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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.
Yes, Natter has become all Glamcookie, all the time!
Interesting article on Columbine: [link]
When this happened, a co-worker's son killed himself a week later. He left a note saying he did it because he was scared he would end up doing what these two did. Kid was 16 and was constantly picked on. So sad.
Woah.
In amusing news, someone posted on the newyorkers LJ about one of those Tea Parties here tomorrow -- the responses are lol-tastic.
Oh the teabaggers? Linky!
Enjoy: [link]
Mornings are good!
If I'm going to yoga then it's:
5:00 AM Alarm and up
5:20 AM Baby up and ready
5:40 leave house
5:45 drop baby off
6:15 yoga
7:30 leave yoga
8:00 get to work
If I don't go to yoga then it's:
6:30 AM Alarm (unless the baby gets up) and up and wake baby
Feed baby etc.
7:30 AM drop baby off
7:45 Starbucks or Coffee Bean
7:55 AM work
So, LinkedIn. It's, like, a good job thing?
My experience with LinkedIn has been pretty good. I've had 3 companies contact me about open positions over the last couple of years. Though I didn't pursue them at the time, I thought it was pretty sweet to get contacted without having to do a thing.
Somalia is a living hell, and it would be great if the attention moved other nations, including the U.S., to help. However, attacking cargo vessels that are not involved in dumping waste or illegal fishing does not help the argument that they are responding to abuses of Somali coastal waters.
Word.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I still think it is LOLARIOUS that, when my brother's at work, I get to consider "captured by pirates" as a possible risk. And when I say possible risk, I mean, I had to confirm with my mother that the ship in question wasn't his, because that was the most recent shipping path I knew him to have been on. But that doesn't mean I'm not a little twitchy about it, and the cargo vessels aren't exactly the ones that caused the mess that caused the activity.
God, do I feel like an idiot right now. I’ve been going through training since the beginning of the year to take over some of the allocation of regulations we get from the states. I’ve got two co-workers who are being moved onto other projects, and I’ve been getting groomed to take over their reg duties. Well, the one co-worker gave me the list of groups to allocate the regs to, and this list specified who gets proposed regs and who gets final regs. The first co-worker told me to stick with that list since many of the groups don’t want to get proposed regs.
First co-worker is currently on vacation, and second co-worker has handed me some more states to work on, which I’ve been asking for the past month, so I was happy to do them. Second co-worker just told me that I screwed up on a lot of the allocations because I was following the list the first co-worker gave me. Second co-worker obviously thinks I’m covering my ass by “blaming” first co-worker, but I’m not! I’m just telling her what first co-worker has told me in the past!
The damn list is out-of-date and wrong in several cases but because they don’t even need to look at the list anymore they don’t know it’s wrong, but I’m new at this and I rely on the damn thing, and I don’t need to get blamed because I followed the damn documentation!!
It doesn’t help that I get along much better with co-worker #1 than I do c-w #2.
There are lots of countries where corrupt/failed governments results in foreign exploitation of natural resources + poor enforcement of criminal law + no jobs = rampant kidnapping. I don't see the Somali pirates as any different from Nigerian warlords in Port Harcourt or Mexican drug lords.