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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


Amy - Jun 09, 2013 8:18:40 am PDT #25344 of 30001
Because books.

Will I make it back off the couch? