A: So it’s Friday.  Also, we get pizza for lunch.
S: Eep!!  Also, he called me last night and somehow now I’m the one picking him up at the airport.

I just really want to go shopping at a J.Crew right now.

The end.

A: You: > Snotty Snotterson.

S: Hah!  I’ve never met anyone else who does that!   Granted, my version is usually Scottish.  Sassy McSasserton.  You really are her today.

Gah!!!  This day cannot end fast enough!

A: Indeed.

Hooray for Sunday morning meetings.  Goodbye weekend.
S: :( I'm so sorry.

S: Do you have any projects that it would be helpful for me to take off your hands?

A: Not really besides this GCCC bid.  The other projects I’m working on are with M and are pretty much on hold until we get this bid done. blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
S: :( :( :( :( :(
Well.  My schedule just became wide open.  So let me know  if there is anything at all I can do!

S: Tomorrow!

A: You’re only a daaaaay aaaaawaaaaaayyy!  (ending line in the Annie song)

S: Yesterday and today both felt painfully like a Friday.  I do not like coming in on Saturday and Sunday.  That’s all I have to say about that. 

A: Hah and the people outside the window aren’t helping.

S: I know right?  Who goes on three-day weekends anyway?

A: Pffsh I don’t know.

Wait, no.  I would actually. 

Also

If we’re talking about 3 day weekends, why not just not work at all?

S: Seriously.

Wow.  Sounds like operations is having a party.

A: Yeah that was quite noisy.  How unprofessional.

S: We should write a strongly-worded, yet anonymous note.

A: I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but tomorrow is Friday.

Also, I think it’s the day D is getting in.  Did you know that? :)
S: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I thought about being all snarky…. But I’m just too excited :) )

S: I think this project is destined to never be finished.
A: Which project is this?

I feel like several projects will never be finishes.

S: Hah!  Freudian slip.  I think you have finishes on the brain :) (of course the fact that s and d are next to each other on the keyboard have nothing to do with it.)

The shoebox room.  I am totally uninspired.  Unless you count my total distraction to be excited that D gets home in TWO days!!!!!!!  And he was just the cutest ever on the phone yesterday…….. let’s just say my mind is not on work ;)

A: Lol!  Finishes must be subconsciously on my brain after this week.  Shoebox rooms are like soggy plain oatmeal so I don’t blame you for being uninspired.

Wow 2 days.  I’m sure you just don’t know what to do with yourself until he arrives!  I can’t wait to hear how everything develops.  You know you’ll have to dish on the progression! :)

Also, the parking lot still has puddles in it.  You’ll have to come to my side to see it.  Glad some of the pavement remained wet.  Wouldn’t want it to dry out completely.
S: I love how my first reaction after reading that email was to look over and examine the dysfunctional sprinklers.  Who knew they could provide so much entertainment!
Trust me.  If things happen the way I want them to, you won’t be able to get me to stop dishing.  You’ll be full on sick of it.  But I won’t be :)

S: What the map?

I think Google is confused.

A: LOL.  THAT IS HILARIOUS.

S: I think my favorite part is how well the road superimposes over the Dominican Republic.

A: THAT’S FANTASTIC!  I DIDN’T NOTICE THAT PART.

A: So I love how 20-20 worksheet’s “save” button looks like an old floppy disk.  Because we use them so much these days.
S: Oh my heck!  I just did an informal survey, and all the major programs (ms office, cad, cet etc) all  use the floppy disk.  I guess it’s one of those things we’ll never loose.  And in 10 years our kids are going to see the symbol and know it means save, but have no idea why :)

S: So every five minutes or so I try and refocus on work, and then almost immediately my brain literally goes out the window.  (Yes, literally.)

A: Understandable!  It’s so close you can taste it!

I worked on these typical for 5 hours straight.  I have 4 left.  I was going to try and finish them before I got lunch but I got this irritating feeling that I couldn’t stand it anymore and that I needed food.

S: Way to go!  You’re so close!!!!  Good call on food by the way.

