The Un-cooler Than You Blog

So, I've almost made it through a whole work week at my new gig. While I'm not going to cry "What have I done!??!" I will say that it's a completely different world. I'm not going to say that the grass is always greener, because it isn't - it's just a different color. I think this job is going to work - but it's always more fun to accentuate the negative right? The grass is only greener when you leave your job to be independently wealthy. If I knew how to make a table in this thing I would, but suffice to do two sets of bullets.

• Old Job: Wear your striped tights and Mary Janes, let your freak flag fly (annoying sometimes - it's not as cool as it sounds)
• New Job: Casual Friday means no suit jacket! My feet hurt from wearing my one nice pair of lady work shoes all week.
  

• Old Job: No websites (even porn, partypoker, etc.) were ever blocked, folk tales said that management did not want to impede on employees' first amendment rights!
• New Job: YOU ARE BEING WATCHED. No personal email, no weightwatchers.com, no nothing. No Free Cell! There is seriously no incentive to eat lunch at your desk. Managers get reports of which websites their employees visit. If I were a manager I would feel dirty about that.
  

• Old Job: Bizarre People
• New Job: Bizarre People

• Old Job: Wolfgang Puck's Dixie Kitchen, LePeep, Panera, Cosi, LULUS!!!!
  
• New Job: Tokyo Lunch Box, Del Monico's, Saproffina, Cosi, Burrito Beach
  

I think the thing that's seriously killing me is the Internet. How pathetic is that? I am so dependent on my gmail account that I look at it on my cell phone now, even though I can't reply (it would take my whole lunch hour to write "hello" on a cell phone.)

I'd also love a Lulu's veggie and tofu salad today, but will have to settle for a filet o fish or something.

Tomorrow, we MOVE! Yes! In the middle of all this Scratch and I have been packing our belongings. Yow. It's going to be a month before things are back to normal. Until then, if you see me on the Ravenswood train, say hello. Wait, don't - I'll just look at you funny.

I don't care who you vote for - just vote. That means you, women. Do it for Susan B. Anthony. Go to Gapers Block for a bunch of great info links on the candidates (ESPECIALLY JUDGES!) Think carefully when electing judges. Do you want an unqulified judge hearing your case when you are wrongfully arrested? Or when someone does something bad to you and you want them to go to jail? Yeah I didn't think so.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the POWER OF PAINT! Scratch, my brother, and my uncle busted their humps this week to paint, install the coolest looking ceiling fan in town, and even hang a pot rack (a gift from our realtor!)

YAAAAYYYYYY, Scratch!

You can see the before and after shots together at my flickr page.