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December 13, 2004

Leavin'

As of January 18, I will be a free and unemployed woman. Please enjoy this small tribute to my past two years of employment at the good old U of C at B.

(To the tune of "Leaving's not leaving," by Leann Rimes, a song I have never actually heard):

Sometimes the time comes along
When it's time
Time to move on
Wasn't all bad
We watched Peterson burn
Bureaucratic delays ain't all that I learned

Leaving's not leaving
'Cause I'm not leaving you behind
You'll always be Berkeley
And you're not hard to find
A massive Goliath
Stolen two good years of my time
Taken my eyesight
I can't run off when I'm blind

There was debt and despair
And coworkers who don't really care
Let's not go there
When Chinese myths are gone
My cowboy boss through
Despair lingers on

Leaving's not leaving
'Cause I'm not leaving you behind
I've left a paper trail
(A paper trail)
I know the feds will find
Wherever I'm goin'
I'll be dragged back and fined
Leaving's not leaving
When it's fraud that you've co-signed.

I'll hold on to the memory
Of the days when I was so carefree
A filing clerk downstairs
Now I just wish I could be there

Leaving's not leaving
'Cause I'm not leaving you behind
I might never be free
(might never be free)
I might have to serve time
Wherever I'm goin'
You ain't no good friend of mine
Leaving's not leaving
When I've left my youth behind

Leaving's not leaving
When I've left my youth behind

Posted by didofoot at December 13, 2004 04:26 PM

Comments

i would cry, 'encore! encore!', but i'm not really a fan of leann rimes.

Posted by: michele at December 13, 2004 04:36 PM

brava.

Posted by: kati at December 13, 2004 06:15 PM

yes, but you met me and what's better than that.

Posted by: tracy at December 14, 2004 04:07 PM

Why the quittin'?

Posted by: jason s at December 14, 2004 05:10 PM

quittin;' on account of the schoolin'. six clases next semester in a frantic (and possibly futile) attempt to graduate in may.

Posted by: didofoot at December 14, 2004 05:33 PM

Plenty of room on the quittin' train, Kristen.

Posted by: sean at December 14, 2004 06:09 PM

Er, the quittin'-an'-graduatin' train.

Posted by: sean at December 14, 2004 06:37 PM

sean, you and I are living proof that graduatin' is for quitters.

Posted by: didofoot at December 15, 2004 08:14 AM

What's with the ugly blue and white page? Is it supposed to be this ugly? Is it supposed to be blue and white? Is this all part of the tribute?

Maybe my browser settings are all screwed, because if you could see what I'm seeing right now, things would be a-changin'.

Posted by: BD at December 15, 2004 03:11 PM

i was experimenting at work and suddenly had to do actual work so i couldn't finish. i'll replace the purple template for now.

Posted by: didofoot at December 15, 2004 03:33 PM

wait, the 18th? you're not even working the full month of january with me?!?! curse you!

the 18th is a tuesday...how is that logical? explain, please.

Posted by: michele at December 16, 2004 01:33 PM

The 17th is MLK Day, so the 18th is the first day of school.

Posted by: sean at December 16, 2004 01:40 PM

...my first day is the 25th. what do you have to say about that sean? HUH? mr. answer man? hmph.

Posted by: michele at December 16, 2004 02:41 PM

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