Also.

Is B back or are you still alone at home? :(

A: I like how also had it’s own line.

Yes, B got back on Sunday!  Only for him to go to Fairbanks the first week in August.  I just can’t win!

S: I feel like also deserves its own everything.

Good!  I’m glad he’s at least here for a little bit!  But its super lame he has to leave again :(

A:
S: Also.
A: How many of those blank emails have you gotten from me? I go to click the reply button and accidently double click it and since it’s taking increasingly longer to open I keep messing it up.
S: I get one every so often.  Not all the time. Nbd.  That’s pretty funny though.

S: This may be heretical (feel free to strike me down if so) but I think if I weren’t so devoted to the % email, we should have one where the subject line is :

Also

A: Hah well I could agree with that.  Also. Is a great word.  I feel that if we have to abandon the % email for the length of time it takes to open we should start the also email.  (When I first noticed the % email taking a while to open I could count to 4.  I’m up to 9 now).

Also.

Do you wonder how many pages it would take to print out the % email?  I feel like we should publish it at some point. 

S: Hah!  Could we publish it anonymously so we don’t get fired?

Maybe at six month-iversary?

A: Yes, that is probably a good idea to keep it anonymous.  I think one day when I’m bored I’ll go through it and take out all of the logos and signatures to condense the email’s length making it easier to read and/or print.

S: I think that would reduce it by more than half.  Considering most of our emails are 1-2 lines.

Also, I just looked back at the start date.  Six month-iversary will be on September 11!  Weird eh?  Also 10^th anniversary since that happened.

Also, I totally forgot that % started because we liked to estimate how much of the work day was left.  25% to go!

A: All true statements.  This email is really a development of several things; office work environment, our friendship, things we like to do at work etc.

S: It’s true.  Nothing like social commentary to keep us entertained for hours on end :)  I will definitely want a copy of this email (and any sequels) in hard copy one day.

A: That would be fantastic. 

Also…

I just did a print preview out of curiosity.  188 pages.

S: Are you freakhog kidding me?  We’re practically to novel length!

A: So I went through and deleted the logo from the start until May 6^th.  It’s tedious but it’s a start.
S: Hah!  What an excellent use of your afternoon!  (Almost as productive as mine :) )

A: FYI: I like how we can sit and talk about dysfunctional sprinkler patters for over 20 mintues.

S: Hah!  I like how I had to stop myself from losing it I thought it was so funny.

Totally worth it.

A: It’s definitely what I needed today.  A good laugh like that.
S: Too true, my friend.  Too true.

A: I’m so tired it’s hard to function today.  B was supposed to get in at 12:30 last night but his plane got in at 1:15 and we didn’t get home until 2:00 and I couldn’t’ fall asleep until 3.  I do have a case of the Mondays today. 

S: Can we just call this day a wash and go home?  I think A would be down also…

A: Yes I agree, plus J’s not even here.

S: Seriously.  I just want to curl up under my desk and die… I’m just so miserably sick right now.

A: Boo, I thought you were supposed to be on the track of getting better not the curling up and dying stage. :(

S: I know right?  I thought I was… and then I got decidedly worse.

A: No good.  Perhaps you should eat more key lime pie and watch Homeward Bound instead of sit here and work and get sicker from the indoor air quality of this building.

S: Tempting.

A: I find it really amusing how there’s a baseball game on the TV in the background of J’s picture of him holding his new son. :)
S: Priorities y'know.
S: So where and when do you want to go shoe shopping tonight?
A: Yes, we should figure out what’s going down tonight.

So do you want to come to my place?  I just need about an hour to tidy up first if we go there. 

If so then we can make the pie, go shoe shopping – I think Nords is having their anniversary sale now so we could go to 5^th avenue mall.  I also have that Old Navy Groupon but I could go there another day.  Then we could grab dinner while we’re out.  Come back to wherever  eat pie and watch Homeward Bound.  Do you have the 2^nd one too?

Those are my thoughts.  Feel free to throw in your ideas!

