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Nov. 20th, 2001 02:32 pmToday is Prickle-Prickle, day 32 in the season of The Aftermath, 3167.
After stressing about not hearing anything about this supposed employment paperwork to be filled out for a week, I called to follow up today (assuming that I was going to hear "Thanks for calling. We've decided however to hire someone else, which is why we didn't bother sending out the paperwork."). Turns out it was just a glitch and it should go out this afternoon. So some of the stress is alleviated.
I should be cleaning the house.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
electriccat is theoretically showing up sometime tomorrow and I should shovel out some of the crap in the living room. No idea yet if anyone's going to be over on Thursday, so I'm not going to go crazy with the cooking thing. Probably go to some combination of Giant and Sutton Place to get maybe a very small turkey or chicken breast and some fish or vegetarian entree type thing. And the ingredients to make some of spookycam's really yummy punkin chocolate chip cookies. I'm kind of getting nostalgic for family Thanksgivings, the house smelling like roasting turkey and baking pumpkin pies all day, everyone actually sitting down at the table together. My very first Thanksgiving dinner that I cooked on my own, I jumped in the deep end -- I invited a bunch of coworkers and friends over and made dinner for 18 people. It was a huge amount of fun to have everyone gathered in the house, hanging out and talking for hours.
I really miss those coworkers. The late-night breaks from working on that Navy animation and other projects involving rolling around the tile floor in our big office chairs playing floor hockey with Soul Coughing cranked up loud. And the middle of the day floor hockey breaks, which would normally get caught on the office webcam. And The Dark Side, the huge windowless space on the other side of the floor we were on, where we relegated the Notes developers. (Not because they were Notes developers specifically, but because they needed more space.) And the ping pong table over on The Dark Side. SAIC's corporate culture is pretty staid, but we managed to inject some fun into it. People would come down and hang out in our office because we were actually having fun working on our projects and we made a pretty welcoming environment in our lab.
Guess it's my day for nostalgia. I went outside to get the mail and it's finally officially cold and the light's starting to fade already. I should just get around to installing HomeSite 5 and stop dwelling on what's not here anymore.
After stressing about not hearing anything about this supposed employment paperwork to be filled out for a week, I called to follow up today (assuming that I was going to hear "Thanks for calling. We've decided however to hire someone else, which is why we didn't bother sending out the paperwork."). Turns out it was just a glitch and it should go out this afternoon. So some of the stress is alleviated.
I should be cleaning the house.
electriccat is theoretically showing up sometime tomorrow and I should shovel out some of the crap in the living room. No idea yet if anyone's going to be over on Thursday, so I'm not going to go crazy with the cooking thing. Probably go to some combination of Giant and Sutton Place to get maybe a very small turkey or chicken breast and some fish or vegetarian entree type thing. And the ingredients to make some of spookycam's really yummy punkin chocolate chip cookies. I'm kind of getting nostalgic for family Thanksgivings, the house smelling like roasting turkey and baking pumpkin pies all day, everyone actually sitting down at the table together. My very first Thanksgiving dinner that I cooked on my own, I jumped in the deep end -- I invited a bunch of coworkers and friends over and made dinner for 18 people. It was a huge amount of fun to have everyone gathered in the house, hanging out and talking for hours. I really miss those coworkers. The late-night breaks from working on that Navy animation and other projects involving rolling around the tile floor in our big office chairs playing floor hockey with Soul Coughing cranked up loud. And the middle of the day floor hockey breaks, which would normally get caught on the office webcam. And The Dark Side, the huge windowless space on the other side of the floor we were on, where we relegated the Notes developers. (Not because they were Notes developers specifically, but because they needed more space.) And the ping pong table over on The Dark Side. SAIC's corporate culture is pretty staid, but we managed to inject some fun into it. People would come down and hang out in our office because we were actually having fun working on our projects and we made a pretty welcoming environment in our lab.
Guess it's my day for nostalgia. I went outside to get the mail and it's finally officially cold and the light's starting to fade already. I should just get around to installing HomeSite 5 and stop dwelling on what's not here anymore.