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Nov. 5th, 2008

  • 1:02 PM
suitcase - slodicons


Give the people what they want!

Last night was amazing.

I cried with thousands of others in Grant Park last night, a moment in time that I will tell my grandchildren about.

Thank you, America. For the first time, I’ve been excited about our future and confident about what we can accomplish together. And thank you, Barack Obama, for reminding America that it’s what this country is about. We’d forgotten what we are capable of.

Go team USA.

About 2am, we met an african-american family on the way home who packed up all three of their young children from Indiana to witness last night. We stood together, watching Obama's acceptance speech again on the screen at the rest stop, and talked briefly about how overdue and vital this change is for our country. The kids were exhausted and no longer enthusiastic, and who could blame them. Trev and I pondered later about if they'll could ever really understand how important this is. I hope that they do. Even if it doesn't impact them consciously right now in the way it does their parents or their grandparents, it will affect their lives tremendously.

ETA: thanks to so many of you for your IM's and texts last night. My signal wavered so I couldn't reply, but I got all of them. It was great knowing we were celebrating together.

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Lollapalooza, day 1

  • Aug. 1st, 2008 at 9:44 PM
coble - actually me
show pics w sidekick suck, so you get chelle, kayla and I. will put behind a cut when I am @ a pc.
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I'm on ur friends page, spammin ur flist )

We're not having any fun

  • Jun. 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 PM
headphones - slodicons

I'm still getting caught up at work after my mini vaca and tragic computer incident. Forgive me while I ramble.

We totally love our Wii. My Mario Kart skills leave a lot to be desired but I still play with enthusiasm! I want a keyboard though, and tubes of the internet say that not only would a wireless USB keyboard not work, a regular one doesn't either. Seriously tho, how annoying is trying to use that on-screen keyboard with the remote? It kinda makes me wanna saw my hand off to stop that thing from vibrating. Surfing the internets via Wii is fantastic, though, if for no other reason than how fucking good it looks on our HDTV. And ooh, high quality Youtube videos ftmfw. Hell, I could totally sit on my ass all day surfing Youtube with my Wii, except it runs out of memory too quickly. Does anyone know, would a phat SD card alleviate that any, or is that just for pictures and stuff?

Metallica, the next Guitar Hero? Ugh. No thank you.

Gas prices can suck a fuck, I'm not even kidding. I'd say I want a battery powered car - except I also like it when my cars go fast. Screw battery powered cars, man, I want a teleporter. I think I've mentioned this before - I'd be totally willing to invest in someone who had a reputable research project going on to develop this. Except, I'm broke. As such, I want to be in Chicago for this:
 

but I can't, as I was just in Chicago. Oh right, and you should download their album for free if you haven't already. Cos, hey, its free music, right? Why not. I also happen to think it's pretty fuckin' good.

Flist, why so quiet, hmm? My chat windows are dead (quit it) and I'm still not getting any work done. wtf.

Right, then. Well, today our hospital system announced that we were effectively closing one of our hospitals and eliminating some 60 positions, across all levels of management. My coworkers and I have been the communication team for this, putting together all the publications, stuffing the severance packets and developing the communication plan and all the PR moves, etc.

Here's the thing, though. Every place I've worked, I've gone through this. Sometimes I've come closer to the hatchet than others, but thankfully I've always missed it. Trev's last 3 positions have all been victims of it. (Why they never eliminate me, I always wonder. I can only figure that I'm better at bs than anyone else.)

It's always a strange thing, though. There's a couple of administrators in our hall who lost their jobs, and they let them go immediately (like, before I got here this morning which was at 8:45am, as usual - again, WHY do I still have a job?). They've each got an office with a window.

I might be a bitch for asking if I could have one of their offices. I'm okay with that.
I didn't get an answer, by the way.