You Think U Had a Bad Day?
When i first saw him this afternoon, he was hissing, crouched in the back of a
cage, ears flat back, pupils
wide-eyed full of terror, and trying to bury his head in a blanket. You could tell he didn't have a clue about what the fuck was going on, but whatever it was, he DID NOT LIKE IT.
"Pitzi", a LARGE (20+ lb) 4 yr old male
tabby cat (with notable Bengal markings), was abandonded by his former owners this morning - left with an organization called "Kitty Kind". Evidently, he is the product of a broken home - a boyfriend and girlfriend who split up, neither of which can keep him.
The entirety of his four years of life have been spent in an apartment, and he has probably only ever really known two people, ever. But this morning, all that changed, suddenly. He was carted through the streets of New York, handed off to unknown parties, and put in a cage in a pet store along with dozens of other unwanted felines. He was flipped out enough, at least, to get his own cage. But then the day wore on with a parade of strangers poking at him.
He was so freaked out, i just couldn't leave him there. So right now, he is cowering under my living room futon. He is still very confused, and very scared, and pretty pissed off. But soon, i hope, he'll realize everything is going to be ok again.
And then, we are so going to change his name, because "Pitzi" is kinda goofy sounding.
Client Cafeteria Inspired Trivia, Installment #1
Today's $4.50 Special at the cafeteria: a Reuben sandwich...
I guess the "Reuben" bit consisted of the corned beef/sauerkraut part of it, but the Reuben-esqueness ends there, as it was a "pressed" sandwich - as in Cuban style. What's more, it was pressed between two pieces of ciabatta... (?!?) And it was ciabatta with .. jalapenos.
Frankly, darlings, i dont think cuisine can get anymore nouveau than this..
Buddha Call
Went to Pearl River with Shaun-0 today to pick out a Buddha for his new New York apartment. We settled on this one -
So, lugging the Buddha back from SoHo, and looking for a cab, i asked shaun, "Is it heavy?"... "Oh - he ain't heavy, he's my buddha," was the reply of course... but we got a cab anyway. Buddha rode 'bitch' - which i learned was the appellation for riding in the middle of the backseat, or the "hump", as it were.
Pearls & Swine
Technically, I am educated and erudite. Truth is, only my friends are...
Victoria: do you have your poem in your pocket?
Pwylla: no, sadly, just a taxi reciept and some lint
Victoria: here's one for ya
Victoria: Gift (Czeslaw Milosz)
A day so happy.
Fog lifted early, I walked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails.
Pwylla: wow thatz awfully zen for my current state ;)
Victoria: It's awfully zen for any state. I love that poem. I've been passing it out at work.
Victoria: I'm a dork, but if it's being a poetry dork, I'll accept that.
Pwylla: aaw
Pwylla: shite
Pwylla: my left breast was just itching something awful and client walked by just in time to see me all white trash scratchin myself vigorously
Buying Time
This was toooo frikkin easy. Makes me wish i'd waited until 11:59pm to do it.
Time Warpin Consulting
This morning i was reviewing a document I'd created with a teammate:
Pwylla: (hands teammate copy of document)...Let me show you what i've done so far with the phased timeline...
Teammate: ... Oh yeah, i've seen this...
Pwylla: Wait - you couldn't have seen this - i just created it.
Pwylla: Unless... you're from the future....!!
Pwylla: ... and if you are... could you tell me how this document looks when it's finished?
Me Time
Have been getting ready for a conference on top of some pretty hectic client work. Have been working non-stop pretty much the entire last 7 days. At the expense of - sleep, eating, bathing, taking the trash out, Vinnie's birthday party and a free Eagles of Death Metal concert, among other things. I even ran out of toilet paper in the apartment sometime around Thurs. But made it through the last few days with some fairly soft napkins. Haven't slept more than three hrs a nite/morning on any of the last preceding nights, and itz still really not over, but dammit i need some downtime.
I am in JFK right now, an hour before my flight to the conference in florida. There is technically still work i gotta do tonight (and it could get ugly as it involves deploying a website, and this is the sort of thing that NEVER goes exactly right the first time)... but i just don't care. At this point, starving, i am chowing down on a pretty lame ceasar salad and a really good a bloody mary (a double, thank you very much) at some weird airport bar with a sports theme.
I am going to sleep straight thru this plane flight, i am sure. And first chance i get, i am hitting that sauna/spa at the hotel where the conference is being held. Hell or highwater.
Excuse You
It seems like all of our clients have blackberry's or Treos, which they set on vibrate when they are in meetings.... and everytime one of them goes off it really sounds like someone is farting...
Time Management Quiz
You have 3 minutes before a two hour client meeting. Do you:
a) go to the bathroom. You haven't been all day.
b) get coffee. You're passing out on your feet.
That's right! The answer is b)!! Both the coffee and the fact that you have to go to the bathroom will keep you wide awake for the both the 2 hour meeting and the 45 minutes it runs over!!!
Go You!!
Salad Bar Experiment #440
Client has crazy cheap salad bar in cafeteria. Yours truly's frequent patronage thereof has resulted in desparate and somewhat dangerous attempts to thwart the potential monotony - namely, potentially dubious mixing of not-oft-mixed salad bar components. Today - Krab (with a K) and feta cheese. Actually:
... not so bad.... especially with ceaser dressing...
Who knew?
Cronos Phobos
Are we saving or spending daylight right now?
I thought i had escaped waking up at the dreaded 1pm crap-hour, when
the clock said 11:59a. Of course, half a coffee later i realize that
with the stooopit time change itz actually 1p. This whole
spring-forward-loose-an-hour bullshit is the last thing i need right
now. Itz not like i didn't have enough trouble getting up in and to
work on time before, and now i am supposed to do it all an hour earlier
than my body has grown used to...
Blah Saturday
The past two saturdays i have been unable to wake up before 1pm. What's up with that? I didn't even stay out too late the night before. There is something about waking up at 1pm that always puts me in a crap mood.
The Apt is a wreck. Itz pretty pathetic that even though i have a really good
housekeeper, it takes me less than three days to totally retrash my
house.
I can't work in this mess.