having just been condescended to in an email that went to our entire company by a dick (excuse me. but sometimes there are just no other words for a person.) manager who consistently condescends to everyone for absolutely no reason - he also spells 'cool' with a 'k', which should tell you something - i've decided i am exempt from doing work for the remainder of the day.
so here i am again. with so much to catch up on i figured it would be a good time for another installment of the good, the bad, and the ugly to sum it all up.
the good...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - i know, everyone is heaping praise on this book - for goodness sakes, i even saw it in gourmet magazine - but i'm not just jumping on the bandwagon. i started reading it this week and it is damn good.
fall is finally here! - at least for today it is. how i've missed my jackets.
The Darjeeling Limited - i wasn't sure what to expect since although i really have enjoyed wes anderson's movies in the past, the most recent ones have gotten a bit too precious. but darjeeling had a lot more soul than i expected it to.
Showtime - currently responsible for about 85% of all the television we're watching.
the bad...
my computer
missy's computer
my foot
the internet situation in our apartment
the disk drive on my work computer
missy's brand new boots
the recording capability of our cable box
you know how sometimes everything breaks all at once? yup, we're in that cycle...
the ugly...
The Game:Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists - it wasn't so much that the book was ugly (although it was, bound in imitation leather to resemble a bible, making it impossible for me to covertly read it in public!) or that the content was ugly, but i just felt so incredibly sad after finishing it. not like i read the book with the goal of becoming a "master pickup artist", or that i thought i'd be able to relate to it, but i also never expected it to reveal to me such a dishearteningly scary/pathetic side to the male psyche. not all of you are like the guys featured in this book, i know, but enough of you to keep the book in the top 100 on amazon more than two years after it came out.
eek.
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Spelling 'cool' with a 'k' is probably grounds to fire him. You should alert your line manager, or just punch him in the face.
I prefer the term cobag, but you probably knew that already.
As for the rest of it, that sucks and I will never read that horrible book. I already know how to win friends and influence people. That book was written for insecure losers and only works on other insecure losers.
tim - sadly, everyone around here knows what a fool he is, so i might have to resort to walloping him!
'cobag' works even better -- in the future i will have to cite you at the bottom of the post after using, correct?
and that was exactly how i felt about the book - it completely preys on the insecure losers - it just amazed/scared me that there are actually that many i.l.'s out there.
i thought friday's were already exempt from working, regardless of condescending managers. you should give him a wallop just for making you come in!
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