What part of "It's the Essential Todd Rundgren" don't you understand?!

[raybear]

I really need to take lunch hours. As in, take an hour where I leave the office completely and don't eat food in my cubicle, even if I'm doing non-work on the computer or non-work conversations on the phone (although today I spent part of my lunch on the phone with Cocolola discussion work, just not day-job work, which I don't mind since Carmen Miranda is always more exciting then making archive labels).

It's three o'clock and I'm completely loopy. I've sent out dozens of e-mails and not even just to the same person. I've listened obsessively to some songs on my iPod. I've contemplated going back to Crow's Nest to buy several best-of albums on sale that I think I need but know I don't. I've stopped consuming coffee.

I've lost all perspective. Time seems to be bending backwards, not just that it's going slowly or quickly but that it stands still, then rushes, then slows, then jumps around. Like Quantum Leap with the string of time that he drops into his palm to show how the line touches each other in places. (Yeah, I'm a geek.)

Strangely enough, I'm looking forward to going to a laundromat tonight and watching my clothes spin around in huge metal entertainment boxes while I fight crotchety women for a cart. Or maybe I'm just looking forward to the results.

Have you ever accidentally sounded like you were lying? Like, someone asks you a question and you're partly distracted so your brain hesitates and your throat makes funny noises while you talk and you realize it sounds like a lame attempt to deceive the person you're talking to when in reality you're just not paying close attention? That's happened to me twice today.

Comments

[milosh.livejournal.com]

Have you ever accidentally sounded like you were lying? Like, someone asks you a question and you're partly distracted so your brain hesitates and your throat makes funny noises while you talk and you realize it sounds like a lame attempt to deceive the person you're talking to when in reality you're just not paying close attention? That's happened to me twice today.

i do that shit all the time. it's kind of sad. and rather embarrassing.

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

Even though I’ve never tried to smuggle drugs, I get really shifty at airports. And the more I try not to look shifty, the guiltier I look—like I’ve just swallowed a condom full of opium. They ALWAYS check my bags on international flights.

lunching + lying

[louche.livejournal.com]

re lunching: thank goodness i learned way back when i first started working in offices that it is very, very, very, very important to leave the office for 1+ hours a day. i would have completely lost sanity by now if i didn't insist on it. it's a rare, rare occasion i stay inside this joint for the full 8 hours. but then again, we have very different jobs. i don't give a flying fcuk about mine. you do good for the world from what i gather. shoot, i don't even know exactly what you do. i hope that we can have a real conversation sometime in real life. i'm sad that hasn't happened yet.

re lying: i totally do that all the time. what's worse, i'm the worst liar in the world to begin with.

Re: lunching + lying

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i hate my job too, even though it is supposedly doing good for the world. but it's still making labels and faxing paper and other boring meaningless tasks that eat my brain cells and waste potential. so we're in similar boats that way.

the thing is, i KNOW to leave the office for lunch. but i can be forgetful and stubborn and i still sometime think i can get away with it once or twice a week. today i took a mid-morning break to go to the CD store, so i thought that might count as taking a break, but it just wasn't enough.

yes, we should have a real conversation at some time that's not just over lj comments or in passing at drag king related events. and perhaps this conversation could happen over lunch outside of our offices, thereby helping preserve our sanity!

Re: lunching + lying

[library-boy.livejournal.com]

speaking of drag king events (although that has nothing to do with this comment other than reminding me of pride) you looked very spiffy in your judge garb on sunday!

Re: lunching + lying

[raybear.livejournal.com]

STALKER!! just kidding. Was I waving the gavel as if I was bored? someone else told me that. Were you the person who yelled out "whatchu got under your robe?"

Re: lunching + lying

[library-boy.livejournal.com]

no that wasn't me (although if i had thought of it, i might've) - i actually almost missed you, and it was only when paladincub21 said "hey, that's ray!" that i realized you were among the justices.

although, to be honest, you did kind of have a slightly blank look on your face when you went by ;)

Re: lunching + lying

[louche.livejournal.com]

yes, yes. for sure.
let's lunch soon.

lying lunchers

[keetbabe.livejournal.com]

i'm a good liar. it's kinda strange to admit it, but i am. i don't lie though -- as a matter of principle and ethics. i've gone through airports with stuff and b/c i look so sweet and innocent, i never get questioned or searched. i may be nervous but you'd never know it. i outta take these talents out on the road!

Re: lying lunchers

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I'm actually a remarkably good liar as well and I too try to avoid it at all times since it seems easy for me. Sometimes I unintentionally lie because I'm so out of touch with what I'm feeling, or more likely, I don't want to be feeling what I'm feeling so I lie about. "No, no, I'm not mad! it's fine!" But I'm trying to be better about honesty with myself.

I will use my good-lying and truth-stretching skills when it comes to customer service and bank issues. But I figure they screwed me first so it's only fair.

Lunches

[qvalentine.livejournal.com]

I was just telling myself that I have to stop eating lunch at my desk because I'll work while I'm eating and it's just insane. I need that time to get out. But I just have this crazy work ethic thing to uphold, even when I am updating LJ I feel like I'm still "ON" and if I turn off my brain for a minute I'll be lost for the rest of the day.

-Q

[katemosey.livejournal.com]

Have you ever accidentally sounded like you were lying?

Absolutely -- except what I do is look up. So I pause, look up, look back at the person and answer.
So it appears I was looking up to give me enough time to conjure a lie.

Sucks!

[clockwatcher.livejournal.com]

i take it one step further, sometimes i accidentally LIE because i'm not paying attention. not just a "yes" or "no" lie, but a full on sentence.

jessie