I love Let It Out - granted, most of the comments people send in to the Indy Star to be printed in the paper are stupid, but every once in a while there's a funny one in there...

The difference between a cubicle and a prison cell is that the cell is bigger and it has a bed!

yo - if you're a co-worker of mine reading this entry, don't read it - or don't tell the evil powers that be about it, at the very least. ;-)

re: the sexual harassment i might inflict upon my co-workers for the month of june...

first, a little background info - last year, we had these big meetings about how to make our workplace more productive, blah blah blah - one thing that came out of it was that we were encouraged to make things less sterile - we could personalize our cubicles, etc...

so, they've decided to sub-lease half of our building, and of course my department's in the half that gets moved to the other side of the building...last week the move took place - at the end of our shifts wednesday, we boxed up all our personal effects and moved them to the other side of the building.

one thing i've had on my overhead box in my cubicle is a calendar - a Queer As Folk calendar - i wanted a month at a glance type calendar and hey, QAF is a favorite show, so there ya go...

this week the boss tells me she needs to talk to me - she knows i'm gonna be pissed, she's pissed about it too...she shows me an email from Human Resources (er, shouldn't it just be Human Resource, since there's only one in the department? of course, i'm beginning to doubt her on both counts - not very much of a resource, and i'm beginning to wonder if she's human - but i digress) - seems HR "person" was roaming our new workspace and saw my calendar. she decided to flip through it - June's photo is a pic from Episode 4 of Season 2 of Queer As Folk - in the episode, Ted & Emmett get Michael to go to the Pride Parade in drag. here's the pic:



Michael was determined not to go to the Parade, but Ted & Emmett put the dress on top of him and were talking about how a few alterations and it'd be all his!

However, HR "person" saw this pic and determined that all these fags were doing something dirty and sexual - playing with michael's penis, perhaps? - therefore, my displaying this pic will be in violation of our company's sexual harassment policy.

So, now what do i do - i'm tempted to put a couple strips of duct-tape on pertinent portions and write a smart-ass comment on them (me? smart-ass? i know, hard to imagine, but i'll try!)...but i certainly wouldn't wanna do something to get myself fired...*ponder*

it's funny, i think my boss is more pissed about it than me - i just think it's STUPID and SILLY...whatever...

beware Flipwit! - it's addictive!

Quote O De Day, courtesy of Indiana Jones himself:

Is there a practical use for a whip?
Depends on your girlfriend.

amusing quote, till ya realize his gf's Calista Flockhart - eewwwwww! oh well, everyone's got their own preferences, i guess...

well, i've got little more than week to decide just what in the hell i'm going to do about sexually harassing my co-workers...if i do it, it will be for the entire month of june...details (and pix) later...

Ya know, it's cool that MSNBC is doing a story on the VNS and all, but they coulda come up with a better headline, I think - "Shock therapy makes a comeback" - excuse me?!? well, maybe they were intentionally going for the (no pun intended - yeah, right) "shock effect" of a headline like that...but the Vagus Nerve Stimulator i have implanted in my neck is NOT anything like shock therapy of the old days...

woo hoo! Duck Hunt, now online! sheesh, was it really almost 20 years ago that this was out on the original nintendo NES?!?

the star had a story about a new get together - the "Quiet Party." - hmmm....wonder if organizing one of these for Mutual Friends would gather any interest...

every once in a while, an asshole on fark will post a completely inappropriate picture...people are talking about spyware, bringing up some good advice, and then we see THIS picture....woah.

so, are your immunizations up to date? i'm not sure about all mine - with all the new docs i've been seeing lately, they ask me about them and i'm not sure...had flu and pneumonia shots last fall, but when was my last tetanus? haven't a clue...

alrighty now Steph, don't be doggin' the Practice - Camryn Manheim's on the Crackers List - she can eat crackers in my bed anytime she wants! and i guess i'd let Dylan McDermott watch - he's not too bad lookin', for a GUY... ;-)

anywhoo, i don't generally get to watch the first run episodes (used to be on sundays, now they're on monday nights) - however, channel 6 shows reruns of previous seasons' episodes at midnight sunday (saturday night too, actually) - so there's actually something halfway decent on tv when i get home sunday night after work (my shift's supposed to be 4 to midnight, but i usually get home around 11ish)...yeah, i know the sopranos and six feet under are on sunday nights, but i'm slaving away at work when that stuff's on...thank god for dvd's, eh?

good to know that whole amber alert thing worked out, but they definitely need to be a bit more organized the next time they wanna use it...

so i'm writing out the check at the doc's office today and notice that the pen's for Diastat - it's a form of diazepam - hmmm, isn't that valium? yup, it is. the interesting thing is the form of diazepam - diastat is diazepam rectal gel - eeek! ass valium! the diastat web page is interesting - want to stop seizures without going to the emergency room? it says - oh, so ya need one of your homies to give ya your dose of ass valium...

so, i'm watching the sunday night repeat of The Practice on channel 6 and the tv goes freaky - buzzing and making weird noises...then at the top of the screen there's an announcement about a Civil Alert for all of Indiana from 12:00 till 5:00am - what the hell? A little while later, there's a box in the corner that says it's an Amber Alert - go to the Indy Star website - nothing...go to the Channel 6 website - nothing...you'd think the damned channel that announces something like this would have the info on their website!!!

so i track down the Amber Alert page -

apparently there's something happening in Gary, Indiana...

if this is how the system's supposed to work, it ain't gonna work. by the time people figure out what the hell it is that's going on, a kidnapper's gonna be long gone or well hidden...

wonder if the newly installed signs on the highways were used for this....

Gaye Males in real estate? whodathunkit?