Back bearing. Gifts.
I’m just going to spew at you for a minute. That disappearance was a bit longer than I originally planned. Stuff just exploded into crazy. I had to go on a last minute trip to China for work. Tuesday morning staff meeting went something like this:
Boss: I need somebody to go on a last minute trip to China. Someone who is able to leave tonight, met the CP rep and knows the distribution laws over there, and remembers the brief on our new distributor banks that happened last week when Veron wasn’t here. Don’t volunteer if you’ve never visited this site, like Veron, or if you have any upcoming trips, like Veron, who is going to Hertford, England in like four days and is busy preparing for that trip.
Veron: *puts on her “I don’t even know what a CP rep is” face.*
Qualified Coworker: I can go. I know all the distribution laws, heard the brief, I’m already packed and can leave right now, and the CP rep is my mom’s boyfriend. I know Cantonese and Manderin. I learned both when I spent 10 years cultivating rice fields in Dazhai for my masters thesis which was entitled “Totally Qualified For This Trip”. In fact, I still live in China. I commute in every morning from Bangkok, which isn’t even in China, but Veron doesn’t know the difference.
Boss: Mmmmm, yeah that’s nice, but despite my already stating why she’s the worst possible person to go, I’m sending Veron.
Veron: WHA??!? No no no, see, look, I’m wearing my “please don’t send me to China” face.
Qualified Coworker: I completely agree. She is much more qualified than I am to go to China. Her England trip can be postponed even though its been put off for more than a month now.
Veron: Okay, wait, T for timeout -
Boss: Veron, shut up and go to China.
…Yep. So I got back from that craziness yesterday, spent the whole trip hopeless busy and hopelessy clueless, and I’m off to the UK on Thursday. So I figured, in this little interim, I’d just leak simly insanity all over the site.
My house still isn’t quite done, but my cats have been using their pee as a method of biological warfare, and my boyfriend evicted us the minute I came back. It is nice to have cable again though. I realized last week that a heavily dvr-ed routine of Animal Planet, Gordan Ramsey, Spongebob Squarepants, liberal news media, and general access to the internet, when encountered near daily, is more addicting than heroin. If I wasn’t busyoverdosing on the crystal meth of Sharon Shinn series, screaming “BUT WHY, STUPID?!” at her characters all that week, I might have succumbed to televinternisonet withdrawal and actually considered the boyfriend’s “seriously joking” suggestion to try and steal the neighbor’s wifi. Although, I will say, much like crystal meth, there is such a thing as too much Sharon Shinn. Her good books drive you to unhinged madness and her bad books are… just… awful. If I ever meet her in person I am going to deliver a swift helicopter kick to the back of her head. Or kiss her full on the mouth. I haven’t made up my mind. Honestly, both actions are equally likely and may happen simultaneously, proving only that I should lay off her novels for a while. And probably never meet her in person.
“Webbed cocooned erotic spiders” showed up NINE TIMES in searched engine terms this week. I love you all. Honorable mention goes to “invader zim bedsheets” , “red fart“, “thumb war lab“, and “loooooooook“. Schools need to start offering classes on how to do a proper web search. Despite my entertainment, this is ridiculous. I mean, invader zim and you click on me? For seriously? What the nuts is a red fart?
I’ve been blaming this insensibility on google, because wordpress doesn’t tell you which search engines lead the parade of WTF. But I’m finding that google ignores me, unless you specifically type AtC by Veron or, more recently, webbed cocooned erotic spiders. Any other time, google totally cockblocks me, and RIGHTLY SO because I have nothing to do with invader zim, or red farts, or erotic spiders for that matter. So something told me to check out yahoo, because… yahoo is just… the broken vacuum cleaner of search engines… I type in “invader zim bedsheets” because, WTF. GUESS who comes up as the NUMBER SEVEN result on the FIRST PAGE??!?!?! As a result of INVADER MOTHERFLIPPIN’ ZIM BEDSHEETS?! I’ll tell you. ReaperofHate on Deviant art. I know this because AtC comes up as NUMBER FRICKIN’ SIX. And frankly, I think that ReaperofHate should be number one. I mean, if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it like you mean it. Why not? Yahoo doesn’t care. Yahoo isn’t even trying.
But they aren’t being entirely brainless (although they are being purdy damn brainless). Turns out that GAYL (!!!!!) made a comment that mentioned invader zim bed sheets a few weeks back and apparently yahoo was just as thrilled about it as I was. Number 6. First page. Crazy. I’ll let you know when I figure out which one of you is behind ”thumb war lab”.
Real, live parapsychologists are commenting on my post where I call bullshit on parapsychology. I’m a bit frightened.
In this episode: Ten Years Prior: Part VII, (Ten Years Prior: Part VIII is sort of done depending on if I’ll feel like editing the pictures, so I may have something to update with later in the month), “Self Found” for those who follow the SWA Collab, AND Posing Without Pose Boxes III: Not Your Granddaddy’s Overlays. And uploading all that crap in one day sucked more ass than a fly at a horse show. Now I can allow myself to be shipped off to Britain as a sacrificial offering to the gods of adult novelty distribution. We must not anger them lest they rain down their deadly wrath of bad porn and latex allergies.
