Hobo Law #42
Sorry I'm a bit late today, folks - lots of stuff going on over here at Hobo HQ. I haven't even had a chance to return the shoes yet! Nothing as bad as having no power or internet and having to strap on the snowshoes to club seals for food or anything...
Just work. You know how you just sort of get stuck in a rut, when you keep your head down so much that you find yourself forgetting how to look up again? Yeah, it's almost to that point, and I'm not sure that's what I want to do with my life. You're supposed to enjoy what you do, right?
On the plus side, I've got a new gig takin' snaps of people and things here at work. One of the quirks of working for a large company (8000+) is that you usually have some sort of newsletter or something, so all of the employees across the globe have a way to keep track of what's going on in other places.
So to counter the ennui I've been feeling at work, I volunteered to be a photographer/reporter for our company newsletter. I was official last Friday, and they threw me headfirst into the thick of things by assigning me to take a group portrait. Of 90 freakin' people! TODAY! I think the largest number of people I've ever managed to squeeze in a shot is 10, and those were all family, and I could yell at them to stand up straight, move to the left, stop giving Grandma a noogie, etc.
It was a little daunting, but I told my "Lester the Interrupting Cow" joke before I started, and then things seemed to go just fine.
Hobo Law #42: When in doubt, act like a dork!
Apparently it's very disarming.
Submitted by
angstmama
at 12/12/2006 11:36:04 PM- that's one of my five year old son's favorite jokes.
Submitted by
Val
at 12/13/2006 11:18:52 AM- I LOVE that joke. :) Yay for taking photos and being paid to do it!
Submitted by
Carroll
at 12/13/2006 12:49:28 PM- Ok, fine! So I googled the interrupting cow joke. Funny. As is the interrupting starfish joke, I might add.
(All caught up with the pop culture references here for now :)
Submitted by
the devil
at 12/13/2006 3:21:58 PM- me: knock, knock.
you: who's there?
me: control freak.
me: now you say 'control freak who'.
Dammit, we've been checking in all day! Tell us the joke!!