Office Space

Yes, work in a major corporation is very fulfilling. Where else can you engage in fine conversation like this:

Ouiser: I'm the short one. How tall is Brad?
Me: We're all tall here. I think Brad is like 6'8
Roger*: I'm 6'2
Me: How 'bout you Darren?
Darren: I'm about 6'3
Matt (quickly): 4'1


*Not his real name. We decided he looks like a Roger so we call him Roger.

Roger brought us a fantastic present today. A high school year book picture of one of our project managers. He had comb fluffed up hair, sort of streaky blonde, and earring and flipped up collar. Quel Totally 80's Duuuuuude. He doesn't know we have this. Yet.

I have an iTunes giftcard and I've been shopping on iTunes for music to download. And what do I pick? Fine selections like:
Your Auntie Grizelda
Randy Scouse Git
Papa Gene's Blues
and of couse, Will Ferrell's "The Hop-Clop Goes On"

To give myself some credit, I also downloaded Lucienne Boyer's "Parlez-Moi D'Amour", a remastered version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", Annie Lennox's "No More I Love Yous", and my sister will be thrilled over The Blues Magoos, "Tobacco Road."

Yes, it's a weird eclectic mix of songs that I'm sure would confuse the fine market researchers at iTunes who tries to find music to recommend to me. But they all have some memory or meaning associated with them. For example, "Randy Scouse Git" reminds me of my friend's house in Satellite Beach and a crush she had on a Micky Dolenz (and his tightie whities creeping out over his waistband..weird!). The version of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now is because it reminds me of an astounding, very quiet yet so very real performance of Emma Thompson's in "Love, Actually" where she discovers in a roundabout way her husband is having an affair.

Tobacco Road - well.. That's totally a you have to be there thing but if you know the song and the speeder scene from Return of the Jedi and put it together it will all make sense.

I am going to bed now - I've been up excessively late and having a dreadful time picking up to go to work.