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March 4, 2007
step into my office baby
so just before the start of the weekend i had my annual performance review - and is it weird to anybody else that this happens in march? i suppose - for whatever reason the company has deemed it necessary to wait until the first quarter draws to a close to decide if they are going to pay out bonuses and make any salary adjustments. not that i'm complaining - most companies pay out bonuses in the fourth quarter in the dead of winter and people no doubt spend their excess cash on wool socks and piping hot apple cider.
and if i can say here, i don't really care for apple cider all that much. in fact, the appeal of apple by-products eludes me. for the most part. i would love an apple computer. or an all expenses paid trip to the big apple. but you can keep your apple pies and your apple butters and your applebees. anyway. as a result of my peformance review i am in fact getting a noticeable raise as well as an obscene bonus. it is important to note that anything over $50 is considered by me to be an obscene amount of money. and so now the question becomes how best to allocate these funds.
i should confess that i'm a pretty boring guy financially so i'll most likely put the bulk of my bonus into savings - even though i still have this gigantic house that is completely unfurnished and i still sleep on an air mattress. but more than this i could always use even more musical equipment that can sit in a corner and stagnate along with my creativity - or that aforementioned apple computer that i've been yearning for even though i really have zero need for it. perhaps i'll devote the whole bonus to the engagement ring fund because hey - you never know.
i've been told that the very idea of an engagement ring fund is abhorrent and completely anti-romantic which i don't really understand. is it more romantic to go into debt for the one you love? maybe it's the idea of starting such a fund when one is not even remotely close to being entangled in anything resembling a romance. but it's never a bad idea to save up for a rainy day. what you think that should read sunny day? well feel free to change it yourself. i'm happy with the way it reads.
also - it should be noted that those of you who are in a panic about my aforementioned musical stagnation - now that i've stopped going out every single nite of the week i have returned to the guitar and...well - nothing's really happened yet but it's only a matter of time before the next award winning track is written for the forthcoming myth of cyphillis release. so. please stay tuned.
| By young_christopher | 2:39 PM
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Posted by: Nick at March 12, 2007 2:46 PM