Sorry y'all, I have all day training and just now saw that it was my day to post.
As this is one of those really dead weeks, it might be a good time to take longer lunches and go to places that normally are so busy you shy away.
For me, I like those Potbelly sandwiches, both for taste and price, but damn in that line isn't literally out the door of the establishment. So I think i'll get one of those this week.
Also, in the spirit of the holidays, perhaps its also a good week to have a beer or other drink with lunch.
So on these down weeks where lots of people are out of the office, how will you alter your lunching habits?
And what are you doing today?
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What am I doing today? Waiting for one my fat-cat government bureaucrat friends to lift a finger long enough to post my lunch-talk starter...
Wendy's.
Watchdog I hope that training (which we are paying for)is worth neglecting us all day.
There. Now that I've finally finished THAT...
I'm thinking about pulling one of those long sit-down lunches today. It's a little down-timey around here, and I've spent the morning watching online training modules about sexual misconduct in order to design an online training module of my very own about sexual misconduct. If anyone is in the neighborhood with a hammer, feel free to swing by and hit me in the temple.
I might take a cue from mikeysunshine and Sea Bass and go to Mexican Tchochke's for a beer and a chimichanga.
Oh, the training is indeed splenderifous. Here's the description:
Take this course and learn to
-- Draft researchable questions.
-- Develop a potential message by analyzing and synthesizing data.
-- Work as an effective team member to shape a potential message.
-- Apply XXX writing principles, including deductive structure and logical link.
-- Use effective strategies for incorporating supervisor or stakeholder feedback.
"Apply XXX writing principles, including deductive structure and logical link"
Wait - so we're, er, they're (I'm not currently paying into the system, but rather take, take, taking from it) paying for WD to learn to write erotic literature?
On topic:
I'm a little like Morrissey, in that we're both weird and asexual. No, wait. I'm like Morrissey because for me, every day is like Sunday. As such, I lead a life of downtime. Lunch the last two days has been clementines, and some relish tray items left over from Sunday, which will feed me all week until I make the journey to the 'burgh to see my dad.
(As my father is also a big fan of the relish tray and snacks, in general - I forsee more relish tray items in my future on Christmas eve, when my dad and I will be watching the Steelers/Ravens game, drinking beer and yelling at each other and the tv.)
You know what's not abandoned in Downtown Capital city? Borders.
Bunch of procrastinating douchebags like me, Waiting until the 4th day of Hanukkah to get gifts. The place was full of gentiles pawing all over everything, and the holiday season bussle was thick as mustard. The line was 50 people deep. They announced that. But there was a lady in a santa hat giving out candy at the back of the line to make the wait more pleasant. I have to give credit to the angry clerks running the registers, they cranked it out yo.
Lunch is left over turkey and cheese sammies on croissants. They are left over from the holiday party at NWF (Think N.W.A, but these guys have feelings, not attitudes)
Oh my god, I just realized I'm a statistic now. "Victom of inter-office crime"! Dammit!
wouldn't that be IntrA office crime?
lt: that's shitty. There must be a rash of that going around the Capital Area, as I recently received announcement of a new refrigerator cleaning policy. To wit: "If you have an item which you do not want thrown away, please label it with your name and today’s date and place it on the TOP SHELF. All items not on the top shelf will be tossed. We are making this change in response to some items which have been mistakenly thrown away."
I can only thank my lucky stars for some law and order around here.
I just stumbled in to free castoffs from some important lunch meeting that I wasn't part of. More bullshit from Corner Bakery, but, after a morning of watching ways to detect, precent, and address child molestation, I just want to sit here and eat my free hand-me-down lunch (which, specifically, is half a roast beef sammy on their tomato-herb bread with a dabble of some sort of Greek-themed pasta salad and a sugar cookie for dessert; water to drink) and watch the SNL Dick in a Box video over and over again.
Dammit! Um, yes, it would.
Aw, someeone just offered to buy me a burrito. About 1/2 hour too late, but aw. What a nice guy! He would never throw out someone's lunch.
Oh, man, that was an inspired sketch. I have to say, SNL has gone downhill again, but Justin Timberlake is really funny! Both the first time he was on (like 3 years ago) & this time! Ha ha! It's my dick in a box! Ha ha!
