how we are sabotaging ourselves today?

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 6:49 am

Basically, if I'm not done with the Renaissance by Saturday, I'm going to throw myself off my terrace.

taz · Post by **taz** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 6:52 am

So I can only choose one? Guess it would have to be the drink first, which causes the sex with people you shouldn't have it with...but that's half the fun

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 7:47 am

I don't have to read Rabelais, but I should be working very very hard, writing checks and posting tax deposits and working on the quarterly taxes and mailing the freaking payroll...

but here I am. I'd like to be reading Rabelais--he's pretty funny if I remember right. Don't jump off the terrace, Miss B A. Your dog ate your homework! (I actually used that excuse once).

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 7:59 am

No, I'm sorry, but Rabelais sucks. I know it's supposed to be so incredible that he mixes humanist thought with scatological humor, but do we really need a whole chapter of Gargantua telling his father about all the different things he wiped his ass with? It's making me anticipate reviewing Voltaire (now, there's a guy who could mix up his philosophy with his toilet humor) that much more. At this rate, I won't get to him before August.

Eight stories...would that hurt much?

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:18 am

Miss BA - it seems that you are due a wonderful evening that involves a nice dinner, good wine, great sex with a fabulous man, and then you can come back to the board and tell us all about it.

Ooops. That uses all the things you mentioned above.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:57 am

I love the choices. Would like to vote for #4, but I can't really call that sabotage. In my case, am blowing off work to be here, because I'm pissed at my boss and feel he owes me the time.

Signed,

Keeping-her-sabots-to-herself Mug

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:51 am

Well, it's the message board that I am once again using to sabotage myself. This is not only because I hate my boss, but also because I hate the company that owns my company.

Yesterday, we laid off ANOTHER 65 people. I survived this one, so that is a total of FOUR visits by the axe man where I've come out of alive. Chalk it up to my good looks and charm, my articulate ego, and my ability to travel long distances in a professional effort to secure new business. But, then again, they laid off people that have been working here since the Paleozoic.

If the knew I was jack-wadding on an Elvis Costello message board all morning, they'd shit. If they knew what I was saying, they'd shit. If they had a clue about how my working for them has destroyed my home life, they'd laugh, and ask me what the Hell any of that has to do with getting the shareholders a fair return...

Well, fuck the shareholders. It's an investment, there are no gaurantees. So what if our stock went from 187 dollars to 87 cents in the Fall of 2000? We've got a jillion happy customers, and while we might get bought out, we can never just shut these folks down and go out of business. We are profitable! It's the company that owns us sucking us dry of every penny we make. Why can't we stand alone?

Unless one of my buddies needs help, I'm not doing a goddamn thing today but mowing my grass. Next week, it's off to again to Arkansas...

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:59 am

Miss B A, maybe he's just funnier in english. I did have to say a very Rabelaisian picture came into my mind when Jackson Doofster wrote about laying slabs in the garden. I envy you the Voltaire--wish I could read it en francais. PBS got me hooked on him when I was in high school.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:10 am

The thing is.....I'm addicted to using the phrase "Rabelaisian" to describe my mundane lifestyle.

Oh, and I'm sabotaging myself this morning by fucking around on the internet rather than shopping at Kroger's for windex, paper towels and toilet paper like my punk ass is supposed to be.

idle hands · Post by **idle hands** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:16 am

Rabelais' "Gargantua" and Montaigne's "Essais" doesn't sound so bad when compared to having to prepare a contract for a client and send it to my boss for his aproval, or design a claims adjustor's database, or giving specifications to a programmer... all of which I should be doing, but clearly not.

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:51 am

if you can tell me which people i should be having sex with, i could vote for that one.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 12:11 pm

Soon, you'll be reading Candide and feeling much beter. See, nothing to fear in this best of all possible worlds.

taz · Post by **taz** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 1:42 pm

Poppet wrote:if you can tell me which people i should be having sex with, i could vote for that one.

Well, if you don't mind nude-sleepwalking....

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 2:56 pm

pffffffft

you're too embarrassing. off a balcony? ewwww.

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 4:49 pm

Three people with drinks in their hands... what is this? Don't you people work?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 6:16 pm

Lots of students of Rabelais out there. I was the only person to vote in my category...

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:01 pm

I'm voting for food. I wore a shirt (instead of scrubs) to my new job, and it don't fit. Arse. Scrubs are reassuringly baggy.

DrJ

sulkygirl · Post by **sulkygirl** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:50 pm

Okay, I didn't have time to post earlier, voted for the "Drink" thing, but actually, am having mixed emotions about the other choices...

with the drink: Not quite yet, about 45 minutes from now...then, Look Out!!

with the food: nah, if I drink enough, I'm not very hungry

having sex with people we shouldn't: ***sigh***, not in a very, very long time

not having sex with people we should: Another ***sigh***...hubby's out of town until Friday.

playing on the ec message board when we should be reading Rabelais' "Gargantua" and Montaigne's "Essais": Okay, know nothing about the writer's mentioned, just call me illeterate!

That beer is REALLY starting to sound GOOD...

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:01 pm

No beer, just rum and diet coke here.

Cheers, by the way, sulky!

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:23 pm

the winner is food. I made a chicken stir fry, heavy on the curry paste, over basmati rice and then I ate way too much of it.

I've had one vodka tonic.

No sex since Sunday - and that was with the wife (I would think she falls squarely in the "should" catagory).

I ain't gonna read no books in French. It would be pointless.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:52 am

El Vez wrote:The thing is.....I'm addicted to using the phrase "Rabelaisian" to describe my mundane lifestyle.

I'm not sure I understand why you do that, since all of his characters seem to be philosophizing giants whose kingdoms are under attack. Unless you spend five pages wiping your ass with various animals to see which one works best.

Noise: I can't wait for Candide. I feel like I won't get there for another two hundred years...

Copenhagen Fan · Post by **Copenhagen Fan** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:30 am

I prefer the term "medicating" to sabotage.

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 7:44 am

Candide is all of Voltaire I've ever read, and it is quite enjoyable. It's also a surprisingly easy read. Let's all read it together...

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 8:42 am

I'm in.

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:46 pm

A real connundrum this one.......

I am indeed always playing on the message board, but usually this is at the expense of earning the money that pays for me to buy the drink.... that renders me unable to have sex with the person I should......... that leads me to comfort eat....that leads me to get too full to have sex with the women I shouldn't...

I'll skip the Rabelais than...never have liked Sweet French Wine......

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