I've been at my public health non-profit company for six years and eleven months. I like it here. It is good here. I want to work here for at least ten years. I won't get a watch. It isn't that good.
It is very dark and stormy outside right now. No one is moving, save for picking up the phone to cancel appointments because of the homicidal hammer-wielding subway maniac and the weather. Back in my early days with my company, when a storm rolled in my co-workers would run around holding hands and praying and pulling all the electrical plugs out of the wall and they all rushed to get their children out of school because any time the sky blackened it was surely the Apocalypse. I would sit at my desk and watch this happen and try not to laugh. It was better than anything you've ever seen on cut-rate cable. Every so often someone would pray for me. I told them I would keep my fingers crossed that they would find their kid in the midst of the chaos.
I don't know why you have to unplug your AM/FM Clock Radio in case of the second coming. We didn't really have computers back then so I couldn't pull up www.weather.com and show them some sense in the form of a satellite radar.
I'm not kidding. Any of you office lurkers, feel free to back me up on this one. The staff has changed over dramatically since I got here, there are only a small handful of the OG's left. Maybe ten or so of us. Once the government started requiring the hiring of college educated employees in exchange for federal funding most of the crazy people got the axe. Most. I just ran into one of the ladies in the bathroom, and she asked me "if I am right with the Lord because the sky is getting dark and it might be our time to be called".
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That even sounds crazy to a "professional Christian".
There are Christians and then there are these kind of Christians.
The roots are in the Deep South and the branches stretch far beyond your wildest imagination.
holy shit. my jaw kind of dropped, because i don't actually believe that these people exist. even though i know they do.
also, i wanted you to know that the same coworker discussed on my blog just pronounced "oregon" as "origin." as in (exact quote): "he's from origin, right? where's that again?"
I deal with a number of church-affiliated schools with work. More than once a day I have people "pray for my soul."
(BTW, I typed "prey" originally. Horse a piece.)
Lovely! Just read the article about the psycho. I don't understand how people could sit by and do nothing. I thought the city was full of badasses who didnt take shit from anyone. He would have definitly gotten a beat down here in the sticks. That is if we could get the John Deer going fast enough to catch him!
The Devil is in the wiring, natch.
I wish you had video-taped the reaction to Y2K.
These awful news stories and videos are making me afraid of your city.
y'all need to come on down south. we would have put a beatin' on the hammer guy. and then prayed for the both of them.
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