Still nothing, Emily.

mmmmmmm...popcorn!

Would you like some? It's the homestyle kind--butter and salt. Yummy.

Actuallly, I could bring in the rocking chair that's at my parents'. That's comfy. And, it rocks. Actually, if I did that and we brought out the leather chair from your room, that would actually give us more seating than the papasan does.

(Does the papasan belong to you? Do you deeply love it?)

Yes! Popcorn! I'd make some, but I can't eat a whole bag.

Nothing in that room is mine (although a case could be made for the table) except my computer chair. I have no feelings for the papasan. The only factors in the papasan's favor are poverty and laziness.

Vent alert:

Ever done something where you thought you deserved all kinds of praise and appreciation and got the reverse? That just happened to me. Well, it's not quite so bad as that--I just accidentally created problems with the best of good intentions.

Last night I noticed that an organization I volunteer with still listed an upcoming meeting's location on the website as TBA, so I pointed that out on our yahoo group, because I'm trying to get a new person I just met involved, and I wanted to be able to send her the URL with all the info. So the new info got put up--only when I checked it this morning, I noticed a problem. We're meeting at a church, but the directions were to another church a few blocks away with a similar name. So I mentioned that on the list, too. S, our resident geek, said, "Shit, you're right," and the info was fixed.

So I was expecting a certain amount of, "Yay, Susan! Good catch! Wouldn't it have been awful if some new person trying to attend her first meeting had gone to the wrong church and found no one there? We're so glad to have a detail-oriented freak like you in the group."

Instead I get an email from L, one of the board members, CC'ed to S, saying that our webmistress turned in her resignation because she was upset and embarrassed that we handled it in public. (Apparently there have been other incidents she felt like were handled unkindly in the past, not involving S or me, and this was just the straw that broke the camel's back.) I sent the webmistress an email saying I was sorry, hadn't known the protocol, and had been acting with the best of intentions trying to make sure the correct info was posted as quickly as possible. But I'm feeling pissed off and indignant myself, because I really can't see how anyone could've read my intentions as anything but, "We need to fix this asap for the good of the group."

Got it, Emily.

Hmmmmmm...

Sorry...That was at Emily. Surprise, surprise.

{{{Susan}}} I'm so sorry. That sounds like an icky situation.

Well, you can't control feelings, so she can certainly feel angry and hurt. However, you CAN control actions, and resigning seems awfully drama-queeny. I would have contacted you after the first Yahoo posting and said "Thanks for the head's-up. Next time, please give it to me privately and I'll fix it for ya." Taking action before finding out your intentions (last straw or not) is not helpful behavior.

Yeah, and the multiple cc's? It's All About Her Drama. Anyway, I'm sorry, Susan, that sucks.

Oh my god I'm so hungry. And sleepy.