Monday, January 25, 2010

This might be the first time I've actually wanted to use the tag FLM

Funny story...I was in class tonight (ok, ok, I'm still in class and writing this while I listen to a group presentation) and let's be honest, the only way I make it through class is to play on facebook, twitter, and whatever other random websites I stumble on.  So, I went to Yahoo to check my email and on the homepage was a story about how Hayden Panettiere and Madonna wore the same dress to something recently (the Golden Globes? I have no idea...I don't actually watch that stuff.  I do, however, enjoy a good old fashioned cat fight.).  Plus, I grew up in the '80's and I have a still healthy fascination with Madonna, so you can clearly understand how I *had* to click on the link.  You want to, too, don't you?  Of course you do.  Here it is.

One minor problem--it's a video.  And in one of those "oh shit, I just opened porn at work" moments, I realized the sound on my laptop wasn't muted.  In fact, it was pretty much on full blast.  I desperately tried to close the website, mute the sound, throw my computer out the window.  ANYTHING.  But of course it didn't work.  Instead, the entire class turned around and stared at me and the professor actually stopped the entire lecture until I could manually shut down my laptop.  Awesome.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Where is the restart button?

I just spilled an ENTIRE cup of coffee on my desk. And in some sort of cruel comedy of errors, the only place to get paper towels on the ENTIRE floor in my building is in the bathroom or the pantry where they have installed automatic dispensers (which, by the way, only work about half the time, so the rest of the time, when you leave the bathroom, you have to wipe your hand on your pants, but maybe they only work half the time because people insist on taking an extra paper towel to carry to the bathroom door so they can use it to GRAB THE HANDLE because OMG THE GERMS, THE GERMS, THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US ALL! How I haven't gotten swine flu yet by opening the bathroom door WITH MY BARE HANDS is beyond me) , so the only way to get a volume of paper towels is to stand in front of them and wave your hand, wait for the 6 inches of paper towel to come out, rip it off, then wave your hand again, wait, rip, and repeat LIKE 50 TIMES! And now all I can smell is a really gross mix of cleaning spray and coffee.