Impulse control: zero, and falling…
1. I just said, “What do they expect me to do, pull it out of my butt?” to my boss about some statistics Sales asked me for.
2. Two nights ago I injected fried calamari and two shrimp tacos into my piehole and washed it down with 3 glasses of Sangiovese. All within two hours. (I didn’t have to drive. I just nattered some poor innocent BART rider’s head off for 25 minutes.)
3. I just toggled this screen up in front of my boss, who eagerly read the title and will certainly run a web report on it.
4. I can’t seem to stop buying books. I suppose that will end once I lose my income.
GOOD GOD. I am OUT OF CONTROL. Thank god, I do not seem to have enough street smarts to connect with pushers on the street, and nurse a distinct aversion to needles and smoking. Else, I would be writing a chick-lit version of Trainspotting morphed with Naked Lunch. “The Devil Snorts Smack.”
You said that to your boss? You either have a good relationship with your boss are you are going crazy. I can’t stop buying books either so don’t feel bad about that one.
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Losing my income has never stopped me from buying books…
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To spaceship LK: I guess you should prepare some great excuse and be ready for serious damage control towards your boss! (but don’t worry too much about number 4)
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I think you can make your blog unsearchable by turning off that function for a while…at least we can at wordpress. I did when I was job hunting. It might be too late for that now.If too much wine and seafood is poor impulse control I am in a world of hurt.
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Oh I recognise this – whole months pass this way in my life (thus undeniably ruling out pms), and the book buying is therapy so should not be curtailed. Tell you what, though, I DO think you should go ahead and write ‘The Devil Snorts Smack’ anyway. It’s too good a title to waste!
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I have no control when it comes to books or chocolate 🙂But wait, does this mean you’ve bought some books recently? What did you get?
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I have no control when it comes to books and food, I think — and sometimes you just have to indulge, you know? Nothing wrong with that.
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Eep!I hope I don’t appear callous when I ask what books you’ve been buying lately? Curious minds (and fellow book-buying addicts) want to know!Any fallout from 1 or 3 yet?
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LOLLLL! I think I’ve said worse to my boss actually, but we’re all a little off in my department.
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Oh, god, LK, sorry you feel this way about work. I hope everything goes well enough there for you to collect your paycheck, which unfortunately a lot of us need work for. Once, when my boss and her cohorts asked if I would mind doing some lame job they didn’t want to, I said, “Well, sure, it’ll help kill time.” And I’m still employed! So no worries. (And frankly, I think your question is fair. Do they want you to pull some numbers out of your butt? Maybe that would be quicker and more cost-effective for them.)
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oh my god…that was very funny. thanks for the laugh. Much ablidged. Look on the bright side, at least you don’t smoke crack. yet.
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HA! I would totally read “The Devil Snorts Smack!”
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I just saw this annoying comment by anonymous — whoever that coward is. What a bunch of paranoid, deluded, and weird crap.I hope I can find a way to delete it. I don’t want to have to start screening comments.Weirdos, stay away! Go play in someone else’s yard. Or, better yet, read some good books (other than religious ones), ease up your repression with a glass of wine or a snuggle with a cutie, and get a life. If you post here, you get a Polish curse from me.
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