Quote of the Day: 2/26/09
My writing teacher to me as I do charades in class:
“…I don’t do gang signals.”
-Dr. Gorski
Quote of the Day: 2/17/09
In Astronomy class, the teacher talked about how Albert Einstein wrote six papers in one year, one of them winning a Nobel Prize.
Said with disdain:
“It’s like, I wonder which Harry Potter character Einstein would be…”
-Penelope
Back to work!
Sorry I’ve been bad about posting in the recent days. It’s been a crazy busy week. As an apology, I wanted to pass along another photo I took at work. It’s amazing in oh so many ways…
Yes, this picture frame exists, and yes, this is the photo my boss thought appropriate to put inside it. I can die happy now.
A little add on…
So I quoted a scene from CSI: Miami on 1/10/09 in which Horatio Caine had 4 minutes to ditch a car with a bomb in it. In case you’re interested, I found the scene in question on Youtube. Enjoy!
Quote of the Day: 2/5/09
Looking through an old box of odds and ends:
“This was a high quality cocaine tray!”
-Allan
Quote of the Day: 2/4/09
In Astronomy class:
Penelope: “I just want to learn the order of the planets. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Earth…”
Me: “Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars…”
Penelope: “Saturn?”
Me: “Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto the dwarf planet.”
Penelope: “Well I got about four out of eight.”
Introducing My Boss
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well then I’ve got five thousand words here for you! (excluding the nine I used on that stupid saying.)
For those of you who don’t know, I work as an intern for an eccentric independent music supervisor, Allan Mason. I snapped these photos today while he was out walking his dog (affectionately named “Little Guy”) because I think the state of his downtown LA loft encompasses completely his personality…
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You may not guess it from these pictures, but my boss’ organizational system is complex to say the least. There are about 20 different sections to file (Mail Logged In, Incoming Mail, Allan’s Pix, Allan’s Desk, Allan’s Table, etc) that I know of. I think there must be at least ten others I have not yet figured out in my one and a half year tenure as an intern. No one understands it all except Allan himself, and he is incredibly forgetful.
All this leads to hundreds of “important” notes Allan has taped around his loft.** I spent a few minutes looking around at them today and was highly amused at what Allan has dubbed “vital” enough to be taped to his desk and every other apartment surface.
Some are useful reminders, (“Work out!” labels of different CD sections, phone numbers, etc.) some are odd reminders, (different types of hipsters and which categories his employees fall into, Spanish/Korean translations of words like “happy,” “beauty,” and “come here!”) and some are just plain odd (“Lipitor-google it”).
But among the random business cards, blonde jokes, and catch-phrases, (“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!”) my two personal favorite notes of Allan’s are his homemade translations of Gen Y speak. Here they are:
I hope you find these as hilarious as I do. Even if you don’t know Allan personally (very few people do, he’s a hermit) I feel like everyone can name at least one middle-aged/old person who tries to keep up with the current “hip lingo.” Not many of these people leave such comical proof though…
**All of the following are actual notes Allan has written.
