I have the best of all possible worlds here. Not actually having money or a place in society from a job. But still getting to feel what it's like to lose one. Awesome. I know you're all jealous.
Ah, fuck. Erika, I'm so sorry that the universe insists on handing you exciting new parcels of crap. I rail at it on your behalf.
Erin - I'll hang fire on high-fiving you just yet, and cross fingers, toes, legs etc that this job-having works out as well as we all thought it had done just then. I entirely agree - you need and deserve some stability.
Norah - man, I can't believe the pillocks didn't give Tom the job! Damn them! WTF?
...I realise it's a bit late to chime in on GC's drunken stress or Deena's excellent anecdote sharing, but I read the drunken stress with my heart in my mouth, and oh, Deena, bless you, I too have made a TOTAL gibbering fool of myself when plastered on far too many occasions - I thought you rocked for bringing out your own anecdotes, and if there hadn't been a gazillion posts between then and now I'd chime in - but I sort of missed the boat. My stupidest drunk thing was probably going hiking and hitchhiking (sans sensible walking shoes or, indeed, sobriety) across Moravia for a weekend with a man I'd known for three hours, all of them drunk. Happily he turned out not to be a rapist or murder, just a somewhat amorous expat - but that was really good luck on my part, and certainly not a case of good judgment. The last time I got truly wellied, I ended up having to swim to the bar, having to strip off in the loos and wring as much salt water out of my clothes as I could, before dancing sopping wet. And then puked all over the bar. Twice.
In mememe news,
Deathtrap
went well. I have more I could write on this subject, pertaining to the bitchiness and intrusiveness of other members of the committee whose grasp of "supporting a new director" seems to be more along the lines of "piss all over them, undermine them, make them feel like shit and generally be a total fucker", but I think it'll just depress me. I hope he isn't scared off directing for us - he was consistently calm, patient, competent, supportive, focused and upbeat. I feel rather ashamed of my drama group, because I think that they - well, 2 people in particular - have been neither kind nor professional in their conduct towards him. Schadenfreude, frankly, can suck my cock.
Apparently it's not necessary for me to be actually interviewed or talk to a reporter for them to write the story.
Trust me, even if you do, they screw it up. I was interviewed about having a female boss (this was like 1991 or so), and I said something to the effect of "it's not fair that women have to work twice as hard to get the same respect", and the reporter printed "O_A thinks 'women should work twice as hard to get the same respect' as men...". Um. Not quite what I said. Ya, my boss was very cold shoulder after that. Luckily it was only a couple more months. Ya, reporters. Ugg.
Speaking of which, I still haven't listened to my Day to Day interview from moving day back in July. I was on zero minutes of sleep in 28 hours. Very afraid of how idiot I sounded.
Hey, omnis - any news about the girl in question?
IOmeN, I think I'm this close to bitchslap an idiot on the board I run, and doing so publicly(*), along with 80% of my sociology/anthropology class, who is, yes, that stupid. I swear they let anyone with pulse and ID study it, so much for threshold. I actually like the subject, K? Let me study in peace, thank you.
(*) I'll start gently, but for the record, he was warned before privately. I just like it better when they are giving themselves trouble within 2 seconds. He's just sort of a person that brings so much passive-aggressive hostility into the board.
And now, food, followed by 6 hours of classes. Yay.
DH's parting message to me this morning was "Quit if you need to. .... Um. Not that I have any idea what that would do to the finances."
Omnis - I heard the Day to Day interview after it was linked here and thought you sounded great.
Happy Birthday, Jessica!!!
Happy Birthday Jessica PMoon!
CHRIST, I'm sleepy today.
Thanks for all the indignant sentiments on Tom's behalf- he was super anxious last night and couldn't sleep. Poor noodle.
Apparently it's not necessary for me to be actually interviewed or talk to a reporter for them to write the story.
I will note that I was a newspaper reporter for years and have written for magazines for many years, and I have never quoted anyone with interviewing them or having them approve quotes attributed to them. In corporate writing, one does sometimes have to attribute one person's quote to another person who was unavailable and to write quotes for executives who want to be told what to say.
Omnis' story illustrates what I frequently told my students: The surest way to misquote someone is to write down exactly what they said, rather than what they meant.
I'm sorry that they didn't realize what an awesome catch Tom would be and hire him. Much job~ma for Tom.
Happy Birthday, Jessica!
I wish my realtor would call or email me to tell me how the showing went yesterday. Hmph.
I was very outraged on Tom's behalf. I just was being outraged telepathically, rather than by typing.
HIPPO BIRDIES JESSPMOON!!
