I work for a start-up. I won't talk about the company here because writing about your job on your blog is dumb and gets you fired, buuuut, what I can say is that when you work for a start-up, it's important you keep an eye on your cash. That's why, instead of getting a new keyboard when I lost the N, M, L, <, and > keys on my keyboard*, I didn't just GET A NEW KEYBOARD. No, I used approximately $.40 worth of white-out and solved that problem myself.
I. Am. Resourceful.
* You may be wondering WHY these letters/symbols just dissolved off of my keyboard. I am also wondering. Is it possible that my mutant power stems from a wicked pH imbalance in my right hand's fingertips? Yes, I think that is possible. Kind of a shitty mutant power, but still. I would have chosen invisibility if I had a choice of powers. Not for the reason you think, though - not to rob banks unnoticed. I'd be invisible so that I could look inside people's houses**. Somerville has lots of cool buildings and I want to be able to wander through them without someone getting pissed because I'm trespassing...
**Yes, I am LAME. Piss off.
EDITED TO ADD: Unrelated, but I went outside for lunch and it's raining and OHMYGOURD the frizz. So. Much. Frizz. :(
I know I said I wouldn't write more about work, but... I just visited the ladies room (I swear this won't be gross)and I noticed something. Lately, our facilities group has been putting room numbers on all of the offices to identify them, I assume, for facilities-related issues (e.g. "There's a broken chair in room 2118."). I noticed that the bathroom I went to has a room number: 2134B. From now on, when scheduling meetings in Microsoft Outlook, I'm going to choose room 2134B as a meeting place. Ha! Because I am 8 years old.
EDITED TO ADD 2: Even less related than my last "EDITED TO ADD" -
Why the fuck do tomatoes suck so much? I used to LOVE tomatoes. Now the only kinds that taste like anything are the grape- and cherry- variety. Can we bring back tomatoes with some flavor, please? I made a very wholesome tomato-and-cucumber salad for lunch (to balance out the 50lbs of girl scout cookies I ate over the weekend) with tomatoes from WHOLE FOODS and IT SUCKS because the tomatoes are all grainy and flavorless. If I had known it would be like this I would have made cucumber-and-unflavored-gelatin salad because at that point WHO CARES. GAH!
2 comments:
here's the deal. tomatoes are not meant to be eaten in winter. tomatoes are good from july-september and that is it. even then, you need to get them locally. they are delicate little guys.
it's like when you see asparagus in the supermarket in december and you think, man, i love asparagus. then you cook it and it tastes like cardboard.
don't hate the produce. hate the game. and by game, i mean industrial agriculture tools that have made us believe that we can eat any item at any time.
Dude, your white out trick rocks. During a recent evaluation, I was asked "what have I done personally to reduce waste/cost" I wish I had an answer as cool as that!
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