S: Oh man.  I only wish I had a record of their adventure in San Francisco.  Actually I straight up remember seeing it in the theater with my sister.  Weird.

That sounds like a plan to me.  I’ll head over there before or around 6:30?  Where do you live, actually?

A: 6:30 sounds good!

S: “Is there a reason, code wise or other, my workstation could not be under the stairway?”

I’m going to call this Harry Potter Syndrome.

I love delusional clients.

A: What the client?!?  That’s hilarious.  We should keep a running tab on ridiculous client requests and publish a book when we’re finished.

S: I know right?  They also want a multi-functional area on steroids.  There is no way and I love it.

A: We all need a little crazy in our life from time to time.  Or in our case, weekly.

A: I’m not so sure they should put ‘CET Designer’ and ‘simplifies’ in one sentence.  

S: Hah!  What an oxymoron!

A: I’m always amazed on how many different writing utensils I get out every single day.

S: Hah!  It’s like we secretly have 80 arms and each one needs a writing implement.

A: I have so much laundry at home to do, it’s hard to concentrate here.  Wish I could just take the day off and clean the house instead of clean fish!
S: :) I hear you.  I realized this morning that my sink is totally full of dishes.  Snipe.  I really hate that.
A: Yep, we’ve got that going on too.  It’s mostly M’s.  I’m guilty of a dish or two though. But I usually try to keep on top of dishes if nothing else.  I just like clean kitchens!
S: Yes!  Me too!  Even if the rest of my house is a mess I like that clean.  I realized it’s because my roommate and I have opposite dish theories.  I’m a “put it into the dishwasher immediately, then start it when its full” person.  She’s a “put it in the sink, and when the sink is full, fill and start the dishwasher” person.  So as a result I’m the one who always fills and empties it.  Which I just didn’t have the energy for this week.  Snipe.  I’ll probably do that today.
A: Yeah I’m the same as you (most of the time).  There are rare occasions when I let pots sit for a day if I’m exhausted but usually no longer than that.  M is good when we’re cooking together though, we clean as we go usually so there are no dishes in the sink.  Or if B is home he’ll clean the dishes.  It’s when we’re busy that it gets piled up!  I’m not a fan of the roommates who do as yours does though. 

That was a long HGTV conversation I wasn’t prepared for. 

A: Seriously, he’s still hung up on having the whole process on the blog?  I thought we moved past that months ago.
S: Yes.  Literally.  Months.

S: Also I’m pretty sure he still prints everything.

A: Yes, quite possibly.  Did you know he didn’t finish design school?

S: Really?  Scandal.

A: That’s what C told me anyway.

S: He would know.  I love how all the worst (and by worst I mean best) gossips I know are men.  Whoever managed to convince the world it was women did some crazy good PR.

A: Very true!

I really want to kick myself for not sticking to an art degree.  I bet my college had a good art education program since it was an Education degree based college. Boo hoo.  Maybe I’ll have to move back to NC and do that…

S: Sounds like a plan!  You realize you aren’t allowed to leave here until I do, right?

That would be the worst.

A: Of course of course.  It’ll be a sad day if you’re not here and I am.  I’ll have to gchat with you or something.

I’m such a split personality.  Part of me loves it here.  Part of me really just wants to go back to the south.  I need lots of money so I can buy 2 houses and live in both areas different parts of the year. 
S: Yes!  Good plan. 

D and I were talking about owning rental properties in different places around the country so we have somewhere to stay if we want to go……

That sounded a lot less like we were married in my head.

A: Haha this is what B is experiencing in Minnesota.  He’s loving it.

S: Hah!  My favorite part is 84, feels like 96.  Forgot how much I hated that
S: Is it bad that I’m not really a fan of working on bids with J?  I feel like the company has been using the same process for all these bids, but she doesn’t know it, and it’s throwing a wrench in my process.
S: Central Wershington.
A: Oh what?  He was in central Wershington on Mondee you know, probably had his knapsack with him too. :)
S: Or at least his bayg.
S: Are you, perhaps, interested in grabbing something for lunch today?
A: Hmm well actually I could just deposit the checks first and then we could go to lunch, but only if it’s great harvest.
S: For reals?  Snipe.  I could do great harvest…. And perhaps I’ll even know someone working…….. 

