Oh, engineers...

"What is your ASAP deadline?"
~An engineer in the San Antonio office whose name shall not be divulged

We were highly amused.

It DOES work.

Wings and I spent some time tonight reminiscing about life back in the day (and by "back in the day," I mean "a year or so ago"), when all was right with the world. When, together, we ruled Transit with benevolent fists...

...or something like that. Mostly, we went to class and work and ate waffles and ice cream and watched Phineas & Ferb.

We also had some pretty wacky conversations.

Wings: "I think that's called 'chemistry.'"
Me: "But it's one-sided! Does that even WORK?!"

Happy Monday, y'all!

Let the bus humor begin...

Every so often, Wings and I will exchange Quotes of the Day. This one comes to you from Wings's Route 07 on the Texas A&M University campus.

"Ah, I am glad they kept Jason normal. He's so funny."
~Unknown

I am the proud owner of a giant calendar featuring hamsters. Jenny (another coworker) inspected it and declared, "That is so you."

"Add traffic jam to your holiday menu."
~The Weather Channel website (11/23/10)

One-Eleven-Eleven!

I scared The Tig (my cat) so bad that he ran into another room jumped onto a plate full of food.

"The combination of good intentions and no short-term memory sometimes yields interesting results."
~Tracy Butler

It snowed. It snowed big, white, fluffy flakes and tiny, silvery, compact flecks. This was, of course, after it rained all night, so none of it stuck.

But still. It snowed.

"It was like looking out into a snowglobe."
~Wings

Admittedly, she said that while she was living in Canada, but it's applicable today!

Brr!

I was formulating numerous versions of this entry on my way home from work as I jammed to Mêlée's newest album, "The Masquerade" (which, by the way, is pure love). However, the allergy attack I had yesterday is morphing into a cold, so I figure that I should put off those high-quality thoughts 'til later.

Because it is still cold in my office -- specifically,  my cubicle -- I thought that a quote from years gone by would be quite fitting. A classmate of mine boldly declared this as he shed his coat upon entering the History of Rhetoric class.

"It is colder than secular humanism out there!"
~That skinny, blond-haired guy who always sat behind me and slightly to my right (that is, southeast of me)

Amen, brother. Amen.

"Gag me with a spoon."

Today was my dear coworker Di's last day at the firm. She had received "an offer [she] couldn't refuse" from another local company and was thus spirited away from our little marketing department.

*sniff* I miss her already. (I also lost the coin toss for her now-vacant window cubicle. *snaps*)

In honor of her, I bring you one of my favorite Di quotes. It hails from an e-mail that she sent to one of the company principals at 0150 the day that a very tricky proposal was going to be sent out. (She was, in her words, "delirious" at that time. Verily, she spoke truth.)

"Coincidentally, I happen to design these bad boys on a computer screen, so it's not like I need to submerse myself in liquid-hot magma with a copy of the SOQ to see what the selection committee will see. :)"
~Di

Di, I salute you.

"You're waiting for a train..."

If you know me, you know that I haven't seen a lot of movies. -- Well, I take that back. I've seen a lot of movies, but they usually just don't seem to be ones that everyone expects the average individual to have seen (go figure).

Anyways, I finally saw Inception today. About half the people I'd talked to about it raved about it, and the other half ranted about it, so I figure I had a pretty decent balance of input going into this movie-watching event. After having viewed it for myself, I must say that I fall into the rave category. (The ending also vaguely reminded me of the end of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell for some reason, and that's a novel I consider to be one of the best books written in the past decade, so that didn't hurt.)

*checks Inception off of her flowing scroll of Movies to Watch at Some Point in Time*

Cobb: "For this to work, we'd have to buy off the pilots."
Arthur: "And we'd have to buy off the flight attendants."
Saito: "I bought the airline. It seemed neater."

Oh-One, Oh-One, One-One

"You're all pizza and fairytales!"
~John Lennon to Paul McCartney

Had John and I been bandmates, he could have easily said that about me. I'm an unassuming girl who manages (or seriously attempts) to make even the most mundane things fantastic.

That being said (or typed, as the case may be),  I thought that a date filled with ones and zeroes would be a brilliant day on which to create a new blog. Right now, the plan is to have at least one quote each day, but this will probably be an amorphous blog and subject to change. (I'm hurriedly trying to create this before midnight, so it's all sorts of unpolished, and I slept on a hardwood floor this morning, which has nothing to do with anything.)

Ahem.

I present to you now a quote from a good friend. This saying has kept me buoyed up on many a dull day.

"I don't believe any days that you live through are wasted. Maybe not as good as you hope, but never wasted."
~Crow

And there y'go.

Cheers, y'all!