The Green Room

Moss and Julia are in Portland! And Patrick has Turkish Star Wars!

I just went and checked my bank balance online. This whole direct deposit thing seems to have worked. Holy God. I think I’ll start looking at apartment listings now.

I could kill for a good cream tea.

Ok, so the crazy lady in Credentialing just sent me a picture of a sock monkey with her own face superimposed on it, in response to an email I sent her giving her a list of records to be closed. Apparently this means that I have been accepted into the tribe.

A woman on the bus this morning had a bookbag made from floppy disks that had been wired together. The body of it was tan and blue disks, and the lid was black ones. She was sitting behind me, so I didn’t notice it until she got off the bus, otherwise I would [...]

I am heartened to learn that it is still possible to discover land in Europe. Maybe the globe isn’t as cut and dried as mapmakers and politicians would like us to believe. Here’s hoping.

The carpets in my office are extraordinarily waterproof. Like, the water literally beads up on top of the carpet, and flows over it like it was a hard surface. I have never seen anything so strange. (This remarkable phenomenon was discovered when we were looking for the model number on the humidifier [...]

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat.

I think my sister might be onto something with this whole ‘growing out my fingernails’ idea. That’s the first time I’ve ever been able to peel an orange without having to result to implements of a knife-like variety. Of course, if tool use is one of our characteristics that helps make us distinctly [...]

It seems to me that my job mainly consists in the correcting of errors. It follows logically from this that if I do my job well, I will no longer have a job to do. This is problematic. Luckily, I don’t think there’s much logic to worry about, since a great many [...]