As You Like It - Or Don't
I don't like writing cheesy bragging essays about myself. I'm working on one now, for the AWV scholarship. There's basically no chance I'll get the money, but you never know unless you try...
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Normally my library job requires very little. Saturday I spent over an hour trying to get one of my colleagues' computers to print to the library printer, and we never did get it to work. We almost reached the portion of the network where the library printer is to be found, but her computer didn't quite make it.
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Last Wednesday I was on my way to J&J — I had just exited the freeway and stopped at the end of the exit ramp. I started up again, and my car seemed to ail. It would go fine, then cease to have any power, go fine, cease to have power.
"It seems like my gears aren't engaging correctly. Oh, no, maybe my clutch is finally going out after all the grinding I have put it through." - that was my first thought.
Then later, as I travelled toward J&J... "it seems like my fuel injector isn't working right."
And from that I stepped to the "out of gas" possibility. I lifted my small beanbag frog from before the gas tank indicator, and lo, the LCD was blinking at me. So much for stuffed frogs in the instrument console.
It so happens that I work for a trucking/farming company and they had a tank of gas on the premises. JK filled it half way, and I was fit as a penny.
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There is a bridal shower next week for a girl who is marrying a guy from my church.
Another couple announced their engagement last week.
What is this world coming to?
Actually, the wedding (and new baby) phenomenon is heartening because it suggests life - it is not stagnant.
Normally my library job requires very little. Saturday I spent over an hour trying to get one of my colleagues' computers to print to the library printer, and we never did get it to work. We almost reached the portion of the network where the library printer is to be found, but her computer didn't quite make it.
Last Wednesday I was on my way to J&J — I had just exited the freeway and stopped at the end of the exit ramp. I started up again, and my car seemed to ail. It would go fine, then cease to have any power, go fine, cease to have power.
"It seems like my gears aren't engaging correctly. Oh, no, maybe my clutch is finally going out after all the grinding I have put it through." - that was my first thought.
Then later, as I travelled toward J&J... "it seems like my fuel injector isn't working right."
And from that I stepped to the "out of gas" possibility. I lifted my small beanbag frog from before the gas tank indicator, and lo, the LCD was blinking at me. So much for stuffed frogs in the instrument console.
It so happens that I work for a trucking/farming company and they had a tank of gas on the premises. JK filled it half way, and I was fit as a penny.
There is a bridal shower next week for a girl who is marrying a guy from my church.
Another couple announced their engagement last week.
What is this world coming to?
Actually, the wedding (and new baby) phenomenon is heartening because it suggests life - it is not stagnant.
posted by Claire at 20:47
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