gothicdragon 7.7

So today is one of those ‘mystical’ days where the numbers are all the same…. At least in the western world that uses the standard Christian calendar. I personally start counting the years from the creation point 4,789,154,652 years ago. So today is really 3-12-53 and it’s Saturday.

Today also marks the begining of the olymipics in china. This will be something I’ll be missing as I don’t have tv and I’m virtually apathetic towards the whole olympic thing to begin with. Or perhaps it’s the whole national pride put into athletic competition that offends me. I think of myself as a global citizen and I dislike cutting up the world and putting up barriers based upon ancient tribal alliances that matter so very little in the year 4,789,154,653.

But then man is so slow to evolve.

~adieu

If it really is the eighth month, why don’t we call it October?

Last night I was helping my friend stephanie with american airlines website. She lives in the Dominican and is making a trip out here to the Miami area to visit everyone. She was having problems with some promotional code for better rates. The code they gave her was not working. So she calls me up to help her.

Now English is my primary language. Well let’s say it’s my only language. Though I love languages, I have trouble learning them and retaining them. My mind is filled with fragments of German, French, Spanish, Italian, and even smaller pieces of Arabic.

The website she directed me to was completely in Spanish. I read everything on the page outloud and with my best Spanish accent. Unfortunately most Spanish I learned was from Californian Mexicanos….or would that be Mexicanos Californian…?well anyway, I’m doing the best I can. The more I read, the easier it was to pronounce the words more accurately.

Unfortunately we couldn’t figure out why the code didn’t work but on the plus side, I think this experience has taught me an easier way of learning a new language.

~adieu

I went through and found a template I liked. Still thinking about it though. It reflects a more positive feel that I think best represents me and how I am now.

Previous versions of this site were rather dark. My tastes have changed over the years since 1999 when I started gothicdragon. I know the name really doesn’t reflect me anymore, but I’ll keep it for now.

~adieu

the challenges of a new job can be very exciting. I started my new job on Monday and the week has been just flying by. my new co-workers seem to nice if not a bit ‘off’. on the plus side, I get to wear jeans and sneakers. after a year of wearing suits and dress shoes to roll around on the dirty dusty floor fixing computers that should just be tossed, it is very refreshing and to a greater extent very relaxing.
I do miss all my friends from my last job. i developed quite a number of them. seeing them every day made the madness and cruelty of the management nearly bearable.
the only thing I can think of besides meeting some interesting and wonderful people at my last company that was good about it was that I learned about being more creative. being surrounded by florals and beautiful d?cor tends to leave an impression upon you.
lately I’ve been in the mood to write more. I used to be quite prolific. granted I have never been able to finish a story. my brain works faster that my fingers can type and my hand to type. I also noticed recently that since the invention of predictive testing, google adding spell checking on searches, and browsers now with auto spell check built into them I’ve become the most horrible speller. it used to be that these spell checkers were little more than word scanners that suggested words to you that never were what you were trying to spell in the first place. now they seem to be hyper accurate auto-correcting programs. as I’m thinking of it, texting isn’t helping either with it’s limited character capabilities makes us all use short cuts.

saturday started off with a gorgeous day. the sky was not to cloudy and it was warm. not terribly hot, just warm. towards the afternoon the temperature picked up a little, but it was tolerable. saturday was the good luck picnic for my good friend and now ex co-worker, ely. ely was blessed with an amazing job opportunity over at royal caribbean working in their events production department. our mutual friend and mutually ex co-worker, justin, recruited him. for his last day at work, we tried to do something special, and being the event planning company that we are we obviously failed miserably. to make up for it, rachel, sarah, and myself loosely - and boy do i mean loosely - planned a picnic for him on saturday afternoon. it was supposed to start between something looking like a 1 and something resembling 2. not bad for a bunch of event planners!

so around 3 we all show up. jack brought beer. ely and trish brought more beer. jose managed to out think everyone and bring even more beer. i brought 2 liters of rum and 2 liters of vodka. i also had the silly idea of actually bringing some food. rachel brought some awesome potato salad. but not normal potato salad. this was some semi-german concoction that was just wonderful. sarah - who looked absolutely fabulous - had more brains than the rest of us and brought plates and cheesecake.

we started off by drinking what ely has called redneck mimosas which is very cheep beer mixed with orange juice. now i know you are probably saying to yourself, “thats gross!” believe me i said the same thing. but we all tried it and let me tell you it was the best drink ever! he used schlitz and straight orange juice. the taste i can only describe as being a sweet rather light and delightful beer. since im not much if at all of a beer drinker, i can only attempt to critique this citrus masterpiece.

we all had sandwiches by the time justin and his partner john showed up. they were with us for some time. just after their affectionate departure, it started to look gloomy off towards the intercoastal. we thought the clouds would move south and be on their unmerry little way. that is, until the air raid sirens went off warning of immediate doom from lightning. rain started cascading about us as we all scrambled to gather our quaint picnic. we dashed to our cars. the rain turned to steam as it crashed upon the ground.

rachel invited all of us up to her apartment to keep us all dry while we celebrated ely’s new job. we hauled everything up 3 flights of stairs. rachel getting ice water poured all over her bare leg as we dragged the larger of the 3 coolers of booze up the stairs. after settling down we all consumed more that all our fair shares of drinks and after a few hours the rains finally subsided. we all donned what we could scrounge up for bathing suites. luckily i had mine in my car.

after a few hours of throwing a frisbee back and forth and playing around in the water. we all staggered back up to rachel’s. we listened to a dj friend of ely’s 80s mix i think twice. i vaguely remember dancing to michael jackson’s thriller twice. oh and by the way here’s the lyrics you were looking for rachel:

Tongue-tied, I’m short of breath, don’t even try
Try a little harder
Something’s wrong, you’re not naive, you must be strong
Ooh, baby, try
Hey girl, move a little closer.
You’re

Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush

Modern medicine falls short of your complaints
Ooh, try a little harder
You’re moving in circles, won’t you dilate
Baby try
Hey girl, move a little closer
‘Cause, you’re

Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush

i guess youre right. he did say dilate. how weird is that?

sarah was the first to pass out sometime around 2 am. i was second to let the sandman take me, but i managed to get home first. i love everyone, but i just couldnt handle the loud music. guess im a light sleeper.

sunday i woke up around 8 or 9 with a massive headache. sometime around 3 i think i passed out till about 5. the rest of sunday is a blur.

monday. the first day back to work without ely. to celebrate the misery of it all, i was stuck in policy meetings from 9am till 6pm. i think my brain melted.

~adieu