Surreality

[wolven7]

I'm hungry. I have a lot of reading and writing to do, today.

Gah, i can't deal. Everyone, tell me something that most people would find completely fucking weird, that's part of your Everyday Life.

Give it here, and I'll drink it like a hobo drinks Night Train: Strawberry-flavoured, and straight from the bag.

Good morning.

[11.27am: 'Never Put Salt In Your Eyes.'.]

[11.36am: Quantum. Tantra.]

Comments

[oletheros.livejournal.com]

helping people fill out their security paperwork (so they can fulfill the background check portion of the whole "working for the government" job) is pretty weird. but i think i've looked at one security paperwork packet a week since i started this job, almost two years ago.

also, i find the amount of "hollering" (that is, people in cars talking to people on their front porches) that goes on in my neighborhood to be pretty odd. most other people probably would, too.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Knowing that much information about other people has to be a little hard to get used to...

[oletheros.livejournal.com]

actually, i don't really pay attention to most of the information unless something interesting goes by. most of what i do is make sure that all of the fields are filled in and that there aren't any gaps in employment. still, i know an awful lot about the criminal histories of our new employees.

still, you would be surprised how many people don't understand the difference between "have you been terminated from any job" and "have you quit any job."

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Really? That seems one of the more Easy distinctions to make, on that kind of form. Weird.

[oletheros.livejournal.com]

my theory is that you can tell what kind of employee you're going to get based on how they fill out their security paperwork. mostly because paperwork is 85% following directions.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a pretty good gauge.

[u-madman.livejournal.com]

I used to work for ChoicePoint (The Nations leading background check company)
This allowed us access to almost everyone's info. We had direct links to the state and fed d-base. It was awesome. THQ didn't get their games started once because I needed approval to reactivate their account.
I once emailed NeedCoffee's ScottC (who works for FL's DMV) to ask why his dbase was down. Completely freaked him out.

[misanthropic1.livejournal.com]

there are six pet rats living in my kitchen and a hoard of wild rats living in the living room, who don't come into the rest of the flat because they are nervous of the pet rats.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Well, everything smells like the pets, so they don't want to get their asses kicked.

[u-madman.livejournal.com]

Tonight I'll be helping inmates at the CobbCounty Detention Center who hopefully are trying to fix their lives when they get out.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I hope so, too.

[theatreannie.livejournal.com]

helping grown fully functional men get dressed


do i need to say more?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

No, I think that about covers it :)

Lessee...

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Ivan comes when called, and runs from shaken plastic bags.

They just dug a new moat for our apartments.

I live and work in the same place as my ex, but see each other once a week on average.

I prefer the idea that I'm good at noticing problems, but it's entirely possible that problems spontaneously generate around me.

Saw a turkey on North Decatur last week. More later.

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

Evidently last night, I sent a friend of mine a Facebook message, in completely serviceable Japanese, about how I think I hate David Beckham but I have no idea why.

This was after a decent amount of drinking, but otherwise entirely unprompted.