As the Polygon Turns: On the First Friday after the First Tuesday of Each Month (Episode 4)

...there is a fun run @0630 and a hall party with beer @ 1500. What can be wrong with working here?

Please, don't think we don't do seriouis business here on the J5 staff -- I am not ALLOWED to tell you about the serious business that we do here. It seems that these people know how to mix it up a little. So...

Dah-dah-dah! I got my badge. Freedom! I can rove about at will. Who's Will?

That used to be a funny joke when I worked with a Will. We'd say, "Fire at Will!" And someone would say, why? What did he do this time?" Which was funny because, had you but known Will Chambers, you would know that he hadn't ever done ANYthing; which is to say that he was among the most boring people you have ever met. I don't mean that in a bad way- he just was a pretty non-woo-hoo blameless creature.

So, what was I SAYing??? Can you tell I have had 2 beers and am riding a bus on a Friday afternoon, getting carpal tunnel of the thumbs while pecking at my Crackberry and holding a stiff right forearm to keep the sleeping dude on my right from falling in my lap?

Whew. Breathe. Stop requested. Damn, that means we have to stop.

So yeah, the anti-climax of the day was that I got my badge to access the building and get into spaces like a Big Girl. It just occurred to me that maybe only my parents know the full and true meaning of the term "Big Girl." So let me tell you, it goes back over 30 years ago when I was newly potty trained and I was so proud of that fact that I would apply the analogy of my underpants to what I saw asa any other noteworthy achievement for a toddler. I would boast, "well, I wear Big Girl ponties." Yes, I actually had the gumption to pretsnsify the word panties into ponties. Funny. So, yeah. Now I wear Big Girl Ponties at the Pentagon. And I had two beers in the D ring on a Friday afternoon and there is a pudgy Indian man falling asleep on my shoulder.

What's next?

Did I mention that I didn't make the Fun Run this morning? I made it to the beer drinking in the D ring, though -- is that what the "D" stands for?

[written 05 SEP @ around 5PM, my last official at of the day]