Oh, and thanks, y'all. It's always been kind of crazy, but the last few months it's just been ugly, and I really need to find a way out.
Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
brenda m - Aug 04, 2006 4:43:41 pm PDT #7025 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
meara - Aug 04, 2006 4:47:25 pm PDT #7026 of 10001
Dear lord, I was coming in here to grump, but feel terrible having read Beep Me. Poor JZ and Hec, how stressful!!! But so very very glad that I first read the GOOD part of the story!
I was feeling ungrateful about the grumping anyway--apparently someone mysterious sent me a package (edit: at least, it had BETTER be for me!). Overnight delivery. Except whoever it was, sent it overnight to my HOUSE. Which, (a) I'm not at during the day anyway, and (b) I was in Florida.
Mostly I'm annoyed at UPS. They only deliver in the middle of the day, and only on weekdays? WTF? AND, my only option is to go pick up the package in LANDOVER (which is fucking far away)--and I have to do it between 8AM and 7PM on weekdays? How is this convenient at ALL???
Cashmere - Aug 04, 2006 4:52:13 pm PDT #7027 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Damn shame about the Pogo finals, though.
Yup.
I'm glad JZ is going to get the appropriate pampering and will be waited upon hand & foot.
Edited--That was meant for Press.
brenda m - Aug 04, 2006 5:02:14 pm PDT #7028 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
...and, I just knocked my beer over on to the couch and completely soaked my ass.
At least it wasn't the Fernet.
Cass - Aug 04, 2006 5:39:34 pm PDT #7029 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
It builds up. And it'll take a while for the inside to cool down to match the outside.Listen to Emily for lo she is brainy and stuff.
...and, I just knocked my beer over on to the couch and completely soaked my ass.brenda's a drunk ass, brenda's a drunk ass, brenda's a drunk ass!
WindSparrow - Aug 04, 2006 6:03:07 pm PDT #7030 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Lots of punctuation and ~ma to House Zmayhem and to Calli and family.
Katerina Bee - Aug 04, 2006 6:14:30 pm PDT #7031 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
Well, thanks, Zmayhem. No sooner do I get home but you give me a good scare. See if I share any of my vacation pictures with YOU.
thinking: Baby, Stay-Put, Stay-Put, Stay-Put! very hard indeed. You just put 'er in park there for awhile, little missy.
Also sending big warm waves of ~ma to Famille de Calli. May all go gently for her.
As for me, I am scratched, scraped, sunburned, waterlogged, well-exercised and glad to be home again. Fortunately I didn't get a spider bite. Unfortunately I've chipped off the outer edge of a molar (on a tortilla chip. How lame is that?) and it's really bugging me with the weird rough feeling.
ChiKat - Aug 04, 2006 6:15:12 pm PDT #7032 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
meara, you can call UPS and have them redeliver to a new address. I've done that before. If you call on Monday, they ought to be able to redeliver on Tuesday. Not exactly overnight delivery, but more convenient.
DCJensen - Aug 04, 2006 7:03:56 pm PDT #7033 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Toddson, it sounds like you are in a prime position to take advantage of a power vacuum. Now, sit down and write up a list of things that your ex-boss has done, and where he has stymied your job. Make a list of improvements and processes you would bring to the position and ask for twenty minutes of the president's time.
Lay out your claim for the territory. You have ideas,youhave the skills. Go for it. What are they going to do? make your job worse? Fire you for trying to make a better place to work? Maybe, but then you just bring up the same points for any unemployment adjudicator...or the next job interview.
As it is, the fact that your former boss is trying to still undermine you might work in your favor.
If necessary, gather up anyone who is willing to back you in this and have them help put the pitch together, or stand by you. Anyone that will show the president you aren't just backstabbing former boss.
DCJensen - Aug 04, 2006 7:14:53 pm PDT #7034 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.