Oh, there are olives, at least.

Skipped with a tiny side of skimming.

From earlier this morning:

::suspects Sean is still sitting around in his underwear playing Halo::

Snicker. Actually, it was sadder than all that. I was reading about big-time fannish kerfuffles, for fandoms I'm not involved in, about people who have a much greater level of involvement in their fandom than I have in anything.

See? Sad.

I need to find the study I read that actually shows people who have a more cynical view of life tend to actually be...not right, exactly, but more aware than people who are more optimistic.

Plus? When we cynics are right, we're less surprised, and possibly even a little prepared for whatever is trying to bite us/the world in general on the ass, and when we're wrong, it's a happy little surprise that makes the whole day better.

How is S?

Hi Cassiepants.

She's.... better. She'll probably be in the hospital for another day or two, and we'll likely have to come back in about three weeks for another procedure to make sure things are really better.

Actually, it was sadder than all that. I was reading about big-time fannish kerfuffles, for fandoms I'm not involved in, about people who have a much greater level of involvement in their fandom than I have in anything.

The Great Harry Potter Scandals?

God, people, make my phone ring. I mean, not in the calling me sense (though you're welcome to do that), but make the calls I'm waiting for come in! I'm tired of waiting!

The Great Harry Potter Scandals?

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You got it in one. I blame 'Suela.

juliana, if you have any trashy paperbacks you can live without for a couple of weeks I'd be happy to borrow them. I'm a cheap-paperback whore -- anything from eyerolly vampire romance novels to true crime to Le Carré to goofy vintage stories about grooving beatnik detectives and their kooky sidekicks will make me perfectly happy, and keep me lying down and quiet for a good long time.

JZ, we've got CRATES full of books at the old place. I'm gonna be there on Saturday. Want I should pick out some of my faves and send them your way? They could totally go to the hospital afterwards as well.

Oh, that'd be lovely!

am so pissed at my company right now. this week the big boss of our office was walking through and thought more people should be here at 9:15 then were (I was actually out on vacation) and now they are cracking down on people working scheduled hours. I've been working at home unofficially one day a week with my manager's blessing & he just asked his boss if I can keep doing that and he said no. I know a lot of people have it way worse but this commute is too much for me 5 days a week. It's just getting worse and worse with the traffic. Anyway, my boss is going to approach the matter again in a couple of weeks but I'm a mess right now. I really think I need to look for a new job and I'm dreading it. I'm really afraid that after 6 years of working here I won't know how to do anything else. (which is stupid, kind of, I'm a tech writer. Skills should be highly transferable, right?)

anyway, bleh. I'm PMS-y and weepy today and now I can't stop crying.

I'm so sorry, lisa. I hope there's a way to negotiate it -- if it's been working just fine the way it was, and the alternative is you having to leave, it would seem logical that they'd be better off not changing things. Alas, logic... not the highest goal in most workplaces.

Me, I'm seriously having to consider the fact that San Francisco's been giving me no bites at all, while LA is inviting me to a district job fair with principals. Man, I don't want to move to the hot part.