Posted on 08/23/2006 3:03:32 PM PDT by pcottraux
And now the Dinklemeyer:
Time has not been too kind to this Dinklemeyer strip for some reason. As the years have gone by, it has become unrecognizably smudged. For this reason, coupled with my already bad handwriting, subtitles had to be provided this week.
I must ask for apologies to any vertically challenged people who may be out there reading this.
The whole “work puzzle” idea is sprung from the fact that often, on field trips, the tour guides will give you some stupid worksheet to do, or the teacher will make you take notes. Who wants to do book work on a field trip? We’re supposed to be having fun!
The real-life field trip on which this cartoon is based did in fact have an annoying work puzzle assigned to us by the tour guides. None of us actually did it. I remember a guy saying to me, “Come on…what are they going to do to us if we don’t do our puzzle?”
However, should you choose not to do the assigned work, there’s that feeling of having a little tiny annoying voice in your head saying YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING YOUR PUZZLE!” So I came up with the idea of tiny little people (being either more tolerant or more politically correct, I don’t address them as the “M” word anymore), being assigned to each student to follow them around and harass them into working on their puzzles.
As last week, the real students who went on this field trip found this story to be hysterical.
Would be hard to cram all that into those little bitty parenthises, though.
Hellooooo?
I'm here. I still have a lot to do and I am running out of time.
Guess I won't ask you how your day went.
My day was total utter chaos. It'll have to wait until this weekend or Friday night. :(
You mean you're booked all Thursday and Friday?
Great job, pcottraux!
Snicker Snicker! Love the "Etch a Sketch" one!
Thanks, FRiends.
Hey Phil. You around. Just dropping by to say hi for a short while.
Aw...
(Barb withdrawel starting to kick in).
Well, in a nutshell, yesterday was hell. Got in at 7am. Had to sit in a five hour meeting and do close to nothing. Then I worked till 7:15pm to try and catch up on all the things I couldn’t do because of the meeting (I got no lunch break either – but I did get food to eat). Before I left the office I got this HUGE task dumped on me, and I just about exploded. Then when I got home I clocked 2 more hours on the laptop.
Today was MUCH better. The HUGE task I was worried sick about getting done on time got partially cut down, so now it seems it will be much more manageable for me.
Tomorrow will be even better cause our department is going to Santa Cruz Boardwalk all day (and I get to go too). So there will be no work tomorrow. YIIPPEEEE! Not sure what time I’ll be home, however.
See, there's a bright light at the end of the tunnel.
Trust me, I know exactly how you feel. If I never see another "Back-to-school" sale again, that's fine with me.
I know. I have Phil withdrawl too.
(I mentioned our 'withdrawls' to hubby and got reeeeeeeelllly strange looks.) :P
Put me on your ping list pc, very funny!!
Everyone in the office takes their blackberrys every-freakin-where. It's insane. People are checking email at 1 in the morning. It's just sick. Maybe that's Silicon Valley mentality. I never want to own a BB. Never.
Side effects include nausea, diarrhea, vomitting, inside-out-nostrils, head-banging, hallucinations, and visions of angry leprachauns throwing spaghetti at one another.
(You have a mail to read).
Oh, hello, there. Welcome aboard.
(Archives on my homepage--I make a habit of telling everyone who joins up first thing).
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