Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On

I once worked for a local North Carolina State University (ahem) and worked in a basement office, much like I do now. My boss was a woman who was mildly insane and/or obsessive compulsive. She would print every email 3 times. One for her desk, one for the file and one just in case. Her office was floor to ceiling shit she would lose over and over again and then blame me for everything that went wrong. I stayed for a year and a half and then took a lateral transfer at the same exact pay to the dean of engineering's office.


It was a little bit worse. rather than be stuck in the basement in the corner, all alone with my then napster and funradio.fr obsession, I was now in a cube farm surrounded by overachieving women in their late 40s who liked to clip coupons and talk recipes. There was one girl who was my age (at the time I was around 25) who was from Johnson county, had an accent so thick I could barely understand her, and three kids already. I spent my time playing neopets and listening to BBC1 streaming online (both of which are blocked at my new job, for probably the best reasons) and trying to email funny things to Mark and Lard. (I got on the show twice! hoorah!)

The point here is, when this song came out in summer of 2001, I was working in the dean's office and doing what I needed to do and had time to spare. I wasn't allowed to wear headphones, so I had my speakers as low as I could stand it. The ladies in the office always had to make some comment when they walked past about what they heard. One day this song comes on and the girl my age leans across my counter and says "Gawd you listen to the strangest stuff. What is she saying?" and she stand there for a while and then says, "Get your free cone? Like a free cone of ice cream?" and I said yes. Yes it is.


This song makes me think of how much I hated that job and when I got laid off because of budget crap, I was so very happy.