pass the crack pipe

The first page of the Victoria's Secret Christmas catalog features a $12,500,000 bra. Yes, that's the right number of zeros. Diamond and sapphire encrusted bra, with a 90 carat diamond in the center. And the matching $750,000 panties. What are you people smoking?

And in other news, it sucks to wake up and log in to your shell account to find "/export/home/[name] doesn't exist". Augh. Luckily it was just a filesystem mounting error that fsck took care of, but there was that moment of panic when I thought that perhaps all our web sites were gone and I didn't know why.

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Today is Prickle-Prickle, day 12 in the season of The Aftermath, 3167.

I wonder if I'd feel better if I went and got some candy for myself^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe trick or treaters and got dressed up in lots of black velvet and drapey lacey things and at least pretended that I had any motivation to do anything whatsoever. Oh yeah, and a trip to the gym later tonight would be good too. Er, assuming they don't close tonight. ("Closed for the first time ever!") Need to get around to filling out the little survey thing that Aquent sent me (with the same address and subject line as their autoresponder, so I was lucky I didn't delete it). Feeling pessimistic about the other permanent job thing, since they need to get someone in immediately and I haven't heard a single thing yet. I'll probably give my contact a ping tomorrow, but I'm expecting to hear that they aren't interested. I need to splurge and spend some money on a resume consultant, I think. But at least electriccat is coming down this weekend and we can do some ranting and hanging out and general relaxing (I hope).

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I logged in to my yahoo account to fill out that form for Aquent, and discovered that the company with a web administrator position I'd applied for a week or so ago (which I assumed I was out of the running for since I'd heard nada) wants to do a phone interview. Eek. Never had to do a phone interview before, but I guess I'd better get used to it. Sounds like an okay job, very small office with a bunch of Unix types. Better read up on sysadmin schtuff tonight so I don't sound like an utter moron on the phone.

that's your horoscope for today

Taurus

After a long, troubling period, an atmosphere of normalcy is finally returning in your private life, allowing you to concentrate more on your career now. It won't be particularly easy, but with a jump-start from some of your friends, you can get things moving again in this area of your life. This will be exciting, as well as a tremendous relief from your recent travails. The best thing you can do for yourself is to fill yourself up with anything remotely novel around you. The more of the unknown you introduce into your thoughts and plans, the more productive you ultimately will be.

That's a nice thought, but I always found Weird Al to be much more accurate than any of the various astrology sites.

TAURUS!
You will never find true happiness - what you gonna do, cry about it?
The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff and then go back to sleep