The Injury List
Yusuke - bruised ribs (snowboarding)
Hiro - injured neck (snowboarding)
Risa - injured (fractured?) ankle (skateboarding)
Matt- re-injured knee (skiing)
Therese - broken arm (snowboarding)
Joytee - broken arm (snowboarding)
Brazillian-Guy-Who-Rented-My-Season-Pass-Cause-He-Looks-Like-Me - hurt knee (snowboarding)
Tatsuya - torn ligament (snowboarding)
All these people have stayed at the same hostel I am staying at. I'm fine. I think the season is over though, it's definately Spring and the snow is almost entirely gone. There's always a chance of more snow, though. I think I might need to look into moving on, but having income is nice. I'll probably stay until the end of September.
posted by upliftingsound at 12:15 AM
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Sorry I missed your call. I'm literally on the phone all day and didn't even hear mine beep.
If you aren't injured, you're not doing it right! Remember Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy? Now THAT was extreme skiing. Maybe you should try racing your van down the mountain road that leads up to your resort; kind of a reverse Pike's Peak deal. If you really try, you might end up with your own version of each of those injuries you listed.
Yeah, corporate America is making me a calloused bastard. I see so many people who honestly care and work their asses off get run over or ground down by corporate inefficiency that I wonder how big corps don't become big corpses. It's amazing. But the really frustrating part is the general lack of accountability. Years of service seems to matter more than quality of work. So idiots get rewarded with handsome salaries as they make HUGE mistakes and then move on to another position within the corpse to make another, while a bunch of folks die a little more every day trying to live with the results of the mistake.
OK, OK, so I'm jaded and cynical. (Or maybe my first cup of coffee didn't "take".) But I want to kick management's collective ass for allowing these things to take place.
We took Handsome to Grant's Farm last weekend. Remember that place? It's the glorified petting zoo run by Anheuser-Busch. How could anything be better than a free trainride through 300 acres or so of bison infested, mutated cross-breed ridden ("zeese" = zebra and geese) park, with pot-bellied pigs and evil looking goats at the back end along with FREE BEER? Hell, I'd be there just to pet the pigs and drink free beer. (Pigs optional) It's Utopia!
Moe slaps Larry while he sleeps: 'SLAP'
Moe- "Wake up and go to sleep!"
And in another classic exchange:
Larry, Moe and Curly step to the edge of the highrise preparing to jump to their deaths rather than get married. Curly pulls a pie from beneath his jacket and takes a big bite.
Moe- Whadd'ya doing eating that pie?
Curly- I wanna di-jest right!
You alive over there?
Muah! Hmphh! What? No, I wasn't sleeping. I was just resting my eyes. Still skiing. The season would be over but we just got a 40cm dump. I'm moving on soon though.
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