Ok, everybody's gone home for the day already, so I'm going to go ahead and start a new thread because the funniest thing just happened here at the farm:

Our new admin assistant QUIT after ONE DAY. She typed Napoleon a letter and left her key all secret and ran away! CLAZY!

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

Answers

Oh, he'll get in. I know it. I KNOW it. Waiting list is good. Better than a no. People always bail out, whether it's that they changed their minds, or dont' get aid or go somewhere else. He's in. He's gots to be.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

She might be my new hero.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Ha! Ha on Napolean.

Saw Amy Ray last night. She's wondermous.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

God, could I be anymore of a typo queen? I swear I read over my stuff before I post it, but I think I read it the way it is in my head or something.

Dumb.

Feedback time: do y'all think Book Antiqua 3 point (the way it is on the current entry) is significantly easier to read than the 2 point I usually use? The 3 point just makes it so huge, but I think the 2 point can be hard to read on my PC.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Part of why I use Bookman for my entries is that it's a big font and easy to read. Especially since people are reading the entries on their monitor, I'd err on the side of not making them squint.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Al - did you know you can fly to San Antonio for $60 roundtrip on southwest?

Do you get their email thing?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

So you think I should keep it 3 is what you're saying? Say what you mean man!

Actually, your entries are 2 different fonts for me. Bookman at home and then just a default font on my iBook.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Women. Always pressing you for a straight answer.

I'm saying I'd stick with the three. Why not?

Interesting ... how do my entries look on the iBook? Are they readable?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Very. But then when I get home and look at your site I'm like Whoa!

I might just find a new font taht's a happy medium because the 3 is just too damn big. It's like 4 words across.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

It's fine on mine. Maybe my default settings are just really large.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I use Tahoma. I like it.

The girl I was supposed to interview at 9:30 hasn't shown up.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Mine is fine on yours or yours is fine on yours?

So Beth is back? Good god that woman needs to make up her damn mind.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Yours is fine on mine.

Beth, as in xeney? She does this every year. It's one of the signs of spring.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

yeah, and she deleted her little - you think you know me I have to leave entry.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Boo! I'm in.

The size of your fonts on individual monitors is going to depend on your default settings. Both of you sites look fine for me both at work and at home.

By the way, both of you have some weird spacing on Netscape for the Mac. Mike has a big space between his header and the body copy, and Hannah has a big space between the body copy and the links at the end of the entry. My site was doing the same spacing things, and AB told me to just merge the offending cells in the table, and I did it, and it worked.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

By the way, I think xeney is officially clazy. Like she must have a mental problem. Why does she have to make such a crazy big deal out of everything? If she wants to take a little break from the journal every once in a while - so be it! MAN, she bugs me.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Yeah, but y'all know I love her. It's a vice I have. She's clazy and judgemental and she quits a lot, but I still check the site every day.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I haven't used Netscape in forever. For all I know, my site is a big garbledy mess over there.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Can I steal "garbledy" for my own personal use?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Y'all, I guess Jessifer killed off all her friends and relatives, because:

"dear left boobie,

why is there a lump in you and why is it so painful? it hurts to move my arm. that can't be a good thing.

scheduling an appointment,

jessifer"

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Oh, LORD. That girl needs a doctor all right. One for her fucked up HEAD.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Oh, for christ's sake. People like her are why I can barely read the forums. She needs to hang out with Melpoopsa.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Ok, lambs, gather 'round.

From the MOC: "So I called Emory. They really couldn't tell me much. They did say that they sent the first round of acceptance letters and are waiting for replies back. What I think this means is that they might have a waiting list of people to admit if any of the first choices turn them down. Since I haven't received a yes or no, maybe I'm on the waiting list.

They gave me an email address of someone who might be able to tell me what is going on. I'm waiting to hear back. Cross your fingers!"

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssse, Lord.

Who wants to stomp over to Emory and kick asses? And who wants to go Tonya Harding on the other applicants so Chris can have their spot?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Geogrpahy would dictate that I kick ass and take names. As I will. Let me know who and when.

I really, really hope that a lot of people decide that the pollen in Atlanta is just not for them and they decide they don't want to go to Emory.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I wonder who the proper patron saint would be. St. Jude, maybe? Not that the MOC getting into Emory is a lost cause, but for some reason St. Jude is who I'm thinking.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

It's just that, y'all, nobody needs to be a PhD of History more than the Meat of Cheese! He already has the whole rumpled- smoking-between-classes-look DOWN.

And he wants to teach, and he wants to write and he has a freaking 4.0! I mean, good LORD. I know that destiny is going to run its course, and everything, but I want this for him so bad - he would love Atlanta, and he's so damn smart... I just want him to get in and be happy.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Allison, would you be Mrs. Dr. MOC?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

What the hell happend to my response?