Also, I totally bought most of the ingredients yesterday for key lime pie :)  Do you by chance have a lime?

A: Yeah, its ridicerrous.  I like it when you know people working at GH ;)

Interestingly enough I am getting 3 limes in my veggie box on Thursday, so yes. 

S: How serendipitous!

A: I like how we’re both getting a little ADD with bids that we’d rather contribute length to the % email.  Speaking of % email, isn’t it 4 months old now?

S: Snipe!  We missed 4 month-iversary!

But seriously, we normally only do this when we have nothing to do.  But somehow even having this bid to do I’m uber bored.

A: When do you want to do lunch?  I just remembered I need to get my phone at home too.  Do you want to ride with me and do 2 errands or meet me at GH?
S: Either or.  I’ll ride with you on your errands, it’s not like I have anywhere to be :)

S: I was going to try and hold out for 1245 ish… but probably more like 1230.  When did you want to go?

A: I guess it depends on when A gets back since G wants to do 1-2.  I can do anytime really.

S: You know… we could go to great harvest today…..
A: You’re evil.  Not really.  But Great Harvest just sounds ridiculously delicious.  That garlic cheese bread.  A-mazing.
S: You’re in good company.  You wouldn’t believe the number of people who are certain I’m the devil’s advocate.
I could do either way really.  I have a really good bagel at home as well—so your choice. :)

A: Let’s do it another day this week – the rental car company we used put a hold on all our bank account for some stupid deposit but it will get taken care of, I just have no money until the hold is lifted.

S: Snipe.  Yeah, we’ll just go another day.

A: Yeah, snipe to the max.

S: The 3’o’clock slumps are hitting me pretty bad.
A: Yes, I feel you.  I’m about to pass out on my keyboard and create a blue screen of death on my computer.
S: I see.  The question is, whose death?
A: Good question.
S: Can it be mine?

A: This will be my first visit to prison!
S: Too easy.  I'll let it slide.
S: I feel like today should be Friday.

How’s the new project?  Going to be killer or doable?

A: I agree.

It’s hard to tell at this point.  I think it may be a killer given the tight deadline.
S: The building is totally silent.

A: Woody and Wilcox are talking about stories from Florida – which they call the screwball state.  It seems like there are always the most ridiculous stories coming from that state.
S: I thought you might appreciate this.

A: That’s awesome!  You should print it out and put it in L’s Desk. :)
S: I know right?
A: Oh it’s Tuesday.

S: It definitely shows.

A: My new desktop background.

S: Hah!  Perfect!

A: Any luck on joining ASID yet?

S: No.  I tried to apply.  Basically unless I go back and get a second degree, I can’t be accepted.

A: That’s just not right.  So you were rejected because of your degree title?

S: Exactly—it was actually super frustrating… but not whole-y unexpected.  It’s just bizarre that they make it so difficult to qualify.  There has to be some way around it—but they certainly didn’t offer one.

A: Yeah I bet.  Well boo.  Could one of your professors write some letter or could you show them your academic course contect?

S: I don’t know… basically the letter said, “we’re sorry.  But you do not fulfill the academic requirement to gain membership to ASID.  Sorry.”

Give or take a few paragraphs.

A: Preposterous.

S: No, I assure you it’s quite true :)  But it is rather ridiculous isn’t it?  I guess I decided that I don’t know how long I’m even going to stay in the field anyway… so I don’t know that it’s essential.  But it would be nice to put those little letters after my name :)

A: Haha oh you… 

I’m going dipnetting this weekend. :)

S: Jealous!  Where at?

A: Kenai.  If I catch all 45 of my limit I may consider giving you only one salmon. :P

S: Well then, I’ll cross my fingers you catch 46 :)

A: Haha!  It would be awesome to catch more than one – which is what I caught last year!

