looking forward to

… the marin county fair, tonight. i have been instructed to ride the zipper, which to me sounded vaguely obscene, making it all the better. (“the zipper” is really some sort of medieval-torture-device-turned-amusement-park-ride, which is just the sort of thing i go for at these county fair deals. you know, the whole “am i going to die because someone neglected to bolt this shit down properly” rush.) … the annual lucasarts company picnic, saturday afternoon. yea, and they shall party with the george himself, forsooth, verily, etc. etc. … “les misérables”, saturday night. chad’s first, my fourth — need i say more? and we haven’t even gotten to sunday yet! i’ll save that for later,...

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assorted

so there is assorted coolness and assorted weirdness at work. coolness first: the library here is so hip. it became more hip on monday when i was encouraged by our librarian to take my pick of the samples she was sending back to the manufacturers. these samples are 1′ by 1′ pieces of fabric, 4″ by 4″ by 1/2″ pieces of marble, and 3′ by 2′ pieces of carpet. rock on! i took four of the prettiest marble pieces home, along with some plain, sturdy fabric, and made coasters out of them, since we didn’t have any. i also brought some of the carpet samples which turned rather handily into doormats, bathmats, under-computer-desk-mats. then there are the fabric samples i brought home just because they were too cool to pass up....

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Posted on 30 Jun 2000 | Comments Off