'Get It Done'
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.
It's those spontaneous moments when people are being themselves without the awareness they're being watched that shows you a lot.
If someone takes a bad picture of me and infers that it's because my children have rendered me dead inside, I'm pretty comfortable saying that says more about their issues than it does about my family.
I've done it, but if there's somewhere nearby that you can step out to and do it from your cell I think that's generally more comfortable. And especially if you feel like you might be overheard.
Somehow I feel like going to the phone room would be more obvious. I think my voice doesn't carry like my coworker's, and even with her, I can only hear what she's actually saying about half the time. I guess it will be fine. I just wish I had gotten the 5pm slot!
Childrearing has different effects on different parents, too. My cousins who just had kids the last couple of years are always bubbly and energetic when I see them. My best friend and his wife when they had an infant and toddler in the house? Should have been moaning "braiiiiins" at passers-by.
Telling people I am leaving is a really good time. for realz.
earwormed - Dog Days are Over.
Telling people I am leaving is a really good time
Lucky you!
I was born about three years after my older brother, and my sister was born about three years after me. When I was about five, I asked my mom why I didn't have another sibling born three years after my sister, and my mom told me she and dad did not have the egg fertilized. So I pictured my mom and dad going to a hardware store to pick up so baby-fertilizer. Then I wondered how babies were made in caveman days, before there were hardware stores. I didn't ask my mom any more questions, though, as I figured I would understand all this fertilizing stuff when I was older.
And now you know it involves vans and parking lots!
So I've moved on to telling some of my internal "clients" that I'm leaving, and they've started sending me random job announcements. Which is really nice, except they're in Seattle, and for jobs for which I'm not qualified, and are only available to "status candidates" (i.e., people who are already federal employees). It's endearing but dorky and useless.