anniversary

[fflo]

This coming Sunday is the 5th anniversary of my working at this joint. Which makes Monday that anniversary observed, I figure.

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[masculine-lady.livejournal.com]

in anniversary lore, that means they are supposed to buy you a bigger diamond now.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

is there no end to the number of reasons more diamonds are supposed to be purchased? how greedy can one bizarro economy of constructed meaning get?

[masculine-lady.livejournal.com]

no shit. and of course the reasons never end. we haven't exploited every last African yet.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

how many salaries' worth are you now? maybe they should buy you a diamond that costs everything they've paid you so far. you can then make an artificial incisor out of it and wear it on special occasions.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure such a diamond would be as big as even the smallest tooth. :] but there is a bonus here at every multiple of 5 mark. the joke is that it's a dollar for every year you've been here---cuz i'm given to understand it's not a whole lot more than that. it's something, though. a token.

this milestone does also mean i'll get another 4 days a year of leave. it's the last increment in paid days off ya get. oh, and i'm now only one more year from being vested in the retirement bucks i probably won't live long enough to receive but like knowing are out there tiaa-creffing for me nonetheless.

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Technically they should get you wood or silverware for the 5th, I think. Or is that just if you're married to them? BTW, I don't think my spouse knows the etiquette. Somebody owes me some wood, damn it.

Hey, you should remind your bosses about the wood thing and get them to do your porch!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

ha! well, the hardest parts of the porch project, for this year, are done---namely, the shoring up of the weird frame, and the replacing the planks in the out-of-square square. i just have the two lip pieces to go. have to draw the definitive cut lines on those two boards and hand 'em over to j's dad, who's going to saw along those lines for me, bless his heart. then drill & screw 'em in place with my special tan outdoor screws for treated wood in the handy flop-open drawer cardboard box.

i swear i could get into power tools if i got a chance. i think i'd like to get into power tools, in fact. and do the voicing/"performing" for books on tape. think i could get into that? wonder how one does. (remember that guy i used to see, the voice artist? maybe i could look him up.)

Somebody owes me some wood, damn it.

ha! and i resist going for the cheap joke...

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

and do the voicing/"performing" for books on tape. think i could get into that? wonder how one does

I recall reding recently about a local person who does non-profit recording of articles for the blind--he uses volunteers, but it seems like a way to start. I actually think the article may have been in an Ann Arbor Observer that went out in the recycling this morning.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hey, good idea. I think I thought of that at one point. There was a radio reading service based at the comm college I worked at in Baltimore I thought of volunteering for. Was working some crazy hours already then, though.

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Well, it's been almost 20 years now. No, I can't do it. I was going to make a really dumb joke m'self. But not here in your blog. I think that you'd be good at reading for the blind, BTW. (Good suggestion, peteralway Your voice is quite pleasant to the ear and you can be pretty expressive when you want to be.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Dang, that's nice to hear! I am rather self-conscious about my speaking/reading voice. But I love to read aloud, for some mysterious reason. Or maybe it's as simple as having read to children and loved it and having read to (and been read to by) friends and lovers and loved it.

It has seemed as if there's some mystery cuz I've noticed I'll stick with books on CD in the car long after I'd have tossed the book aside. Case in point, In Her Shoes, to whose prose I say aloud "Implausible" and "Oh, please" and "If that's not a messed-up limited omniscient, I don't know what is," yet I listen on, finding some part of me caring about what happens with characters I don't even like. It's all got something to do with it being read to me.

I think I've probably now had more words read to me on tape/CD than I have live. But there have been enough of the live ones for it to feel sort of interpersonal to me.

Boy, that biography of Neil Armstrong was one shitty piece of work, though. (At least I listened to only selected discs of the dozens it took up.) (And that cuz I was on the road.)

[squirrelykat.livejournal.com]

ah, 5 years, and that means nearly 5 years of you in my life! way cool!

long live power tools. geesh. yup, if we spend a friday
night at Lowe's, we like the tools.

[infinitepresent.livejournal.com]

my roommate and i have spent many a friday night at home depot.

the hours fly by

congrats on 5 years. it must be nice.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

thanks, david. it kinda is nice! i'm trying to figure out whether i worked at balto city comm college this long. i think i did, in various positions. but not sure. (okay i just checked the resume--- it was around 7 years there, altogether.) (yegads.)

j & i went to lowe's mainly cuz i had a kick-ass coupon that came in the mail ($10 off any purchase of $25 or more), but also i seem to remember it being a "blue" store and homo depot being a "red" one. you know, giving more money to republicans. not that most big business doesn't.

hey, how is your place shaping up, btw?

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

Wood is good.
(I am up. I thought I'd be sleeping by now.)

In a relationship I was in, when we got to 5 years, we bought some camellias for the yard (woody plants). We only bought 4 though. Was that our mistake? Anyway, I now have one of them in my front yard, gifted post-breakup, and it's forming buds now. I hope it's a winter-blooming camellia (I think we bought some of each).

[fflo.livejournal.com]

We only bought 4 though. Was that our mistake?

ha!