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Beware ebay
My mother has recently discovered the joy of ebaying. Each day I come home expecting there to be a ginormous box of something my mother purchased from the online auction site. Usually, the boxes contain statues or dolls from various European designers/companies, and I am continuously berated and deemed an ignoramus for not knowing what a [...]
Short but sweet
I think I sprained my foot.
Yesterday, as I walking down the stairs of the house where I’ve lived for almost 20 years, I slipped and almost rolled most ungraciously the rest of the way down the stairs. Somehow during the fall, the last three toes of my right foot were bent in such a [...]
Professional doofus
Somehow, I ended up with the task of screening potential interview candidates for our department over the phone and scheduling interviews with them. I don’t know how this happened since I have no experience in that line of work whatsoever and it seems to me that there could be some very heavy legal ramifications if [...]
WTF
I ordered some CDs on Amazon (am I the only person who still buys CDs? Probably.), and I was eagerly anticipating their arrival all week. The shipping guy delivered them to me today at my desk and I was soooo excited. Unfortunately, he delivered the package right before lunch and I had to wait until [...]
Stupid
I am stupid. This is why I can never succeed in life. I just spent a good 30 minutes (if not more), listing all the email addresses for the people in my group at work for someone in another department. I just realized there is a feature that allows me to email everyone in my [...]