The transit strike is just part of my vacation.
On another vacation note, what's everyone doing for the holidays? I'm going to Hawaii for the first time. And spending 8 days with my entire family (15 people and counting). I haven't spent that much time with my family in probably over a decade. Will we all survive intact? Only time will tell.
Posted by witchstone at December 21, 2005 12:48 PMI'm with you on that, witchy. After all the shit I've been through, this year, I refuse to put yself through that hell just for my stupid job. But that's just me.
Also, An Evening With Wild Man Fischer is available for download (in full) at PCI Linkdump. And that should be enough to make any reasonable person happy.
Posted by: jonmc on December 21, 2005 12:59 PMI'm doing the homophobic-antisemitic-extended-family thing (again) then I'll probably either:
a) enjoy a late dinner with my best friends (who are, fancy that, lesbian jews) or
b) climb a bell tower somewhere...
Posted by: jpoulos on December 21, 2005 01:27 PMGoing to Napa Friday for wining, to sister's Saturday, mother-in-law's Sunday, finally having our own xmas on the 26th or 27th, and then hosting a New Year's eve party. Along the way I will indulge in my Christmas traditions of playing nine-ball with my best friend on Christmas Eve and watching Phantasm with my family Christmas night.
Posted by: kaf on December 21, 2005 01:32 PMjeebus, jon. you had a kidney stone. you make it sound like this was the Year My Family Was Killed by Packs of Wild Possums, or something.
Posted by: jpoulos on December 21, 2005 01:36 PM(Um...your family wasn't killed by possums, was it? Cuz if it was, I'm gonna feel like an asshole.)
Posted by: jpoulos on December 21, 2005 01:37 PMActually, I quite enjoyed my walk today. But going home in the dark, carrying Xmas presents, will be less fun.
My company's strike contingency plan was "Make sure you get to work on time." And, liking groceries, I complied.
Posted by: Vidiot on December 21, 2005 02:01 PMNot possums, poulos, BEAVERS! Hordes and Hordes of Dam-Building Beasts!
I kid.
There was a lot of other money and other work related woes (too complex to go into) that occupied the last half of these year, so that's why I'm in no mood to bust my ass for those people.
Posted by: jonmc on December 21, 2005 02:13 PMMaster Po said that to Kwai Chang once as they dallied in the garden.
Posted by: kaf on December 21, 2005 05:29 PMMaster Ron Jeremy said that to his DOP one day on set, as he lolled about on his fake bed.
Posted by: witchstone on December 21, 2005 05:43 PMI'm going to actually bite the bullet and attempt to walk over the hills and through the projects across the bridge and downtown to work tommorrow. If I die en route, make me a nice memorial, willya?
Posted by: jonmc on December 21, 2005 06:05 PMIs there really no other way to get into town? Are the ferries and the trains affected by the strike too? I guess the ferries only work for Staten Island?
What about bikes? Unicycles? A brace of strapping lads to bear you in a litter?
Posted by: kaf on December 21, 2005 06:41 PMHow was San Diego, anyway, Witchstone? Did you learn lots of stuff? Did you have fabulous exploits? Are you writing a book?
Posted by: kaf on December 21, 2005 06:51 PMThere's a water taxi down in Long Island City. According to mapquest that's a 3 1/2 mile walk from my house. That'll get me across the river, but it lets me out on the east side at 34th street. I work on the West Side about 40-some-odd blocks downtown. I might just walk to Queensboro Plaza and try to share a cab across the bridge with somebody, since according to mapquest the total distance from Mc Central to the Job is 8.something miles. I'm mainly doing this just to show the employesr that I made the effort.
I don't own a bicycle or a unicycle and while there's plenty of strapping young lads around, most of them in these parts are more likely to turn you into litter rather than bear you on one.
Posted by: jonmc on December 21, 2005 08:13 PMVidiot's photos of his walk to work made the whole ordeal look quite charming. And I'm sure it would be - once. After the first time, not so much. If it rained, not-at-freaking-all.
