Your 2011 NCAA Women's Basketball Champions!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Congratulations Coach Blair and the amazing Lady Aggies!! What a fabulous game. We had to watch it late last night on DVR (and stay off the internet!). Danielle Adams is an all-around super-athlete. Sydney Colson is a beast handling a basketball. All of the girls are such talents. Fun to watch!
OK, so, I finally asked Lauren what Lady GaGa is saying in "Born This Way"- "...Me llamo... what?"
Lauren: No, it's 'Mi amore' something... means 'love needs faith.'
Online consensus is it's "Mi amore vole fe, yah!" Which they think is some sort of mix of Italian and Latin. And a 'yah' for good measure.
Until someone is sure what she is saying and what language it is, I'm sticking with "Me llamo Revolefeyah."
The old corporate campus was turned into generic office space years ago. Lots of interesting little businesses there in our old offices! I showed Lauren around yesterday when we had an appointment, regaling her with many work tales from 17 years ago. I told her about walking the parking lot at lunch with Ina when we were both pregnant. Showed her the surprisingly pretty smoking area you had to visit on occasion to chat with certain coworkers who sort of lived there all day, the receptionist's area which used to be very high security but is now empty, the train tracks, the old break room, the office where one of our QA folks had a seizure while I was talking to her (scary!), the Data Entry room, the picnic tables... everything!
She mostly texted. She likes my A&M stories better. Stories of my work days don't include bonfires and nuclear reactors.
I was dying to show her the bathroom where I spent the first half of my pregnancy throwing up, but I let it go.
Back in the day, the data analysts were in cubicles in a big room. That room had two individual offices in it, which housed me and the other senior analyst. Very nice digs. I had a whole wall of windows, floor to ceiling! I couldn't get in there yesterday, but here is my glorious view, taken from the adjoining hall (my office is on the other side of the left wall):
The building is built into a hill, and this is the second story, at the back. It wasn't actually that bad if you stepped into the room, and especially from my desk. Just look up and you'd see...
So pretty! The tree was big then, but not that big. Memories!! I really loved it there. The people were so awesome. Not a one of them is still with the company.
Bit of trivia- Doug worked at the company after I left, while neither of us even knew the other lived in Austin. Hmm!
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