ask_everybody misstree okay, darlin's, i need some serious help. there is one thing in the world that sets my teeth seriously on edge. that thing is karaoke. i've implemented various plans to get the others in this cubicle farm to finally shut their yaps (we can listen to music at our desks), from talking to a supervisor for one who was particularly nasal and off-key, to distributing little fliers with the "non" circleslash thing with karaoke in the center, and then "please be considerate" in the middle. i put one on every person's desk, my own included, as my purpose was to request and remind rather than attack. that worked really well. now there's only one person who still sings. and she's in the cubicle right across from mine. i'll refrain from ranting about why it drives me so insane, because it would turn into an evil hateful screaming vent, and i'm not quite at that point right now. but my problem is, she keeps doing it. and she's a really nice person, she's always got a smile for everyone, so i don't want to be mean about it, and with the way this office gossips i need it to remain anonymous. so, short of sending her a web-based email, anyone have any ideas? (note: if this doesn't end soon, nice person or not, i'm going to lunge over these plastic walls and shove my company pen into her fucking larynx.) 031009 ... misstree seriously. this is your chance to prevent murder. henry_rollins is the only reason she is alive at this moment. 031010 ... neesh headphones, simple really 031010 ... User24 start playing slayer at max volume, she'll get the idea that not everyone loves the same music types. 031010 ... misstree except that she's loud enough that she comes through over my headphones. and i don't always want to listen to music. or have these things on my head making my ears hurt. 031010 ... misstree it's not the type of music, because we all wear headphones so i don't ever hear more than a whisper of it, it's the fact that she sings allllllll day. 031010 ... everybody i don't see what's wrong with the email. 031010 ... almost everybody you could start singing. she'll feel threatened and be all "you're not stealing my thunder!" so she'll jack up the intensity, you'll do the same, she'll try some qawalli-style singing, you'll combine operatic control with scatting and lyrics about satanic kittens, and she'll ultimately be silenced by your superiority. or you could get all faux-flirty to the extreme and tell her that her singing really turns you on. 031010 ... misstree she's a jehova's witness. and i like my job. otherwise, i think my absolute mastery of not being able to hit a note with a sledgehammer would work to my advantage. 031010 ... . . 031010 ... ferret hmmmm. tell her you'll buy a bible if she stops singing. ;) 031010 ... pobodys nerfect I have another idea,but it involves the use of a lie and is mean. Sort of a last resort kinda thing,so you probably wouldn't want to use it. But I guess that depends on your morals involving honesty and level of desire to make her stop. =) 031011 ... lc You could always sprinkle some dust onto her desk when she's not around. Once she gets back moving stuff around will stir up the dust and make her throat dry, perhaps even start a cough. people generaly don't do much singing with a sore throat. Yeah it's mean, but so am I 031011 ... misstree my morals involving honesty are pretty tight, but creatively twisting the truth is all good. but being outright mean to her is something i'm trying to avoid. do they still sell sneezing powder? 031012 ... silentbob youre like me. you're too nice. There comes a time when people who annoy me.. just .. stop staying on my good side and i let my angry asshole out. just ask her to stop. in a nice way. and if she fails, ask her in a more annoyed way if she keeps doing it, she deserves to be treated badly. 031012 ... ferret you know what i think? i think you should eat her headphones 031012 ... on to the Next Question ok I had a strange dream last night, I mean it all seemed to make relative sence untill, well I was in the woods or some such and I look around and I see spiders webs w/ spiders in them, their all in various trees, and while theirs a lot of them (theirs even one web wear two spiders are shareing it) I don't really get the sence or being surounded or being in trouble, any way that I could of handled w/ out question, but the strange part is that, oh how the heck to I explain this properly? ok you know how spiders have 8 legs, well each and every spider I saw was useing 4 of their legs to make an EyE, or at least what rezimbulled an eye, and when I saw it it automaticly made me think "The Third Eye" you know the one in the middle or your forhead symballizeing ultament knowlege, understanding and becomeing one w/ the universe, yea that one, in my dream this is aparently quite important, but I havent the faintest clue as to what it could mean! I mean spiders useing their legs to make the symball for the 3rd eye! thats more then a bit odd!! so I'm asking that if any of you even have the -slightest- inkling or guess as to what this means -please- answer this question for help! 040220 ... misstree i am the sux0r with dream interpretation (why would god need a blow_job?) but that's a creepy little piece of aleatoric_concinnity and i was specifically told to watch my dreams last night. 040220 ... meh... wow... i had to work with a JW once... she kept bringing me issues ot "the watchtower", which i found to be not only wholly inappropriate, but completely offensive. i think people can do whatever they like - believe whatever they like, say what they like; hell, even treat people however they like... but when it comes down to it, at work, keep your fucking business out of mine. religion is sacred and personal to those who've decided to live by one. it's not for sale. and it's not for me. if i'm paid to do my job, i shouldn't have to be subject to cult-ure. i'll choose mine on my own time... 040220 ... once again A question for everybody... once upon a time I happened uopn a blather about going to see a jackson pollock exhibit and getting too drunk and how life was a beautiful mess and now I cannot find it any where... Have you seen it? 040221 ... ill never tell does anyone love me? i really really really need to think so. tell me yes? 040226 ... . please? 040226 ... Death of a Rose sure, i'll love you. think i've got enough for everyone. 040226 ... ghostly presence will you still love me while i'm being a sentimental idiot? while i'm absolutely unfit for human consumption? while i just want to be by myself but i want to be held so very much? i don't need it to be true, but i need to convince myself it is. 040226 ... Death of a Rose but of course, that is when you make me feel loved, by turning to me for comfort and sanctuary. 040226 ... gray shimmers it hurts to turn to another but that hurt is nothing as long as i can curl up in you for a little while. (sanctuary--you do know what i seek.) i'll be better soon. i promise. but for now, thank_you. i can't tell you how much even anonymous ether hugs and love really do mean to me. 040226 ... Death of a Rose anytime.........all the time 040226 ... Piso Mojado google advanced search pulls up nothing like that for jackson pollock. maybe a different artist? 040226 ... Piso Mojado that was for once again 040226 ... once again Yeah I dunno I spent hours looking... I really loved that piece. I'm not even sure it was here anymore, but I don't think I would have imagined the blue... o well 040227 ... Piso Mojado well, post if you ever find it- you've got my curiosity stoked now. 040301 ... maybe http://blather.newdream.net/cgi-bin/blather?refs;word=pollock ? 040302 what's it to you? who go blather from