You know little mama ain't with that quick isht.

[raybear]

{work rant} So we're switching to this new database at work, and I currently feel like I'm being made "the bad guy" because I'm actually speaking up about ways to improve it. Some of my suggestions aren't just nitpicky design issues -- some of them are important/mandatory details that must be part of the form. But I feel like I'm the only one saying anything. My co-worker would probably be saying the same things, but she's not here today or yesterday, so I'm sort of speaking for both of us, which probably makes things look worse. Part of what's annoying me is that they didn't actually run the database through the legal department for approval. Granted one of the NYO attys was consulting with the paralegals, but the info never go circulated to the other attys. So my co-worker and I look like asses when we hand over the new database printout and MY boss is like "what's this? no one told me about this? i can't read this? why did they change it?" So I write back to NYO with her 'input', and the fcking IT guy tells me that "the attorneys must learn to cope with the new structure". I beg your pardon? Maybe HE can tell my supervisor that she can "just cope", but I'm not going to fcking do that. She's the fcking head of the office and the legal department here, and she outranks most legal folks in the other offices as well. I don't think it's an unreasonable idea to have all attys who are involved with help desk informed of the change. And then the fcking paralegal who's trying to be helpful but is hopelessly naive is like "oh, tell her she can contact me with any questions." Not to be some sort of weird infrastructure snob, but that's not exactly how it works. I am by NO means someone who believes in the holy power of buearacracy and structure and authority and general supervisory bullshit. So I don't think it's weird for me to think about getting approval before completely implementing a project. This is how most of the office works. You mention wanting to do a project. They say ok. You go and do it on your own, however you want. Then RIGHT before you submit the project or make it official, you go back and say "is this okay, what I just did?" And for the most part, they say "sure" or "change that one thing first". Then it's all good. So I don't think it would have been that hard for him to go to legal and saying "we just finished this, we still have a few kinks to work out, but is it good to go?" I guess I so rarely genuinely get involved in work matters, I feel astonished when something seems obvious and simple.
{/work rant}

{body rant}
So there's a techinical word for what I'm experiencing now, but I've forgotten. Basically after being on testosterone for one year and not having a period, one experiences menstruation type thing -- only it's annual, I suppose, rather than monthly. And it's usually not as heavy. Right around my one year mark, I was having some spontaneous stomach cramps, and I thought maybe that was it and I bypassed the whole phenomenon. But no. Here it is. Ugh. So I guess I'm having my yearly manblood. Or invidivual blood, as ridleymae says. I never experienced that horrible of symptoms, but now that I've had a year without them, I feel all uncomfortable and weird. The one thing that almost cheers me up is I'm considering following through on Ridley's idea of just leaving a 'used' tampon in the toilet of the men's room, just for the sake of imagining what the next guy would think. Ha. My hallmates would probably get too excited because they would imagine some woman having sex in the men's room. So maybe it's not a good idea.....
{/body rant}

So Damon is going to come over after work and we're going to eat dinner and work on the new "Deathmatch Vol. 5" mixtape, in preparation for some N64 fun on Sunday afternoon with freakysparks.
ALEX: are you still coming by tonight? I hope so! 9:30 right?
RILEY, VANESSA, & Co. what are y'all up to? wanna come by too? maybe around 8 or so?

In other random news:
1. Still no e-mail reply from the boy.
2. I got an e-mail this morning from the woman I dreamed died in a car wreck. I was very happy to know she's alive and I'm not clairvoyant.
3. Focus last night was pretty good. Not great, but good. Some really interesting ideas and cinematography -- I just found the ending a tad too neat. I'm curious to read the novel. This morning I also realized it had the whole phenomenon of "having your life saved by the person they fear as a means of finally overcoming prejudice". Reminds me of John Waters at the end of the Homerphobia episode of The Simpsons.
4. Still no response from my parents -- I'm planning on sending out holiday party invitations this weekend, which means I'll probably e-mail them and invite them to Chicago for xmas.
5. The new Britney Spears song sucks. No, I mean even more than usual.
6. I think Pink is now dating Linda Perry from 4NonBlondes. They were quite cozy on VideoDiary. "You think you know, but you have no idea." Actually, I know EXACTLY, Pink.
7. I'm very hungry.

