even though that time was totally mine to take

Wrod! I have to leave early today for the dentist, and even though I have like 80 hours of comp time AND could use sick time for it too, I feel guilty. My boss is totally cool about stuff like this and he never says anything but I feel like I'm sneaking out or something. Plus I'll probably run into our most obnoxious operations manager who will probably say "leaving early again? Man I wish I was in sales"

Wow, my company is totally cool with hours and time off. As long as you put in your 40 hours throughout the week and get your work done, and make sure there's someone from the department in the office available for questions 9-5ish, it's up to you when you come in and/or leave.

In fact, out of the four of us in my department, one is on maternity leave but works from either the city office or home when she's not on leave, my boss works out of the city office all but a few days a month, I work from here exclusively (no working from home or the other office), and the fourth just arranged with the boss to work from home three days a week due to construction making her commute a real PITA for the time being.

Is "unicorn" in the KJV a mistranslation of another word? I hope?

oh dear, sounds like a lot of people are having a very crappy day.

I read an interesting article on the Creation Museum written by a hard core atheist. He interviewed several of the people responsible for it.

Wow, my company is totally cool with hours and time off. As long as you put in your 40 hours throughout the week and get your work done, and make sure there's someone from the department in the office available for questions 9-5ish, it's up to you when you come in and/or leave.

As is mine. And I only have to clock 35 hours/week. People are constantly leaving early for appointments and the like. And we all work vaguely different shifts (I chose 8:30 to 4:30) so it's hard to notice if a person even should be there.

The guilt, she is all coming from me. That's the really lame part since much of why I changed careers is the schedule.

Seekrit message to Hec: And, of course, San Francisco.

Dear god no: Your gut has taste receptors

That's COOL. I love it that there's essentially a second brain down there. Did you know that the gut, given a nutrient supply, can continue to function without being connected to a brain? It's the only bodily system that doesn't just shut down without input from the brain.

Casper just said, "Oh! Fiddlesticks. I have to go to the bathroom."

Sometimes I love having kids.

And we all work vaguely different shifts (I chose 8:30 to 4:30) so it's hard to notice if a person even should be there.

That's the way it is here--people have shifts ranging from 7-3 to 11-7, even though everyone is technically on "the day shift."

I would like to work for Kathy or megan's co. please.

I just got a call from my boss, we had a 5 pm conf. call to go over a big meeting we have tomorrow. The call now was to ask if I had the prep stuff for a meeting I thought was cancelled on account of our big meeting. Nope, not cancelled and everyone in my dept. has left for the day, so I get to fake a report, sometime after mac goes to bed.

I love it that there's essentially a second brain down there.

Except it's often the brain in charge. I saw a PBS special that said that some researchers are beginning to think that bypass surgery works not because it makes the stomach smaller, but because it cuts some of the nerves in your gut so that they stop sending, "OMG I'm starving" messagess.