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rooting for a dead woman
Tuesday, December 20 2016
The IT group at The Organization is a good environment for me. We're all broadly compatible politically, religiously (that is, a-religiously), morally, and even, for the most part, comically. It's not perfect; one guy is a bit of an asskisser by nature, and the new guy on the team is into The Organization's cause to the exclusion of all other concerns, which I find mildly annoying. But who would've thought I'd be working with some someone like Ca, who has exactly the same sense of humor as me? The humor between us sometimes eludes the others on the team and can be delightfully multi-layered, paying homage to and mocking other forms of humor in the same terse sentences. A good example of the kind of humor we both enjoy was a classic article from The Onion that Ca posted today in the it_random channel of Slack. It was called "It's Only Tuesday."
Meanwhile, on Jeopardy, tonight Gretchen and I watched Cindy Stowell's winning streak take her winnings over $100,000. We'd known that she had died of cancer before any of her appearances had aired, and there was something compelling about watching (and rooting for) a dead woman.
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