Posted by: tizzie on December 21, 2005 08:20 PMSan Diego was great in a lot of ways and terrible in others. I guess that's about par for the course for graduate school.
I did manage to finally make it to the Casbah in my last month of living there. It was the one bar I'd heard of before I moved there and it took me over 2 years to get there.
Although the weather in NYC sucks right now, I am happy to be back in my city. San Diego is a little too comfortable. I could see myself avoiding life very nicely there for a long time. So, I threw myself back into survivor land.
And a shoutout to jpoulos for visiting me while I was there.
Can you believe it's been 2 1/2 years since I was a regular monkey?
Two and and half years, and not regular? Man, that's no good. Monkeys gotta POOP.
Posted by: yhbc on December 21, 2005 10:04 PMYou must be flummoxed by all the changes that have taken place in two and a half years, eh Witchy?
Posted by: Fes on December 21, 2005 10:59 PMUgh - I was originally planning on going to my favorite establishment's Xmas party tonight, but my partner in crime is in surgery right now to put her elbow back together. (I told her not to wear figure skates- stupid toe pick).
So it looks like I'm finishing my christmas shopping up tonight then retiring for a night of video games instead of shenanigans.
Other than that- I'm looking forward to a long weekend and not thinking about work for a little bit.
Posted by: tayhota on December 22, 2005 04:00 PMhah, just realized how depressing that sounds (almost like it should have the sad Charlie Brown Christmas music behind it)
Posted by: tayhota on December 22, 2005 04:02 PMMeme of Four. Shall we?
Four jobs you've had in your life:
Four movies you could watch over and over:
Four places you've lived:
Four TV shows you love to watch:
Four places you've been on vacation:
Four websites you visit daily:
Four of your favorite foods:
Four places you'd rather be:
Four jobs you've had in your life: waitress, lifeguard, telemarketer, answering 1-800 calls about pet food.
Four movies you could watch over and over: The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Jackie Brown, the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice
Four places you've lived: Akron, Ohio; East Lansing, Michigan; Cincinnati, Ohio; Covington, Kentucky.
Four TV shows you love to watch: NYPD Blue, The Daily Show, Julia Child, X-Files. Of course, only one of those is actually on tv.
Four places you've been on vacation: Nova Scotia, Cozumel, Key West, almost everywhere on the "atomic trail" - Trinity, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge.
Four websites you visit daily: Dana, Vidiot, Morning News, and Cursor.
Four of your favorite foods: A perfect cheeseburger, sea bass with ginger & scallions, a perfect ripe pear, guacamole.
Four places you'd rather be: New Zealand, Hawaii, Playa del Carmen, Greece.
Oooh! Let's! (and: awww....thanks for the link!)
Four jobs you've had in your life: studio TV camera operator, selling hotel reservations for Holiday Inn over the phone (dial 1-800-HOLIDAY east of the Mississippi and you got me), door-to-door canvasser for the American Diabetes Association, data entry for a bank.
Four movies you could watch over and over: Desk Set, The American President, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Chungking Express (and yes, The Big Lebowski.)
Four places you've lived: Parkersburg, WV, Wake Forest, NC, Atlanta, GA, Ithaca, NY
Four TV shows you love to watch: House, The Daily Show, The West Wing, Fawlty Towers (Shame I don't have cable.)
Four places you've been on vacation: Washington, DC, Turkey, London, Vietnam
Four websites you visit daily: TVNewser, Talking Points Memo, Boing Boing (I know, I know...), Looka!
