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Mon Sep-20-04 09:37 AM
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I'm home sick, bored, and blowing off my mission-statement meeting. |
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I guess my defense of my magazine's mission statement will need to wait until the fever breaks. (I don't know for a fact I have a fever, as I can't find the thermometer. But I feel like I do. And I'm achy.)
I made the right decision, fever or no fever.
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:39 AM
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1. Mission Statement fever! Catch it! |
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After what you described last week no jury will convict you.
Hope you feel better soon, eyesroll. :hug:
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:42 AM
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2. Thanks. I'd be wondering if it wasn't psychosomatic -- but I don't care |
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enough about the mission statement or the meeting to make myself sick over it.
Nah...I just caught a bug or something. (My immune system engaged in a paradigm shift and is not delivering its mission-critical, just-in-time objectives.)
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:46 AM
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4. HA! I hate it when my immune system achieves non-excellence... |
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...in its deliverables objectives. ;-)
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:44 AM
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3. Everyone's sick down here |
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Some awful cold going around. And I found out my daughter has asthma, which sucks. :(
Be happy you don't have to take any nasty medicine! Yet, anyway.
Hope you feel better soon. :hug:
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:47 AM
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6. I'm not sure this is a medicine thing... |
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I might take some Aleve or something, but otherwise, it just has to run its course.
Is it just my imagination, or is asthma just exploding recently? When I was in elementary school, there was one girl in my class who had it. Now, it seems your daughter has plenty of company. Best wishes that her inhaler doesn't taste too bad...
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:53 AM
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9. Oh yes, asthma rates have skyrocketed |
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But it's not because of pollution or anything, so don't go getting any cockamamie liberal ideas, now.
/sarcasm
I've just about lost all patience with republicans, and this, I think, will pretty much end my ability to be civil with them.
:grr:
Glad to hear you don't have to take nasty medicine... really you probably wouldn't anyway, since you can take pills. My kids still have to take liquid everything. I feel so bad for them.
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:46 AM
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5. Does this mean you're in the crumble phase of the Maytag Blue paradigm? |
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:49 AM
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7. I'm thinking I'm getting moldy. |
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Not the good, yummy, veiny mold...but the fuzzy ("when the hell did we buy this anyway?") stuff...
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:50 AM
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8. uh-oh. I see this turning into one of those flame "let's rally around... |
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Edited on Mon Sep-20-04 09:52 AM by sundog
the sickly eyesroll" threads
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:00 AM
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13. More like "let's rally around the bored eyesroll." |
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I think I'm done sleeping (at least for awhile), so it's this or "Divorce Court."
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:21 AM
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18. A rally nonetheless! But I think you need to invoke a little more... |
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sympathy from your audience. You need to give your audience a REASON to rally. Go for the gut.
Remember... it's all about pacing.
Have you forgotten everything from 1989 Drama Camp???
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:35 AM
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I was in the "creative writing" track. I didn't learn how to write any better, but I took with me these tidbits:
1. One can make a bong out of just about anything. 2. Girls can hit on other girls and be totally serious. 3. Hair gel does indeed mimic ejaculate (vice versa was demonstrated a few years later in "There's Something About Mary") 4. Legos can't be removed from (thankfully not my) ears without medical intervention.
I lived a sheltered existance until art camp...
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:43 AM
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24. Legos? Should I ask which size?? Or just let sleeping dogs lie? |
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:46 AM
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26. I don't know the details, only that one of the guys |
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decided to engage in some performance art that went awry...
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:55 AM
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10. I hope you get better- |
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Nice to see someone else is playing hooky, though! :hi:
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:57 AM
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11. The toilets will be there tomorrow. |
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:hi: and thanks.
You're playing hooky for a much better reason, though...:evilgrin:
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Mon Sep-20-04 09:58 AM
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lurid details elsewhere...
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:01 AM
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14. Hey...I'm not being lurid... |
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Edited on Mon Sep-20-04 10:02 AM by eyesroll
Who, me? O8)
Seriously -- assuming you're not feverish, attending a funeral or bailing raw sewage out of your basement, you by default are playing hooky for better reasons.
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:15 AM
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17. Yeah, that evil grin always implies |
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That I'm going down to the cellar with a shovel and a sump pump. Sure...:P
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:10 AM
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15. All you need is this: |
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:11 AM
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16. Before I clicked, I assumed you thought I needed a giant flounder penis. |
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:31 AM
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However, I have to go in to work for a meeting in a short while. Damn meetings. These people are annoying too. My only hope is that I'll pass my feverish, achy germs onto them. :grr:
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:37 AM
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21. I cancelled two meetings. |
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It was the right decision. I've had a hard time sitting upright today (right now, I'm sprawled out on the couch with my laptop; when the batteries die I'll plug it back in and shower or something).
Here's a :hug: to feel better (and I'll assume we have the same germs and thus don't make each other sicker).
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:42 AM
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Jason is sick as well. I think I'll need to interrogate you and flamingyouth a little further. :grr:
I'm home today as well. I have a 15% paycut through the end of the year. :-( Only good thing is that they also reduced our schedules so I get 1 1/2 days off per pay period.
Since I'm not sick, I'm going on a nice ride on the north side of the city and visiting the Chicago Botanical Garden.
Hope you all feel better soon.
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:45 AM
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I admit...it was me...I e-mailed Jason a virus.
Enjoy your ride!
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:43 AM
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23. I'm sorry that you're sick. |
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:(
There is something going around here that I've succefully managed not to get so far - I pray my luck holds! Terrible things, those change-of-season colds.
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Mon Sep-20-04 10:46 AM
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I'm not sure it's a change-of-season thing...I do get allergies, but this isn't it...Whatever it is, I don't have to talk to my CEO about mission statements today, so there are small blessings at least...
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Mon Sep-20-04 11:10 AM
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28. so mission statements do make people ill |
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in more ways than one. I am waiting to see if my kid gets whatever is going around, since the illnesses they send home from school are particularly virulent. I hope not.
Hope you feel better. :)
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Mon Sep-20-04 11:13 AM
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No kids, so no kids' illnesses. (I did go to the Capitol Steps :eyes: on Friday, at a college, with a pregnant woman. Maybe those count...)
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Mon Sep-20-04 11:24 AM
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30. I love the Capitol Steps! Were they good? |
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Well, I think you can just get exposed to illness anywhere there are people. But the illnesses kids bring home are the pits. I work at home a lot, so I am am less exposed than when I was in an office.
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Mon Sep-20-04 11:54 AM
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I think I'm gonna blame them for my illness. (They're not here and can't protest...)
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Mon Sep-20-04 01:36 PM
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32. wow that is pretty scathing |
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they always seem quite witty on the radio. I always thought they had one of the best jobs you could have, combining music and politics.
Blame away. :)
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