I, for one, wasn't looking forward to starting my day with a slaughter. Which, really, just goes to show how much I've grown

Anya ,'Sleeper'


Natter 57 Varieties  

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.


JZ - Mar 18, 2008 2:35:46 pm PDT #5789 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

No advice from here, Juliebird, just sympathy. Ginger, meara, ita and Vortex have good advice, and of course Vortex came through with the diplomatic language, as always. But, ugh, what a miserable situation. That sounds like a crazy-making workload and a recipe for sure disaster.

Stupid bosses with stupid crazy overexpectations. Also, Tuesdays in March are apparently job-toxic.


Burrell - Mar 18, 2008 2:36:56 pm PDT #5790 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I found the Riches fairly unwatchable myself, and I love Eddie Izzard.


lisah - Mar 18, 2008 2:44:58 pm PDT #5791 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I found the Riches fairly unwatchable myself, and I love Eddie Izzard.
I really liked it when they weren't trying so hard to be funny. I wish that they had chosen to tell the story straight.


DavidS - Mar 18, 2008 2:47:07 pm PDT #5792 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

He said, with his sweetest smile on his face, "It says, 'I love you, Mommy!'"

Bwah!


Amy - Mar 18, 2008 2:48:50 pm PDT #5793 of 10001
Because books.

I am not really familiar with Izzard (::waits for Buffista card to be revoked :: ) but I do like Minnie Driver. What I don't need is a show I can't follow that everyone doesn't love, I suppose.


§ ita § - Mar 18, 2008 3:03:02 pm PDT #5794 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I found the Riches fairly unwatchable myself, and I love Eddie Izzard.

Me too. I admit, I prefer him more in a dress, but aside from that, I didn't like the whole sword of Damocles vibe, and the characters weren't engaging enough to drag me in despite it.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 18, 2008 3:35:52 pm PDT #5795 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I feel almost guilty about my workday, given the bad one others are having. I turned in a big multi-option presentation proposal I've been working on for days, my boss picked the easiest and least convoluted option, and I got to sit back and watch the fireworks as a couple of people I report to at our sister company informed an outside consultant that I do not report to her, and requests for changes should not cut them out of the approval process. (Cue what read to me as a very passive-aggressive "Yes, Massuh!" response—whoo boy, hope I'm carbon-copied on the reply to that one!)


Juliebird - Mar 18, 2008 3:45:05 pm PDT #5796 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

yes, damn you Matt. I highly resent you and your nice day. And that goes for anyone else who had a great day. Raspberries to you all!

(Actually, I prefer my misery alone, I hate it when I have to share the self-pity with someone else. It's mine, damnit! So it's nice when someone else has a great day, so I can compare it to my own bad day and wallow even more than I already was.)

I treated myself to a nice pair of Bogs so I can be fashionable mucking around in the dirt at my new job, so today wasn't all bad.


Jesse - Mar 18, 2008 3:48:39 pm PDT #5797 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That just sucks, Juliebird. And what everyone else said about letting it go, and letting karma bite her in the ass.

I did go to Trader Joe's, but still need to locate a popcorn supplier.


§ ita § - Mar 18, 2008 3:55:46 pm PDT #5798 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've pretty much decided to do a cleanse (okay, well, juice feast) at the end of the month. I've been warned to go gentle with myself, so it's only going to be three days, and it's going to have a lot of volume. And it's three days I'm off work.

I'm almost looking forward to it, weirdly. Time needs to move faster right about now.

Okay, let me get back into this one chunk of work product.