Pix, that sucks.
if the cats continue to be suspicious of each other
Thanks, Beverly, good idea! They aren't suspicious of each other, really, Percy just seems all "Where were you, and why do you smell funny?!"
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Zenkitty - May 10, 2010 1:32:32 pm PDT #18794 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Strix - May 10, 2010 1:33:46 pm PDT #18795 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I hate today. It is cold, wet, rainy, and grey; I am a bad worker and life-partner, and I want to stab today in the face and cry.
And I turned off my phone and am not checking my email. I am afraid of it now.
And my head aches, and my house isn't clean and my cat keeps jumping ON my computer from the bunk bed.
smonster - May 10, 2010 1:34:11 pm PDT #18796 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Man, shitty day all around. I wish you all were here to snuggle in person.
Daisy Jane - May 10, 2010 1:35:30 pm PDT #18797 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Damn Pix. I wish I knew anyone out there who could help find you something. Everyone I kow out there is either from this board or have nothing to do with education.
I am sorry you are being treated so poorly.
Strix - May 10, 2010 1:37:58 pm PDT #18798 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Even in Natter, everyone is having a craptastic Monday.
I blame it on the tides. Even though I live mid-continent.
Pix - May 10, 2010 1:37:59 pm PDT #18799 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
that doesn't sound like a demotion, more like an administration fail. If the position is eliminated because they haven't hired new people, that's not your fault.
They are hiring new people. Just "not enough" to justify having someone like me to mentor them. I oversaw 10-12 people this year. There would probably only be 5 or so next year....who will still need help and all, and there's still going to be an orientation, which I sure as shit hope they don't expect me to do for nothing.
Strix - May 10, 2010 1:40:18 pm PDT #18800 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
and there's still going to be an orientation, which I sure as shit hope they don't expect me to do for nothing.
My idealist side wants to say they won't, but my much stronger inner cynic bets that they will want you to.
To which you should serve them fuckoff mignon, with a side of bite me sauce.
Pix - May 10, 2010 1:40:30 pm PDT #18801 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
Thanks, everyone. Sigh. Stupid life.
ETA:
To which you should serve them fuckoff mignon, with a side of bite me sauce.
Yes, but see then I will be playing into the perception that I'm "not a team player," which could haunt me when I ask for recs next year. Fuckos.
Strix - May 10, 2010 1:47:51 pm PDT #18802 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Damned if you do...
Le sigh, Pix. I got nothin'.
Summer's coming?!
Barb - May 10, 2010 1:51:56 pm PDT #18803 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Today continues to suck horny toads.
I just got lectured for setting myself up for disappointment because I said that the only way I might feel vindicated about this contract, stupid as it might be intellectually, would be to succeed at a much higher level of expectation.
Giving as an example, the New York Times.
Which somehow translated to "Why should you expect to hit the NYT with your third book when hardly anyone does that? You're setting yourself up to be unhappy!"
No. No I'm not. I'm fucking angry. Right now.
Big difference.
I'm a realist.
I know I'm not going to hit the NYT. I never said I was going hit the NYT. I'm just saying it would be one measure of success that would make me feel better about the whole mess.
I didn't think I could get angrier.