No, this is not a bunny. I'll get to that in a second. Just felt like putting Mr. Reznor up here and mentioning if you'd like to hear two songs off the new album you can check out the NIN myspace page. If you do some searching, you can find a place to download My Violent Heart. I usually listen to it a couple of times a day.
The new album is part of a grander concept that includes several webpages (anotherversionofthetruth.com is just one...click and drag over it for a really cool and disturbing reveal), clues on tour t-shirts, flash drives left in bathrooms, and a huge story line involving a giant government conspiracy. Right up my alley.
Back to the bunnies, last night I was at a friend's house with her family hanging out. I usually bring over a DVD to watch, but my kid friendly selection is rather limited; we've watched Ghostbusters many, many times. Cherrill mentioned she'd heard myself and her brother Jim talking about Monty Python and the Holy Grail a few times and she'd never seen it. I skimmed through it and there wasn't any nudity and only a couple of bad words so I figured we were good. I knew the boys would like the knights and stuff. I also knew a lot of the humor would be over their heads, but they would get the sillier moments.
Here's what happened. They loved the bit where the King hacks the arms and legs off the knight and yet he still lives. They loved Sir Lancelot's over the top carnage. The one bit that made the youngest kids upset was my favorite part. Killer rabbit attack!!!! It's okay for the knight to hack up an entire wedding party, but a bunny (and a fake puppet bunny at that) flies around going after the necks of knights and we get tears and stomping out of the room. Kids are nuts.
At our managers' meeting this past week, we got our yearly self evaluations handed out. I freaking hate these things. My job does not change from year to year. Open the box, take out the books, put them away. Reverse that for the returns process. I never have "personal goals" to write down. Although, I have been tempted to mark down goals like "not hitting management with my car" or "setting fire to fixtures for which we have no room."
Our store manager and community relations gal were the only two that admitted they love doing these eval's. Fearless leader got all Masterpiece Theater on us when he said he liked to take an hour or two each month and go up to his loft/library and reflect on how he had done over the last thirty days. Sort of his own little eval. I told Laura that I immediately had two thoughts when he said this...one, these personal eval's aren't working very well and two, self evaluation...is that what the kids are calling it these days.
As usual, I will wait till the day or two before it is due to write mine out. Anyone have some useable business catch phrases I could write down? I think I'll have an Office DVD marathon to get me inspired.
WATCH IT:
Amazing Race starts tonight!!!! I hope the exceeded our fame couple of Rob and Amber (is that right, I never watched Survivor) go out early.
LISTEN TO IT:
Nine Inch Nails--My Violent Heart
READ IT:
I'm waiting till I finish the book till I tell you. But, I will say it is pretty darn snarky.
GO DUKE!!!
CBS is showing Ohio St./MN today in this part of the country so I'll have to wait till half time to see how the Blue Devils are doing. OH--the final appearance (atleast for now) of Chief Illiniwek (sp?) will be this Wed. if I remember correctly.
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