Oh, Todd, {{{{{hugs}}}}}. Sorry things are so frustrating. ~ma for you.
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Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?
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Gadget_Girl - Sep 16, 2008 2:29:15 pm PDT #5750 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Toddson - Sep 16, 2008 2:31:27 pm PDT #5751 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I came in this morning and our president - who gets in early early early - had taken a story on the Minnesota I-35W bridge from another magazine and taped it up in the coffee room. Then talked to my boss - the editor of our magazine - about how we ought to do a story on it.
Thing is, I've been doing a monthly update on the bridge for the past year. Almost every month - progress reports, comments, quotes from people involved, pictures even.
And I'm working on our biggest issue of the year, I'm trying to keep track of the ads (our sales guy keeps selling more ... and he tells people to just send in what they have, that I'll make it work), develop artwork, write the sections I'm responsible for, proofread and edit other stories, upload files to our printer's FTP site (because if I leave it until later it'll take me 12 hours to do it ... if I can do it at all), PLUS I'm handling all our publication orders because the person who normally does it is on vacation. For three weeks. I didn't make it to the F2F this year largely because I couldn't get the time off - it wasn't convenient. And it looks like I'll lose leave time because it sure isn't convenient to take time off now ... or, it seems, just about any time.
Hil R. - Sep 16, 2008 2:46:35 pm PDT #5752 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Gronk. I taught a class at 8 and a class at 9:35 today. And I was supposed to teach one at 2:20, also, but I was feeling so exhausted that I knew there was no way that I could make it, so I sent out an email canceling it, and came back home and slept until about 3, then on and off for the rest of the afternoon.
(This is actually entirely my fault. I know which med help me stay awake, and I keep forgetting to refill them. Me = dumb.)
Toddson - Sep 16, 2008 2:50:34 pm PDT #5753 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Anyway, the depression's kicking my ass ... I think I'll go home and see if I can find something to cheer me up. I know I have some wine in the fridge ... and DVDs.
Fay - Sep 16, 2008 2:52:05 pm PDT #5754 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Stabbity stab stab-ma to Toddson's workplace.
Congrats to GG!
Meanwhile, in the world of me, I just got cast in Deathtrap as the psychic neighbour lady. Yay for having something to rehearse again! (And in the meanwhile, the SingAlongASoundOfMusic I'm helping organise is looming ever closer...)
Toddson - Sep 16, 2008 2:53:56 pm PDT #5755 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
A few of my favorite things ....
ChiKat - Sep 16, 2008 2:59:58 pm PDT #5756 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
{{{Toddson}}} Work crap can just beat you down so badly. I'm so sorry.
And, I'm back at work now. We have parent-teacher open house that starts in...oh, now. I better go!
Fay - Sep 16, 2008 3:03:51 pm PDT #5757 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
We have parent-teacher open house that starts in...oh, now. I better go!
Oooh, we had one of those last night! And speaking of going - meep, nearly 7am, REALLY ought to get my arse out the door and get to work!
Barb - Sep 16, 2008 3:11:54 pm PDT #5758 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Just came back from 6th grade open house. Took Nate with me and got to watch him turn admirable shades of red when the teachers would talk about assignments being written in their planners and I'd hit him with the hairy eye because, you know, I know him.
Ah, the little joys of parenthood.
Had Abby's open house last night and boy, can her teacher talk (and talk and talk and talk...)
Gadget_Girl - Sep 16, 2008 3:13:12 pm PDT #5759 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
We stopped having open house a few years ago when almost no parents came. We do an open house before school starts for new students and their families. I'm surprised DD doesn't try to have more things, he so loves a "dog and pony show".
Our mid-term grades come out on Thursday. I wonder how many of the Intensive English 3 parents I will hear from once they see their "little angel" is currently earning a D or an F in my class. At least 50% of both the classes aren't passing and, from what I understand, this is totally normal.