New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


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Thursday, April 29, 2004

"The cable guys always had this very arrogant position that they were going to win out because they had a fatter pipe," says Alek Krstajic, a Bell Canada executive and former executive with Canadian cable operator Rogers Cable. But, "that big fat pipe is just blubber now and it's not that important anymore."

Battling the Cable Guy By MARK HEINZL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
April 29, 2004; Page B1

I always hated that phrase "fat pipe".

So I am driving home today at around 8PM...don't even ask. The 7:10PM out of the city three nights in a row and if you consider the fact that I go in on the 7AM, well those numbers are pretty ugly. But at least the bus is quiet. So anyway...I am driving home and all of a sudden it pops into my head what my name is and well somehow when I think about it, it just doesn't fit.

I don't think that I've ever talked to anyone but once in a while I think about my name and how much people's thoughts/opinions/impressions are wrapped around it, yet when I think of myself just by name I feel totally disconnected.

Though I must admit getting married was certainly empowering because for the first time ever I really felt like I actually had some control over my name. By choosing to change my last name I got to change a major part of my "first impression" impact. In fact I am currently the only person with my last name in the global mailbox at work and there's a couple thousand people in there at least. As my friend in London said, "Now you have a proper British name." Just call me "Posh Squaw", "Posh Gimlet" or "Posh Rambler" which ever you prefer. There's a little girl in England allegedly with a burgeoning acting career with my first and last name. I hope that she never does porn.

My brother has the coolest name of all.

My parents were going to name me Gwendolyn (though Gwen isn't bad), Wanda (eek!!!) or Sarah (blah). Can you imagine??? Though I think that the fact that I have numerous friends with the same first name and on occasion we travel in a pack is quite cinematic.

And on that note and because I am tired...I am going to recycle some material which was created yesterday on my way home from work. Loki and I tend to message each other post work. Probably because we often find ourselves in annoying bus situations with no where to scream. Last night was amusing though.

The messages have not been altered or edited and thus reflect the shortcuts that one must take when typing on a phone.

To: Loki
4/28/04 7:34pm
Ok there's a teen? boy falling asleep almost on me he was reading the tipping pt. & out of the corner of my eye he's ben affleck but not really

To: Loki
4/28/04 7:38pm
Okay the top of his head is almost touching my cheek he just fell on me! Why do i want 2 laugh???

From: Loki
4/28/04 7:40pm
ha that's so cute. You want to laugh because he's a cute teen and Not some creepy old man

Well said, and lest you think I am evil I did indeed speak to my mother today.

posted by JustKeepMum on 10:34 PM