If everything is number one - which things don't have to be perfect? In my world ( library) public appearance /relations matter more than anything else...some of the backroom stuff slides
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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.
beth b - Jul 25, 2007 11:04:28 am PDT #152 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
sarameg - Jul 25, 2007 11:06:58 am PDT #153 of 10001
I always hated hills on bike. I've done my dad's commute (10 miles throught the city traffic) in a little over half an hour but that's pretty flat. When I was on a trail in WVa, I wanted to kill someone.
Theodosia - Jul 25, 2007 11:11:12 am PDT #154 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Oooh, that's a nice Vespacar, though I'd want to know if they're actually street-legal in the US, which can get sniffy about nice little cars.
Liese S. - Jul 25, 2007 11:31:02 am PDT #155 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I have no idea. It's just sitting in the Mexican restaurant's parking lot, for sale. I don't even know how much they want for it, I just know it's cute! I love the idea of it because I could theoretically even haul gear and building materials in it. But come to think of it, I have no idea how it would handle our wintry roads.
Glamcookie - Jul 25, 2007 11:36:56 am PDT #156 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Adding to the Kat chorus. I'm so sorry to hear these latest developments. Continuing to have you all in my thoughts.
sumi - Jul 25, 2007 11:39:18 am PDT #157 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Another team pulls out of the Tour de France.
sarameg - Jul 25, 2007 11:41:28 am PDT #158 of 10001
Tourde France.
You know how I pronounced that in my head, right? It's terribly appropriate given my view of the Tour right now.
sumi - Jul 25, 2007 11:43:32 am PDT #159 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Thanks for the head's up.
sarameg - Jul 25, 2007 11:51:41 am PDT #160 of 10001
I wasn't picking, it was funny!
Susan W. - Jul 25, 2007 12:14:37 pm PDT #161 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
{{{Kat}}}
My current boss is very gracious about assigning priorities when asked. However, she's scatterbrained (as she admits herself). She'll come in and talk to me for 15 digression-filled minutes, while I as Queen Linear Thinking am all, "What's the point? What's the action item?" Then at the end, I say something like, "So I need to call so-and-so and see if our department is eligible for X?" And that will be it. But I can't hold it against her, given that I can say, "So it sounds like the deadline on this is two months away? Can I work on it after I'm back from Alabama?" and she's fine with that. My most recent former boss, NSM.
I do have one colleague who has me seeing red because A) she's the only one here who treats me like the help instead of as a colleague, and B) she's the type who acts like the rules are mere suggestions, and who spends money and makes plans before even finding out what the rules are. Now, I'm no fan of unfair or arbitrary rules myself, but this is a county hospital. Managed by a state university. Receiving funding from assorted federal agencies. Breaking rules out of carelessness or just for the heck of it creates a Gordian knot of bureaucratic tangles for the person who has to clean up behind you. And that would be me.