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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Two things

Thing First
All the documents I’ve seen at at my new job have been quite clean. All need a bit of formatting help and some rewriting here and there but the documents have actually been in fairly good shape1. I haven’t been involved early in the process yet, only seeing documents that are in the final [...]

Unethical liars (as opposed to the ethical liars…)

Whatever you do, don’t ever buy a blog theme from blogstudios.com. They have cute themes, but they’ll just rip you off and not deliver, and you’ll never get your money back. In particular, avoid one of their designers, Rachel Doyle. She is a thief and a liar.
A couple months ago I purchased a very cute [...]

Blood and Escalators

The National Book Festival is the 27th. Neil Gaiman is one of the many authors who will be there. I’m so totally there. Living in a city is awesome.
So I went to the allergist again today to review how the new (non-Prednisone, yay!) drugs are doing. They’re doing very well. I’m pleased. Still, I’d like [...]

I didn’t screw up

As I left work this afternoon and crossed the street to the handy-dandy Metro station, a woman stopped me to ask directions.
Let us pause for a moment to pity the poor woman who chose me, out of all the people she could have stopped, to ask for directions. ‘Kay, moment over.
She was looking at [...]

Monday randomness

1. My calendar at work is quickly becoming filled with meetings now. This is annoying for two reasons:
a. I hate meetings.
b. Just when, exactly, do they expect me to work on all of the documents that are now coming my way?
2. I was supposed to go back to the allergist this week. Not going [...]

Texas? Never heard of it.

The pharmacy tech who works in the pharmacy just downstairs from my office (and thus a very convenient pharmacy) is seriously lacking in the brain department.
Let us go back a month to when I first used the place to refill my prednisone prescription. I presented the prescription and my brand spankin’ new insurance information. It [...]