hot coffee girl

It's supposed to be a gorgeous day today.  I have been laying here in bed watching the temperature outside on my laptop docklet keep going up.

I made the mistake of clicking on it, and seeing in the weather readout...that not only is it going to continue to get nicer as the day goes on, but that there are approximately 10 and half hours of daylight remaining.

So, I called off work.

I am going to clean my apartment and throw some laundry in this morning, and then I think I will skulk over to the zoo and test out my shiny new camera. I will call my friend Ellarissa and see if she wants to grab some lunch, maybe, too. I have a hot date with a coffee virgin at 6:00, so that should be fun.

I'll post the pics tonight...of my ever so indulgent day off when I am already leaving in a week fun.

I hope you are not reading this from a cubicle.

P.S. If anyone knows where the title of this blog came from, we can be friends forever.

I did it...it turned in my notice at work on Thursday.

It's amazing how much less you care about the petty bullshit when you know that it will only last 2 more weeks.

People's reactions are funny, too. When you tell them you are leaving, your co-workers  look at you with a mixture of wistfulness and betrayal. When I tell them that I think I will tend bar, they become incredulous. "Really...tend bar?" and "Huh...okay." Of course, you get the occasional, "That rocks. I wish I had the guts to do that."

And I think that part of them really means it. I think that sitting in a 3 x 3 cubicle all day with walls you could vacuum and non-descript gray furnishings saps just enough of your will to prevent you from going through with the act of hanging yourself from one of the rafters in the drop ceiling, but leaves that little sliver of hope that allows you to get a gleam in your eye when you hear the news that someone is Getting Out.

I like most of the people I work with, and that does make it hard. But I like most people. In the rare moment that I get sad about leaving them, I focus on the fuck-wads that I am glad to leave behind. For the most part, I have the pervasive feeling that the Inmates are running the Asylum there anyhow, so it's not hard to find a fuck-wad lurking in his cubicle.

In the interest of discretion, I will wait until my two weeks are up to introduce you to the following cast of characters:

• The my-head-is-too-large-for-my-body Fuckwad.
• The Plumbers-Crack Goth Fatty
• Goopy Spitter
• Too much cologne guy (actually, he's the spitter, too)
• Painful to talk to in the elevator Social Retard

I'll bet you can't wait until April 7th.

I am sorry to report some tragic news.

I just had a meeting ... about a meeting.

Really.

I am not kidding. I actually had to have a meeting with someone at work about the meeting we were having later in the day.

I had a meeting about a meeting.

I am done. I am officially quitting my job. My boss returns next week, and I am putting in my notice.

I am going to bartend this summer. I will keep you posted as to where so you can come by and hear about The Meeting.

You will love my mojitos.

In Buddhist teaching, the law of karma, says only this: `for every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful.' A skillful event is one that is not accompanied by craving, resistance or delusions; an unskillful event is one that is accompanied by any one of those things. (Events are not skillful in themselves, but are so called only in virtue of the mental events that occur with them.) Therefore, the law of Karma teaches that responsibility for unskillful actions is born by the person who commits them.

Okay...but I have some questions. And I'm hoping you all might help with the answers.

#1-Every event? Really? Every single one? Nothing slips by the law of K? No random acts? No unrewarded anything?

#2-Is there a pay it forward thing with Karma? Meaning, could the universe cause something to happen where you get something you totally don't deserve-did nothing to deserve (good or bad), and then it gets evened out somewhere along the line...? Or do you always begin it-you do good and good happens-you do bad and bad happens?

#3-Is it always even-steven? Does Karma keep perfect books, or is it a mostly-right proposition? Could I assume that Karma misses one every now and again?

#4-If no, it's not even-steven, what is the statute of limitations? Can I assume that after, say, 10 years, Karma has rewritten over old data, and the thing that happened so long ago is probably not going to be either rewarded or punished? Is it proportional to the act? Meaning, of course, that something like kicking a turtle 7 years ago (I didn't) could be forgotten, while breaking a person's heart 20 years ago (I might have)-be on the books for longer?

I probably have a lot more to ask, but let's start with these.

(No, I didn't kick the fucking turtle.)

I am sorry, dear reader. I have been suffering from a terrible case of the flu (not avian...but foul, to be sure)...and I have fallen terribly behind in my posting.

Can you ever forgive me?