Greeeenspuuuuuun!!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I had an interesting referral log thing yesterday: vacuum suck sandals.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Well, what I said was - if he's on the waiting list, he has a good chance of getting in. He WILL get in. I knows it.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

oh, I put in the wrong email and there it is at the top. Stupidspun is more like it.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Yeah, he'll get in. No worries. Will we have to call him the DrMOC?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Ok, mwa hahahahahahaha, another department is moving onto our floor today - Strategic Services - and they have the most BASTARD guy as a director I've ever met. I mean, ever. He is feared throughout the company and everyone hates him.

He has workers building some kind of cabinet, and the noise of the power tools is like a brass band playing in my head. It's been going on for two hours. Not meaning to, I just shouted "WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?!" right when the guys stopped drilling. My voice rang into the silence like the Liberty Bell. The Evil Guy shot me, what I'm sure was supposed to be a withering look, and I just laughed and laughed and laughed. People, what has gotten into me? All the time these days, I'm like AB after she drinks three Stoli's - fearless and unconcerned in the face of ridiculous people.

I'm so worried about the MOC. I hope he hears something - either way - by this weekend. I don't want him to be depressed.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

As long as you didn't say "What's your name?" you're probably all right.

It's because you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's making you CLAZY.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Ok, Saint Thomas Aquinas: patron saint of universities and students. Get to it!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I'm on it.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Okay, see, St. Thomas doesn't like it when you dis his pal T and make her the L_L. I'm just saying.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Since we don't have any saints, I'll just have to talk to the Big Guy himself.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Protestants don't have saints either, so I had a word with the Big Guy, and then a brief dialogue with Coach Bryant, the patron saint of Alabama, who said he would do what he could, as long as Chris agrees never to attend the U of Georgia.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

By the way, y'all, I am quitting the Jag Band today. Don't be upset. It's been quite a long time coming.

It's not me, it's them.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Oh, if I had a dollar for every time I heard that line from a woman.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

You'd have no dollahs, I bet.

I just can't take it anymore. It's like I'm dating four people at once. I love the two new guys, and think they're great musicians, and the other two don't want to do anything but the same sets they've been playing forever, and I hate it.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Who missed me?

If y'all make me be L_L, you die.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Are you and the 2 new guys gonna form something?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

AB, don't you know that when the child's away we expect you to be in front of the computer 24/7?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I caaain't, Berman! I had to go to effing work yesterday. Yuck. And then I had to play in the yard. Y'all, the yard? I'm obsessed with it. This can't be good. I think I even got a tan.

Al, I hate to tell you this, but your guitarist might have to defect to Hardlucy. They found a drummer! He's fabulous. Now they just need a guitarist. Pleeeeease?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

AB! Where y'at?

Are there Sims? Pictures? Who is the dead one?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

AB, please don't take this the wrong way, because it's something that I honestly don't know:

Where do you work?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Oh, T! There ARE pictures! Hold on, I'll upload them.

Y'all, I got a Mr. T Sim, and I killed him within five minutes. Stupid Sims and their house fires. I didn't even get a picture of him!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

No way I'd take it the wrong way, T. It's confusing. I work for this guy Marshall I knew in college in Monroe, and usually I work from here, doing things to his website, but sometimes he wants me to go into the office, which is in godforsaken DeSoto. He runs some MRI company. Can you tell I really don't know?

He pays me well, and all is right with the world.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

You know AB, I don't think any of us want to hear any excuses. You have the responsibility to help me make the day go by faster. Forget your job.

[Maybe this is why my SIMs self is so unpopular?]

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I am despondent. Poor Mr. T. That makes me feel sad.

I bet Allison started the fire.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Oh, you are still a mean old meanie. We try to make you nice, too!

http://www.annachao.com/sims4.htm

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Now I have a zombie friend.

AB and Jen have a pretty swank house.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I couldn't find the door? I'm a freaking paramedic and I couldn't find the door?!? And mean Mike didn't even come looking for me.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I was asleep!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

For three days??

It looks like you left the seat up, Mike.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I think the longer you play, the less control you have over your Sims. I can't make y'all do anything anymore!

Which might be why Mike is just getting meaner and meaner.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Hey, I had an extended shift with the paramedics, because you couldn't be located.

Why didn't you just knock on a window?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Is he really? Does he say mean things? Does he smack people around? This is just fascinating.

Do Hannah and I play zombie games?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Mean, mean Mike.

Is anything exciting going on at the Newseum? I've never been there.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

He slaps people, and then insults them, and if you give him a gift, he stomps on it. He's lost almost all his "nice" points.

