did you know that

if you turn on a few monitors, look grumpy, people will think you are really busy? Yes boys and girls tis true. I like 40 % of Austin work in the Tech industry. This has not been a dot.com kinda week- you know, the drinking at lunch, playing fooseball at 3pm, having fun, and laughing at the world. This has been a "working in the coal mine" kind of week. Working too much and not having any fun. So I am done. I am pretending to work. Y'all know you have done it before. You are the master minimalizer of Amazon.Com, you can download music at the speed of light (thank you for our T3 connection), and still manage to look like you are working when a fellow minion walks by.

Take today for example. My good computer got the Blue Screen of Death yesterday. In the process fried Pinky, the iPod. So I am supposed to be working on my new machine. Instead, I pawned it off to a very helpful tech support guy, loaded up a few spreadsheets on my other visible machine, and am now blogging till my heart is content.

My assistant, god bless her size 4 soul is filing for me, my work partner is fielding client calls and I am sitting her in almost office dark. My soul is starting to sing with Peace.

What did people do before computers? I mean, seriously? What were deadlines like? I cant imagine life without the incessant blipping of the damn envelope in the right hand corner of my screen screams "YOU HAVE FUCKING MAIL YOU LAZY SONOFABITCH".. then my boss will send an email two minutes later asking me if I read the previous email.

I wish I worked in the days when you could smoke in your office, take 15 zillion coffee breaks, and get chased around the office by your boss- ok, I am blending the Movie 9-5 in this fantasy,but you get the idea.

Or maybe I just want to be a housefrau. That could be fun.