Four of your favorite foods: almond roca, mangoes, piping hot biscuits, my mother's chicken crepes
Four places you'd rather be: Southern France, Rome, Miami, Morocco
Posted by: Vidiot on December 23, 2005 11:01 PMFour jobs you've had in your life: Ballet dancer, Ballet teacher, waitress, web dork
Four movies you could watch over and over: Amelie, Meet the Parents, Il Marchese del Grillo, Breakfast Club
Four places you've lived: Peoria, Illinois; Plano & Austin, Texas; Rome Italy
Four TV shows you love to watch: Will & Grace, Desparate Housewives, Striscia la Notizia, Italian Gameshows with Scantily Clad Dancing Girls
Four places you've been on vacation: Egypt, Tunisia, Puglia, Most of Europe
Four websites you visit daily: MeFi, 9622, MeCha, Salon
Four of your favorite foods: Italian, Sushi, Mexican, Dr. Pepper
Four places you'd rather be: Anywhere but work, anywhere but work, anywhere but work, anywhere but work
Four jobs you've had in your life: Banquet setter-upper, magazine editor, movie theater projectionist, web developer
Four movies you could watch over and over: Seven Samurai, Glengarry Glen Ross, Magnolia, The Evil Dead
Four places you've lived: Cape Cod Massachusetts, South Bend Indiana, New York City, Watertown Massachusetts
Four TV shows you love to watch: Arrested Development, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, WWE Raw (my dirty little secret)
Four places you've been on vacation: Nova Scotia Canada, New Orleans Louisiana, The Ozark Mountains Arkansas, Los Angeles California
Four websites you visit daily: Hullabaloo, Defective Yeti, The Poor Man, Achewood
Four of your favorite foods: Lasagna, these vegetarian knishes my friend Barrie makes, the vegetarian chili my friend Barrie makes, my soon-to-be-famous Boston Baked Beans recipe
Four places you'd rather be: Tokyo, London, San Francisco, pre-Katrina New Orleans
Four jobs you've had in your life: busboy, pizza cook, budget and policy analyst, cleaner of the shit that this lovable bastard left in his bedroom
Four movies you could watch over and over: City of God, Lebowski, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Spaceballs
Four places you've lived: Tulsa, Waco, Dallas...uh, London for six weeks.
Four TV shows you love to watch: Simpsons, Good Eats, Frontline, Robot Chicken
Four places you've been on vacation: Copan, Glasgow, Rome, Branson
Four websites you visit daily: limited internet time means I live and die by Bloglines, but RudePundit, TreeHugger, the increasingly worsening SpoFi, and fantasysports.yahoo.com
Four of your favorite foods: Sushi, Mongolian BBQ, Tofu CornDogs, vodka
Four places you'd rather be: Peru, New Zealand, at a Mavericks game, or asleep.
Posted by: ufez on December 24, 2005 11:08 AMFour jobs you've had in your life: baker, bookseller, busboy, editor
Four movies you could watch over and over: Dazed & Confused, Clerks, Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, Taxi Driver
Four places you've lived: Bridgeport, CT, Miami, Florida, New York, NY, Astoria, NY
Four TV shows you love to watch: The Simpsons, Family Guy, All In The Family, Homicide
Four places you've been on vacation: Barre, Vermont, Quebec City, Quebec, Orlando, Florida, Decatur, Illinois
Four of your favorite foods: Filet Mignon, Super Duper Weenie Hot Dogs, Katz's Pastrami, my nonna's gnocchi
Four websites you visit daily: Metafilter, Metachat, Fark, cnn.com
Four places you'd rather be: Australia, Pre-Katrina New Orleans, Jamaica, Ireland
Posted by: jonmc on December 24, 2005 11:16 AMFour jobs you've had in your life: I've been a Puppet, a Pauper, a Pirate, a Poet, a Pawn and a King...okay, seriously...gravedigger, waiter, hotel graveyard shift, funeral director. Hey, full circle!
Four movies you could watch over and over: My Fair Lady, Hands on a Hardbody, Dazed and Confused, Moulin Rouge.
Four places you've lived: Clinton, LA, Baton Rouge, Austin, TX, twenty miles from Clinton, LA. Dammit, full circle again.
Four TV shows you love to watch: Arrested Development, The Office (both versions), My Name is Earl, Days of Our Lives
Four places you've been on vacation: Backpacking in Canada, Pilgrimage to Graceland, Soul-searching to California, Honeymoon in San Francisco
Four websites you visit daily: Hollywood Rag, TV Tattle, Dead Frog, Talk Entertainment
Four of your favorite foods: Chuy's Mexi-Cobb Salad, Fried Chicken, My Gumbo, Gin
Four places you'd rather be: Austin, New York, Paris, Pre-Katrina New Orleans
Four jobs you've had in your life: Pizza chef, brine shrimp egg harvester, artificial tree maker, missile machinist.
Four movies you could watch over and over: Bull Durham, Grosse Pointe Blank, Independence Day, Field Of Dreams.
Four places you've lived: Manchester CT, Weatherford TX, Ogden UT, Keeau HI.
Four TV shows you love to watch: The Daily Show on Monday, The Daily Show on Tuesday, The Daily Show on Wednesday, The Daily Show on Thursday.
Four places you've been on vacation: Yellowstone, Las Vegas, Jackson Hole, Disneyland.
Four websites you visit daily: Metafilter, Metachat, Yahoo! Most Emailed News, Salt Lake Tribune.
Four of your favorite foods: Steak, tacos, cheesecake, homemade beef stew.
Four places you'd rather be: New Ipswich New Hampshire, Whitefish Montana, Watertown South Dakota, or back in bed.
Hmmm. I tried this earlier today, but it seems the site ate my post. Let me try to remember what I put.
Four jobs you've had in your life: Gravedigger, Waiter, Hotel Graveyard Shift, Funeral Director (I've come full circle!)
Four movies you could watch over and over: My Fair Lady (I'm watching it now!), Bullets Over Broadway, Moulin Rouge, Dazed and Confused
Four places you've lived: Clinton, LA; Baton Rouge, LA; Austin, TX; 20 miles from Clinton, LA (See, full circle!)
Four TV shows you love to watch: Arrested Development, The Office (both versions), My Name is Earl, Days of Our Lives
Four places you've been on vacation: Backpacking in Canada, Pilgrimage to Graceland, Soul-searching to California, Honeymooning in San Francisco
Four websites you visit daily: Hollywood Rag, Talk Entertainment, Dead-Frog, and I'm constantly looking at Flickr
Four of your favorite foods: Olives, Fried Chicken, Gumbo when I cook it, Gin
Four places you'd rather be:Austin, New York City, Paris, Pre-Katrina New Orleans
Four jobs you've had in your life: Busboy, Reporter, Marketing Exec, Bartender
Four movies you could watch over and over: The Name of the Rose, Where The Buffalo Roam, Dawn Of The Dead (1978), and That Thing You Do!
Four places you've lived: Melrose Park IL, Carbondale IL, Addison IL, O'Fallon IL.
Four TV shows you love to watch: CSI New York, The Apprentice, Survivor, MST3K.
Four places you've been on vacation: DC, Boston, Vegas, and as of tomorrow? Kansas City's "Premier Indoor Waterpark." Woot!
Four websites you visit daily: Monkeyfilter, Robot Wisdom, Lifehacker and A&L D.
Four of your favorite foods: Portillo's Vienna red hots, the tenderloin medallions at Dominic's, Munchos, sliders and o-rings.
Four places you'd rather be: Cinqeterre, Harvard Square, Schwarzenburg Switzerland, Vancouver BC.
Merry Christmas! Here's wishing that each of you have a safe, happy and prosperous new year.
Posted by: Fes on December 24, 2005 11:56 PMWhat the hey. It's been a hellishly long day and I have to start work again in six hours...I'll try to give original answers, though:
Four jobs you've had in your life: busboy, pizza cook, government budget and policy analyst, collector of dog shit
Four movies you could watch over and over: City of God, Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Calexico: World Drifts In (Live At The Barbican London)
Four places you've lived: Tulsa, Waco, Dallas...and, if you'll count it (it's the only other one) six weeks in London, Summer of 98
Four TV shows you love to watch: Simpsons, Frontline, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Good Eats
Four places you've been on vacation: Honduras, Glasgow, Rome, Branson
Four websites you visit daily: limited internet time means living and dying by Bloglines, but I'll go with RudePundit, Treehugger.com, SpoFi, and fantasysports.yahoo.com
Four of your favorite foods: Shiner Bock, Monopolova Vodka, Camel Lights, Tofu CornDogs
Four places you'd rather be: Peru, New Zealand, at a Mavericks game, asleep
Damn, checking the watch, it's officially Xmas CST. Happy Christmas, kids.
