We sit next to a support desk now. Not only does at least one of them project a great deal, they are very difficult to not listen to. One guy is having a great deal of difficulty having the user type in the word "exchange." It's epic. I think he's on to the second person on that machine now, and he's explaining the backspace key. And that it's okay if you backspace too far, because you can just type it in again.

I can't wrap my head around the patience required. Now he's spelling "office."

Finally watched the Superbowl ad my department worked on...SO NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE.

(It's the "Seasons change, football is always here" one for NFL Films. It has exactly nothing to do with their original pitch, which has me wondering why exactly we did all those hours of expensive research for them?)

My boss totally folded on the fight I was trying to instigate on Friday. @@ I'm totally right, and yet will never win.

@@ I'm totally right, and yet will never win.

It's like marriage.

I believe Tancredo also advocated for a civics-literacy test for people to be allowed to vote.

As if that's not an idea that would blow up in the teabaggers' face.

True, if we had a civics-literacy test the elections would be decided primarily by immigrants.

if we had a civics-literacy test the elections would be decided primarily by immigrants.

Well, on 100 specific questions.

God, I could use a massage. And I say that having never had a professional one. I ache.

I know this is shocking, but I have a masseuse who is awesome. If you want a hookup I'll pass along her number.

I was doing fine until I sat down to work. Now my shoulders are killin' me! I think I could technically get out and go to work but am not highly motivated to. I have plenty of work to do that I can do here.

eta msbelle, I'm sorry mac is acting up. ugh.

Speaking of politics- I have been reading Howard Zinn's A People's History.... and it really resonates with me. But we me, it is sort of preaching to the converted-- the liberal viewpoint seems so simple to me, about helping people, equality, and championing the underdog (although maybe this is not how it is practiced). I was "raised liberal" like people were raised religious, and my grandfather sounding like Archie Bunker made me more, rather than less liberal.

Anyway, I was thinking that I am guilty of what I accuse conservatives of, which is not looking reasonably into the other side. I know we have only a handful of conservatives on the board, and perhaps no social conservatives, but is there a book similar to Zinn's that I could read and understand the other side-- or is it more than Zinn is the antidote to everything else that we read. I am wanting to understand what is so appealing to people I like and get along with, about the conservative movement.

ETA- I am watching the Shiba Inus, and they are sooooooo big!!! and cute!! I want to eat them up.

mac slept until 11:30 and I am managing to stay on top of email work while also watching some daytime tv. Maybe I'll get some work done on my taxes.