Another team pulls out of the Tour de France.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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.
sumi - Jul 25, 2007 11:39:18 am PDT #157 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
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.
Burrell - Jul 25, 2007 12:16:14 pm PDT #162 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh Kat, I'm so sorry.
Jesse - Jul 25, 2007 12:23:16 pm PDT #163 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, I just got an email that cryptically sort of indicates that something I thought was dead in the water might be a possibility, and if it comes through (not til September), it would totally get everyone off my fucking back for MONTHS.
juliana - Jul 25, 2007 12:32:49 pm PDT #164 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Kat, I am so very sorry. I'm keeping you and your family in my thoughts.
shrift - Jul 25, 2007 12:34:01 pm PDT #165 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
And yet again, I so totally love it when I am assigned new duties without being given any explanation as to how I am supposed to carry them out.
I mean, technically I am capable of doing this thing, except for the part where no one sends me the information I'd need to do it.
sumi - Jul 25, 2007 12:52:57 pm PDT #166 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!