The new job?..... Hooooooooooooooooooooly Damn

So let's see, the highlight of my first day on Wednesday was when two of my (gay male) coworkers started jokingly calling each other disparaging for females. "Bitch!" "Slut!" "whore!" "Hahaha, oh wait I shouldn't say that one because I might offend both of them" (me and another fairly new female co-worker). The highlight of the second day was when one of my co-workers (the same one who almost said whatever evil word it was he didn't want to offend me with) was carrying a mattress in and said to a client "I know what you're thinking and that's not it." To which the client replied "well, I heard you walk around with one of those strapped to your back."
I think this will be a hell of a lot of fun, and I have actually enjoyed every second of the insanity. I wonder if i should join the crowd and start cursing like a sailor, or I should enjoy the tap dance they try to do around me and see how long I can stretch that out for.

The only problem is going to be that once I start cursing, I will *still* have to censor myself to some degree because one of my favorite derogatory terms is faggot. In my house, everything's a faggot when I'm mad at it. If I called people or things faggots at work, this could be grossly misinterpreted. I, of course, mean nothing by it. I think it's hilarious that people have a problem with men who sleep with other men, which is why I think it's such a funny word.
What the fuck is with our societal hang up on words anyways. Word only have the power we give them. So, like, if we don't get offended by a word, it's not offensive.

anyways, that's the update on the new job. I totally think I am going to like it there.

TMBG in BHM

I almost didn't make it to the they might be giants concert last night because I was feeling shitty. Boy am I glad that afternoon nap made me feel better because I would have missed the best version of Istanbul I've ever heard in any live performance or recording. The whole concert was great, but even if most of it had been horrible, it would have been worth it to sit through it to hear that version of Istanbul.

yum

i forgot to mention that Tuesday there was peanut butter chocolate cheesecake consumed in celebration of the new job. YUM!!!!!

this is why his games get game of the year

so, the setup is that Joystiq asked several game developers at GDC an obnoxious question based around the silly things adventure games make us do. The responses varied from actually trying things to "I'd turn off the computer"; And then there's this. Tim Schaeffer, creator of Psychonauts gave a thoroughly amazing and entertaining answer. You have to read this.

"No! I don't Accept This!"

...Is the reaction I got when I turned in my two weeks notice and told my boss I was going to a new job. What I wanted to do was put on my best Cartman voice and say "screw you guys, I'm going home", but I was gracious and told them how much I would miss them and the babies (I definitely will) and answered questions for the next 10 minutes about why I was leaving and if there is anything they could have done better, etc.
I spent the rest of the day working up the nerve to tell people I was leaving. I actually have left jobs where only a handful of people knew I was leaving and all but one of them was staff (this was at another daycare). So, i decided it would be bad if that happened here. I didn't realize how many people would be really upset by it. know i work hard and i try to be nice, but i know i can be a little umm overwhelming or plain out obnoxious sometimes.
A couple of people when I said "i have news" said "you're pregnant?" to which i politely said no instead of going "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" and proceeding to gag for the next ten minutes, which is what my true reaction really would be if I wasn't trying to be polite to all those lovely people in the building who have children.
I promise you that when i tell Tina (who used to work in my room with me), this is going to be her first reaction, even if she doesn't think it's true, just because she likes to see me get my feathers all ruffled. Actually, I love Tina and i have no concept of how I'm going to say this to her.
I will definitely miss my co-workers and my babies,
but seriously, fuck them, I'm going somewhere where I can act like an adult.

a good sign?

I got home today and had 2 messages on grand central. from the place I interviewed. One at about 1 and one at about 5:20 (probably meaning she was trying to catch me on my lunch break and then after work). I kept my phone on and in my pocket all day, but that building is a Bermuda triangle for cell signals (and i spent most of my lunch indoors). Since she called grand central, I didn't know about the messages until i read my email because grand central messages are on a seperate system from verixon voice mail so the phone didn't pop up and go "HAY VO0 CHECK YOUR MESSAGES!!!!" when I walked outside. So, tonight I set grand central to text message me when I get a voicemail, so tomorrow, if I'm in the building when she calls it will go "HAY VO0, YOU HAVE A MESSAGE" when I walk out to take the kids to the playground or go to my car.

So I think these messages are a good sign, especially considering that she left her cell phone number for me in one of them (unfortunately, she did not answer her cell phone when I called at 7).
I'll let you know tomorrow. (I wish anyone in that building were awake functioning before 8... but they don't even get into work until 9)