What an interesting day

Posted on February 20, 2008
Filed Under In all seriousness |

Today has been very invigorating.  At 5AM this morning, I found an email from Secretia.  She said the multi-level marketing was not working out, and she wants her job back as a blog secretary.  I gloated.  But, after she also called me I gave in and now I have three blog secretaries (at the moment Dianna is taking dictation… you probably have not met her because she takes everything very seriously and does exactly what I say and doesn't sneak stupid little commentaries in… that will probably end now that Secretia is back; I told her I fired Secretia because of her dull commentary about cats and bunnies, but of course that's not strictly true.).  Is that a run-on sentence within parentheses?  Why don't I ever get blog secretary resumes from English majors?

Next event.  At 7:30 AM I talked to an artist who had no apparent interest in talking to anyone.  I am not sure why this is, because she was at a networking meeting.  I made up a story about wearing a tall top-hat and monocle and walking around with a cane (which of course I would not think of actually doing… I would lose the top-hat) in order to stir up conversation.  After all, what do artists talk about?  They don't need to talk; they have already said everything they need to say through their art.  Or so I gathered.

Next I found that an evil industry was spamming the footer of my blog.  Yes, that's right, I had p@yr011 @dv@nce crap all over the place.  Will have to look in to that.  Also, three insurance brokers appeared to be annoyed with me today.  I don't blame them, but it was a busy day.  And I sent them good business.

Next, I found that I had been transported to the far corner of a magical kingdom, between the port-o-lets and the horse stables.  Originally, I was supposed to be next to the elephants, which I thought was better.  Oh, by the way, I am talking about our booth at the Renaissance Festival, not a DMT inspired adventure.  Several people have assured me that there is no better place to sell than next to the bathrooms; after all, everyone has to go there, and they won't notice if you're full of…

Moving on, I met a psychic who had misplaced $150 and COULD NOT LOCATE IT.  This is absolutely true, with all of my blog secretaries as witnesses.  A psychic… was mystified by the disappearance of… do you see the irony here?  Well, fortunately it turned up.  It was under her car seat.

Last item of the day… Greg noticed that he disappeared from my blogroll.  I assured him it was a mistake by the blog secretaries (why me?), but then realized they were following instructions.  Before Secretia got the multi-level-marketing job, I told her to delete any blogs that didn't have recent posts… I didn't know she would delete Greg's blog.  Dear heavens.  Anyway, Greg is going to start posting again, and I am re-adding him to the blogroll.

Every day is an adventure, don't you agree? 

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