Monday, August 23, 2004

I brake for OfficeMax

I'm actually drinking decaf coffee this week, for the first time in 28 years. It' s the stepford wife of the beverage world, all gloss and no soul. I can't decide if I'm just consoling myself for having to give up coffee again, or whether I'm trying to fool my body into squeezing out an extra drop of perkiness before it realizes it's been had. It's true, I never thought I'd hear myself say there's just no substite for a good night's sleep.

Things to do today, for those of you in the home audience:
-Give props to your favorite office supplies, maybe even name them. I am currently addicted to the Bic "Wite-out" device, which lays a thin strip of opaque white tape over my messes, and you don't even have to wait for it to dry, like the original and long-suffering (and probably revolutionary for its time) White-out (TM). My second-favorite thing here(though not an office supply, per se) is the motion detector copy machine, which turns itself on everytime I stick my head out of my cube.

-Start a discussion group. For starters, check out www.newpantagruel.com (I haven't read enough to know what I'll think of it, but I've checked out enough headlines to guess it will be thought-provoking, especially for folks who are mourning the demise of Re:generation Quarterly).

-See if Nancy at Online Psychic can guess your card on the first try: http://www.onlinepsychic.com/main/m_testread_c1.shtml. (fyi, she "guessed" mine... twice!! Spooky.)

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