Well they almost have to trade Blanton now. He's still worth a few Dodger prospects. There's no point in keeping him. Huston might go to.
Gaudin needs hip surgery, btw. We're fucked.
It's basically because Harden's been hurt for 3 years, Chavvy has sucked and Crosby has both sucked and been hurt.
They had no offense going in to next year and no prospects after Barton and Buck (who also gets hurt a lot).
But we're going to suck all kinds of ass next year.
Oh, I'm sure Blanton is gone. There is no way they would keep him now.
But we're going to suck all kinds of ass next year.
I know. And I feel like such a band-wagon fan, hoping off at this point, but all the crap that Wolfe has pulled with Cisco and now this annihilation of the team - I'm just disgusted. I'll follow the team, but they aren't getting much more of my cash.
Objecting to the baseball talk in the chill of winter?
Balance in all things.
To everything, turn turn turn....
Cats are cute.
Even when they have head mice
Even when they have head mice
Oh, that is the saddest kitty evah!
Am wearing the red dress, headed to the holiday party. Of course, today we got news of drastic crazy budget cuts, so I'm not sure how much we'll be partying, and how much we'll be gossiping and drinking, but...
The red dress we know? Should be a good party.
So, having talked to a colleague and been reassured by her splutter of "...but, that's [Admin Guy]'s responsibility," and checking back over my emails to confirm that, yes, I did reply to the following November 13th email:
Dear all,
If you have a plan to leave Thailand for the Christmas holiday, you must have a re-entry permit. (especially new teachers this year) Please let me know then I can arrange for all of you. Thank you.
With kind regards,
Admin Guy
on the same day with
Yes please!
Thank you!
I think that it's reasonable of me to argue that it was indeed the school's job to ensure that my visa was sorted out, and that they should refund me at least some of the 300 dollars I need to pay out of my wages this afternoon.
If it were a small sum, I wouldn't be thinking about being arsey, because, yes, when I didn't hear anything else from Admin Guy I
should
have gone and followed up on it. Because clearly he did sort out everyone else's visas and mine got forgotten about - which is probably because he had already got everyone else's passports, whereas I'd been to Singapore and still had mine in my flat.
It would have behoved me to go and ask him about it, when he didn't ask for my passport - but to be honest I totally forgot about the whole thing and just concentrated on all the my-job stuff - reports-writing, assessment week, school production, blah blah blah. On previous occasions when he's needed my passport he's sent me a message and I've duly brought it in, but this time around no message ever came, and it was only when I was starting to think about the whole going-home thing this week that it struck me that I still didn't have a re-entry visa, so on Thursday I went into the office and asked about getting it sorted.
He's a very nice bloke, and generally very efficient and very very busy - I don't feel good about implying that he screwed up - particularly since I do feel culpable myself. But I also don't feel good about having to shell out thousands of baht in order to leave the country, and it would be very nice if my employers would reimburse me.