So, the thing is, the woman just comes across as incredibly privileged and entitled. YES, living away from home 5 days a week is much harder than living at home and working and missing your kids. But the fact that you could leave your high stress, high hour State job to go back to be a tenured professor at Princeton, where it is easier to balance your life with your family... sigh. Cry me a fucking river.
It pisses me off to no end that when deciding what she was going to do to improve the situation for women she . . . wrote an article all about her that doesn't even contribute anything new to the conversation. Feh and bah.
Same project as yesterday's strange spelling, but different author:
He means participants'. He wrote percipients.
People, the red squiggly line is your friend.
Percipients are people who percieve things, clearly.
OMG, a series of SNAFUs already this morning made me laugh so hard alone in my office that my boss came in because she thought I was crying! TGIF, bitches!
Dana, I'm sorry about the work and family problems your DH has to deal with.
Pix, that duvet cover is lovely. Ginkgo trees are nifty!
I've reached the stage of ongoing insomnia where everything is slightly distant and unreal. It's not unlike being mildly drunk. Coding work-arounds for our craptastic CMS today is going to be exciting--no idea what will come out of my fingers. Do modern browsers accept the blink tag? My org might find out.
Pix, your new duvet is lovely! Don't fret. (It's just a duvet. It doesn't mean what you think.)
Seconding the request for kitten-duvet-surfing video. That's hilarious. My cats do that with the tablecloth. Less hilarious.
some management tactic to me--it involved quadrants of motivation and ability, and indicated what techniques you use when you're dealing with someone that was, say, highly motivated but low on capability, or both highly capable and highly motivated, etc.
Where might I find this thing? I can use all the help I can get.
Pix, I looked for a duvet cover for months and months before finally finding something. All the white-based covers - do none of these people have pets and/or kids? So I feel your pain, and yes, it's a lovely and very reasonable duvet cover.
Percipients are people who percieve things, clearly.
Percipients should almost be a word. Almost.
My 7AM just got cancelled and so did my 7:30AM so fuck alla y'all.
BECAUSE I AM AT THE OFFICE.
However, the muffin thing worked out, and the other people here are appropriately understanding (they do this all the time???) and, as noted by the Cowgirl, TGIF.
Zenkitty, let me try and remember the keywords he used and see what I can find. If not, he's back in the office Monday and I can ask him then.
Ginger,
Are you sure the person had spellcheck on?
some management tactic to me--it involved quadrants of motivation and ability, and indicated what techniques you use when you're dealing with someone that was, say, highly motivated but low on capability, or both highly capable and highly motivated, etc.
Oh, our sales team used to use this. Also a similar system for mapping clients against a grid of "high-value" vs "high-maintenance" to avoid wasting a lot of time on clueless people who never spent any money.
