Yay kitten!

Boo stupid ex-roommate.

askye, echoing smonster, getting up at sunrise and getting some sun in my face helped my mood immensely, FWIW.

Glad Jonathan Kitty is doing well.

Smonster that sucks, she owes you and I'm glad you are not living with her anymore.

I know I need to get out and walk, I keep putting it off because I get cold or whatever. But I know I need to get a little sun. Of course it's supposed to snow tomorrow and be windy and then (if the forecast holds) it's going to get colder and colder and on Sunday the forecast has the high being 4.

When I first moved up here, Will wasn't working so much so we going for drives and stuff. But we havent' done that for awhile because it gets dark early (although not as early) and he's been tired from working a lot.

I have therapy tomorrow and if the weather isn't too bad I'm going to go to the library and poke around. And try to walk.

Last week I couldn't sleep enough. This week I can't sleep at all.

I'm going to bitch a bit. Just to vent. Last week received the pdf galleys to make minor corrections to and index. Only it turns out they had screwed the location of some tables which affected the pagination. So I sent it back with normal Galley corrections, plus insisting that they fix the tables. (Location was important because the tables were part of a narrative. Probably a mistake; I gather it is normal for layout to be free to move tables about, not the way stuff was designed in this instance. But I noted that I was doing this when I first submitted, and there were no complaints. And when stuff moved past copy editing to preparing the galleys, I remind layout that I needed the tables exactly where I said) OK, so they bitched, but agreed to fix it. So - got back the manuscript, and they did indeed move every table I asked them to back to where originally specified. However they also moved a table that I did not ask them to move from a location where it is fine to a location where it made absolutely no sense. So I've sent it back to them. Hopefully they will make the correction. Moving 4 tables took them more than a week. This move of one table will affect two to three pages, with no overflow affects on subsequent pages. So it damn well should not take more than a day to fix. In indesign I could make the change in 20 minutes, and I'm lousy at indesign. They probably are using a more complicated program, but still if they can't get me that correction by tomorrow, they are doing something wrong.

Not to deny your venting but actual, can be printed, professional pagination is more than a twenty minute job if it is more than a couple pages. But I'm sorry you're having such frustrations.

Yeah last time it was. But this time - two pages maybe three. Don't expect it to be 20 minutes. But with only three pages (at most) affected expect it to be less than a day.

Skimming and adding to the renting-venting-bitching party:

Only my mother can make me absolutely furious in four different levels.

Last night, I came back to my parents' home (my roommate is away from our apartment, so there was no use of staying. Or so I thought). I told my parents I need to work. That I'm busy. So far, so good. I ate something (while reading something for work, of course), I showered. And then my mom asked me to "get her something from the computer" (no, it's not any more logical in Hebrew). Knowing my mom, I asked her if the file was even there. She said she thinks so. Right. 40 minutes later, after I searched for it on the computer and in our emails, crawled around to get to a bunch of wires, and moved heavy furniture to reach to some specific other wires, I was able to locate the file on an external HD I backed up our previous computer to and to print to file she wanted me to print. Of course, by then it was too late and I was too tired and angry to get any work done - which I really needed to get done by now.

So I am angry that to this day, my parents can't use the words "print" or "scan" in their proper context, so it takes me at least twice the time to understand what they want to begin with. It's been years, guys, and I went over it with them over and over again. I am angry because I really didn't have the time for printing anything that needed to be located and wasn't on the family computer, and I said so specifically. I'm angry because she doesn't even understand why I'm angry. And last but not least, I'm angry on(? - grammar question) myself because I feel I have no right to be angry at my mom, while we are waiting for the CT scan results to tell us if there's a tumor in her brain.

I don't understand feelings sometimes. There are stupid and useless and make me waste them and I wish them away.

My new car is nearly ready! I went to check on the adaptations that are being installed yesterday. I should have it next week. I've given up and got a properly accessible car at last - it's a Citroen Berlingo. There will be so much SPACE for me and my equipment. And it's fuel-efficient. Might actually start enjoying the commute to uni now.

I feel I have no right to be angry at my mom, while we are waiting for the CT scan results to tell us if there's a tumor in her brain.

Honey, you have a right to your feelings, even in that situation. That sounds hugely frustrating, and I hope you didn't lose too much work time. (I'm currently MAD at my father-in-law and what is laughingly being called his will. Don't ask. Suffice it to say, people can drive us crazy in the most sensitive of circumstances.)

And regarding the odd kosher anti-feminist law: I was in Israel when that was passed, and asked The Girl and her brother about it. Her brother (lawyer-in-training) reckons that it could be quite easily overturned if someone took a case against it via equality legislation. He thinks there are judges in the court system just waiting to slap it down, since it goes against so much civil law. What do you think?

lisah, this is days late, sorry, but you asked about Zoloft and Effexor. I've just stopped taking Effexor (I go on and off anti-depressants short term when I need them) and it was HARD to come off, but very good when I was on it. It was such an effort to get out of my system that I regretted being on it for six months, but if I'd been staying on it long-term, it might have been worth the withdrawal. The online information I've read (which I think some Buffistas might have pointed me to, actually) suggests that a lot of people get side effects/withdrawal when they stop taking Effexor. As I say, though, I found it very helpful indeed when I was taking it. I hope your friend finds one that works for her.

And now back to Baudrillard. All that anti-capitalist postmodernism: much fun on a Thursday.

ETA: House~ma, sj! It sounds great. Hope you get it.

Thanks, dear. And the Girl's family is in my thoughts with your FiL's will.

odd kosher anti-feminist law

Umm, wait. What odd kosher anti-feminist law? Did I miss something?

Baudrillard

Ooh, fun!

What odd kosher anti-feminist law? Did I miss something?

Hmm. I'm absolutely certain that The Girl's family and I talked about a new law (or religious edict, I can't remember) that said restaurants in Israel would now only be certified kosher if women were required to dress modestly there. However, I can't find any news links on it. I'll ask The Girl's brother what he was reading.

Ooh, fun!

In a depressing way, yes.