Flies

[likethebeer]

I forget about fall flies until they show up. There always seem to be about 3 in any one location. And I never have my act together enough to purchase a fly swatter, so I make useless motions with my hands shooing them away.

I just looked 45 degrees to the right and saw a bunch of bills I'm afraid to look at. What happened to the money in the last few months? Not that I have ever possessed much of it since I was 18 (half a lifetime ago), but I had been able to get by without buying new clothes or taking long trips. I could still afford my 2-Diet Pepsis & 1/2 a pack of cigs per day habits. Now I'm not sure of those, either. I think it's just a matter of things finally catching up to us.

Yesterday, the reporter for 1 of the Madison newspapers called, asking for a list of famous people that have come to SG/Tal. This is in anticipation of John Kerry's arrival on Sunday. I got them quite a list, although FLLW did have a disappointing B-list of famous friends, if you ask me. I swear I thought that the inventor of the zipper came to Tal, but I couldn't find the reference. Then I was e-mailed today by some poor assistant asking if I could send them scans of these photos of all these famous people at Tal. I had to tell her that most of my list was not based on photographs; that any images we do have tend to be bad photocopies; and that we don't own any of these images, anyway. I gave her a few leads, but I would have been there 5 hours tracking down all the photographs of famous people at Tal. and who owns the rights to the photos. It did irk me just a little. It's not enough that I put together a list of about 45 people in 3 hours and sent them to you, now you want photos? Who's job am I doing here? But of course, she can't be faulted for not knowing this. So I try to keep the annoyance to a minimum.

I'm going off to meet with CAW in a little bit; he's going to make me into an electronic slush-pile reader for his & his partner's on-line magazine. Then I suppose I'll come back home and practice the flute. I have tours tomorrow, so I went into work for 2.5 hours today. I did get the news that my insurance payments ($67/paycheck, 26 paychecks per year) will no longer be taxed. That makes me happy. That's about $1,700 I won't have to pay taxes on.

Ok, that's all very exciting. I'm out to smoke, then off to meet w/my new boss. heh.

Comments

Ok, that's all very exciting.

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

so off handed,..:)
enjoy the smoke,..;D

Re: Ok, that's all very exciting.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I had my smoke in the car. I'd forgotten my appt book at work, wanted to look prepared for our meeting, so I had to go to work to get it. I still forgot a pen, though. And we were kicked out of our place of lunch due to the town's Homecoming parade. They closed up so they could be in it. Small towns. Sweet, but at that moment, a little annoying.