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Odd Socializing
Feb. 6th, 2007 09:49 pmYesterday the alarm went off at work. It's a good alarm--loud, urgent. You really don't want to hang around.
We know the drill. 1. Log out of the mainframe. 2. Lock the computer. 3. Grab your purse or wallet. 4. Get out already; can't you hear that noise?
We all meet at the same building, a couple of buildings away. On the way, I saw someone from my winter league team. I didn't recognize him at first out of context, but he recognized me.
We just hung around talking until everyone in front of us started heading back in. I never heard anything about whether it was a drill, false alarm, or real alarm.
My boss missed the whole thing, being at a meeting. Later he asked where I had gotten this cake I was eating. I told him who to go wish a happy birthday to. I explained that you miss vital information like this when you don't go to the important office events--if he would have attended the fire drill, he would have known about this birthday.
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A certain one of my LiveJournal friends (don't worry, you don't know her--unless you are her) has been having a lot of disappearing entries lately. One of them explained the problem--she's getting paranoid about us weirdos she doesn't quite know. So I assume she is deleting the entries or locking them up more tightly after one of us does something creepy.
One of the disappearing entries was a meme asking a bunch of questions about what we are like--I would totally have answered those questions. Not scary questions at all. Things like what would you do if you were stuck on an elevator (probably pull out a book--after I'd looked for emergency buttons or whatever) and what would you do if you had one day to live (write a will--or try to figure out how to escape my killer).
We know the drill. 1. Log out of the mainframe. 2. Lock the computer. 3. Grab your purse or wallet. 4. Get out already; can't you hear that noise?
We all meet at the same building, a couple of buildings away. On the way, I saw someone from my winter league team. I didn't recognize him at first out of context, but he recognized me.
We just hung around talking until everyone in front of us started heading back in. I never heard anything about whether it was a drill, false alarm, or real alarm.
My boss missed the whole thing, being at a meeting. Later he asked where I had gotten this cake I was eating. I told him who to go wish a happy birthday to. I explained that you miss vital information like this when you don't go to the important office events--if he would have attended the fire drill, he would have known about this birthday.
**
A certain one of my LiveJournal friends (don't worry, you don't know her--unless you are her) has been having a lot of disappearing entries lately. One of them explained the problem--she's getting paranoid about us weirdos she doesn't quite know. So I assume she is deleting the entries or locking them up more tightly after one of us does something creepy.
One of the disappearing entries was a meme asking a bunch of questions about what we are like--I would totally have answered those questions. Not scary questions at all. Things like what would you do if you were stuck on an elevator (probably pull out a book--after I'd looked for emergency buttons or whatever) and what would you do if you had one day to live (write a will--or try to figure out how to escape my killer).