Jen is nearly as bad. If another person comes over and starts talking to me, and she notices, she slaps them and then they run away. It's crazy.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Um, neither have I.

And not only can I walk there, I can take the bridge connecting the two buildings and not even go out on the street.

There's something there on Pulitzer Prize photographs there now, though, so I might go this weekend or next week.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

http://www.homestead.com/chiknfriedrice/SquishyPics.html

wooHOO fuzz fest photos!

my eyes! my eyes!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Mean Slappy Mike. What is the Allison Sim up to?

I love your gnomes.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

So what happens when Jen and I meet? Do we attack each other with two- by-fours?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

You know, they all look exactly like I expected them too, and you can take that to mean anything you'd like.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Mike! That's harsh. But funny as hell.

Oh - I think that Pulitzer show was at the Carter Center a few months ago. C and I were kicking outselves because we didn't go.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

You and Jen actually like each other, Mike. Must be the meanness cancels itself out.

Allison Sim still can't get a job, and stays in her PJs all day. But I think she's trying to find one.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Maybe my SIMs self and real self switched places?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Poor Sim Allison. Is she still incontinent? Maybe she could qualify for disability.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

You're in no position to be calling anyone incontinent, dead girl.

People... the DUMB Club... I don't know what to say...

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Oh, wait. I do know what to say, I'm just afraid if I do, Saint Thomas Aquinas will hear me and get mad and not let Chris get his PhD.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

The DUMB club defies all logic. It doesn't cease to amuse me, though.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

St. Thomas would probably think it was funny, what with the DUMB culbbers pretending to be all smart and all.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Ok, then.

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Poor Peter/blurboy. I bet he's skinny like that because they ate all his food.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.

Hee! Heeeheeehahahahahaeeeehheeeee! HEEEEEE!

Meloonsa? Paging Meloonsa.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I know, the look on Blurboy's face. He was like I'm STAAARVING!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I bet you ANYTHING that while they were in Smyrna, they ate at the Fat Boy. I bet PigFatt wanted to eat the whole Fat Boy.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Oh, the evil is thick.

Seeing all of them unload from jdh's car must have been quite a sobering sight to whoever hit them.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Yeah, y'all, we're some of the only normal people on the Internet.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Pigfatt IS the Fat Boy. Those were some frightening pictures. Did y'all look at their Ireland pics? Did you see their "hook-ups?"

I had to avert my eyes.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Yeah, y'all, we're some of the only normal people on the Internet.

Mm hmm. "Normal." Thank God we found each other.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

No! Where are the Ireland pictures!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

http://www.homestead.com/chiknfriedrice/Irelandpictures.html

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Oh, my Lord.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

God I love y'all.

No wonder no one got hurt in the wreck. there was no room for shifting.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Seriously, we're evil, but how can we not be? Who could resist? I'm not made of stone here.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Are we all looking at the photos again? It got all quiet.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I'm trying to forget I ever saw them. My poor eyes.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Weird. Sitemeter just said I had a referral from tomatonation.com, but there's no link. Why does it do that?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Mike, your paper's search engine is frustrating me. I'm trying to find a story that ran yesterday about energy woes, highlighting that California and NYC are the two places who are really in danger. The article mentioned Georgia Power. Can you help?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001-04-10-powerspots.htm

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Look at that, Mike is your hero.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Mike, you really are my hero.

AB, would you mind if I linked to your Sims and your entry with the Sims?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Is that the one? We ran another one here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001-04-10-power-crunch.htm

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

okay, y'all. I'm out soon. Going spinning again tonight. Yippie!

Wanna talk about the mag tomorrow?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Is it wrong that I'm thinking about signing up for Rudergirl's notify list?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I read through her journal while I was eating lunch, and it nearly blinded me. I think leigha is far more dumb, but it's interesting. Did rg start a new job, or what? I couldn't figure it out.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

If being wrong makes you feel so good, then you don't wanna be right.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

And I love how she can't do links so she just types out the whole address for you. That cracks my shit up.

I guess she thought she had a new job in the bag, but it's not "official" because they have to "review their budget." (kissofdeath.) I bet she'll get fired. I love it.

I wonder why she didn't talk about her Ireland hook up? But she's in loooove with Blurboy. Thank god he got out of there.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

oh, Al, Eric's at his Europe audtion right now.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I hope that goes well. Europe on someone else's tab would kick ass.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I'm out, y'all. Have a good evening.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Whee! I'm outside, writing to y'all! I just went and bought a 25- foot phone cord.

Did y'all get my update e-mail yet? I haven't, and I'm concerned.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001