Mr. Wilford Brimley

Monday, March 24, 2008

Cat's away!

My boss is gone on vacation today, Easter monday I think. This means that laziness, love, good feelings and happiness generally permeate the Dental Engineering Shop today. This has little to do with her actions, with her personality or skill as a boss. It's more justa celebration of perceived freedom from her eye. Without her, there is no fear of anyone with authority telling me things to do, and the same goes for the real technicians as well. This allows us to set our own priorities moreso than before, and generally live as we choose to, not as is chosen for us.

What this translates to is that people are a bit more relaxed and chatty than normal. I was manifesting hazrdous waste in the shop when I listened to Rex and Dennis, two of my co-workers (one of whom I just played Racquetball with) talking about various things. They somehow traveled from talking about an actress they thought was in "Goodfellows," to talk of plot points from the third season of the Sopranos, and unsurprisingly ended up on Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the young woman who slept with Eliot Spitzer for copious sums of money.

They strayed into how she was a good looking girl, or at least "good-looking enough," and how she could continue to "make the big bucks." This led to a brief friendly tiff regarding her tenure as a "hooker, " with the eventual suggestion that in fact, her days of hookering are over. That means of course that she will be approached by Hustler. I don't know why Hustler came up, as there are many other magazines that would potentially pay better and be less sleazy, but Hustler came up nonetheless.

As to what I will do, I'm unsure, but it would appear that there must be a filter in need of me somewhere!

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