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Here are some things I did today:

-- Read the latest Chronicle of Philanthropy cover to cover
-- Distilled six articles into bullet points
-- Read two back issues of Chicago Magazine
-- Skimmed a forty-page report on giving techniques for two nonexistent bar graphs
-- Found substitute bar graphs
-- Tracked down five slackers and made them tell me what sandwiches they wanted
-- Placed a twenty-person catering order for Friday (flirted the caterer into agreeing to my chosen delivery slot)
-- Shepherded half my team to get their low-cost flu shots in the basement
-- Made a macro about search terms using a squirrel and spammed the team with it

I think I've either written or read all the words today. I mean, in what other job do you use the words "muffaletta", "injection", "boolean", and "philanthropy" all in the course of seven hours?

Don't get me wrong, I love my job, but I'm definitely earning my salary on days like today.

Comments

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're settling in nicely. Any advice on that, I start a job monday and I'm pretty much FREAKING out. I hate the awkward early days of a job.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I was freaking out my first day too, even though I've been here for three years :) You'll do fine! GOOD LUCK!

[caffienekitty]

Any job involving research/productivity-enhancing squirrel macros is a good job indeed.

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

I *highly* approve of squirrel macros.

Also, I have no idea what a muffaletta is. To Google!

(go go gadget Google? Up, up, and Google-away? To the Googlemobile?)

(fun fact: my downstairs neighbors are listening to opera on their huge speakers. I approve a lot. Particularly considering the last music I heard blasting today was terrible soft-country covers of pop songs.)

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

Damn it, Starbuck, now I want to bake bread and I can't do that tomorrow because it is the busiest of days for me!

(as you can see, I'm back from Google. Because it was Googlin' time. Google SMASH! I have the Google! With great Googling comes great responsibility. Truth, justice, and the Googlin' way! Google...google...GOOGLECATS! GO!)

(I COULD GO ON.)

I must really not want to do my problem set.

[nakki.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha, omg you are clearly in the same mindset I am in right now =D I have a midterm and a pset and an essay due tomorrow and I am ALL OF THE PROCRASTINATING! (May the Google be with you! Once upon a google... oh no, now youʻve got me started!)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL! I hope you got some sleep too...

[shadowturquoise.livejournal.com]

Squirrel macro??? I want! Please elaborate.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It was this image:

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lti6krgPdC1r3l3x8o1_500.jpg

Captioned "BOOLEAN SEARCH! NOOOO!"

[kallaneboi.livejournal.com]

I'm just gonna leave this here without comment.

http://knottahooker.tumblr.com/post/11911898025/spinninglibrarian-boolean-logic-mother-nature

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, muffaletta. And also, is "squirrel" a tech term or did you really involve a squirrel in some way? If it's the latter...kewl!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, it was an actual squirrel:

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lti6krgPdC1r3l3x8o1_500.jpg

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! It's Disco!Squirrel. ::adores:: Is this macro available for viewing? (I was originally thinking you meant one of those F8 macro command things, and I couldn't figure out how the frilly heck you managed to involve a squirrel. ::facepalm::)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh LOL!

I'd rather not, the macro involves using the name of the company :)

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Totally understandable.

muffalettas and squirrels, oh, my^^

[twillery.livejournal.com]

A muffaletta is a wonderful sandwich on a huge round roll involving all sorts of cold cuts and possibly olive salad of some sort? They can usually be cut up and eaten by four people, or more if you're not too chintzy with the slices, there's plates--yep, I've seen 'em small/medium pizza size? I didn't realize they made them outside New Orleans?...ooh, was there a po-boy option, too? If so, Chicago may become a second home for expatriate New Orleanians!^^ (if it's not *already*, that is?)

Re: muffalettas and squirrels, oh, my^^

[(Anonymous)]

I just wiki-d that and the pictures look incredible. So tasty. Why has this not made its way to the UK yet?!

Re: muffalettas and squirrels, oh, my^^

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I can't guarantee it's a GOOD muffaletta, but in general the concept seems to have caught on in Chicago. We do have a ton of little mom and pop places that sell po-boys, but you have to kind of search them out.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

I am familiar with all of these words, but cannot give an offhand definition of 'muffaletta' - it's either a garment, a piece of furniture, or possibly some kind of military thing? I must go look this up!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I think you're thinking of mufti. :D And possibly tuffetts.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

I think I was thinking of Terry Pratchett -- it certainly sounds like a General's name, so it should have a garment or a food named after it. :D

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Muffalette = Discworld equivalent to Lafayette, yes? Born in the small Borogravian town of Aubergine, wounded in the Battle Of The Brandywine (a "foraging" raid gone awry when Zlobenian troopers turned up at the distillery), where he (or "he") was discovered by General Froc and promoted, yes?

I, uh. May have read Monstrous Regiment a few too many times. (But that's impossible!)

[firynze.livejournal.com]

...you can make squirrel macros as part of your job? Damn. I'm jealous. Also, muffaletta!

[imagines.livejournal.com]

flirted the caterer into agreeing to my chosen delivery slot

I would like your skills, man. o_O