jeans day

jeans day comes every friday, it makes fridays great. Its not just wearing casual clothes that makes it great, its also the attitude that comes along with dressing down....

unless you quit and give 2 weeks notice.

Then jeans day is every day!

Conversation ending phrases

I know, I'm a bad blogger.....oh well, I'm back.
There are so many 'stop and chats' at the office. You are constantly bumping into people and of course, need to converse. I'm not complaining, just observing. If you have a conversation at the office with someone, there never seems to be a definate end to the conversation. It just seems to fade away. Once it gets to the point where there is a pause, or the topic is exhausted and no other topic is introduced you usually continue on your way back to do your work. But on what note do you leave and create at least a bit of closure. Well, I have been comprising a list of conversation ending phrases that people, me included, say while walking away/ending a conversation at the office.

• .....sounds good
• ....sooooo...... ok
• yup, so, yeah......we'll see then
  
• ....alright....
• yuuup,

For example, here is an example of a typical office conversation I may have:
(me) "... so this large women is completely getting off from being tied up and dressed in nothing but a metal sheath while her tits are being electricuted by some chick and a guy is behind her whipping her ass; all in front of a huge crowd of people who are staring while her husband is standing there holding her coat.....crazy eh?"

(someone else) ".... yeah, wow...... alright then"

These are always slow and drawn out. "Yup...... so...... yeah.... we'll see" while slowly walking away. It's probably just me.

Well, I have devised a few more phrases I will use in my last 2 weeks of work to throw people off. Being inappropriate at the office is great. Suggestions are welcomed.

• fuck yeah
• im going for a dump, we will continue this later
• im going to look at porn
• smell my finger. ok see ya

so....thats it....alright then, sounds good....yeah....
....

ok.......

factors of immaturity

After a long day at the office, Mondays and Wednesdays, I head over to the high school where I am now teaching Calculus. I only have two students so it’s not such a huge shocker to the system; seeing as how I have never taught high school before. It’s definitely a bit different, but still pretty fun. At least I am interacting with humans not of the office race.

A funny thing happened during class on Monday. I was writing an ever so exciting note on the board explaining how to do long division of polynomials when my students started giggling. I asked if I was missing something. The one kid goes “look how you wrote ‘factor’”.

In my defence, I was stretching across the board, I have writing like a six year old and I was a little tired after a long day at the office. All of these factors (pun intended) contributed to the transformation of the word factor. I clearly wrote ‘fucker’. They are pretty similar words so its not really shocking; just pretty immature. I laughed with them and I think we bonded.

Top Ten Things That Sound Dirty at the Office, But Aren't:

10. I need to whip it out by 5.
9. Mind if I use your laptop.
8. Put it in my box before I leave.
7. If I have to lick one more, I'll gag!!.
6. I want it on my desk, NOW.
5. HMMMMMMMMMM.....I think it's out of fluid.
4. My equipment is so old it takes forever to finish.
3. It's an entry-level position.
2. When do you think you'll be getting off today?

AND #1...

1. It's not fair...I do all the work while he just sits there.

Thanks Peder!

thats not a leg

So here’s the story about this. Some graphics guy at ikea was a bit disgruntled and evidently wanted to get himself fired. At his job he was responsible for many of the images in ikea's catalogue. The ever-popular ikea catalogue; essential to modern urban living.

Check out the excitement on this nice family dog. Nope, that’s not a leg there. So go look under your coffee table now and find the ikea catalogue, you will see that this dogs super huge human penis was sent to every house in North America. Yes this guy got fired.

Always in the middle of it

NOPE, my host organization in Kenya, hosted the National conference on peer education and HIV and AIDS back in June. I stuck around to help them out. One of their distinguished guests was none other than the Vice President of Kenya Arthur Moody Awori . After the days presentations, he was touring the display areas where he was greeted by NOPE director Philip Waweru and 2 YPEER representatives. The conference marked the official launch of the UN sponsored international youth network YPEER. An important day for many of the delegates in attendance at the three day conference. I snapped this shot of the event.


This photo below was just recently sent to me from a friend in Kenya. It was published in the FHI newsletter and forwarded to FHI employees. It was apparantly the best photo they took of the remarkable moment for the birth of their organization in Kenya. As you can see in the forground of the picture, it was also televised. I think you can see me in the background.

life of a computer guy

some user - "what happened to my laptop? could it be a virus?"

Me - "I don't think thats a virus."

some user - "What do you think happened to it?"
innder dialogue - hhhmmmm..... you have an angry german for a son (see earlier blog entry).

me - "the screen was broken"

some user - "can you fix it?"

me - "sure can, you need a new screen"

inner dialogue - My professional opinion? kill your son or no son then seek help. Not the kind offered by the help desk.

My favorite:
pager - "prob#### -> go see so and so, they cannot connect to the network"

inner dialogue - hmm, what could it be.... I will go see what I can do.

Me - "Hi so and so how are you?..... "

inner dialogue - (look at computer, notice bright blue network cable laying unplugged accross the keyboard)

me - "I think I see the problem"

inner dialogue - (its not with the network)

My job is great!