The good thing is that there seems to be a lot of people on vacation, so that makes getting this mess done a lot easier, not having all that constant interruption from icky humans. The bad thing is there's a lot of mess. While I was out, I missed the second of our biweekly (or semi-monthly) regulatory meetings (the ones where I take minutes) and so I've been left with trying to decipher someone else's (actually, two other elses') notes, and it's not very easy, given their infirm grasp of the concepts associated with the tasks of listening and taking notes. And there was all the leftover junk no one did while I was gone. And there is my own incredible sense of apathy and/or ennui and/or lethargy.
NONE of which are entertaining! And by Jiminy, if there's something that Possumblog should be, it should be entertaining!
THEREFORE, I present to you a short excerpt from the thrilling book, The Life and Times of Wendell G. Fleen, Notary Public. It has all sorts of tender pathos and raging fury, much like what I go through on my daily job. From page 956:
[...] It was noon, which is lunchtime. I opened up my sandwich, which was made of sliced ham on bread. I ate it, and drank a cold cup of water I'd just gotten out of the cooler. Unbeknownst to me, a drop of water from that very cup dropped onto the Fridley/Sturtzen papers I was supposed to sign after lunch, and the drop spread nearly to the signature line before I noticed it. I quickly got a piece of blotting paper and pressed it onto the wet place on the paper, and saved it from certain ruin.
Then I finished my sandwich. [...]
Anyway, now that you've been entertained for the morning, I'm going to get back to work for a while.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at July 3, 2007 08:27 AMYeah, yeah. You go off on vacation, then come back expecting everything to be entertaining.
Posted by: Janis Gore at July 3, 2007 09:12 AMAnd it IS!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at July 3, 2007 09:14 AM