bringing up to speed

three weeks of much ado about nothing amounts to quite a lot of hard work and lost sleep. yet i have still managed to make a better than good impression on my new workplace, surprising one of my clients this morning with just my personality alone. “where’d they find you? an IT guy with a sense of humor?” maybe she was just lucky that i had hit the lowtide mark on my grande cup of coffee. prior to those first few ounces, i have to wonder just how jovial i could be. there is an equation in here somewhere, something that correllates the amount of caffeine consumed with a resultant mass of surplus good morning cheer, but i majored in the humanities so i won’t even try.

and you know what else, english majors? if you have a bachelor of arts like me, you are entitled to do many things not permitted to others. for example, are you ever faced with a situation that requires a word not yet existing or accepted in the modern dictionary? well, just make one up! you’re allowed! lewis carroll did, and look what happen’d with him. i’m sure the guy that created these was an english major, or at least he had an english major write his papers for him in college. other things? well, you can dangle participles at any given moment. or rather… anytime you want to. see? i did it right there!

ah, the power and glory of a liberal arts education…

  • http://www.changingthestory.com Janice

    Tell that to my father – who is still bitching about the degree that I got and “why couldn’t you be an accountant or a lawyer??”

  • Nikki

    Hmmm. The “power” of my liberal arts education . . . I think I must have misplaced it. But I do make lovely dinner conversation.

  • JO

    Now your catching on. Words are ART…
    They can be anything you make them. What’s cool is when you make up words like groovelicious and it seems to catch on in other places… :)

  • Darrell

    You call that thing you’ve got a sense of humor? I can be most of the way through a Grande of Scotch before I start giggling at you.

    I just can’t comprehend this caffeine addiction. You’re ruining your spirits, sucking the moisture out of your body, and you’re making that guy and his donkey work harder all the time.

    Wean yourselves. Get a Tall instead of a Grande. Or at least get actual coffee instead of the brutally over-roasted designer crap that Starbuck’s sells for designer prices.

    Or smoke crack like me. Anything. I’d hate to have to rant.

  • http://psycht.net jason

    me fail English??? that’s unpossible!

  • JO

    Darrell.. I tried all that I have even tried recently to make my own..Really I can’t stop.. I am an addict.. Coffee and computers. *giggles

  • Zip

    I love you, Darrell.

  • JO

    Zip thinks they are evil… I guess I’ve gone to the darkside *looks at Thomas with his Grande Mocha atleast I am not alone Bmahahahaahaha

  • http://www.changingthestory.com Janice

    A good Starbucks every now and again will do me. I highly recommend the Caramel Frappucino which has enough caffeine and sugar to make your heart stop (and of course your brain freeze!) But I’ll be happy with a microwaved cup full of Lipton Tea any day.

  • JO

    I call them Crackaccino’s Janice.. *giggles

  • http://symetri.org/gray El Gray

    Mountain Dew Code Red is where it’s at. Or Mello Yello. Nectar of the highly-caffeinated gods.

    Use it to wash down two of those glow-in-the-dark nuclear purpleberry Pop Tarts and you’re ready to ROCK AND ROLL.