So my outlook just freaked out and now my email views do not have the preview.  Sad face. :(  I can never remember right away how to fix it to the way I had it either.

S: But it is a little funny…

Is it bad that it’s painful to not answer his calls?

A: Haha it’s not bad.

Weirdest thing just happened – out of 907 songs on shuffle 2 versions of the same song came on back to back.

Also found just it in outlook – its under the view tab,  labeled “Reading Pane” which should be more appropriately titled “Reading Pain”.

S: Hah!  You’re funny.  Or at least a little bit pun-ny.

A: Wasn’t he the one who lived through that time of no emails and cell phones for years before we came along and all the technology improved?

S: Pretty sure…. Also have you noticed how he always tells people he’s ‘using email so much more than the phone now’?  I love it.

A: Haha yes!  Welcome to the Y Factor G. :)

S: :) We do what we can.

A: Are you ready to Harry Party it up?

S: Hah!  I wish.  I’m not going to see it opening night for two reasons:

1. I will be missing out on enough sleep that weekend as it is.

2. D and I are going to wait and watch it together.

I kind of still want to go… but I would feel worse if I didn’t already know how it ended :)  Are you going?

A: I see.  I figured being so close to your big conference weekend it would be hard to make it.  And waiting to see it with D is even more a reason to not go!

I have not seen Part 1 yet.  Do I want to find out what happens in a movie or the book?  I still want to read the book series again.  

A: Hah why get a smart phone if you don’t use the data package??

S: Well, I didn’t want to be the one to say it.

A: 1.  I'm so tired and wish I was sleeping right now.
     2. This junk food filled weekend has left me addicted to junk food and it's what I want right now :(
S: :( I hear you.  My favorite candy is starbursts, so I avoid them like the plague.  But C bought me a big bag yesterday and I want to eat them all.
A: I’m so excited – my in-laws are coming here August 10-19 and my mom and C are coming the 19-30.  It’s nice to have people other than my dad come to visit haha.  My in-laws are so cut out for Alaska so it makes their visits fun. :)  Any word on when your parents are coming up?
S: No.

It was their first priority after getting back from their other trips.  They think the first weekend in August but haven’t gotten tickets yet.

That’s exciting about your visitors though!  I think showing it to people makes AK more fun.

A: Sounds like my mom.  She keeps talking about the dates they’re planning on but hasn’t made reservations yet.  It’s been since March since she starting planning on it!

S: Exactly!  Yikes.

A: I’ve declared August as “Family Tourist Month”.

S: I find that perfectly justified.

S: Yeah.  We call those yearbooks now.
A: Hahaha.  What do you say to that?
S: Annuals?  I seriously don’t think I’ve ever heard them called that before in real life.
A: That would explain my confusion as to what he was referring to.  I thought he meant dues for a club or something.
S: Nice.  He would.

S: I watched ‘The Box’ last night by myself.  Holy yikes it seriously freaked me out.
A: I can’t do scary movies. Period.  What is that one about?

I feel like I’m hearing about a scary movie with that girl missing my friend was friends with on Saturday and the body found by her apartment.  It could possibly be a stalker.  It’s just horrific and I feel terrible for my friend and the girl’s family.  It’s got to be seriously the worst thing that can happen.

S: :( I can’t even imagine how much pain they are going through.

A: Please pray for her family.  The news articles about her seem to get worse… they can’t find all the body parts.  Sorry to be a Debbie downer!  I’m going to move on to more positive things now!

Such as you were in my dream again last night.  It’s always really random and you wanted to fill a tub full of random things.  Also we talked about flying into big cities…

S: You Debbie, you.

I will.  It’s a horrific fate.  But hardest on her friends and family right now.

I have a seriously itchy mosquito bite on my calf right where I cross my legs.  Seriously not cool.

A: Not cool at all.  Mosquitoes are evil.

A: I wonder what kind of pizza!

S: Whew!  That was close!

I am stoked for the pizza!

(also a three day weekend)