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Nov. 24th, 2004 03:26 pmMuch to my chagrin, you (my friends list, that is) aren't keeping me amused enough today.
Oh yes, that's because you are all smart, and chose to go places and have lives today, and I chose to work. Silly me. (It will be so much worse on Friday.... *groan* Yes, I will be working on Friday too.)
I have, of course, had spotty levels of productivity today - how much can one really get done when there's no one in the office?
So this afternoon, I decided to clean out old files from one of our file cabinets. Our office will be moving some 2-3 moonths hence, therefore this is a task that needs to get done, and no one else in the department will probably do it. And I'm actually throwing out a ton of old stuff, so that's good. My "best" find? A curriculum on teaching about sexuality to the developmentally disabled from the late 70s that had a subtitle of "For the Teachable Retarded". I don't care what the actual content is, with a title like that you are automatically destined for the shred bin. It's amazing how much the acceptable language has changed in a couple of decades - that title looks shocking now, but then it would have been commonplace.
Oh yes, that's because you are all smart, and chose to go places and have lives today, and I chose to work. Silly me. (It will be so much worse on Friday.... *groan* Yes, I will be working on Friday too.)
I have, of course, had spotty levels of productivity today - how much can one really get done when there's no one in the office?
So this afternoon, I decided to clean out old files from one of our file cabinets. Our office will be moving some 2-3 moonths hence, therefore this is a task that needs to get done, and no one else in the department will probably do it. And I'm actually throwing out a ton of old stuff, so that's good. My "best" find? A curriculum on teaching about sexuality to the developmentally disabled from the late 70s that had a subtitle of "For the Teachable Retarded". I don't care what the actual content is, with a title like that you are automatically destined for the shred bin. It's amazing how much the acceptable language has changed in a couple of decades - that title looks shocking now, but then it would have been commonplace.
