Clean sweeps

One thing led to another today — or, rather, failed to — and I ended up not having my performance review. Hey, there’s still Monday, right? It’s not like I’m the one who’s had to put it off.

I spent a lot of the day cleaning, this being another clean-up day at the office. I stripped the walls of my cubicle bare, which makes it look more than a little sad, and separated the stuff I’m taking to the new office from the stuff I’m taking home. (We’ve been told we’ll of course be allowed to personalize our work stations a little, but I think that extends mostly to it being the work station that has us, and not somebody else, sitting in it.)

Meanwhile, the building itself is starting to fall apart on us, first all three printers on our floor — today, I think a toner cartridge actually exploded — and now the tile in the men’s room, which is falling in broken shards from the wall. It’s like the House of Usher, or a dreamscape that’s crumbling as we all begin to stop believing in it.

No big plans for the weekend. Some reading, some writing, some TV — same old, same old.

Random 10 2-25-11

Last week, every lyric was guessed in under five hours. Will we have a repeat of that this week? Let’s see…

  1. “Money Changes Everything” by Cyndi Lauper
    I said I’m sorry, baby, I’m leaving you tonight
  2. “Is My Baby Yours” by Sarah Blasko
    It haunts him in the dark
  3. “Rockin’ Rockin’ Leprechauns” by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
    Well, they don’t act now like they used to did
  4. “C Moon” by Wings, guessed by Clayton
    But they never told her daddy
  5. “Gimme Shelter” by the Rolling Stones
    Mad bull lost its way
  6. “Fallen Out of Love” by Amy Correia
    The clock plots time like a beggar counting change
  7. “Magic Bus” by the Who, guessed by Clayton
    Your house is only another mile
  8. “Truck Drivin’ Song” by Weird Al Yankovic
    It’s time to put that hammer down
  9. “What Do You Want from Me?” by Pink Floyd
    If I don’t promise you the answers would you go?
  10. “Letterbox” by They Might Be Giants, guessed by Betty
    Run around in the rain with a hole in the brain till tomorrow

Good luck!