I left a (unfortunately drunken) message on her cell letting her know if she needs anything to call me. If I had known this was going to happen tonight I wouldn't have started drinking at 4.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laga - Apr 01, 2008 5:06:31 pm PDT #2793 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Susan W. - Apr 01, 2008 5:13:47 pm PDT #2794 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Susan, I'll just note that you have really disliked almost all of your dayjobs. You like a lot of autonomy and that's hard to come by with a middle level job. It's the sort of thing that tends to happen by accident on an org-chart rather than by design. You have strong issues with authority and those issues ping on you in a variety of ways. I think the satisfactory dayjob is going to be elusive for you.
Well...agreed, but in saying that do you have any ideas for what I can do about it, other than accepting unhappiness and/or trying to catch lightning in a bottle in the form of a bestseller?
Stephanie - Apr 01, 2008 5:14:01 pm PDT #2795 of 10001
Trust my rage
Cash, I can't copy and paste but I was seriously thinking about coming to visit but the car I'm driving is not very safe or reliable and I just shortened my trip by a week. Still, it would have been lots of fun.
Steph L. - Apr 01, 2008 5:19:13 pm PDT #2796 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I posted it in Natter, so I should post it here: Muppets blooper reel. Featuring Beaker!
Susan W. - Apr 01, 2008 5:27:03 pm PDT #2797 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
FWIW, I have some ideas of what might give me some more autonomy, even if not all that I might want: finding a really small organization instead of working for a Giant State Bureaucracy, and/or find a way to move back into event planning, which could be tricky schedule-wise with a child but possibly doable as long as DH's schedule stays fairly predictable.
Burrell - Apr 01, 2008 5:38:06 pm PDT #2798 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
And even if you do have a career about which people have a clear-cut impression, ie. being a nurse, their impression is so unbelievably misguided and wrong that to explain the mistakes would take you days.
Kristin kinda already said it, but yeah, there are some jobs where the stereotypes tend to overshadow the job, and nursing is one of them.
Amy - Apr 01, 2008 5:41:00 pm PDT #2799 of 10001
Because books.
So is writing, for what that's worth. No, I'm not a millionaire. No, I'm not going on Oprah. No, I can't tell you where I get my ideas, except it's not from the Magical Idea Well.
Burrell - Apr 01, 2008 5:43:51 pm PDT #2800 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm still bummed that the magical writing fairies aren't real.
amych - Apr 01, 2008 5:44:21 pm PDT #2801 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Crap. They're not?
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2008 5:47:34 pm PDT #2802 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm still bummed that the magical writing fairies aren't real.
Crap. Then what are those tiny creatures who tell me they're magical writing fairies?