skryche

Last night my woman was working nights, so I slept alone. I think I must've slept about, maybe, twenty minutes before something woke me up; it couldn't have been too long because the dishwasher was still going. Standing next to my bed was a hooded shriveled evil gnome. It was staring at me. I stared back until I decided he/she was just some clothing hanging...
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This temp assignment... there's not a lot to it. Well, today, I had to dig through huge stacks of documents and file them, but I really get the impression that I've been hired out of spite.

* The boss tells the office Manager, "We need a temp!"
* Manager warns the office doesn't have enough work to justify a temp, but orders one.
* Manager...
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I spent Saturday morning working on a craigslist project. An "ad spec", which is, as far as I can tell, a very basic mock-up of an ad to show off. The product promoted is a party game called The Big O Game. It's a CD full of people moaning, and the game is to guess which groans are actually someone being gratified. Saucy.

The ad:...
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Bad!
I knew that my Very Special LadyFriend's mother was going to come to New York late last night, and I knew that I was supposed to book her a room at the cheapo hotel around the corner. But I totally forgot all about it until the evening. So when I called, of course, the hotel was full. Asked for suggestions about other hotels: "Uh,...
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We went to BKFreak's soiree last night, over in Brooklyn. It was so fucking cold we had to take a cab to the subway station. Then, on the other side it turned out that N 6th St. & Berry is completely different to S 6th St. & Berry (those wacky Brooklyn street-namers!) so we had to take another cab!

I really liked Bembe,...
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Great SGNY party last night. Very Special Ladyfriend and I are now a little hungover. Fortunately, I ate some cheese blintzes and she some pineapple.

Apparently I narrowly missed getting beaten with a blackjack.

It wasn't a "family" thanksgiving. We staying here in New York and cooked up a storm with some friends. We had mashed potatoes, squash, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, salad, brussels sprouts with hazelnuts, broccoli cheese casserole, and the turkey, of course.

As a vegetarian who believes gravy is essential to a good thanksgiving dinner, I was responsible for constructing my own gravy. I found a...
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Yikes. What does it mean if a member disappears without a trace? Is that membership lapse or The Dreaded ZOT?

Thanksgiving plans are coalescing... it's going to just be a quiet dinner with some friends. And drinking all afternoon of course. Tell me, do you ever go around the table and have each person say what they're thankful for? Or is that strictly a sitcom...
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The Very Special Lady-Friend and I saw a quartet of short plays that were playing nearby. It was $5 per ticket very inexpensive entertainment, really so I didn't have very high expectations. But they were very good: Well, one was not good, and one ended before I could get an impression of it, but the other two were great. The both dealt with romantic relationships...
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Well, I'm feeling much better today. I woke up with energy and only a mild sore throat, ready to make coffee for the mistress. Many thanks for all you guyses' comments.

VSLF's going to a drug dinner tonight — drug companies wining, dining, and lecturing doctors in the hopes that the name of their drug will be remembered when prescriptions are being written. It's an...
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Over the past few days I have been slipping into some sort of cold-like sickness. It's been a slow progression from sore throat to lack of energy to sniffles. I'm gargling hot brine and drinking my Echinacia tea and I'm going to see if some soup from Bao might help. Hopefully they'll have vegetarian pho.

I'm still without work, although at one temp agency I...
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