Hey internet buddies-
Fate dealt me the "car will be in the body shop all day, instead of just until 10am" card today. Fate is a whore. But, the up-side to sitting around waiting for the body shop to call is that I'm at home, not at work, 'cause I need my car to get to work. And my boss is super-chill, and he doesn't care where I am.
In today's mockery of "working from home," I chose to fill in the table of contents at the front of my super-phat Boorum and Pease 18-300R lab journal. If you've never seen one of these journals up close, you haven't lived the pathetic office-bound existence that I've been living for the past 3 years. As much as I joke about how much work sucks, I really do love my job most of the time. Other times it makes me throw up and cry, but I won't dwell on that today.
We'll overlook my terminal office-space outlook for now to discuss my made-up task for the day. I'm a computer programmer, and I do a lot of writing with pen and paper. I do most of my thinking with pen and paper, and I only turn to the computer once I have everything figured out in my head. I fill-up these 300 page bound journals with all my design/debugging thoughts, regularly emptying the software part of my brain into them. So today I was like "thinking sucks, I'm going to fill in the table of contents in this journal instead." And it was fun - I skimmed through a couple of hundred pages of me banging my head against walls, trying to solve problems that, in retrospect, seem easy. So that gave me a little bit of confidence to deal with the ugly-ass situations I've got right now. But that's not the funny part - the funny part is that I discovered that I write "fuck this!" pretty often, like every time I get frustrated with a problem. I saw it like 10 times in there. "fuck this!" just seems like something you should shout, instead of write down.
But the real funny part of the story is that you're still reading. I mean, this was a boring fucking story, but you're still here, suckers. Also, I filled in the table of contents pretty thoroughly. If I ever needed to find some particular notes (which I won't), I'd be able to.
Posted by Ethan at March 20, 2003 01:54 PMi think i would lik to try this out
it is hard for me to get a job cuz i have a kid to take care of and im pregant now and i was tryin to find summtin easy for me to do