My mood has improved tremendously - I just got my woot monkey - and a day early, no less! I have already disrupted people's work twice. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He sounds more monkey-like than Brian's, though. Oh well, can't have everything! He has a little red cape that says "Woot" on it. Hee hee! Yay!
Shit.
It turns out that my sugar cookie is actually a gingerbread cookie.
That's like trying to pick up some fine-ass honey at the bar but then taking her not-so-fine-ass friend home.
Which is to say, it's not exactly what I wanted, but I'll still have to brush crumbs off my chin when I finish...
EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just had a nice, long sit-down lunch of Chinese food. One of the managers is retiring, and some "alumni" from his group took him out to lunch. All was fun until he passed out some poem he picked up in Germany about a goose that is just the dirtiest, most innuendo-filled piece of verse any of us had ever read (and we're a pretty dirty bunch). Awkward! Perhaps b/f his retirement date, he should check out EQ's sexual misconduct seminar.
I am supposed to be getting my Woot monkey and accompanying wine today. However, I am not holding my breath as last week, I was supposed to get my porn, and yesterday I was supposed to get my camera. Did I get any of this crap yet? No. The camera is now technically "lost" and somehow my porn got sent back to the company, so I'm waiting for redelivery.
If my wine and monkey show up, it will probably be half empty and the monkey won't be a monkey at all, but rather a stuffed cockroach that makes a hissing noise when flung about the room. Ew. Just thinking about that makes me want to spew.
Brief break from training. I'm now tired and bored, they should pay extra for this.
And the XXX was to protect the identity of my employer. HOwever, I would much prefer to be trained in XXX writing style than what i've been going through.
Even German dirty poems would be preferable.
did you woot porn? or was this from somewhere else? i don't remember seeing that in the woot-off.
Just knocked down another free half-sammy.
Take that, The Man!
I'm really looking forward to appearing for jury duty tomorrow. Anyone have any tips?
"The key is to say you're prejudiced against all races."
-Homer Simpson
No, I didn't woot porn. This is my movie that I finally found, after all these years. Not the one I already got, where I have but a bit part, but rather one in which "I" am the star. And, I am critically acclaimed.
I am not having good luck with delivery companies, and I really want to leave my house, but I'm afraid if I'm not here to get my wine today, I'll never see or hear from it again.
Oh, that one!! Oooh, I can't wait to . . . er . . . hear it?
Peep, that creamer-thief is only funny b/c he's not in my office. If I can't have my morning coffee (with creamer, yo!) then I'll be madder than an Illinois senator being asked about his middle name.
Both my monkey wine (and accompanying monkey) and camera were just delivered!! Yay! Going to the gym now!!
LT, I immediately suspect that your burrito-buyer-offerer is also the perp. A perp with a guilty conscience.
Someone tell me why the frack anyone would go to Jimmy John's when there's Potbellies all over the place? They're more expensive and they FOLKIN' SOLK!! I decided to patronize them 'cause i like that commercial where their logo is falling from the sky screaming. I like to give it up for good commercials. Never again, Jimmy John. NEVER!!!!
Earthquake, are you a professional jurist or what? Seems you're always doing jury duty...WTF?
wd: I'm a civic duty whore.
Actually, this is only the second time I've been summoned for jury duty. The first time was a little over a year ago, and it was in the jurisdiction where I "reside," not in the jurisdiction where I am serving tomorrow.
Stupid nation's capital pulling potential jurors from the tax rolls instead of from the voter registration rolls...
Dipso, I would assume that too, but he's a nice guy, so a) he wouldn't throw out anyone's lunch and b) he makes a buttload of money, so it weren't no big thang for him. Besides he works so much I doubt he gets out of his office much. No, I've got an idea of who it is. No proof, of course. Just that these couple of people are assholes. How are they assholes? Well, they don't say 'hi' in the hallway for one thing.
I've never heard of Jimmy John's & I think I would avoid it for fear of grits & pickled eggs.
I like Jimmy John's.
It could have been an accident, LT. Maybe he WAS being a nice guy -- trying to clean out the fridge. Maybe he though your lunch was trash...
Okay, Jo -- what do you get there, then? How does one do Jimmy John's the "right way"?
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