{"id":407,"date":"2010-03-20T22:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T03:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=407"},"modified":"2010-03-20T22:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T03:48:27","slug":"lay-off-my-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2010\/03\/lay-off-my-purse\/","title":{"rendered":"Lay-off My Purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>19 March 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I invited myself to join my co-workers in going out to lunch today. I usually don&#8217;t go with them when they head out for lunch because, for one thing, I&#8217;m too cheap to buy lunch at a restaurant (or the cafeteria) everyday. Second, I usually have stuff I want to take care of during my break &#8211; writing this blog, running errands, reading a book, doing my homework, stuff like that. But, today, I just felt like doing something social.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, so many people from my department went out to lunch together, that I joked that it was kind of like a department meeting. I was exaggerating, of course, but this has been quite the month for our department. Early in the month, one co-worker quit. Less than two weeks later, another co-worker quit. As of today, my department employs exactly 50% of the people that it employed when we were at our peak (14 from 28). And they&#8217;re gonna be announcing lay-offs soon, too, so it&#8217;s feasible the department could shrink even more. It&#8217;s feasible, actually, that I could be one of the people laid-off. So, stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20 March 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happy vernal equinox!<\/p>\n<p>Today, we went to Olive Garden for lunch. While there, I asked Jennifer if she had any hand lotion in her purse. She said she didn&#8217;t, and the following conversation ensued:<\/p>\n<p>ME: You have gotta have the most useless purse contents of any woman I&#8217;ve ever lived with.<\/p>\n<p>SHE: You&#8217;ve never lived with any other women.<\/p>\n<p>ME: Um&#8230;my sister, my mom, both my grandmothers &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>SHE: Well of course they&#8217;d have the same stuff you&#8217;d need in their purses.<\/p>\n<p>ME: What&#8217;s that supposed to mean?<\/p>\n<p>SHE: It means they all have OCD, just like you, so they carry all that stuff you always want.<\/p>\n<p>ME: Huh. That&#8217;s probably true.<\/p>\n<p>Man, the passion just never ends in our relationship.<\/p>\n<p>If men could carry purses, here are ten things I&#8217;d keep in my purse: my keys, my wallet, Advil, lip balm, hand lotion, a pen, a small notepad, a multi-purpose knife, a few tissues, a flask with some hard, hard liquor in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 March 2010 I invited myself to join my co-workers in going out to lunch today. I usually don&#8217;t go with them when they head out for lunch because, for one thing, I&#8217;m too cheap to buy lunch at a restaurant (or the cafeteria) everyday. Second, I usually have stuff I want to take care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}