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Monday, April 30th, 2012

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    12:50p
    It's reached the point where it's become a little weird that all of the security guards in the building still know me by name.

    I know two of them by name, and I know the rest in a "oh hey what's up" kind of way, but ALL of them say "Hello, Sam!" when I wave at them. Which is not actually at all weird, they know me because for three years I was lord and master of several floors of staff, and they've seen me doing everything from recovering stolen laptops (I'm motherfucking Batman) to falling down in the lobby (I'm not graceful Batman). It's just strange not to have a job where I see them, and yet still to be recognised when they see me. Perhaps I'm just losing my immunity to being recognised by people whose names I don't know. It happened a lot, formerly. Now, not so much.

    Though I still get emails from all three of our floors, requesting I yell at the building about the heating on their behalf. It's true I'm particularly good at that.

    Also, Dead Isle Chapter Eleven is posted. Yaaaaay!

    We're almost halfway through the edit, and I'm pleased with progress so far. Most of the comments have been small issues that are relatively easily fixed; there are a few big ones but they're the kind where I need to pull back and get a whole view of the story first, so I'm saving them for one last run after this pass is finished. God willing and the creek don't rise, Dead Isle should be on sale in August. Don't quote me on that, mind you, if August comes and I'm not ready. :D
    6:16p
    I went to five separate home-and-bath-and-beyond-and-crate-and-barrel-and-kitchen stores this evening, because for a going-away gift my boss wanted us to get the person who's going away a margarita kit. She said she'd do it this weekend and then didn't, which meant I had to do it tonight or we can't get it wrapped in time for the going away.

    (You would not believe the disgusted lecture I got at Bloomingdales Home over how they weren't about entertaining, they were about presentation, and thus didn't stock "margarita kits".)

    I finally gave up on a margarita kit and just went looking for a shaker and some margarita glasses to buy separately, and THIS IS WHERE IT GETS WEIRD.

    As it turns out -- and I'm taking this as true since two independent sources at Crate & Barrel and Macy's told me so -- margarita glasses are seasonal. Like fruit and wild game. You can't get margarita glasses out of season. My mind is fucking blown.

    But I'm sorry, Cinco de Mayo is this Saturday. Do you people need an engraved invitation? IT'S MARGARITA SEASON. DISH 'EM UP.

    So instead I bought martini glasses because fuck the world, and then I came home and stopped at the liquor store and bought a bottle of Patron to make up for it.

    Temptation to drink the bottle of Patron: rising.

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