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Friday, June 14, 2002.
Entry #163
The Good News:
I get to spend the afternoon
out in the sun, lazing around in a park, drinking beer and eating
hot dogs, maybe playing a little Frisbee.
The Bad News:
It's Office Picnic Day.
Dum dum DUM.
 Okay,
it's not all that bad. It's not the whole company or anything, just
us in E-Commerce, getting together to celebrate summer. A little
park side potluck to kick off the season. And it gets me out of
the office on a sunny Friday afternoon.
But this all harkens back
to my self-pitying post on Tuesday.
There just aren't any of these people who I will be really comfortable
hanging out with. They all have their little cliques already, and
will be hanging with them.
The two folks I'm closest
too, our writers Ben and Lara, are both out of town today, so I'll
be without that particular life raft. Sigh.
It shouldn't be that bad.
Everyone's there to have a good time, and I'm a fair shot with a
Frisbee, so things should go well.
Plus there's beer. Beer
makes everything better.
My throat is feeling improved
today -- still rough, but manageable -- but the laryngitis is still
there. Laryngitis sometimes lasts for a long time after the reason
for it is gone, so I'm not expecting any miracles.
I also started taking the
acid reduction medication this morning. I have high hopes that it
will work.
Pills make everything better.
Finally saw the last
of Sum of All Fears last night. Not sure if it was worth
sitting through the first hour twice.
The ever-weird Ebert
liked it a whole lot and thought it had a good, happy ending, and
I guess it did. It made me happy I don't live in the U.S. The odds
of someone nuking Calgary are really slight.
Out of time! More on the
weekend!
One Year Ago Today:
I was still on hiatus, but in 1841, the first Canadian parliament
opened in Kingston, Ontario.
Mom
Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Mom thinks it's good I'm getting out
in the sun, and I should learn to play nice with the other kids.
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