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.

When I say, “It’s ten minutes till closing,” it’s not (as some might assume) because I have created some sort of imaginary time that I’m arbitrarily imposing upon the world. I’m saying it because it is, in fact, ten minutes till closing. Ways to verify my not-actually-ludicrous statement:
1. Every computer terminal and register […]

Amount I Slept Today: a lot
Amount of Progress I Made On My To-Do List: a little (okay, none)
Amount of Motivation I Have To Be Productive Tomorrow: decreasing in direct proportion to the amount of time left until tomorrow becomes today

Most Random Question I’ve Been Asked This Week:
Do you have any cheesecloth in your car? (Answer: no.)
Most Random Thing I’ve Been Told To Check My Email About:
Picking a lunch sandwich for a trip that’s not happening until Labor Day weekend. (I went with pasta.)
Most Random Thing To Be Stressed About:
Company picnic. If there […]

Thing I Changed My Mind About This Week (which is of no interest to anyone except me, or possibly anyone writing a story with an infant in it)
WHAT I THOUGHT BEFORE: Bringing a baby to an amusement park? Crazy! It’s all noise and flaily hands and babies would hate it and it’s […]

Things I Meant To Do On My Days Off:
laundry
grocery shopping
cleaning
Things I Actually Did On My Days Off:
dumped all the dirty clothes and piles of stuff out of sight
read a lot of fanfic
played Word Bubbles

My boss kept hinting that it might be a good idea for me to go to a seminar, you know, to learn about leadership and stuff. IDK, I think the seminars are generally pretty useless, but it’s paid for by work *and* counts as a paid day, and if it makes the boss happy, […]

So today I was walking through the grocery store parking lot and watching the cars closely to make sure I didn’t accidentally (or on purpose) get run over. I could tell one of the cars was running, so I used extra care when I walked past it. Here is what I saw:
-”Hey, that […]

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: […]

For a reason I’ve never completely understood, the email server we use at work is terrible, so just about everyone has their mail forwarded to some better account, like gmail. For an even more obscure and unknowable reason, my mail forwarding has the unfortunate effect of making my work mailbox appear unused — and […]