Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.

Mal ,'Out Of Gas'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Oct 24, 2012 2:57:36 pm PDT #26943 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I feel like it's late in the year too, but then I remember--I always think that. In my head there's a teeny tiny hurricane season, conveniently too short for hurricanes to actually form and get anywhere. I prefer my version.

I forgot to do a porn check before the cable guys got here. Life drawing looks less like art and more like vagina if you can only see her from the waist down. I got to one stack of papers and oh-so-subtly turned it over, but...there was an early version of my last piece of fanart that I couldn't get to without looking like I was diving to hide sex toys or something.


Consuela - Oct 24, 2012 3:17:18 pm PDT #26944 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Okay, one of my projects might get done, if the contracting folks can get off their asses (the paperwork has been stalled in the system), but the contractor's only on site for another few days! Argh.

The other one--it has to be done before March 15, and now the bidders are telling us it can't be done, especially with delays for weather. And it's a huge project with a lot of moving parts.

If it can't be done before March 15, I don't even know what to do. I have to call one of the lawyers. ARGH.


Liese S. - Oct 24, 2012 3:25:46 pm PDT #26945 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ha! I had to scurry to close Bitches this morning when the trainer said, "And now I'm going to initiate a remote access session."

I'm super baked after today's lessons. More students, so it's a little more tiring, and less downtime.


Jesse - Oct 24, 2012 3:31:44 pm PDT #26946 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Earlier, I heard an electrician knocking on another door in my building, and looked around quickly to see if I would let him in here. (He didn't come to my door.)


§ ita § - Oct 24, 2012 3:32:40 pm PDT #26947 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I had a co-worker walk up to my desk and make weird "Pfah!" noises. I thought he was judging my lunch, but apparently it was my "posting on forums during the work day" that he was muttering about. NOT NEAR MY MANAGER, YOU DOLT.

I *knew* when he said he posted pictures of my Community mug that he didn't mean FB. I just knew. Even online, it's not that often I meet someone who makes allusions to Stargate and Supernatural in successive sentences. "This doesn't make sense. Something is wrong. Is there sulphur by the windowsills? Did Colonel Carter stop by? Without time dilation, that will never happen."

Whoah, dorkage alert!


sarameg - Oct 24, 2012 4:51:25 pm PDT #26948 of 30001

ita, be overcautious with yourself. I really don't like the symptoms you were having today. They are scary.

Mom, I'll wish you happy birthday if you'd just get home!


§ ita § - Oct 24, 2012 5:08:55 pm PDT #26949 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm currently trying to explain to the neuro how low my bar is. I'm not asking for a way for the pain to go away--I'm asking for it to be controlled to a level where I can work 5 days out of 7. I have given up on it stopping hurting. But I don't play the lottery, so I have to be able to support myself. Short or long term disability aren't viable. I have no choice except to be able to keep working.


Kat - Oct 24, 2012 5:14:40 pm PDT #26950 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Because in working you get to keep paying for things like the ability to have treatment for your headache and the health insurance to cover it. Ugh. ita. I'm sorry.


§ ita § - Oct 24, 2012 5:33:40 pm PDT #26951 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

His words:

The only other option is to have you admitted for IV treatment.

Okay, sure! I'll get admitted to hospital 52 times a year. That sounds like a totally reasonable use of everyone's time and resources. That's not a waste of ANYTHING.

If he doesn't have my back (the pain doctor is a toss up--it's a miracle he's prescribing me pain meds, but he normally "fixes" my shoulder once a year--the flexeril is because he hasn't been able to fix it this year) I am effectively backless. I have that general doctor from Gonda who called my record of bad response "dubious" who seems reasonable, but I DON'T KNOW WHO THE FUCK HE IS. He's not *my* doctor. I need *my* doctor to want to help me. For fuck's sake why is that complicated?


Scrappy - Oct 24, 2012 8:27:41 pm PDT #26952 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

He wants you to go into the hospital every WEEK? WTF?