Scary stuff, Raq. Glad you're all safe.

Congratulations on your escape, brenda, and on your co-optedness, Jessica and Fone!

Windsparrow, I feel for you with the demon cough. What's the otc cough suppressant you found, bitte?

Vortex, sorry about your perfume!

Too much caffeine sometimes triggers anxiety attacks in me, but I'm prone anyway. No caffeine after noon for me.

Spent 3 months living in Germany, and about all I remember of the language is danke and bitte, and some random words not useful alone. My sister was pregnant with her first child when we were there, and we took to calling the baby "Kinder". When she was born, they were so used to the nickname they named her the closest they get: Kimberly. She doesn't believe that's the story of how she was named, but it is.

Poor Em. Hope she sleeps soundly the whole trip.

The whole "please" thing freaked me out when I lived there.

The whole "please" thing freaked me out when I lived there.

They didn't know you were a bottom, ND.

I talk to my cats in German, so the only parts of 3 years classes that have stayed in my head are things like "hurry up" and "eat" and "it's only Walter, you can walk past him". Highly specialized.

Flops into thread.

They are gone. The boss and the trainee. I have NO IDEA how it went. Truly. Trainee was nice enough, but she didn't ask questions. I get nervous when people don't ask questions. Or make those mental connections of "Oh, you do this cause you need that" type stuff.

Whatever. I'm too tired to care. We will see what happens when I start shifting work.

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I don't tend to ask a lot of questions- I try to get the logic and flow so that when a detail comes up that I don't understand I can ask a quick question. I hope your trainee thinks like me.

WindSparrow - there are a couple of bugs out there right now that are causing long lingering coughs. Asthma is a possibility, but some sort of broncial dialater can help ease the cough durring the day

ION, I am coughing. Not a lot, but it hurts every time. ( my rib cage is killing me, bu tit is better than it was this morning) I have decide it is the wind and cold are making my asthma worse - but when the wind drops and the temperature goes up ( monday?) I will be better. Or I have to go to the doctor on Tuesday for a stronger formulation of advair.

German in my house was mostly stuff like refering to us as "the kinder," like "Are the kinder ready to go?" or "Tell the kinder to come in for dinner." Or our parents would address one of us as "fraulein" when we were getting overly snotty or annoying. Kind of like "young lady," as a sign to back off. I find myself sometimes referring to a group of little kids as "the kinder" -- usually when it's sort of referring to them in the aggregate, like "I can't concentrate, the kinder are being too loud."

Heh. That's like my grandfather referring to certain of his kids/grandkids as "kutchma." It actually means haystack in Ukranian, but he used it to describe them/us by our hair. We all have very thick hair, and most of my aunts and some of my cousins were blondes as children. They all became "kutchma" to him.

I don't tend to ask a lot of questions- I try to get the logic and flow so that when a detail comes up that I don't understand I can ask a quick question. I hope your trainee thinks like me.

I can only hope. I just hate that I have absolutely no feel for what she understands. These next few weeks with either be a big relief or a HUGE frustration.

Hivemind question. Is there anyone here who knows how disability leave and FMLA work in California? Do these run consecutively or concurrently?

Ok, I read it all, but I didn't take notes, so all I have to comment on is:

Wow, Raq, I'm so glad everyone is ok. I, too, read your posting before I heard anything, so I was able to all relaxed. I didn't read to the end of the thread, so I couldn't tell everyone about, but everyone seems to have carried on just fine.

Much punctuation and glitter where needed. And sj, don't feel bad at all about the tears. I was in that exact same situation when I was in grad school, and it totally sucks.

And now, in mememe news:

I think I may have mentioned here a while back that my local public radio station bought two other stations. This evening, they went live, and I was at the station for it! I am so impressed that my town of about 30k supports three public radio stations. One will be news and some talk. We had NPR and a little BBC on our old one, but this will have CBC, more BBC, more local news, and cool things like Democracy Now five days a week. Then we have a station that will be called Rain Country that sounds like it will be similar to our current station, but with less news. Finally, we'll have Excellent Radio, with a mix of pop and rock.

Our old station's call letters were KTOO, which everyone in town pronounced K2. The new stations: K3. [link]