In the mail
May. 18th, 2004 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeYesterday, I got two real letters! My aunt in Seattle again dreams of moving to Mexico, and my sister sent a magazine interview with Joss Whedon.
Today, however, there was only one piece of mail, and it was a junk mail for R's business. However, I'm laughing out loud and wondering how I'm going to keep from buying a bunch of this stuff. It's inexpensive too. On the cover: "Motivational Posters Don't Work. But Our Demotivational Posters Don't Work Even Better." And then we see a beautiful framed lithograph of a man gazing from a mountaintop onto a sea of clouds, with the caption: "PROCRASTINATION: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now." Others include:
A picture of the Great Pyramids, labelled, "ACHIEVEMENT: You can do anything you set your mind to when you have the vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor."
A picture of a salmon leaping upstream into the waiting mouth of a grizzly bear, labelled, "AMBITION: The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly."
A picture of a handshake, labelled, "CONSULTING: If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem." (There you go,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
keyboard_monkey.)
They also have post-it-style notepads, 5x7 "desktopper" pictures, a calendar, etc. Their on-line catalog is at www.despair.com.
What a riot.
Today, however, there was only one piece of mail, and it was a junk mail for R's business. However, I'm laughing out loud and wondering how I'm going to keep from buying a bunch of this stuff. It's inexpensive too. On the cover: "Motivational Posters Don't Work. But Our Demotivational Posters Don't Work Even Better." And then we see a beautiful framed lithograph of a man gazing from a mountaintop onto a sea of clouds, with the caption: "PROCRASTINATION: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now." Others include:
A picture of the Great Pyramids, labelled, "ACHIEVEMENT: You can do anything you set your mind to when you have the vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor."
A picture of a salmon leaping upstream into the waiting mouth of a grizzly bear, labelled, "AMBITION: The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly."
A picture of a handshake, labelled, "CONSULTING: If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem." (There you go,
keyboard_monkey.)They also have post-it-style notepads, 5x7 "desktopper" pictures, a calendar, etc. Their on-line catalog is at www.despair.com.
What a riot.