Posted by: ufez on December 25, 2005 01:14 AMI took out the links, let's see if it works now.
Four jobs you've had in your life: Gravedigger, Waiter, Hotel Graveyard Shift, Funeral Director (I've come full circle!)
Four movies you could watch over and over: My Fair Lady (I'm watching it now!), Bullets Over Broadway, Moulin Rouge, Dazed and Confused
Four places you've lived: Clinton, LA; Baton Rouge, LA; Austin, TX; 20 miles from Clinton, LA (See, full circle!)
Four TV shows you love to watch: Arrested Development, The Office (both versions), My Name is Earl, Days of Our Lives
Four places you've been on vacation: Backpacking in Canada, Pilgrimage to Graceland, Soul-searching to California, Honeymooning in San Francisco
Four websites you visit daily: Hollywood Rag, Talk Entertainment, Dead-Frog, and I'm constantly looking at Flickr
Four of your favorite foods: Olives, Fried Chicken, Gumbo when I cook it, Gin
Four places you'd rather be:Austin, New York City, Paris, Pre-Katrina New Orleans
The Christmas fairy found your posts stuck in the chimney.
I love you monkeys! Merry Christmas!
Posted by: tizzie on December 25, 2005 09:58 AMFour jobs you've had in your life: waitress in a retirement home, tour guide in Alaska, music store manager, actor
Four movies you could watch over and over: Princess Bride, Empire Strikes Back, Waiting for Guffman, What's Up Doc?
Four places you've lived: Skagway, Alaska; London, England; New York City, NY; Buenos Aires, Argentina
Four TV shows you love to watch: Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, Alias, Family Guy
Four places you've been on vacation: Paris, New Orleans, Hawaii, Dominican Republic
Four websites you visit daily: Metafilter, 9622, myspace, Google
Four of your favorite foods: pizza, chocolate, potato chips, cookies
Four places you'd rather be: I'm in Oahu right now and for once in my life, there's no place I'd rather be
Posted by: witchstone on December 25, 2005 11:10 PMFour jobs you've had in your life: sign painter, movie usher, cleaned toilets in a ball-bearing factory, video arcade manager
Four movies you could watch over and over: Ed Wood, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hairspray, Forbidden Planet
Four places you've lived: Tehran, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Seoul
Four TV shows you love to watch: Simpsons, No Reservations, The Tick, UFO
Four places you've been on vacation: Munich, Barcelona, Edinburgh, and Stillwater, MN
Four websites you visit daily: The Cartoonist, Dial B for Blog, Jart In My Head, Deviled Ham
Four of your favorite foods: Chicken Tikka Masala, Bulgogi, Spanferkel, and Southern-fried Steak
Four places you'd rather be: sailing on the Costa Brava, climbine a fourteener in Colorado, mountain-biking anywhere, and sitting in a Munich beergarden drinking a beer as big as my head
Four jobs you've had in your life: telephone operator, record store clerk, stockboy, janitor
Four movies you could watch over and over: Hard Day's Night, the Great Escape, Die Hard, and Raising Arizona
Four places you've lived: Carbondale Illinois and various Chicago suburbs
Four TV shows you love to watch: Simpsons, Daily Show, Scrubs, and Curb Your Enthusiasm
Four places you've been on vacation: Oaxaca, New York (once or twice a year), San Francisco, and Minneapolis
Four websites you visit daily: MetaChat, Coudal Partners, Drawn! and Gizmodo
Four of your favorite foods: tacos, pho, steak (rare), and apple pie
Four places you'd rather be: new york, london, paris, munich (everybody talk about - pop musik)
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