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Because you can't spell party without "Arrr"

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So you missed my first annual pirate party... Well that is too bad. Here is a brief recap of what you missed. A scurvy lot... Of frightening bucaneers A minor mishap An experience filled with thrills and chills And the shots were heard for miles Water torture The dreaded rack Because nothing is more frightening than the fact that my friends care enough to dress up like pirates to tell me "Happy Birthday." Thanks guys!!!

The Accidental Graduate

Ok, so I admit I am a bit absent minded. During my time on this small planet, I have forgotten many things: maybe I neglected to put out the trash on Wednesday, perhaps it slipped my mind to tip my mailman this year for Christmas, but I will concede, I have never before forgotten my own graduation. Life is hectic. We give our day to day activities a sense of inflated importance. I am as guilty in this crime as any one else, however on Friday December 15, 2006 I had an epiphany. The day looked promising. The company I am currently doing contract work for was having a holiday party. Being that I was a contractor, I was exempted from this function, and so I had planned a day of lounging around in my unmentionables and watching reruns of Seinfeld. No such luck. At the last moment, I was contacted by a professor at the KU Medical Center to interview for a job I had never applied for. How could this have happened? Well, apparently he had been perusing the resumes that had been submitted for ...