Sometimes i love this city.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Office Wars
It was already a day for fighters. I came in to an e-mail sent to three of my supervisors stating that I’d not done anything I said I would have. Or so it seemed. Admittedly I was caught. Not that I’d done anything wrong but it pissed me off to the point that my day was ruined.
I printed it out for a file I now had to keep on the woman. A co-worker told me to smile and I handed her the page. “this is why I’ll quit sooner than later.”
Drunks all of them. I didn’t wake up this early to write a legal brief. I had to though, if the day was going to be salvaged, I needed to discredit this woman to the point that she appeared a ladder rung above homeless.
The win came easy, a lot of phone calls to folks she couldn’t remember the names of, at a time before anyone in membership worked in membership. It was beautiful. When my boss approached me, I not only had highlighted the questionable elements of the request, but created a list of unanswerable questions at the bottom of the page. I got reprimanded. There’s no escaping that fate, but when it was done it was done. It didn’t linger in the office air like an unexpected, unwanted passing. If anyone died here it was the lady in the e-mail and I stood over her arguments corpse like a roman gladiator.
This was a day for fighters, and for the time being, I’d passed the first test. I shot down my coffee and moved for my access card. I was a champion but the lions were moving in and they were smelling blood…
I printed it out for a file I now had to keep on the woman. A co-worker told me to smile and I handed her the page. “this is why I’ll quit sooner than later.”
Drunks all of them. I didn’t wake up this early to write a legal brief. I had to though, if the day was going to be salvaged, I needed to discredit this woman to the point that she appeared a ladder rung above homeless.
The win came easy, a lot of phone calls to folks she couldn’t remember the names of, at a time before anyone in membership worked in membership. It was beautiful. When my boss approached me, I not only had highlighted the questionable elements of the request, but created a list of unanswerable questions at the bottom of the page. I got reprimanded. There’s no escaping that fate, but when it was done it was done. It didn’t linger in the office air like an unexpected, unwanted passing. If anyone died here it was the lady in the e-mail and I stood over her arguments corpse like a roman gladiator.
This was a day for fighters, and for the time being, I’d passed the first test. I shot down my coffee and moved for my access card. I was a champion but the lions were moving in and they were smelling blood…
Monday, March 17, 2008
Fun with Wikipedia
So i've been bored and uncreative. I've been reading non-fiction and other such informative typed things. Heres something I found Link-hopping in wikipedia and thought I'd post it cause it was interesting:
The Sogdian language is an extinct Middle Iranian language that was spoken in Sogdiana (Zarafshan River Valley), located in modern day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (chief cities: Samarkand, Panjakent, Fergana).
Sogdian is one of the most important Middle Iranian languages with a large literary corpus, standing next to Middle Persian and Parthian. The language belongs to the Northeastern branch of Iranian languages. No evidence of an earlier version of the language (*Old Sogdian) have been found, although the mention of the area in Old Persian inscriptions means that a separate and recognisable Sogdiana existed since at least the Achaemenid era (ca. 550-323 BCE). Sogdian possesses a more conservative grammar and morphology than Middle Persian.
The economic and political importance of the language guaranteed its survival in the first few centuries after the conquest of Sogdiana by the Muslims in the early eighth century CE. The fact that the earliest texts of Modern Persian have been written in the territory of Sogdiana under the patronage of Samanid Kings means that many Sogdian words have entered Modern Persian as well. Only a dialect of Sogdian, called Yaghnobi language, has survived into the 21st century and is spoken by the mountain dwellers of the Yaghnob valley.
The Sogdian language is an extinct Middle Iranian language that was spoken in Sogdiana (Zarafshan River Valley), located in modern day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (chief cities: Samarkand, Panjakent, Fergana).
Sogdian is one of the most important Middle Iranian languages with a large literary corpus, standing next to Middle Persian and Parthian. The language belongs to the Northeastern branch of Iranian languages. No evidence of an earlier version of the language (*Old Sogdian) have been found, although the mention of the area in Old Persian inscriptions means that a separate and recognisable Sogdiana existed since at least the Achaemenid era (ca. 550-323 BCE). Sogdian possesses a more conservative grammar and morphology than Middle Persian.
The economic and political importance of the language guaranteed its survival in the first few centuries after the conquest of Sogdiana by the Muslims in the early eighth century CE. The fact that the earliest texts of Modern Persian have been written in the territory of Sogdiana under the patronage of Samanid Kings means that many Sogdian words have entered Modern Persian as well. Only a dialect of Sogdian, called Yaghnobi language, has survived into the 21st century and is spoken by the mountain dwellers of the Yaghnob valley.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes.
Am I wrong, or could we make sign language the universal verbage [sic] without millions of barriers?
Wouldn't this cut down on the capital punishment in countries where they cut your hands off...or the crime. either way, win win. What do you guys think?
Wouldn't this cut down on the capital punishment in countries where they cut your hands off...or the crime. either way, win win. What do you guys think?
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