askye, I am glad you found a way to take care of Dean. It's hard.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[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.
Cass - May 24, 2012 3:48:07 pm PDT #13890 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Steph L. - May 24, 2012 4:26:48 pm PDT #13891 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Steph! The stretch definitely helped! My hips felt much better today.
It's a beautiful thing. It's a bastard of a stretch, and the next day I was shocked to wake up with markedly less pain. Bless the internet and all of its knowledge.
DebetEsse - May 24, 2012 4:27:57 pm PDT #13892 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The Internet know everything. Unfortunately, that includes all the things that are wrong.
Steph L. - May 24, 2012 4:28:51 pm PDT #13893 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Unfortunately, that includes all the things that are wrong.
I was going to say "Bless the Internet, and all its contents," but then I realized how very much I *don't* mean that.
Ginger - May 24, 2012 4:35:04 pm PDT #13894 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's like god. It giveth and it taketh away.
smonster - May 24, 2012 4:39:37 pm PDT #13895 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I was listening to a Nerdist podcast with Penn Jillette, and he was going on and on about how the untrammelled free speech of the internet was a purely wonderful thing, and my eyeballs did a triple somersault with a half twist.
le nubian - May 24, 2012 5:20:29 pm PDT #13896 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Penn can be so sanctimonious sometimes. Truly insufferable.
JZ - May 24, 2012 5:25:29 pm PDT #13897 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, askye, I'm sorry about the job. But Ginger is exactly right; it reflects a hell of a lot more on their managerial skills than your abilities. But between that and dealing with various sick animals, it just seems like the last few days have been a terrible emotional grind for you. I'm vibing lots of health improvement to Dean and gentler (and more happily employed) days ahead to you.
askye - May 24, 2012 5:33:10 pm PDT #13898 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Thanks. I'm feeling better, still a little dejected. Tomorrow is a fresh start and I'll see what happens. The woman I went through the initial training and I are FB friends and she messaged me and called me. Which is nice, we've been trying to get together for lunch, maybe in a few weeks.
She said that everyone in her dept talks about what a nightmare "my" dept is and how none of them want to work over there. And people make jokes about how hard is it over there (I think the work in general, not sure if it's mgmt in particular). That made me feel better.
JZ - May 24, 2012 5:37:11 pm PDT #13899 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Awww, that's very nice. I got that kind of validation (ex-coworker showed up for a reading and signing Hec did three days after I was sacked) after I was humiliatingly fired; it really helps to have someone else confirm that you're not fucked up, you just got dropped all unaware into a fucked-up workplace.