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June 18, 2008
It's getting late is a permanent state
My semi-annual emergency-customer-feature alpha-release behind-schedule Sunday-night-code-freeze self-pitying why-don't-somebody-please-destroy-the-tech-industry so-that-I-can-be-a-fireman musical self-pity exhaustion headache blues post.
Not available on YouTube.
We move so fast today
Nothing stands in our way
We're free to act
And forced to pay
Have power over people
Understand the subtlety of body language
One up in every situation
The dumb magician
Sees behind the scenes
The strings attached to all things
This gets me that
The dumb magician
The only way out is up
The only way out is up
He might say if you were to hear him speak
That the secret of revenge is to turn the other cheek
You go away and think about it all week
Dumb magician
We move so fast today
Nothing stands in our way
We're free to act
And forced to pay
Try so hard to get your foot in the door
Get what you ask for and nothing more
It's getting late is a permanent state
The dumb magician
Sees behind the scenes
The strings attached to all things
This gets me that
The dumb magician
The only way out is up
The only way out is up
The only way out is up
The only way out is up
The only way out is up
The only way out is up
The only way out is up...
Last time I felt this bad about my job was mid-August 2005, but I was soon distracted.
Posted by ray at June 18, 2008 8:15 PM | Permalink
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Comments
Sorry it's been suckin at the job. I think I can say "I feel ya", a bit.
Hope it gets better for you, again, soon. (Minus the cataclysmic distraction part.)
Posted by: oyster at June 18, 2008 9:07 PM
Here's hoping this time around it's resolved in a more targeted way with less impact on major urban areas.
Not that you're not worth leveling cities for or anything.
Posted by: Karl Elvis at June 18, 2008 9:08 PM
why-don't-somebody-please-destroy-the-tech-industry
Pssst... EMP. Got one?
Posted by: Darkneuro at June 18, 2008 10:49 PM
Grind it out, man. I was ready to quit many times, but my NY State job was so boring that I couldn't do without it. I actually have some neurons that fire after 35 years of blithering bureaucracy. Reading Kafka helps some.
Posted by: Marco at June 20, 2008 7:32 AM
Ray, you in the wrong occupation, or with the wrong employer? These bursts come with territory, you must know. Nuthing so bursty as life in the FD, though.
Posted by: Peris at June 22, 2008 2:27 PM
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