I know I complain a lot about how boring and brain-shrinkingly awful my job is, but I think this is a new level of sadness.
The window nearest to my cube (but not visible from my desk) looks out onto the back driveway of my building. This is where the dumpster is located. Here is the sad part: The people in the aisle next to the window get all aflutter when the trash truck arrives to empty the dumpster. For true. I hear comments on the contents of the dumpster; how full the dumpster is; if the dumpster is fully emptied...oy. I suppose I could look at it as those people making the best of a bad situation, and are trying to find entertainment anywhere they can, but mostly I feel sad that the people I work with are so enamored of trash.
image found at http://www.roydoty.com/ via google image search.
A couple of weeks ago, JR sent me a link to an article about the use of apple cider vinegar as a weight-loss tool. As I am using valuable company time/resources to write this, and not my netbook, I do not have the link to the study. Nutshell: 175 obese Japanese men drank either no vinegar in 500mL, 15mL in 500mL of water, or 30mL in 500mL of water after breakfast and dinner for 12 weeks. Clarification: they drank one cup (250mL) of the mixture twice a day. The selling point for me (and others, I am sure)? Diet was not changed. That's right, folks. The study saw reduction of waist circumference by drinking a vinegar mixture twice a day.
Since JR is all knocked-up, we thought it wouldn't be a good idea to be doing science to her and the parasite, so I volunteered to drink vinegar for science. Today was day one. I'm doing my best to adhere to the study guidelines, but I'm sure there will be slight variations. If I remember, when I get home tonight, I will find the link to the study and include it. I measured my waist circumference this AM, and then drank down my 250mL of vinegar/water after having breakfast. I should say this: I usually don't eat breakfast, so I'm already changing things. I may end up bring the mix to work and downing it after lunch instead. And if you were wondering, vinegar in water isn't the tastiest of libations, but it isn't the worst thing ever. Anyway, 250mL of water is easy enough to chug right down.
Other random info: I am trying yet again for a different position at my work. One thing I may have on my side is that the person doing the interviewing used my as her bitch for a while, and also hand-selected me (like fruit) to fill in as the DE supervisor back when the Princess was out being all insurance fraudulent or whatever. I should have an interview set up by the end of the week. Annoyingly enough, the girl who got the last position I applied for is applying for this one. I may have to hate her if she does it to me again. What? No, I don't think she is just the better person for the job. Pfft. What are you thinking?
That sucker up there was lunch yesterday at the Renaissance Faire, in Lancaster PA. It was delicious. We also watched a human chess match and some bawdy comedy (because that's all they had in Ye Olde Tymes, right?), had random people accost us in the streets, and got heartburn trying this Mount Hope wine. It was unbelieveably harsh. Wooo-eee! Good thing I only had a taste. BB tried the Swashbuckler Red Sea Amber. I tried a taste, but it wasn't really to my liking. The cinnamon almonds, however, yum. Oh, and funnel cake. What? It's a faire.
