Not a tool at all...the situation was just that crazy that even my coach couldn't keep up. Yet I still got "the look" from everyone else on the floor that I had been pushed out of the way.
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
erin_obscure - Jul 20, 2012 3:04:53 am PDT #17464 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
WindSparrow - Jul 20, 2012 3:31:06 am PDT #17465 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Erin, I am so, so glad that your sister is getting a fresh start. I hope that as she recovers from her broken heart, she will make new friends who can show her what a healthy, truly loving (or at least liking) relationship is like in a way that family cannot do while one is a teenager.
As for goings-on at your job, you have my sympathies. I hope it works out much better than expected.
Calli - Jul 20, 2012 4:36:41 am PDT #17466 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry about the bad work experience, erin, but I'm glad that your sister's situation has improved. I moved schools between 10th and 11th grade, and it was an extraordinarily good move for me. (Actually, I moved states, and the new school was just a side effect.) Suddenly I had friends and people around me who didn't know me as the school punching bag and weird loser. I was still a geek, but there were other geeks around to talk to. It was wonderful! I hope your wee sister's experience is similarly great.
omnis_audis - Jul 20, 2012 5:37:45 am PDT #17467 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Erin, sorry to hear it was such a brutal day at work. Hopefully, the fact your trainer had trouble will lessen the impact of being pulled out of the situation.
When I was young I would go up stairs on all fours.One of the super steep stairs at work is only 6 steps or so, and yes, those I get on my butt and slide down the top two or three steps, then my feet reach the floor. Much easier. But even still, there was one time, I almost fell down those.
ION- I am trying to re-imagine the closet in the new place. In preperation for the floor installation, the closet doors were removed. I hate them. Sliding mirrors, 8' long. I really hate mirrors, and a wall of them. ACK! But I also don't care for any other options for closet doors for a reach-in of length. Sliding on a track (boring), bi-fold (eats up exterior floor space, and access to end part of closet is difficult due to bifold pile up), accordian (ack, no for so many reasons). and that's about it. I am thinking of doing some custom interior to the closet, to maximize the space, but still blah on the doors. Anyone do something cool. Or some other option I'm not thinking of? (drapes are out. Had that in college, all it does is let the dust in and you get a nice pile on the clothes you hardly wear).
billytea - Jul 20, 2012 5:43:57 am PDT #17468 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
When I was young I would go up stairs on all fours.
When my brother was young he used to hurl himself down the stairs head-first, riding a thin sateen sheet that constituted the only remains of his blankie. Repeatedly. My brother is quite the lunatic.
JZ - Jul 20, 2012 5:55:28 am PDT #17469 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.
erin, I'm sorry about your completely horrible workday, but glad that it could be at least a little balanced out by the broken-hearted yet fantastic news about your baby sister. I'm vibing hope and fresh-start vibes at her like mad.
Calli - Jul 20, 2012 6:01:58 am PDT #17470 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Judge~ma for your friend, Vortex.
Vortex - Jul 20, 2012 6:46:34 am PDT #17471 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
She was great! But then, what the hell do I know. :)
Scrappy - Jul 20, 2012 7:11:09 am PDT #17472 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Well, OA, these are sliding, but they are ALSO way cool: [link]
WindSparrow - Jul 20, 2012 7:42:02 am PDT #17473 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
~ma for your friend, Vortex. And I suspect for our judicial system. I can't help but think that anyone you like and respect could only make it better.