Comments

[freakysparks.livejournal.com]

"Or individual blood, as freakysparks"?...huh?
PINK AND LINDA PERRY?!?!?!
1. What does Linda Perry look like?
2. How come 4 Non Blondes never released another album? I still listen to the only existing one. It's going to wear thin as tissue. Did Linda Perry do any more of that good stuff? Will they do a show together?

oops

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i fixed my html tag problem

i have linda perry's solo album, which is pretty good.

apparantly she helped produced Pink's new album! and played with her at some fundrasier concert.....

[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

c and i are arriving in town around 815 this evening. riley is picking us up at the airport, and then we can come by, if that's cool. around 845 or 9 maybe?

yay! linda perry is awesome! and so is pink, but i think she should be singing something other than what she is singing. she has an amazing voice. i'd like to her her in a blues band. and she looks like a punk rocker. *pfft* imagie, pink, c'mon!

p.s. check out tom waits. he rocks my socks.

know your role

[raybear.livejournal.com]

have you forgotten that you're talking to the music guru? of course i know tom waits! he rocks my socks as well. one of my favorite albums is Closing Time, and actually the tattoo parlor was playing it when i got my first one.

I think Pink should go more in the direction of "soul" and less pop-y r&b. she should collaborate with Macy Gray, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, etc. apparantly her new album is more rock and stuff. I guess the linda perry influence.

the happy couple

[bias-cut.livejournal.com]

ray,

i *totally* agree with you about pink dating linda sparks. i saw the same video diary, and what really tipped me off was when pink was telling that story about how she had called up her answering machine after getting it from her agent or some other person, and left a 10 minute message about how much she loved her!!! and then, instead of getting freaked out, linda perry's like, "yea, come on over and 'hang out' with me tonight."

mmhmmm. that is very very suspicious ;)

Re: know your role

[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

*blush*

i haven't forgotten that you're a guru, oh musicfull one, i just remembered that you'd been asking for blues (or was it jazz? i don't remember) recommendations, and i had meant to recommend him, but had forgotten up to this point, when i was listening to tom and replying to you. heh. funny how my mind works like that.

*bows to your superior musicality*

only teasing

[raybear.livejournal.com]

yeah, it was jazz recommendations. I feel like in both jazz and blues i have a good surface knowledge of the genre, and depth of a handful of artists, but definitely looking to expand my exposure in both genres. i must take continuing education courses to maintain my guru-ness. ;)

Re: the happy couple

[raybear.livejournal.com]

glad I am not alone in my suspicions!!! maybe we need to tip off the gay press....

Re: only teasing

[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

will you lose your guru status if you don't keep up with that continuing education?

Re: the happy couple

[kisha.livejournal.com]

According to my friend, Pink is DEFINATELY bi (she claims to have proof of this). Also, Portia de Rossi from Ally McBeal is dykin it too. She's a hottie.

Re: the happy couple

[brucebanner.livejournal.com]

Portia del 'my baby mother' Rossi?
She's a dyke?

[swoon] Suddenly I feel good to be gay. :)
Maybe she's into trans guys? [ihopeihopeihope]

she's a total foxxx!

Re: the happy couple

[kisha.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't find Pink remotely attractive.
Ms. De Rossi, on the other hand....YUM.

Re: the happy couple

[brucebanner.livejournal.com]

i dont' think Pink is cute either. I find her rather plain, but then The Industry jazzed her up with the hair and the makeup so she looks like what we are trained to *think* is cute. But I'm on to their games: she's not cute, she's just cookie cutter glam.

Portia has all that HAIR. It's like a barbie, only not so skinny, not so plastic! Mmmm. I like her. I think she should do movies--LESBIAN/Trannyboi movies. ;)

my $0.02,
Joe