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I have been a less than perfectly attentive blogger this week thanks to an unfortunate meeting with an SUV on Hwy 35. Thank you everyone for your prayers and concern

Things I'm learning from working In Dallas

• The comic strip "Dilbert" gets more amusing the longer you work at an office
  
• Copy machines are like willful children
  
• Co-workers are also like willful children
  
• While its OK to push ahead when exiting an airplane you have to wait for everyone in front of you when exiting a bus. (this gets old real quick let me tell you!)
  
• It is NOT normal for older male co-workers to hang around your desk and sometimes its considered sexual harassment (go figure).
  
• Sometimes homeless people pee on the street in front of your building.
  
• Sometimes homeless people eat out of trashcans in front of you
• You still shouldn't give them money (this is so hard for me!)
  
• Never wear heels when you have to walk four blocks in the middle of summer in the city in Texas
  
• There is always unhealthy food to be had in the break room if you want it.
  
• Elevators hate me
• Stairwells are scary
  
• Cubicles are soul crushing
• But office supplies are fun! (so are pay checks)
• Two bedroom apartments down town cost $400,000 (and those are the ugly ones)
• If you ride the bus you are a middle-aged, over-weight, white woman or poor. --I have yet to see an urban hipster, obvious tree-hugger, or business executive ---TV is misleading us!
• There are more kinds of paper than you could ever imagine! Cardstock, hole punched, color paper (not to be confused with colored paper), recycled etc.....

I am so thankful to have a job, I really am.

What did you learn at your first real job?

Weekend update with Gwen.

VROOOM ERK, VROOM ERK, VROOM ERK......If you live I'm my neighborhood I'm sorry. I finally got a car. And its a standard. All day yesterday I drove up and down the driveway trying to develop a loving relationship with the clutch.......HA!
Its fun though, learning new things is amazing and its added some much needed excitement to my otherwise uninteresting summer existence.
So my weekend consisted of:
*Driving practice (of course)
*Titanic the musical
*Indian Yoga
*Reading (Robert Heinlein....yes that's science fiction....:)
*Trying to make my tortoise, Rosyvelt, eat!!
and *shopping for yummy GF products!
Even my boring life is pretty interesting.....why do I feel so deprived?