Broken Watercooler

This is from one of the first times the new water cooler broke

Holy shit maple cookies

I leave for Chicago tomorrow afternoon. Part of the way there, we will be deboarding and changing planes. The location of this being in Denver (SWA's primary hub). At this juncture, we will be joined by such as Azver and Fei; from which we will embark to the magical windy city of deep dish pizzas and shiny beans for the Pitchfork Music Festival.

Evidently I made the mistake of buying tickets for Friday as well as Saturday and Sunday as no one told me that Friday is basically a big snorefest only highlighted by the fact that both Sebadoh and Public Enemy will be playing one song each. Yes. ONE SONG. What the hell? When I bought my tickets months ago, they hadn't nailed down a solid line up for any of the days, just what some of the bands were and Sebadoh was a big selling point for me. Me and Sebadoh go way back all the way to high school days listening to them on Radio K (KUMN---University of MN main campus's radio station, listen to it anytime on radiok.org) and reading about them in the CMJ (College Music Journal). The fact that they are only playing ONE song on Friday sort of irks me on many levels, one of which being the whole feeling of "just who do these assholes think they are?". Needless to say, Tim and I are likely skipping Friday to go tool around the city with the Joneses and try to scare up something interesting to do.

In other news, Thomas (a coworker) has returned from Canada and brought delicious cookies to the office. They are maple flavour and in bilingual packaging.

Things

I leave tomorrow (Friday? Well it's midnight Friday at any rate) to go to Minnesota for Moose Lake. I hope it doesn't rain all weekend, but I also hope there is at least one good thunderstorm so Tim can see what a thunderstorm should be.

We played a boxed D&D campaign over at Zac and Lucia's tonight (with Zac and Lucia); it was pretty fun. I'm really excited for starting our main game with Az. The first real 4ed game we'll be playing; this one is like a warm-up which is also a good time to introduce Lucia to the game since we're all kind of newbs at this new system.

I hope to do some drawing up at the lake, but that generally doesn't happen too well since I am easily distracted. It will probably only occur if I can get Mari into doing a co-op with me (her writing some words and me doing a drawing to go along with it); or maybe her future hubby may be willing to co-op on something. I feel like I need some level of co-op to not feel like what I'm doing is trash.

Either way this trip should be good for me. I've been mighty antsy lately, and I really just want to get out of town for a while.

In other news; I bought these yesterday. You know, since the cats lost everything but my can of d6s.

Dear Kate Beaton: an email to be read that I was afraid to send from my work address.

Hello,

You do not know me, nor do I know you, but from reading your comics I have discovered you found a way to procure massive (?) amounts of money so as to pay off your college loan in a quicker way.
I also have a fairly useless degree (at least in the current economic state my country of US is in) and quite the sizable college loan. How does one go about procuring dreadful work that though dreadful will possibly pay off my college loan much more quickly than the dreadful work I do now? I have heard that it is not difficult to get work visas in Canada if one has a college degree and knows some amount of French (I have and can do both!).
Perhaps your dreadful workplace has an equally dreadful place that is also equal in money-making capacity somewhere in the United States (Alaska?)?
Please let me know if you know anything (or not!). Either way, thanks for the laffs; your comic is a hoot.
From a confused and broke Minnesotan in California,
Jen Dockter

PS. Don't be fooled that I work for Goldman Sachs, I work in their services department through a 3rd party staffing company. I make very little money; particularly for the cost of living in such a place as San Francisco.

Every day, there, just waiting to suck.

I hate my job. I would like a new job. Do you have a job for me? LET ME KNOW.

She asked for it..

Hey people, all maybe 5 of you that read this blog. If you use this page as a comics bookmarker, you will be pleased to know that Anders Loves Maria is back in production. Ms. Rene asked people who link to her to get the word out, so yeah. There is the word. It's back; go read it.

Thanks for the heads up

Thanks to the wonderful author of Alma Mater (you can find their link over in the ridiculous comics and blogs roll), I now know the comic I was looking for is The Non-Adventures of Wonderella; which is now added to the roll as well. Check it out! It is fairly tongue-in-cheek funny.