Lord. I have to go give a speech this morning to the Dawsonville Woman's Club. I don't know where that is, so this should be great.

Have a good day, MATHletes. I'll check in later, if I am able.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

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I feel like utter ass. I don't want to be here.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Al, I think Dawsonville is up in the mountains, kind of near where Deliverance happened. Oh - wait! Dawsonville! It's up 400, before Dahlonega. There is a fantastic outlet mall there.

Joh, I'm sorry you're feeling all crappy. Have you tried a Tylenol Flu? Even if you don't have the flu, it will cure what ails you.

Oh - happy Mardi Gras, y'all!

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Yeah, I feel like ass too. But I have to stay here, since it's a big day at the office.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

What's happening today, Mike?

Isn't Fat Tuesday like Feb. 5 or something?

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

It's Feb. 12. Carnival season starts on January 6, though - King's Day.

Y'all, sad news: Waylon Jennings done had his left foot amputated.

Mike, is today moving day for USA Today?

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

We're having a "re-organization" here at work. It involves mostly the shifting of job titles and responsibilities rather than actually laying people off, but it still makes for a stressful day.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Oh. Ew. I imagine that it could be a very good thing, though, if they lay off people who haven't been around for very long and give guys like you, the vets, more responsibilities. Because even if they don't give you an increased paycheck to match your new responsibilities, when things turn around, you'll be the in-charge man.

I just bought us tickets to the Thrashers/Caps game later this month. Chris will be so excited - he can wear his Caps Starter jacket. Because if you own one, you know, you might as well wear it.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I hate it when +1 is all slow. Stupid.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I was starting to think that nobody liked me. That I big dud, and I maybe have to write letter to Lin Chao to help me be fun person again.

I took all the decorations down yesterday. The Home Depot had tree recycling on Saturday, so I called them yesterday morning to see if they still accepted trees for mulching. They told me that it was a one-day deal, and that I was basically SOL and would have to haul the sucker to the landfill. As if.

I called the Home Depot about an hour later and a nice man answered and he told me that they had a pile of trees that had yet to be chipped, and that if I snuck my tree in the pile, no one would be the wiser. So I'm in the dining room thinking, "How in the hell am I going to get this thing to the Home Depot, two miles away?" Chris wasn't at home, and the tree was big and needly. It was 35 degrees and damp outside, but I knew what I had to do if I wanted to be rid of this thing without having to drive to the landfill.

I put the top down on Fancy, put the tree in the back seat, pointy- end down, and bundled up. I blew the heater at full blast, put the hazards on, and pulled out of the neighborhood, only to realize that the big end of the tree was like a giant needly sail, and if I went more than 15 miles an hour, the thing would catch wind and fly out of my car. I also knew that it was too late to turn back - I had made it that far, and I was not going to put that tree back in my house. I reached behind me with my right arm and grapped hold of the trunk, and I drove and changed gears with my left hand. For two miles, which is longer than it seems at only 15 mph.

Then I went home and spent an hour vaccuming my car.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

That is officially the funniest thing I've heard all day.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

The best part was when someone in an SUV would pass me and give me a look like, "You silly girl, trying to haul something that's the same size as your silly compact car. Come! Join us on the other side!"

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

See, you HAVE to update with that story. My tree is currently sitting on my balcony. I don't know what to do with it. I think I'll throw it over and then drag it to the dumpster after dark. I also left all the lights on it because I couldn't deal with taking them off.

I'm just glad it's out of my apartment.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Y'all have to say something in the Grammy thread because it's sad.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I can't. I gave up on the Grammys years ago.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I think I may do a notify update with that story. I was bound and determined to get rid of the tree for good. There were several points when I was all, "There are no cars coming, and there are lots of vacant wooded lots. The tree could make a lovely home for a little critter..." I was shocked when it caught the wind the way it did. I figured that all the needles would blow off, but I never figured that it had the potential to just take off out of the back seat, and of course I lacked the good sense to tie it to the roll bar.

Joh, lights are cheap. There's nothing wrong with ditching them along with the tree.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

That's what I figured. Y'all, I needs to go home and just sleep. Merr. Feel ick.

Why do I continue reading Rudergirl's diary? Because, it's pretty boring.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

It is boring. Do you think it's a little odd that they have all these friends who are pregnant, and even though these friends have spouses (or babydaddies, or whatever), they are always IN THE DELIVERY ROOM with them? I mean, I love y'all, and all, but I draw the line at having y'all in the delivery room.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I don't know if that one girl has a spouse. Maybe not. Yes, it is weird. I wonder how those 2 met - D and T that is.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I think they used to work together.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Damn y'all, I love Aidan.

Al - how was your speech?

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Is it bad that when I saw that article about Ambrose this morning, my first thought was, "Damn - I should post this to the history thread to fuck with WG!"

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I like how she hasn't posted now that everyone's disagreed with her.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Because she's wrong.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I don't even get what she was saying. That everyone is sentimental about WWII and that's stupid, or what? Or that Ambrose wrote his books to hop on some Saving Private Ryan bandwagon?

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

It sounded to me like she was saying that Ambrose is popular, ergo he must not be good, which is irritating. But maybe that's just me.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Mike, that's exactly what she's doing. I imagine that if Ambrose wrote a tome about 20th Century China, she'd change her tune real fast.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Well, she just compared him to Oprah, so there you go. As if being popular has anything to do with being a real historian. So what was he before Band of Brothers then?

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002