Can someone help me gather wood for my cross?

[xraytheenforcer]

Dear fucking gods, it's the company holiday party today. At 3pm. In the office. 'Cos nothing says "party atmosphere" like the middle of the afternoon on the 9th floor of a midtown Manhattan office building, even if Ayn Rand was once a tenant*.

At least Saveur is catering the event. Now I'll just have to explain to their editor-in-chief why I still haven't written any articles for them. :| Maybe I'll just hide in the photo studio for the duration.

*No, really. That crazy termagant was once employed on the same floor that currently is destroying my will to live (at least while the damned party is going on).

Comments

[after-nightfall.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I'd say hide in the studio until everyone's drunk, then come out and take incriminating photos.

[peadarog.livejournal.com]

That crazy termagant was once employed on the same floor that currently is destroying my will to live

So... her will is the stronger?

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

No, as I am pretty sure that holiday parties would have destroyed her faster than they would destroy me.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I am having a difficult time imagining what kinds of incriminating photos I could take without being nauseated at the same time. :x

[regina-of-york.livejournal.com]

Hey, anyone who can survive a baby shower stone cold sober can handle any office party. You can do this!



Does it make you feel better if I tell you our holiday office party involves going to my CBL's house on our own time? ;-P

[after-nightfall.livejournal.com]

Now that is cruel AND unusual! Take a dragon with you and burn her shrubbery, I say!

[regina-of-york.livejournal.com]

You have NO idea how perfect this plan is! It just so happens that they spent insane amounts on the landscape this year.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

that is heinous.

[knightofredempt.livejournal.com]

Ah! but after this, Hell will be a breeze.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

hahaha Now THAT'S truth!

[isis-newton.livejournal.com]

company holiday party

I keep staring at these words but I still cannot make sense of them. Hide somewhere with a book.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I think I will claim too much work. Or just make an appearance for 10 minutes and then go back to my job.

[the-corbie.livejournal.com]

3pm, in the office? Blimey. Not a great party.

Office parties are a sensitive topic for me at the moment. More anon.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I think the party would have sucked no matter where it was held, tbh. I am simply uninterested in partying with my coworkers.

[zoeiona.livejournal.com]

In the office???? That is cruel and unusual. I hope you survive...

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, in this economic climate... ;-)

[sage-brush.livejournal.com]

Get drunk and try to convince everyone that you're a good dancer.

Seriously, Ayn Rand? I've been seriously considering reading 'Atlas Shrugged' to fill some curiosity. The same curiosity that makes me read Drudge.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

can't drink anymore due to herman the headmeat alien. :(

I will convince everyone else to act like fools and mock them soundly afterward.

[sage-brush.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I don't think you should actually do that. I'm thinking if Seinfeld. I like the idea of mocking your co-workers better :)

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

That's gives me an idea, actually. Feats of Strength!

[sage-brush.livejournal.com]

YES!

[skylarkthered.livejournal.com]

3pm. On Wed. Almost as far from the holidays as you can get and still be in December. Are they trying to save money by cancelling the party next year due to "lack of interest?" Or does the person that's in charge of planning the party just hate all of you and thus went for the least fun time possible?

I say you get astonishingly "drunk" (no actual alcohol needed) very quickly and go home for the rest of the day to sleep it off on their time. :p

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I love the way you think!

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

Your life is like blood season 10 of Friends.


Uncanny.

[bazzlebane.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember our horrid attempts at daytime, in-office holiday parties during the cost-cutting years at my old job. They were embarrasing for all involved. By there mere existence.

[schwarzbrille.livejournal.com]

Oooh Ayn Rand. Did she graffiti "A is A" anywhere on the walls? :3

/fangirl

[daveax.livejournal.com]

I hope you saw the review a few weeks back in The New Yorker of the two recent Ayn Rand biographies...you would be pleased, methinks.