maps_or_guitars ([info]maps_or_guitars) wrote,
2005-07-28 10:08:00
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  • Mood: on edge
  • Music: Hot Snakes "Our Work Fills The Pews"

Putt putt putt BANG putt p'kow kahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Well, I'm glad the great huge obsolescent shuttle's being grounded, at least after this go-round, buzzkill though that may be. Sounds like somebody maybe learned something? We'll see.

Argh. Feeling a great need to be making money hand over fist, what with My Lovely Wife's tuition coming up and a whole lotta bills just sitting. Thing is, it's frigging JULY closing on frigging AUGUST and people don't drop thousands and thousands on maps in frigging JULY closing on frigging AUGUST, they go on vacation.

So I feel like I'm trying to sell dictionaries door to door in, you know, the desert.

On the other hand, this week I've been tipping the scales less'n 200 for the first time since, oh, 2001 or thereabouts.
It galls me somewhat that I find this so pleasing.

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[info]maxineofarc

July 28 2005, 07:48:37 UTC 6 years ago

I have resumed renting myself out to research studies. It's NOTHING like prostitution!

One might think maybe I could resume not spending more money than I have. :P

[info]maps_or_guitars

July 28 2005, 07:56:19 UTC 6 years ago

Ooo! What research studies? Are they fun? I'd do those if I had more time.

Are they marketing research? Those are entertaining for me, because I know that every single link of the research-analysis chain is corrupt, corrupt, corrupt and dedicated solely to telling the client what they want to hear. I can look at an ad and guess at each lie that that's been told to justify the campaign. I feel a little like Neo looking at the world around him and seeing the code behind it, except it only happens with the advertisements.

Nothing at all like prostitution, nope.

[info]maxineofarc

July 28 2005, 08:02:16 UTC 6 years ago

Erm.... no. Medical.

[info]maps_or_guitars

July 28 2005, 08:06:49 UTC 6 years ago

Oooo.

Strikes me as uncomfortable. Just read the Times article about a study putting the kibosh on echinacea, which involved people getting put up in a hotel and having rhinovirus crammed up their noses.

[info]maxineofarc

July 28 2005, 08:10:29 UTC 6 years ago

Nah, I don't do anything that involves overnights. Mostly I'm a control, though I am quickly becoming a specialist in MRIs.

[info]ex_hedgies507

July 28 2005, 07:52:53 UTC 6 years ago

On the other hand, this week I've been tipping the scales less'n 200 for the first time since, oh, 2001 or thereabouts.

Congratulations on the weight loss. You have a right to be pleased!

[info]maps_or_guitars

July 28 2005, 08:00:26 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! I know - but I've got all this stuff in my head telling me that the important stuff is all up in there; I spent a lot of my life being more than a little disdainful of the whole gym thing. Actually trying it has ameliorated that by a lot, but there's still this pencilnecked smartass in my head that I need to smack down from time to time.

[info]ex_hedgies507

July 28 2005, 09:52:39 UTC 6 years ago

I understand. I hate, hate, HATE working out. But it does make me feel better. I only admit that grudgingly.

[info]maps_or_guitars

July 28 2005, 10:03:06 UTC 6 years ago

I know! It's boring. It's not pleasant. It's humbling and I don't like being humbled.

But I do feel better, yeah. And the idea of being able to look good in a t-shirt is attractive.
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