What? It was a dream.
Well, aside from hours of panic and dealing with an even more panicked Empress, sounds good to me.
Damn you, Bridget! Damn you to Hades! You broke my heart in a million pieces! You made me love you, and then you-- I SHAVED MY BEARD FOR YOU, DEVIL WOMAN!
Monty ,'Trash'
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.
Miracleman - May 01, 2008 8:29:18 am PDT #7251 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
javachik - May 01, 2008 8:41:11 am PDT #7252 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, since it was a dream, it was like 5 seconds of panic followed by a lifetime at Disneyworld!
vw bug - May 01, 2008 8:44:30 am PDT #7253 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
You know, when I call and say, "I'd like to talk to the person who handles _______," and you insist on helping me, don't get shirty with me when I know more than you do.
NoiseDesign - May 01, 2008 8:49:52 am PDT #7254 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
lifetime at Disneyworld!
This sounds panic inducing to me.
Pix - May 01, 2008 8:51:56 am PDT #7255 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Morning, all. Very sorry to hear about the many asshat bosses. Ass 'em in the ear!
I just had a visit from the infection specialist. He thinks I likely have a typical pneumonia and will probably be able to go home today! Yay! The only bad news is that my left lung is starting to crackle a bit (that's the good lung), which the nurse thinks is due to lack of exercise. So I am going to need to start moving around more actively. That's fine, and all, but dear gods not before I have a shower. I reek.
The nurse is kind of shocked that they may let me go home. She's worried.
tommyrot - May 01, 2008 9:03:33 am PDT #7256 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.
Yay Kristin - go you with the typical pneumonia! or something....
Sparky1 - May 01, 2008 9:04:04 am PDT #7257 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
I think Aims should use the next few days to set up the computer and some cameras so that we can all log on and watch when she tells the asshat boss she's resigning. It would be best if it was a set up that allowed us to contribute our thoughts by yelling at him. ::crosses fingers for a new job for Aims::
omnis_audis - May 01, 2008 9:06:04 am PDT #7258 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
lifetime at Disneyworld!
This sounds panic inducing to me.Like some hell induced by the SG-1 "Gamekeeper" episode in Season 2
KT, Glad to hear of optimism from Doc! Um. It still sounds like you have a lot to recoup. Take it easy. I should have this weekend off. Let me know what I can do to help.
FTR, my boss is not an asshat. I loves my boss.
ETA stupid trying to be cutesies was screwing things up I think. I said more, can't recall now. Back to work for me.
Emily - May 01, 2008 9:24:17 am PDT #7259 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Sounds like my best friend from high school, whose first out-of-college job involved teaching science to 7th graders. He decided to be easygoing, they jumped all over him. He survived the year, then went for a master's in library science.
But do we really "decide" that? I actually decided to be a hardass, but it turned out not to be something I could just choose to do. Maybe everyone (who isn't naturally hardassed) has to have that learning experience before we have the experience to toughen us up.
At least that's my theory -- I'm just not sure I could have been strict these first couple years, as it's contrary to my nature. Next year, I'll be tougher, because I know exactly WHY you can't do that, no, not even if you're going to be very careful, not even if you've done it before and nothing happened, no it's not fair, argue with me one more time and you're out.
In my defense (because I'm starting to worry you all must think I'm a big milksop that they run all over), I do have a good "Absolutely not and stop right now" voice/face*. I just save it for special occasions.
(*Or so all my dates tell me. Ha!)
megan walker - May 01, 2008 9:39:02 am PDT #7260 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
But do we really "decide" that? I actually decided to be a hardass, but it turned out not to be something I could just choose to do. Maybe everyone (who isn't naturally hardassed) has to have that learning experience before we have the experience to toughen us up.
I don't know. I always pretended to be a hardass in the beginning of the semester, but eventually my students realized that (for the most part) I wasn't. One student even confessed at the end of the semester that he knew someone who had dropped the class because I was so mean and it was going to be "so hard", all while laughing because that so obviously wasn't the case.
I do think it was a choice to be tough in the beginning, knowing that it's hard to keep control of things if you don't at least start that way, but I also think it played into the natural tendency many people seem to have meeting me--that I'm someone to be feared.