I work for a non-profit that budded off from a university a while back. They told me that's why we have more vacation time than many places. I can roll over a certain amount every year, and anything left over gets turned into sick leave. It's pretty generous.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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 - May 09, 2011 12:00:03 pm PDT #21106 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Vortex - May 09, 2011 12:03:27 pm PDT #21107 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Wanna help me move?
not Zen, but maybe. I'm bad at the actual moving, but good at packing and unpacking. And a good car companion!
meara - May 09, 2011 12:19:10 pm PDT #21108 of 30000
I'm bad at the actual moving, but good at packing and unpacking. And a good car companion!
Road trip to New Orleans would be awesome!
Nora Deirdre - May 09, 2011 12:24:29 pm PDT #21109 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
YES YES IT WOULD.
(hey, smonster, did you get my checking in email the other days?)
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 09, 2011 1:02:00 pm PDT #21110 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
one of the best-kept secrets is that it's one of those days where things actively conspire to make you happy.
Oh, that's a great thought! I'm going to remember that - thank you.
Seska, if I were closer, I'd offer to go pick up The Girl's gift for you!
Thanks, java - that's really sweet! If I were still in London I might have someone I could ask for help with this, but I don't know anyone in Nottingham who'd be able to organise it for me.
Know that not only are your physically nearest and dearest behind you, but we are too.
You are all the sweetest people ever. So there.
Thoughts for your brother, P-C. On the other hand, yay for baby steps!
Having only ever worked as a teacher, I don't know this system of taking sick days from holiday. We were mainly meant to turn up unless we were actually dead (and even then I think they'd have made us make lesson plans for our cover teachers). I once went in for several days, every one of which I should have been spending at home sleeping, and eventually passed out when in charge of a class. Good times!
Strix - May 09, 2011 1:18:35 pm PDT #21111 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I threw up in a wastebasket in front of my 3rd hour last week going to school with a migraine! I also fell out of my chair, because I threw up so hard, and the poor kids thought I'd passed out.
There were some great rumors when I came back to school. The most popular theories were pregnancy (unpossible), alcoholism (i.e., hangover -- nope; went to school with a hangover ONCE my first year of teaching - NEVER NEVER NEVER again, but I don't drink on weeknights) or I'm dying of brain cancer.
Pretty much the only way to get sent home from teaching is public vomiting, breaking a limb, passing out or having a full-on psychotic break.
smonster - May 09, 2011 1:47:21 pm PDT #21112 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Seska, may everything that needs doing get done, may everything unimportant fall by the wayside, and may you be able to distinguish between the two.
(hey, smonster, did you get my checking in email the other days?)
Uh, crap. yes. Epically behind on replying to emails - I did a whole lot of nothing last week, basically. Trying to catch up this week. (flea, if you're around, same goes for your email)
not Zen, but maybe. I'm bad at the actual moving, but good at packing and unpacking. And a good car companion!
I need help with the purging/packing/unpacking, and could definitely use a car companion. My dad is offering to drive a Uhaul truck down for me, and I'm trying to figure out how to tell him no. 1) His reflexes aren't the greatest and I'd rather I drive the truck and 2) I kind of want to do this without my parents.
Vortex - May 09, 2011 5:36:51 pm PDT #21113 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Seska, I've never been married, but it seems to me that the only important things are your bride, your officiant, and people that love you. Everything else is gravy. It's going to be wonderful, even it it isn't "perfect"
beth b - May 09, 2011 6:51:55 pm PDT #21114 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
80 hours of vacation - I can now accumulate up to 160 - sick goes on forever. I can use sick leave to take care of someone else, but it is supposed to be sick time. Even though this is my first year full time I ay get to the use it or lose it stage. When I was part time I worked Tu, We,Th - so I rarely took vacation.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 09, 2011 9:05:11 pm PDT #21115 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I've never been married, but it seems to me that the only important things are your bride, your officiant, and people that love you. Everything else is gravy. It's going to be wonderful, even it it isn't "perfect"
Oh yes, absolutely true. My brain is just having issues. But it will all be fine. The Girl has worked incredibly hard on the planning, and we have some wonderful friends doing most of the hard work from here on in!