I killed the thread. Crap. Sorry about that.
ION - I made a lunch today, forgetting that the Dean is having a celebration lunch with the summer theater folks, to congratulate us on our first year of Shakespeare in the Park here at work. D'oh!
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
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.
omnis_audis - Aug 28, 2012 9:23:29 am PDT #19496 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
sj - Aug 28, 2012 9:30:38 am PDT #19497 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
omnis, I hope the hole in the floor gets fixed quickly.
Cass - Aug 28, 2012 10:44:38 am PDT #19498 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.
Though after ~10 days of dealing mostly with that, I think I need a bit of a break. A bit of the old routine, and getting back to writing papers, not "I remember that about her..." posts and managing the different memorial projects.
Yes, you probably do need a break. And should take it.
And Shir, thank you!!! Shir sent me a lovely note and some delicious chocolate. Both made me smile a lot. I was absolutely thrilled to get my mail and find a postmark for Jerusalem.
The mail also brought me a surprising letter from Time Warner. I won my complaint with them. I would really not recommend this as a way to save $10 on your bill for a year. I was told that I was lying, that the phone call I cited was reviewed and, yep, I was still lying and, best of all, that to see the transcript or hear it myself, I would need a subpoena. According to the letter, I wasn't lying. Which is actually true. They gave me a wrong piece of info and I'd have been happy enough with just a sorry. But they made it ugly and told me I had no options so I wrote them complaints and sent them to the BBB as well. Frankly, I was about to get to the "So, how does one subpoena a phone call or transcript portion" because they were just so shitty about it and it's the one time I knew I was absolutely in the right.
So that happened.
I still hate Time Warner but I am glad that honor does not require me to cancel them because I also love both having the internet and their app which lets me stream several channels of tv live to my phone or tablet if I am in my home network. Mostly the internet. And racing.
Volans - Aug 28, 2012 10:53:00 am PDT #19499 of 30001
move out and draw fire
Jilli, my condolences.
Shir - Aug 28, 2012 12:15:47 pm PDT #19500 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Glad it got there, Cass, and I'm glad you had other good news in the mail.
omnis_audis - Aug 28, 2012 12:28:20 pm PDT #19501 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Woot for Cass The Victorious!!
SailAweigh - Aug 28, 2012 12:33:13 pm PDT #19502 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
{{Jilli}} Much peace to you and Pete.
askye, I hope things continue to go well with the shrink and therapist. The fact you were able to stay on top of the situation, despite the boulder trying to push you back downhill, really shows how well you actually are doing. As others have said, brain chemistry is wack, yo.
omnis, hope they fix the floor with minimal fuss. That's definitely the not fun kind of renovation. Unless you can get them to install a slide down into the garage (was it the garage), so you didn't have to use the stairs.
smonster - Aug 28, 2012 12:36:01 pm PDT #19503 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Checking in for those who aren't in Natter: I'm fine, it's kind of windy, bored now.
omnis, good luck with the renovation.
NoiseDesign - Aug 28, 2012 12:36:22 pm PDT #19504 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
In a similar vein I've been fighting with Ford over the problems I've been having with the MyFord Touch system in my Focus and they are now going to send me a check equal to one of the monthly lease payments. They are also still working on the problems.
askye - Aug 28, 2012 12:48:22 pm PDT #19505 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Cass glad you were victorious.
I saw my therapist who was really nice and I threw a lot of info at her. She does DBT. I brought it up and she said she did it. I was kind of rambling at that point. I cried but it wasn't so bad.
Today I woke up and actually didn't feel dread and anxiety. Which my Inner Mental Bully spun this as a bad thing - but I tried to stay away from those thoughts.
I had decided I did not want to return to the assignment. It seemed my choices were - go back to work and be filled with dread and anxiety and try and deal with that and being depressed while trying to perform a job and not cry/freak out in front of people. OR Not go back and be filled with dread, anxiety, depression and try to fight off the Inner Mental Bully's thinking that I'm a bad person, failure, and fraud while being able to cry and freak out in the comfort of my own home.
I wasn't able to make that decision until I could get some validation from my therapist, M. Because I also feel that I can't trust my instincts on certain things because whatever I pick is wrong.
Will offered to come up but I think I need some time to process all of this so I'll see him Thursday. And tomorrow I'm going to make myself go to the knitting group so I'll get out and do something.