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12.19.2008

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12.19.2008

@ Mom: Here are the photos. Yes, others can read this. Teresa says, "Thank you" for the pens.

@ everyone: My Mom can't figure out email attachments, hence this post.

She ends her text messages with "love mom" as if I didn't know who the message was from . . .

I love you too, mom! =X!
Your son.

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12.11.2008

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08.04.2008

We just had an impromptu meeting. Apparently a bright young star in Customer Service had a great idea to raise the spirits around this place. Nora went on about how this exciting contest is going to boost our morale.

The contest: Make a paper air plane and whoever's stays in the air the longest wins.

Okay, seriously. Wtf?

Nora asked us who wanted to participate and who did not. . .even saying, "Whoever wants to participate in the contest raise their hand and who ever does not raise their hand," in the same fucking breath.

Someone said, "We're too busy to do that, aren't we?"

To which I replied, "Well, we all have the time to stand around discussing how busy we are, don't we?"

Back at my desk, everyone, but me, was still discussing the pros and cons of participation.

"I want to participate," Elva stated and then added, "But I don't know how to make paper air planes. Could we get someone to teach us?"

Bothered that they were still actually talking about this, "I think a better idea would be to make paper ships with employee's names on them. It would be interesting to see whose sinks first."

Nora ignored me.
Marian pretended not to hear.
Elva asked how to make them.

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05.07.2008

"I think he's played by Denzel Washington or at least I think he is . . . you know, the good looking one?" Karen was saying to someone, as I walked passed them to sit down at my desk.

"The good looking one? Are you saying there is someone that you might confuse with Denzel that is ugly?” I interrupted.

She stumbled, "You know what I mean, the good looking one."

"No, I really don't."

And I really didn't know what Karen meant. I couldn't think of any actor that could be confused with Denzel.

If she had been talking about how the part was played by a Baldwin brother and then said, the good looking one, I still probably wouldn't know who it was, but at least I wouldn't be clueless.

However, she wasn't talking about a Baldwin brother and I don't think I was the one that was actually clueless.

As far as I know, Denzel doesn't have a brother, and if he does, he isn't an actor that I know of, let alone "in the spotlight", often enough, to be confused with the good looking one.

Karen started listing off movies he'd been in. She gets to "Driving Miss Daisy" and I stopped her and said, "Morgan Freeman? He's the one you're talking about? He looks nothing like Denzel, not to mention their extreme age difference."

"Oh! I have to go to lunch!"

That's how she exited the conversation, not that it was going anywhere.

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04.15.2008

"You left off your race," Karen said to someone on the phone, a person seeking to become a Notary Public in Florida. She continued as I passed by her desk, "Your application was marked as incomplete and has been mailed back to you."

I sat down in my cube.

I poked around on the Florida state website, looking for something, anything. All I ended up was verifying that the application does indeed ask for your race, specifically on page 75 in the Governor's Reference Manual for Notaries and also on the application itself.

I saw the inviting "Email Us" underneath the name change form on the Department of State's site.

I sent off two emails, one to the Secretary of State of Florida, Kurt S. Browning and the second to the Governor of Florida, Charlie Crist. They mostly read the same with a few changes to the Governor's.

Dear Governor Charlie Crist et al,

I was navigating the state division's website and I seem to be having a difficult time locating the form I am looking for. I am able to locate the name change form easily enough, but can't seem to find the race change form.

I have contacted the National Notary Association, as well, but in not so many words, they think I am making some sort of joke.

Here is the situation, I had originally put down that I was black on the application form, I would like to now have that officially changed to white.

I was wondering if anyone there could help me go about facilitating the process to get this taken care of.

If you could direct me to the form I would need to fill out or, perhaps, who I would need to contact, in order to rectify this matter, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you sincerely for your time,

J. Smith

No response, as of this post, but I'm sure they are both really busy guys.

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