I want Sean's Monday. Day-um!
Wild monkey love or tender Sarah McLachlan love?
Xander ,'Him'
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.
Calli - Jun 28, 2010 8:28:24 am PDT #24045 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Daisy Jane - Jun 28, 2010 8:31:15 am PDT #24046 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
We love you too, Sean! And it's awesome hearing about your trip!
Speaking of trips. I need some advice. A little more than a year ago, Jon's boss gave him a $5000 go-anywhere-you-want travel thing for being at the bar 10 years. He decided India, so we planned a trip for that November. A month or so later, I got my current gig. I am contracted here, and am likely to stay contract for another year (On 7/27 I will have been here a full year). I absolutely love it here, and love everyone I work with. We put off the trip because I would have only been here 6 months.
November is rolling back around and we're looking at a use it or lose it thing with the trip. I do not know how to broach this with work. Jon can go himself, but it's three weeks (I can see Pix rolling her eyes at me as this is nothing to her and ND's time apart). Also, it's a life-changing trip, and I think after a lot of the things we've been through in the past few years, we need to do that life changing together.
I don't mind not being paid for any of those weeks, and being in November, I could even use some of the holiday. I just have no idea how to bring this up and make it work for everyone.
Sean K - Jun 28, 2010 8:31:28 am PDT #24047 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I can't wait to share the pictures.
The only other downside (this word is far to strong for my uses of it) to this trip is that Italy is MUCH MORE HUMID than I thought it would be.
I'm starting to miss my semi-desert just a little bit.
But I could totally live here. With AC.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2010 8:32:34 am PDT #24048 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The only other downside (this word is far to strong for my uses of it) to this trip is that Italy is MUCH MORE HUMID than I thought it would be.
It's only a downside if you don't take it as an opportunity to eat extra gelato. Just sayin'.
Glamcookie - Jun 28, 2010 8:33:20 am PDT #24049 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
DJ, I think if you present it as you have here, you'll be fine. Also, it's plenty of notice.
Sean K - Jun 28, 2010 8:37:17 am PDT #24050 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It's only a downside if you don't take it as an opportunity to eat extra gelato. Just sayin'.
HFC GELATO EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!!!!!! (at LEAST once a day)
The ONLY place we've had a problem getting gelato was in Montepulciano. Unlike everywhere else in Italy, there's only one tiny, hard to find gelato place in the whole town (as far as we could tell).
Sean K - Jun 28, 2010 8:37:38 am PDT #24051 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
But we DID eventually find it. And ate it.
Typo Boy - Jun 28, 2010 8:40:30 am PDT #24052 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
You might want to take your post, edit it into a very nice note (it is certainly the basis for one) then hand it to the appropriate person when they can read it while you wait and discuss it immediately. That wait you don't have to worry about leaving anything out when you first broach the subject.
Daisy Jane - Jun 28, 2010 8:42:58 am PDT #24053 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I just don't even know how to bring it up. I have a whole issue with thinking I don't deserve stuff and why should anyone make an exception for me, so I just shouldn't even bother asking because who do I think I am. I am the opposite of Vortex's students.
Sigh
meara - Jun 28, 2010 8:43:03 am PDT #24054 of 30000
DJ, do it!!! Once in a lifetime indeed!! And I think a lot of people will understand that. If you do it in conjunction with thanksgiving, well, practically everyone is gone that week anyway...
Seriously, though. Do you not get vacation time as a contractor? Do they know how lucky they are that you don't take vacay, if so??