. The jokes flew on and on. Then we had an official meeting later on in the day, and M was presenting and demoing the application on the projection screen for the small audience. He left the room for a few minutes, so I ran up and changed his Windows Explorer setting to reset his homepage to the Brokeback Mountain website. It was absolutely ace, so when he brought up the net to do a demo, that's what it defaulted to. It was a hit with everyone in the meeting and I absolutely got back at him for stealing my thunder.

Ahem..guess you had to be there, but it was pretty funny - I literally laughed through the day.

And, at least I'm getting home at decent hours this week!!