Only two days into the work week post Christmas holidays and I am bagged.

Funny story from today.

A general manager asked me if I could meet him in his office when I had a free minute. A few minutes later, I discovered I was staring blankly at the wall, so I went to go see him. He looked and me and said, “you’ve been here for a while, you kind of know the ins and outs of this office.” I looked at him, eyebrow arched. He said, “I know that’s kind of a loaded question but I was wondering how to blah blah blah pay for my copy of the company cookbook.” So, I told him how he could get his money discretely from one office location to another. Easy peasy. That’s not really the funny part. He told me that there was a rather unfortunate typo in the cookbook and asked me if I’d noticed it. I’d never even laid eyes on this company cookbook, and told him I hadn’t. I asked him what it was, chocolate shit cookies? He said, “No, worse, well, better,  but listen you can’t tell anyone.” So anyway, there’s a woman who works in our office whose last name is basically crack. Essentially. I don’t think that’s giving too much away. When he told me it was a typo to do with her name, I assumed they’d just spelled it like I did above. crack. ok, whatever, who cares. BUT IT’S BETTER THAN THAT! They screwed up on her first name. When you replace the d in ju(d)y with the very nearby s, you get something that reads, essentially, juicy crack. oh man. When a 50-something year old manager shares this with you in confidence you know you’ve made the a-team. We laughed for evar. Srsly. Best beckoning into office of 2009. So far.

I still think it’s funny.

Almost makes up for not getting a raise this year. Almost.

it’s customary to do a new years post. right?

2008 was the big suck. it started with the stomach flu and has ended with a mediocre christmas vacation. awesome.

i ushered out last year, last night, in a big way:

homework.

followed by several dozen episodes of mad men. all of the episodes of mad men, actually.

tomorrow, hopefully without emotional drama or physical incident, we’ll be going to the mountains for the weekend. unfortunately right now i have a tension headache that is painful enough for me to want to be euthanized. seriously. it’s more like a bodyache, really, starting in my cheeks, spreading down through my neck, back, and who knows where after that.

i had some funny things to say before i sat down, but they are completely gone, as tends to be the case.

oh wells.