Ugh, JZ, that sucks, and I shake my fist in your boss's direction for you.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Dec 12, 2005 3:34:15 pm PST #1455 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Consuela - Dec 12, 2005 3:35:57 pm PST #1456 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, JZ, I'm so sorry. That's so wrong of your boss. She should at least buy you dinner or something to make up for it.
JZ - Dec 12, 2005 3:40:33 pm PST #1457 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I should note that this isn't my good boss whom I adore, this is just the division admin supervisor who signs things and shit. I mean, I probably should have emphasized to her when I dropped all the forms off that I really needed this money ASAP, but... dammit, why should I have even? Shouldn't "get the money to the person who earned it ASAP" be the default setting, not the special circumstance that warrants a heads-up?
It just feels like I'm going to spend the entire rest of my life trying to pay down stupid debts and carving away one small pleasure after another trying to do it, and in the end I'm just going to be dead anyway and the debt will outlive me by decades. I'm so sick of feeling guilty every time I buy a goddamn cup of coffee.
sumi - Dec 12, 2005 3:40:37 pm PST #1458 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Best money I spent?
Currently, I'm thinking it was the money I spent for my orthotics. . .
Lee - Dec 12, 2005 3:42:35 pm PST #1459 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Shouldn't "get the money to the person who earned it ASAP" be the default setting, not the special circumstance that warrants a heads-up?
You would think, especially this time of year. I would complain to GoodBoss.
Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2005 3:55:20 pm PST #1460 of 10002
brillig
the debt will outlive me by decades
Not having kids, the thought of creditors fruitlessly howling at my funeral gives me twisted joy. You can have my money when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
amych - Dec 12, 2005 4:01:40 pm PST #1461 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
JZ, love, all my sympathies -- and know that it does (painfully slowly and sometimes almost imperceptibly, but really truly does) get better as you keep chipping away at it. Money worries? Biggest suck I know. But you'll make it.
JZ - Dec 12, 2005 4:02:17 pm PST #1462 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Not having kids, the thought of creditors fruitlessly howling at my funeral gives me twisted joy.
Lucky. (Step-)Having one and hoping for another, that thought fills me with suffocating dread.
Also, I'm so tired of having this exact same flip-out every single month. This month, I fucked myself over by buying two pairs of shoes, three sweaters and some new tights, practically the first new stuff since the wedding 19 months ago. I feel so gigantically incompetent, that I'm living so close to the edge that three sweaters puts me over a barrel, and so guilty about possibly fucking up Hec and Emmett too.
At least I have their Christmas presents already, paid for free and clear and with real money, not credit, so there's that.
aurelia - Dec 12, 2005 4:04:23 pm PST #1463 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm still waiting for a design fee I should've received Nov 18.
§ ita § - Dec 12, 2005 4:04:33 pm PST #1464 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You'll also need to outlive the hubby, won't you, Connie?