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Dear coworkers,

No. No no no no no.

Now is NOT the time to come running to me with your whining because you personally can't get online. I have three things to get done by lunchtime, all with folks coming up to me every five minutes to make comments on, and I do NOT have time for some piddly ass thing when you haven't rebooted your computer and no one else is having that problem.

Also, when my boss, who is the person who can relieve me on the phones, is out? Stop calling me! Stop calling to ask questions! I can't answer your internal call and outside calls at the same time!

*deep breath*

Ranting needed so I wouldn't strangle coworkers.

ETA: Would they all please understand that I prepare proposals ALL THE TIME and changing the basic format that is approved by management and generally makes the document look crappy and cramped and hard to read...there's a REASON I'm telling them no? Don't argue with me about cover pages! It needs a cover page!

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Oh yeah, I'd forgotten, but...

Reasons why I love Dale Earnhardt Jr.

1. (About his dad's death) "You'll never forget shit like that. It's not surreal. It's real as hell. Some memories in life have to be pieced together when you think about them. Not that one. That's one that's right there [at the front of your mind]."

2. (About Ken Schrader and what he saw post-accident when he got to Senior's car) "We haven't sat down -- and I don't want to, ever, really, want to get into specifics with him," Junior said. "Maybe one day when I'm a lot older, a lot wiser, a lot more responsible with that information, I'll be able to sit down and talk to him about it, if he wants to."

3. (About his dad's name usage) "Sometimes when his name is brought up, like when NASCAR pulls the Dale Earnhardt card for the drivers not showing up [at the banquet in New York], that pisses me off," Earnhardt Jr. said. "I just don't think that's cool. The man's passed away, and he's not there for you to use to your advantage. If people want to name grandstands after him, or roads, shit like that's kind of cool. But anything you relate him to what's happening in this sport today it bothers me a little bit."

4. "I don't think a lot of people really understand how much I care about them," Junior said. "Like, I had this little thing I wrote about him several years ago on NASCAR.COM, and when I read it to him he was like, 'Wow, I had no idea that's the way you felt.' And I'm like, 'Well, dang, man, you can't see it on my face? Every day when I look at you, you don't know that's how I feel?' I guess I don't really express myself vocally and let people really know how I feel about them, so a lot of times they're in the dark."

5. "When I was young, damn was I different from him," Junior said. "It was important for people to know that. People wanted me to be a certain way. I was nervous they'd be disappointed. But they weren't. They were like, 'Man, that's awesome. He just cool and normal.' That means a lot to me. If my fans didn't get it I might go play charades like everybody else, just to entertain myself. But they got it, and I don't have to be anybody else."

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Happy moment o' squee.

( Cut for Olympics spoilers, cause in a way I'm pissed that they put this in a headline on CNN.com, but on the other hand, I'd have missed it if they hadn't. )