That sucks MM. Ass the bastards in the ear.

My non-Buffista friend S. just linked me to this

Ah, my old friend, Toxic Mold, we meet again.

Mom just called. She has to have her gallbladder out next month and she's probably going to need to have surgery for her diverticulosis (sp?) sometime after that. I don't like today.

Teppy, I’m sorry if I was snappish with you earlier. I didn’t mean to be.

{{{Kristin}}} Feel better.

{{{Joe}}} I’m sorry. Best of luck finding a new job and hopefully a less sucky one.

Yeah, mine just makes me pay three times the copay. So if the copay would've been $30 a month, they make me pay $90 to get Seasonique once every three months...Luckily, when I was first prescribed it, the doc gave me two free samples (six months!). I looooove not getting my period...

This is what I had to do when I was on Seasonale, so it was $120 at a time. It ended up that I couldn’t take Seasonale anyway because it made me sort of crazy(er).

I just found out yesterday I get to pay back all the unemployment. Asshats.

WTF? This day definitely requires a do-over for many buffistas.

Not seeing the offensive in DBLOSND. I checked the list of three-letter combos you can't get on a CA plate and that's not the problem.

You know, I pretty regularly get questions about my Diablo Sound t-shirts and jacket. Nobody ever says anything confrontational or anything, but many of these questions have had undertones of... dubiousness, I guess.

Many of these questions have come from people of Hispanic origin. I wonder if it's a cultural thing, or something.

Of course, if that's at all true, it kinda makes me want to form my own company called I Eat Dead Babies and Worship Satan Sound.

Teppy, I’m sorry if I was snappish with you earlier. I didn’t mean to be.

Oh, you weren't! I just wanted to be sure that you knew *I* wasn't being all "Yeah, all ADD patients should be treated like criminals!" Because I think it's a load of hooey the way ADD Rx are treated.

Oh, you weren't! I just wanted to be sure that you knew *I* wasn't being all "Yeah, all ADD patients should be treated like criminals!" Because I think it's a load of hooey the way ADD Rx are treated.

I figured that out after I posted. Stupid reading too quickly because I'm tired. As long as we're good. Oh, and while you're here, is Allegra going to turn me into a tired zombie or can I take it during the day?

You know, I pretty regularly get questions about my Diablo Sound t-shirts and jacket.

With Mt. Diablo right over yonder there are a ton of Diablo named businesses around the East Bay. I tend to forget that it means anything else.

Talk me down from the ledge here. I just discovered I fucked something up big time at work, and given what's gone down here lately, I'm terrified I'll be fired.

Basically, both my boss and I have been dealing with the company that does furniture/office reconfigurations for our hospital. Boss THOUGHT her furniture had been ordered and was griping because it wasn't here. So I was going to call them today to check, so I went to an email that I thought was about MY office reconfiguration, because it came a few days after the email with the proposed new floor plan. All it said, really, was "Here's the quote you requested for ROOM #." If I'd been paying ATTENTION, I would've noticed that the room # was my boss's office, not mine. But it came in while I was sick at the beginning of the month, and all I did was glance at it, and think, "Not urgent, I'll deal with it later."

I can't believe I fucked up so badly. I feel like she's going to fire me tomorrow (not today because she's in a meeting till 5:00).

Did you call anyway, Susan? If you have both been dealing with this company it seems like it would be worthwhile to check and make sure she didn't order it independently.If she did, you can find out how soon it'll be resolved, and if she didn't you can get the order in motion. Mitigate a little while she's in the meeting.

OK, I'm not being fired.

I did call right away and leave a voicemail explaining what had happened and asking how we could expedite this.

And then I decided that since the meeting in question was actually the weekly large group session for our educational program, I'd walk up to the room and see if it was an appropriate moment to break in. I did, it was, and she told me, basically, "I can tell you're upset about this, and I think you've been upset long enough. Just forward me the quote, go home, and don't worry about it anymore."

I think I've been making her too much of a bad guy over the firing incident last week--which actually WAS justified, just badly handled. So the first time something went wrong on my end, I flashed back to the lawyerbeast from my first job and the lab directorbeast from the job before this one. Granted, neither ever fired me, but if I'd made that mistake working for THEM, I would've been treated to a half-hour shouting session, which in the case of the lawyerbeast would've included calling me a fucking incompetent.