…Hmph. Look at that. I just realized why searching for “dildo” can lead you to this site. All of this has everything to do with the update. I will be in and out, around and about. Give me a sec with emails and comments and reading and breathing and everything. Actually, give me another two weeks. Fraps and I had a falling out so I’m not as pic heavy as I usually am… but still extraordinarily pic heavy. LINKAGE BELOW.



Hooray, you’re back! *happy dance*
Yikes. What a crazy, crazy story. I’m soooo glad I’m unemployed right now. Seriously… crazy. And that’s about all I have to say.
Well, that and… Bangkok’s in Thailand. Sorry
Will read as soon as I finish posting this update. AtC trumps Italian homework! Yaaaaay!
Van
September 16, 2009 at 2:06 am
“Bangkok’s in Thailand”
AND THAT IS WHY I WAS UNQUALIFIED TO GO!!!
Veron
September 16, 2009 at 2:10 am
The prettiness would definitely make the trip a little better, so that’s good to hear. Still, I hope your trip to England wasn’t pushed back too far.
Van
September 16, 2009 at 2:46 am
I woke up and realized “It’s my birthday!” Yeah, yeah, that’s it! Gotta be when people give me gifts I knew I wanted but didn’t ask for out loud cause that would be rude but wanted you to hear my hundreds of messages I had sent you by ESPN and obviously you got them cause here you are sweating and bleeding from the ridiculous amount of time it must of took you to do all this *breathes****twice*. THANKS SO MUCH! – JUST what I asked Santa to bring me! Giddy much?
Seriously, you made my day. Three times.
Kayvon
September 16, 2009 at 6:49 am
Happy Birthday!!! Merry Christmas?
Oh, and I heard you. Either I heard you or the voices in my head were a little louder today
Veron
September 16, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Yay, welcome back darlin’!
YOU ARE SO GOING TO MAKE ME LATE FOR WORK DSFDSGNDKSGN!!!!
Penelope
September 16, 2009 at 7:08 am
Many many tanks in your army.
Veron
September 16, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Oh and CONGRATS on the successful completion of Corinne!
Penelope
September 16, 2009 at 7:09 am
Yay! I still hate that skank though.
Veron
September 16, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Lol I wish I had a job that sent me overseas… Wait a minute! I just got a job, about a week ago, as a nanny. Lol and they are already talking about taking me to Switzerland… Yay me, Im so awesum… and Im not even qualified. Yay I have a job that sends me overseas. Ha so there all those people out there who told me to harden up and apply at macdonalds! Im going to switzerland. Sorry, Its vaguely on topic. Yay more story, becos you rock.
Jayd
September 16, 2009 at 10:58 am
You know, once the novelty wears off, and you realize that an office in New Jersey looks exactly the same as an office in England as an office in china as an office in any other part of the world, you kind of just want to stay home.
But, I would cause a blackout to go to Switzerland. SWITZERLAND! I have the jealousies.
Veron
September 16, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Na na na na na na. I love the jealousy.
Jayd
September 21, 2009 at 11:44 pm
You get all the cool stuff searches. I never get cool searches. I got ‘rhetoric’ and ‘genre’ and ‘online work from home’. nothing remotely interesting.
I’ve done the travel thing. After a while, one hot tub looks a lot like another one WAIT A MINUTE I didn’t say that I said hotel room. It does get old though, no matter how exotic the location might be.
Kitzbuhel is really beautiful though. Wouldn’t mind going back there.
You are always hysterically funny and it is so good to have you back!!!
S.B.
September 16, 2009 at 6:11 pm
I don’t know what it’s about, but what I find it so strange is that people actually click on me when they’re searching for nothing that has anything to do with me. Crazy town.
Hot tub, hahahahahahah!
Veron
September 17, 2009 at 10:51 am
Umm by the way Veron, you do realize that YOU’RE behind “thumb war lab”?
It was from that psychic vampirism post with the wrench and the hand gestures developed in a lab.
Penelope
September 17, 2009 at 9:27 am
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Veron
September 17, 2009 at 10:11 am
hehe so sorry about the invader zim reference…i guess it could have been worse…going to read your updates asap. please forgive the less than intelligent comments, i will make up for it when i can type with both hands…
gfitz
September 17, 2009 at 2:49 pm
OMGGGG VERON IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
::dances happily while looking slightly drunk due to exhaustion::
Seriously, I suck at responding. I saw this when it was first up and I could have been like, fifth commenter-er. But I was all “OMGGG GOTTA READ AND THEN CRASH” and I did.
And then I procrastinated because I wanted to say something INTELLIGENT. And it’s not working.
But SO glad you’re back. Seriously. missed you. <3 Two points for red fart. I'm googling it and clicking on you just for that
the_mctavishams
September 21, 2009 at 11:49 pm