Another team pulls out of the Tour de France.
'Heart Of Gold'
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.
Tourde France.
You know how I pronounced that in my head, right? It's terribly appropriate given my view of the Tour right now.
Thanks for the head's up.
I wasn't picking, it was funny!
{{{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.
Oh Kat, I'm so sorry.
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.
Kat, I am so very sorry. I'm keeping you and your family in my thoughts.
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.