With the meetings I'm having, I'm tentatively getting more excited about the job I'll be moving to. I think I'll be able to shape policy and drop the hammer on some stuff. I'll totally be leveling up on the number of bad guy life ruinings!
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
Host ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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shrift - Apr 22, 2013 8:30:02 am PDT #20075 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Theodosia - Apr 22, 2013 8:30:47 am PDT #20076 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Trudy, there's been talk of it in Boxed Set, which seems appropriate.
Consuela, as a computer programmer which is often VERY specialized, you'd be surprised how many helpful people are recommending me jobs which have something vaguely to do with computers. Best you can do is smile and say thanks, because the good intent is at least there.
Your poor clients are going to be so screwed, alas.
Lee - Apr 22, 2013 8:32:25 am PDT #20077 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
'm tentatively getting more excited about the job I'll be moving to.
YAY
I'll totally be leveling up on the number of bad guy life ruinings!
MORE YAY
SuziQ - Apr 22, 2013 8:32:27 am PDT #20078 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I have no idea what she said to HR or her boss - this was just an announcement within our project team this morning. I know her wife and she is definitely the more classically "maternal" of the two.
There is so much work on my plate today but I can't touch most of it because I need additional information from people who aren't answering. So flipping frustrating.
Burrell - Apr 22, 2013 8:35:13 am PDT #20079 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I am taking a week's vacation when I bring NewDog home, but that's mostly because I really need a week's vacation.
Yay for NewDog, Lee!
Consuela - Apr 22, 2013 8:35:35 am PDT #20080 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Best you can do is smile and say thanks, because the good intent is at least there.
Pretty much, yeah.
Your poor clients are going to be so screwed, alas.
And not just my clients. I've been working off and on for the last six years to resolve a tricky question involving the proper storage and handling of archaeological material, and it's all gummed up with state law versus federal law versus tribal interests and a great deal of politics. And my state counterpart, whom I was just on the phone with, sounded quite disconsolate at the prospect of having to start from scratch with whomever I dump this on.
I'm disconsolate that it's not going to get solved before I go! All these damned long-term projects...
Kat - Apr 22, 2013 8:42:37 am PDT #20081 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Our nurse saga continues. We are entering week 2 of no nurse, which means week 2 of no school for Grace. A temp nurse showed up for today and tomorrow because K flipped out on the nursing agency.
But I realized, I need to create a binder of stuff we just know but a new person into our house doesn't know. So I have printed about 60 pages of documents where I am writing about care routines, equipment, supply companies, doctors, everything.
This is good that I am doing this, because if I die everyone else is screwed on figuring out all the stuff I already know -- like what supplies Grace needs each month. Or what her therapist is working on at OT. Or what her routines for surgery are.
It's nuts that I haven't done this before.
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2013 8:43:56 am PDT #20082 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DON'T DIE, KAT.
That's an order.
le nubian - Apr 22, 2013 8:46:43 am PDT #20083 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
kat,
why don't you have a nurse?
Kat - Apr 22, 2013 9:00:23 am PDT #20084 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
On April 11, her car broke down and had to be towed. So she called us at 10:00 that night to let us know. I took April 12 off and took Grace to school for 1/2 a day and then we did fun stuff -- like got new eyeglasses.
The nurse showed up the following Monday (April 15) in her son's car. On tuesday April 16, we got a call at 5:00 AM saying her son's car wasn't working and she'd probably be out that whole week. Grace went to school with K on that Tuesday. I took Wednesday off and spent the whole day being Grace's nurse in Kindergarten (blargh, but I have an adorbs video her playing with friends, which is heartwarming). Then Grace thankfully spent the Thursday and Friday of that week with lori's partner, Lina, doing homeschool.
On Thursday, K texted the nurse to ask if she was returning on Monday. No. Her car was still not working. And wouldn't be fixed until Wed. We have a sub nurse who showed up today and will be here tomorrow (also, why do nurse's wear perfume? It seems like such a trigger for so many people). But I don't know if sub nurses are allowed to go to school with Grace (I think not because there are all sorts of fingerprinting requirements etc).
This is an hourly employee who has missed over a week of work because of car issues? Does that seem nuts? If I had car issues, I'd work it out. It might take me a day, but then I'd either prevail upon friends, figure out public transport or, worst case, rent a car.
But neither K nor I can take any time off this week because it's state testing and we NEED to be on campus. Grace is missing a shocking amount of school because of this which pisses me off.