I've got a similar problem. Football game at 7. I can get out of here at 4. Go home? I'm really not going to feel like driving the half hour back, but I TOLD them I'd be there this time. Stay in town? It's a bit long for just dinner.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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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.
Emily - Sep 12, 2008 10:24:31 am PDT #8443 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
lisah - Sep 12, 2008 10:27:52 am PDT #8444 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
I vote shopping, Jesse!
I have to rush home and clean my house because i'm having house guests tomorrow night and then do something with another friend who is visiting from Memphis. I'll love seeing everybody but, dag, I wish I could go home and chill out on my couch and go to bed super early.
Jesse - Sep 12, 2008 10:28:57 am PDT #8445 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've got a similar problem. Football game at 7. I can get out of here at 4. Go home? I'm really not going to feel like driving the half hour back, but I TOLD them I'd be there this time. Stay in town? It's a bit long for just dinner.
Annoying!
I vote shopping, Jesse!
Maybe. I think it's raining, though, so I may just sit in here....
brenda m - Sep 12, 2008 10:33:10 am PDT #8446 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I've got a similar problem. Football game at 7. I can get out of here at 4. Go home? I'm really not going to feel like driving the half hour back, but I TOLD them I'd be there this time. Stay in town? It's a bit long for just dinner.
That's where drinking helps. 8 is harder, though - way too late to stay at work, but too long to be drinking after work and still go do much.
When a friend and I had a symphony subscription we used to run into this problem. Not that you'd be too drunk to go or appreciate, but by halftime you were wiped and just wanted to go sleep.
Jesse - Sep 12, 2008 10:40:45 am PDT #8447 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's where drinking helps. 8 is harder, though - way too late to stay at work, but too long to be drinking after work and still go do much.
Heh. Also, neither of my two office friends are in today, so I can't rope them into a drink.
Kathy A - Sep 12, 2008 10:42:19 am PDT #8448 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
lisah - Sep 12, 2008 10:43:34 am PDT #8449 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Anyone else humming Henry Mancini now?
of course!
man, that hurricane Ike is looking bad, isn't it? Hope all my many cousins in Texas are getting to/are in safe places.
msbelle - Sep 12, 2008 10:46:53 am PDT #8450 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Sophia - I think Jesse nailed it. If they thought they needed to they would hire you, but they don't and so they keep you on for low pay and crazy schedule.
I was a full-time volunteer in two different positions while unemployeed at various points in my life. When I left for jobs, the organizations ended up hiring someone into the position. Why the hell didn't they just hire me? Well, I never positioned it to them that I would leave if they didn't. They also had never paid attention to how much I did until I was gone.
It's like how the workers in my various offices who just flat out DO NOT WORK LATE never get fired. They take an hour for lunch, they leave at 5 and no one dumps work on them because they have built up the expectation that they are not the employee to dump on.
lisah - Sep 12, 2008 11:01:21 am PDT #8451 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
It's like how the workers in my various offices who just flat out DO NOT WORK LATE never get fired. They take an hour for lunch, they leave at 5 and no one dumps work on them because they have built up the expectation that they are not the employee to dump on.
I AM this worker! Also, I have to leave on time to get home to do pet care. And I will do work at home when necessary. But when I first started here I was working on something with my asshole co-worker and he kept putting me off during the day until it was late in the afternoon and then he'd want to start working. He kept trying to push how late I'd stay and I'd tell him every time "I leave at 5:30. I can make an exception on rare occasions but I need advance notice." Eventually he stopped pushing.
Scrappy - Sep 12, 2008 11:07:59 am PDT #8452 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The DH is in Telluride zooming around in Jeeps this weekend. Since we are dogsitting, tomorrow is pretty canine-ish. I am walking three dogs, giving antibiotics to one dog, giving eye drops to another dog, petting three dogs, going to the dog park with three dogs, blahblahblahdogs.
In between, I am doing laundry, cleaning house and running out to buy pretty shoes for the wedding we are going to on Sunday afternoon. (Me and DH, not the dogs.) Also maybe spanx--which I hear are awesome and will allow me to look sleek at the aforementioned wedding and FiL's 70th birthday shindig next weekend.