...and so it came to pass...
Jan. 13th, 2004 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morslaBloodied, but unbroken, I shake my payslip in defiance. Bane of Bureaucracy, Scourge of the Scarlet Tape, I scatter paperwork before me...
Phew. Although the back-payment won't happen until the end of the month, and a hefty chunk will be grabbed by the ATO, I should finally be getting paid for the past two months of work. Quite nice to know, as it means that I can pay my bills a little further into the year. If bureaucracy were a beast, I should like its head on a plate - an apple stuffed into each of its many mouths. However, I fear that there is no plate big enough...
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kikilon dropped by for dinner last night (I prefer "invented at" to "cooked for" as I think its a more accurate description), and I'll see tarleon et al for his game tonight. It should get me out of the house for a while, and provide another handy distraction from the Arcanacon preparation that's buzzing at the moment...
Phew. Although the back-payment won't happen until the end of the month, and a hefty chunk will be grabbed by the ATO, I should finally be getting paid for the past two months of work. Quite nice to know, as it means that I can pay my bills a little further into the year. If bureaucracy were a beast, I should like its head on a plate - an apple stuffed into each of its many mouths. However, I fear that there is no plate big enough...
'tis the season to catch up with friends, both old and new.
kikilon dropped by for dinner last night (I prefer "invented at" to "cooked for" as I think its a more accurate description), and I'll see tarleon et al for his game tonight. It should get me out of the house for a while, and provide another handy distraction from the Arcanacon preparation that's buzzing at the moment...
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Date: 2004-01-13 05:29 am (UTC)If there is no platter big enough, we shall carve one from the bklackened heart of our municipal system and serve the head stuffed with the bittersweet fruit of Promises Broken and Lies Upheld!
Hey, you can invent at me any time! =P And we'll have to find a time for me to return the favour, too.....
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Date: 2004-01-14 02:52 am (UTC)Now, where did I leave those platter-carving tools?