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June 25, 2005

She works hard for the money

I am now a proud employee of X Company and have just completed my first three and a half days of work. X Company is a non-profit that does nice things for poor kids, so it's a far cry from my previous DARPA-related position, and all the people seem friendly in an officey kind of way. They're all a little bit psychotically devoted to the "mission statement" and the "X Company way" and so on, but I learned how to handle that kind of fanaticism when I worked at Amazon and this is so much more forgivable. Amazon's mission statement was to take over the world of electronic retail. X Company wants to send poor kids to college. So I am more or less pleased with myself for getting this job.

I'm having a weird I Heart Huckabees kind of an experience lately. About a week ago I ran into a kid from high school, let's call him Mott Herman, as he was exiting a MUNI train at my stop. Running into people from high school is not that unusual since I live with one, but usually it's just people I used to hang out with; this one was pretty random. Then a few days ago I walked into the coffee shop I decided should be my pre-work stop in the mornings and there he was again, working behind the counter. Is there significance to this? Where will I see Mott Herman next? What will it mean if I do? I considered letting Lily Tomlin give me some vague, rambling advice but she could not be reached for comment before the publication of this entry.

Posted by didofoot at June 25, 2005 02:33 PM

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Mott Herman was my first slow dance.

Posted by: robyn at June 25, 2005 03:24 PM

how is Mott Herman anyway?

Posted by: adrienne at June 28, 2005 09:23 AM

yo, how's the outfits going on the job? how cute are you? why do i even ask when i know the answer. which is VERY CUTE. always.

Posted by: tracy at June 28, 2005 10:31 AM

They are strange, these back-in-the-day encounters.

I ran into Grystal Coldamez at a bar not too long back. She is hot and lesbian.

Posted by: cody at June 28, 2005 06:15 PM

michele and i ran into shining maguire at wondercon this year, but we kind of hid because we are shy. i think possibly she blogged about this already.

Posted by: didofoot at June 29, 2005 07:52 AM

*I* didn't blog about it. but maybe shining did.

Posted by: michele at June 29, 2005 09:16 AM

i'm a liar, i did blog about it.

Posted by: michele at June 29, 2005 03:25 PM

You guys went to school with someone named Shining? Does that strike anyone else as a little odd, or just me?

Posted by: kati at June 29, 2005 05:35 PM

Look, Rosie Ballantine, we've gotten in trouble a few times when people have found CH while Googling themselves, OK?

Posted by: sean at June 29, 2005 09:05 PM

Jesus was also interesting but sex-mad.

Posted by: armstrong at July 6, 2005 03:32 PM

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