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A woman vice-presidential candidate should be evaluated for the position soley on her ability to suck the chrome off a tailpipe without choking on the fumes and irrepairably damaging her knees.
Oh, and whether or not she wears a protective pad all the time or just when she's on her period. We don't want the President's office to smell like an Ova Office.
Then again, that might be better than the nursing home smell permeating the White House air if McCain does win.
So in preparation, for the past month I've been packing. Not the stuff in my office, but the communal files used by my department. We have files that go back to the 1980s, but because these files are constantly being added to or pulled for reference, we can't archive them. My department alone has about 12 cabinets full (six drawers high) and we can generate on average 5-7 new files a week. These need to be packed up and moved into the new building and the new cabinets. We are merging them with the files of two other departments who do the same work we do and already work in this other building. Which is great, because we will now - after 25 years - have a unified filing system. So for weeks now I have been packing up files - letter by letter - and pushing crates over and up to the new cabinets. And then we go file by file with the three sets of files: stamping our departmental IDs on each of our own files, pulling original legal documents out of one set of files, identifying duplicate files, then merging all of the files together alphabetically, and finally putting them in the new cabinets. I'd like to point out that only two of us have been diligently working on this project - with no help from our colleagues - just the occasional help from a spare intern or volunteer. Could thing we're such good friends, but still. Today we finished "R" and started on "S." Yesterday we finally hit our wall. But the good thing is that we WILL be done by next week. (Oh yes... we WILL be done...)
This past weekend Shiny got major man-points because I went into work all day Saturday and Sunday to pack three other cabinets of files outside my office. These are departmental files that have been sitting there since before my days. So these will be archived, but that means each box needs an inventory and listing of EVERY FILE. My one day of work turned into two. 25 boxes and 60 pages later, I was finally done. I have tasked the two others in my department with taking care of any remaining files and common spaces that have supplies which need to go. Because I need to focus my energy on finishing S-Z and then packing up my office by next week.
So that's where I've been, and why I've been rather quiet around here. Not much energy to blog about something so tedious and time consuming when you come home from work feeling quite racked from a long day of doing tedious and time consuming things.
Which is correct:
A: At the store I bought: silver bullets, a wooden stake, and onions.
B: At the store I bought the following items; silver bullets, a wooden stake, and onions.
C: At the store I bought silver bullets, a wooden stake, and onions.
D: At the store I bought, silver bullets, a wooden stake and onions.
Of course the correct answer is A but I feel compelled to e-mail him that none are correct because he should have purchased garlic and not onions.
I wonder if he does this on purpose considering how he's written other quiz questions. It's a little frustrating because he will have question on citation forms but he doesn't specify which thing he's using MLA, APA, or whatever so... I'm really just stabbing in the dark. I'm going to bet MLA.
FYI I got question 8 wrong... if anyone knows which is correct please let me know. Was it supposed to be C?
See and now I second guess things all the time... question 15:
Which is correct:
A: Please read the gospels for nest time: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
B: For next time, please read: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Is B correct because it's just correct or was A supposed to be correct and he accidently typed "nest" and now both are wrong and I just don't know why B would be wrong?? I'm putting B.
Haha "Our tutors are well trained." or "Our tutors are well-trained." haha I wonder what it was like being well-trained.
This is a prof after my own heart. One of the midterm questions is:
Which of these choices correctly completes this sentence?
If I _______ you, I ______ kill myself.
was; could
were; will
were; would
was; will
Lord all mighty the next one is better:
Choose the correct sentence"
A Americano is my favorite drink at Starbucks.
An Americano is my favorite drink at starbucks.
The Americano is the favorite drink at Starbucks
Americano is my favorite drink at Starbucks.
Though I think this should be said, "The Americano is my favorite drink at Starbucks" but it's not a choice.
Ok so I got a B on the midterm, I think that's well enough to have tested out.
Additional humor is added by the knowledge that I was somehow put in the Korean Only section of this class (we have a huge Korean student population here) A lot of his questions use phrases and idioms specific to American culture... I wonder if it makes the tests at all culturally biased. He had some questions where you were supposed to rewrite the sentence so it was correct and for like 5 of them it was stuff like, "Toby works in human relations at Dunder Mifflin, a paper company." or "It is true that wolves are the number one threat to office workers of north-eastern Pennsylvania based midsize paper companies."
As a ps I just got an e-mail from my dad it was just a reminder that he and Valary were taking Travis to school this week. It was sent to my sister and cc'd to my brother and I... does that tell you something or what?
Dixie currently feels:
Bored 
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20 lines of pointless information relating to today.
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I had a three hour Textiles exam. I've nearly completed my work, and I still have about seven hours left on it.
2.
I finished colouring two more bits of #1263 artwork.
3.
The picture of the "happy hybrid" I promised to draw for Mrs Mac was photocopied and pinned on her wall in the library office.
4.
I've eaten all of nana's Oreos in the biscuit tin.
5.
Nana's bathmat feels like wet seaweed, and it's nice.
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I was infuriated in English by pointless threats by a pointless twat who can't insult me, because he's done no coursework, and I have, har har har. Thick cunt.
7.
I just used one of the "four most offensive swearwords" in my blog. Gaspz.
8.
I'm listening to Benzin by Rammstein. It sounds funny, because he keeps saying words that are the same in both languages; like gasoline and explosive.
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"dixie hates textiles" has come up as a suggested tag. ROFL.
10.
Emily should be home this week. I'm looking forward to it.
11.
Amy had me in fits during Textiles, imitating our teacher's walk.
12.
I started playing Pokémon XD again today.
13.
I got a 5 star ranking on Ruby on Expert level on Guitar Hero III earlier, for the first time.
14.
I played Heir Kommt Alex on Expert level for the first time, without playing it on Hard before, and I didn't fail.
15.
When Dixie says "she didn't fail", that really means she managed to finish the song, but she got a shitty 3-star ranking...
16.
Parry has been reading this blog, apparently. Wow, I'm going public.
17.
I don't like black pudding. Dad was frying it yesterday and it smelt horrible.
18.
I ate a packet of Original Hula Hoops earlier. The packet is on the desk beside me.
19.
The "lastest comment" window is a response in Finnish. - It looks like it, anyway.
20.
Dixie has never actually tasted TRIPE, but it doesn't look or sound nice.
...Remember children...
...Chicken legs are scary...
...CHILDREN OF THE SEA...!
WOW! What a Thwacky Thursday! I thought the work day would never end! Today we had so much traffic through the office I thought I would see a State Trooper at a desk!
Tomorrow is Pay Day...also known as Pay Bills Day!
I am going home to rest my brain and bones!
I wish I could share a cup of tea with the lady in the picture! Ah, tis good to dream!
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