Weird email of the day: “Beginning 2 Feb 2013, goose control services will be working at [work place] to encourage Canada geese to find a new home. Goose control handlers, using highly trained dogs used specifically for the control of geese, will initially be at [work place] seven days a week and as necessary over the next several months. In addition to the use of these specially trained dogs, all the techniques used by handlers will be environmentally safe. Handlers are educated on the behavior of Canada geese and their migratory, nesting, and breeding habits. No harm will come to the geese.”

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A meeting was scheduled for today at work. I hate meetings. I wasn’t looking forward to it. But I am a good minion and dutifully showed up. Our group was going to go over a document, making the last changes to it.

“We’re actually just going to make the final changes here and over the next few days,” my supervisor said to me as we waited for everyone to arrive. “You’ll be seeing it then, and you can clean it up and get it ready as a deliverable. So you don’t really have to be here if you don’t want to.”

“Sweet!” I replied and practically bolted out the door. Halfway down the hall I caught myself and realized I shouldn’t have been quite so enthusiastic to leave.

Oh well.

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Superbowl weekend! I’m pretty excited that I actually have a preference this year. Go Ravens! I’m not planning on watching the superbowl or anything like that (though I might record it and fast forward through the game to watch the commercials), but I’ll tune in to see who won at the end. Or, wait… when is it supposed to end? Will I be in bed already? Well, I’ll at least check in the morning.

If I had any interest in football and wanted to join sports fandom (and, let’s be clear, I don’t; sci-fi fandom is my preferred subculture), I would totally be rooting for the Ravens for the whole season. (Does one root for a team outside the season? If so, then to.) I love their team colors – purple! – and the fact that their name comes from the Edgar Allen Poe connection.

So with my ever-so-slightly-outside-of-indifference enthusiasm I say, GO RAVENS!