The Marci Rating System

1. I’m not going back to school!
2. It’s like a billion degrees out.
3. Today we had animal cards at work, and I pulled the opossum card.

1. Least Professional Drink Ever For A Speaker: The Super Big Gulp. It was red. I LOLed.
2. Most Stupid Word That Was Vastly Overused: Traction. (As in, ‘your ideas need.’) But seriously, traction? That word has zero meaning in that context.
3. Most Pointlessly Redundant Phrase: Laser Focused. (As in, […]

1. Walk into bathroom; pick up toothbrush and toothpaste.
2. Stare at shelf where toothpaste normally sits; think, ‘My toothpaste is gone!’
3. Ponder. ‘Someone threw away my toothpaste! It looked like it was empty, but there was still some left.’
4. Look at toothbrush for inspiration, re: brushing teeth without toothpaste.
5. Discover happy surprise: […]

Here it is — last day of July, last day of JulNoWriMo FakeNoWriMo! This highly personalized, highly random version of the challenge involved me writing 50,000 words of whatever by using 750words.com. The results:
Days Written in July: 31
Words Written in July:56,154
Current Streak: 71 days
Total Words Written: 101,014
(Apparently I’m most often feeling mainly “Affectionate” […]

1. Oreo Fun Stix. I give them a thumbs up. They’re nothing at all like Oreos (a downside), but they’re very reminiscent of those wafer cookies — the ones where the wafer is basically sugary paper, and the frosting is delicious? Plus, it’s the sensation of Oreo-ness without the urge to revert […]

Things I Can Suddenly and Unexpectedly No Longer Seem To Do:
1. Park head-on in a parking space and stay parallel to the lines. I keep angling to the left, even when I think I am 100% straight.
2. Put on a to-go cover — you know those plastic lids for paper coffee cups? […]

A Series Of Things That Are Less Unrelated Than They Seem, But Still Pretty Random
So it’s about 8000 degrees here (okay, 84, but it’s 9:30 at night, and that’s still awfully hot), and I’m chilling in the basement. I was going to doze off, but then I realized I hadn’t written my words for […]

Today is the last day of my mini-vacation from work, which of course makes this the day I try to catch up on all the thinks I *thought* I’d get done over the last three days. Today’s to-do-list:
1. Laundry.
2. Catch up on blog posts.
3. Finish story.
4. Write article for work newsletter.
5. Post to work […]

3 Things I’m Cranky About Today Yesterday
1. The way small towns are portrayed on Glee. If I was a teacher at that school, I’d be handing out detentions every time a kid wailed “I can’t waste my life in this loser town!” Gee, thanks a lot, kid. Not like that was a […]

Good News: No one at my workplace has been fired. Okay, no one’s been fired because of the economy. Bad behavior transcends market trends.
Bad News: Our “bad day, but still not time to panic” number has become our “good day compared to the rest, try not to hyperventilate when we’re below it” number.
It […]