Y'all. It is sooooo gross outside. I hope it clears up later in the week.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Answers

It's fine here in D.C., on the day of our grudge match with AOL in softball.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

oh, the great AOL/McPaper face off?

Excitin'.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

I bet y'all will kick AOL ass. I hope so, at least.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

If I have anything to say about it, we will.

Of course, I'm just bitter. I applied there out of college, and didn't get a job. Bastards.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

I swear to god, I am Queen of the Toe Stubbers. Bow before my bruises.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Yay!!! They're coming out with complete season Simpsons DVDs this Fall. Love!

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Shit. Now we have to get a DVD player. I wanted to get one for the "Memento" DVD, anyway.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Why hasn't my lunch gotten here yet?

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

What a slow MATH day. Where are AB and Al?

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Bitches. Hos. I'm in. Full of hate.

T, did you have a chance to look at the res? I've got someone to send it to today, if it looks good at all.

M, AOL is no match for your softball prowess. Please. Adultery Online?

Everyone else, bonjour.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Don't keep that hate inside, sister. Let it out. What's wrong?

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Man, I'm the King of the L_Ls today.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Just this job. This job that should be done by a team of people that is, instead, being done by me. All of the responsibility with none of the power to get anything done.

Blah blah blah, y'all don't want to hear it. I just want to work somewhere where people are openly aggressive about getting the job done.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

People think I am a crazy beyatch lately, I know. I am just tired of everyone making excuses and passing the buck.

In a meeting with Napleon the other day, we were talking about a problem we're having on a project and he said:

"The leadership is looking to me and saying 'Randy, you need to fix this. So..."

And he just left it HANGING like that. Because he wants ME to fix it. Hello. People, they pay him twice as much as me to MANAGE. What is he doing if I'M managing?

So I said "Well... how are you going to fix it?"

He hates me. He thinks that, because I won't do his job, I'm not doing a good job. Well, y'all, I have no authority to make changes here! I'm not anybody's BOSS. I can't fire or hire or do anything like that. I can only do MY job - and I can't even do that, because I'll never meet their expectations, because no one will manage ME or the people I work WITH.

Sure, I was a journalism major, so I don't know exactly, but isn't this Business Management 101?!

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

So what I'm trying to say is that I've had enough, and I'm beaten.

And soon you will see me in a field busting up my computer with a baseball bat singing "Die Motherfucker, Die Motherfucker, Die!" a la Office Space.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

No, soon you'll be in Atlanta, and Napoleon will be fired.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Were you only Miss Cleo... I would so like to believe that.

But see, even when I leave here - and I will be very happy to do it - it will still be like this big write off for me. I don't feel like I've even done a good job here. I've just done the best I was ABLE to do, which is not the same thing.

I don't want my whole career to be like this - one corporately foul situation after another. This is the only reason I would consider going to work for J.Co. The man is a business MACHINE.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Ugh. Allison, I don't know what to say. The resume is on my screen, though.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

I don't see why you couldn't freelance/telecommute for JCo. I could easily do my job from somewhere else. From what you've described about the position he has open, it sounds like you could too.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

I was thinking the same thing.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Y'all so smart. Damn smart.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

And, when you do need to go to Chicago, Delta has a flight from Atlanta just about every hour. That's a really good idea, in fact.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

You know, 3WA has a thread on journal anonymity, so I typed in my name, Hannah's and Teri's to see if our sites popped up.

They didn't. But you can read one of H's articles from Miami, and about T bing added as an Account Executive.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Oh, and Hannah, there's a runaway train in Ohio.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

oh yeah, if you type in my real name, you'll get a lot of really bad Miami articles. Really bad.

Runaway train? What?

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

It's stopped now.

FINDLAY, Ohio - A runaway freight train carrying hazardous materials rolled through northwestern Ohio on Tuesday as authorities tried unsuccessfully to derail it. The engineer was believed to have suffered a heart attack.

The CSX train was carrying some kind of combustible material, the Hancock County Sheriff's Department said.

The sheriff's office said it was not sure how the southbound, 37- car train would be stopped. A dispatcher said the train was slowing down because it was moving uphill.

Officials tried to derail the train north of Findlay but were unsuccessful, said Robert Ruse, the city's safety director. At midafternoon, the train was in Hardin County, south of Findlay.

The train was clocked 46 mph at one point, he said. The sheriff's department did not immediately know where the train started.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Oh my gosh. How scary. (How Malcolm in the Middle, also.)

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

That's like some sort of movie-of-the-week.... I wonder how they even knew it was runaway.

J.Co wants someone in-house for that position. They want to keep the company as tight as possible for now. I understand the reasoning, but I don't want to move to Chicago, so it's a shame.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Well, maybe you can freelance until he hires a full-timer.

Do y'all like sushi?

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

It's what I had for lunch.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

I like sushi, but I don't go to far out there with the sushi. Super crunch, California, that sort of thing.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

I'm not a huge fan of the sushi. That counts against me, somehow, with everyone I've ever known.

I don't hate it, but I'd never choose to go eat sushi on my own. Plus, it's crazy pricey, and since I ate a $1.92 meal from McDonalds today, I guess I won't be having any, anytime soon.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

That was just my random MATH question of the day.

I don't eat it a lot, but I like it. Mostly just rolls though.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Here's my random MATH fact of the day: Your car will drive a lot better if you have more than 11 pounds of air in your rear passenger side tire.

Just a little newsflash for y'all.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Ooh, Allison, that's dangerous. I'm glad everything's taken care of.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

It must have a leak, because it wasn't that bad yesterday. Of course, I told the MOC and he nearly had a heart-attack.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

He's a sweet boy. I bet he'd heimlich you in a heartbeat.

The other day, I was chopping cucumbers and eating them at the same time. I started to cough, unrelated to the cucumbers, but before I knew it, Chris was erady to heimlich me. He's a considerate boy.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Yes, the Heimlich is a true sign of devotion. I'd make any one of you MATHertons cough up a cucumber, if it meant saving your life.

Y'all, my uncle has a great contact for me in ATL. Hooray! Or, I guess it's great - he says it is. I just have to send her my stupid resume, which is awful. I think she works in ad sales for Yahoo, and used to work for Coke, or something. Anyway, she said to have me send her something.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Allison, I'm almost done with the res. It's mostly reformatting, and you can certainly reformat from there. I'll email it to the yahoo address.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Woo hoo!

I went to a planning meeting today for an even we're having in August and I was thinking to myself "Wouldn't it be cool if I wasn't living here when this rolled around?"

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Hopefully, you won't be there.

I just emailed it - let me know what you think. It's in a basic Times New Roman fomrat, if only because that's emailable.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Y'all. I don't wanna go to the gym. I don't wanna! Bugger.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

I'm going to hit the 6:45 spin class, I think. But only because it's being taught by Anna the Wonder Spinner.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

I, too, do not want to go to the gym, so I am going to the Chao House for a while, while traffic subsides from a huge wreck that just happened on the highway.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001