A really big reason I don't want to go much higher in the corporate ladder is that I don't want to work much harder than I do now--not all of that is laziness--I worry that I just won't be able to keep that many balls in the air.

But then, sometimes people above me in the org chart ask me questions that I don't know how to answer--not because I don't know the answer, but rather because I thought we all did, and I don't know how to frame it without sounding condescending.

Like "Why will we need a different number of servers if we use a different architecture?" "Because that's what the word different means?" or "Why are we using this architecture?" "Uh, you chose it last week?"

I mean, I get to the point where I assume I don't understand the question, because it can't be that, but...it really is that. It gets hard to sell a decision you didn't make and didn't even agree with at the time, but now seems like your idea, because everyone has forgotten who really chose it.

What do I want for dinner? Current ideas are long john silers or chicken express.

Man. This blackout in India is crazytown. 670 million without power.

I just had ice cream for dinner. There will probably be a part 2, but it might be Goldfish. Because fuck everything.

I will say I have never been so glad to see that my cat did #1 AND #2 today, because I was afraid he wasn't eating or drinking. He did, of course, reject the fancy wet food I just bought.

I think your Chicken Express is different from mine, msbelle, but I will vote for that one anyway.

I'm so sorry for your loss sumi.

I do have an orange cat here that has taken to peeing on the bathmat if anyone wants to take him off my hands.

So for the last ten days (and prob. the next few weeks) I have been working in a department that is being split up and the offices sent to rural communities. It is where I have discovered the government is keeping all the good-looking men. Like, half the guys we've spoken to are hot.

If I had my time back, I would go into marine biology.

So another court found DOMA unconstitutional: [link]

And the Democrats have adopted marriage equality as a plank in their platform.

Woot.

Kat, I have these Sophie Conran dishes. They are really nice and durable. I got a 12-piece, four place setting for about $120 CDN, so they were pretty reasonable. No mugs, though. (I have enough pottery mugs that I don't need any more.)

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It drives me crazy that so many sets include mugs. Total waste.

sumi, I'm so sorry. It's never long enough.