(3) Upon arriving at work, my sort-of-boss-co-worker (not Chatty, and not Incompetent) immediately started slagging on how bad the layout looks. The layout that I've done the same way -- the way SHE taught me when I started working here -- FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS!

Oh, I hate this one. Every month it seems one of the folks who were on the Design Committee asks why we do something or other on our site the way we do. The answer is in two parts: a) because we've been doing it that way for two years now, ever since b) you told us to do it that way.

Ugh, Tep. What an ass-head. She may not be Chatty, but are you sure she's not Incompetent?

Also, your cold and Nora's should just go pound on each other and leave you two alone.

Also also, Nora's work needs to suck less. The only thing it has going for it right now is that she doesn't have a boss like Kate P's expecting to be groomed, and really, both Nora and Kate deserve so much better from any jobs lucky enough to be had by them.

Okay, Teppy. I figured as much when I was reading your post. I hope your day gets better. My word.

Don't think of yourself as having a hole in your pants. You are stealthily mooning all the asshats at your office.

Unique want-ad spelling in the Mankato Freecycle group on Yahoo:

Wanted: Dehymudifer

My first thought was "Doesn't the sun do that?"

I have taken allergy medicine. This cracked me up. That is all.

Don't think of yourself as having a hole in your pants. You are stealthily mooning all the asshats at your office.

This too.

Everything is funnier with medication. It's like being drunk without the hangover.

Don't think of yourself as having a hole in your pants. You are stealthily mooning all the asshats at your office.

Sound advice.

A propos of nothing.... Nora, I'll get you that recipe when I remember to get the cookbook from BF's place this weekend.

Life is crazy hectic, and I feel like I haven't really been home in over a week, even though I sleep in my bed every night. Fortunately this week and next look less busy, so maybe I can actually get stuff done.

I'm loving the secretly mooning the asshats thing. Tres funny.

gronklies

{{Nora}}

I like it that Steph planned to moon her office asshats! t rumor starting

Echidnia names? Hmm. Sidney? Indy?

May the heavens rain steaming lumps of dung upon Teppy's cow-irker.

I want to hear Nick's band. Sounds like they're pretty damn cool. Bless Nick, with being 'The Sexy One' and having to stick his arse out.

In mememe news, my interview seemed to go well. The guy who was supposed to see me had left the country, because his father had just died/was dying - fair enough. Can't expect someone to remember all their appointments at a time like that.

I hung around patiently for 2 hours and his boss saw me for 5 minutes or so. His boss seemed fairly impressed (in a totally shallow, not-reading-my-portfolio kind of way) and asked his colleague to see me. The colleague, who does make recruitment decisions, was very positive. He said that he was "99% sure he could offer me a job" and asked me to meet his son and help them with the books they were ordering. He told me he'd call today at noon. He asked me to come along to the meeting he's having on Sunday with the 3 of my colleagues whom he has offered jobs.

He didn't phone yet.

It's half past five.

AAAAAAAAAARRRGH.

Did I mention that he kept my portfolio? Because he didn't have the chance to read it when I was there, and he wanted to check it out overnight, or something, which I hadn't at all expected, but I said okay. Nervously, I added that I was entrusting him with my actual certificates, which are in my portfolio, but I said okay.

And now he's not phoned me yet to confirm his all-but job offer. Argh.

What a bitch, Teppy.

Don't beat yourself up so much about having to ask for a little help. It's ok. It's what we're here for.

Well, I'm more concerned over whether my little mini-breakdown showed up on another forum, where I don't have the same long history as I do here. I posted something before going to the game along the lines of, "That last post was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but I'm not sure how well it came across--humor is a tough thing to manage on the internet, and probably shouldn't even be attempted while on the first day of a diet with a cranky toddler in the room." No one responded, and I can't tell if that's because A) the main person involved in the discussion hasn't been back to the computer yet, B) no one thinks it was a big deal and can't imagine why I felt the need to explain like that, or C) they think I am crazy and are running as far away as possible.

And I'm trying to decide what it means that the last two times I let myself get hungrier than I ought, it completely wrecked my ability to respond properly to the ordinary stresses of life. Well, other than meaning I probably ought to keep a Luna bar in my purse, since the first time it happened because I was out running errands that took much longer than expected. Like, is it a precursor to diabetes, or am I kidding myself that it's all about food and I need to go back to the therapist, or what.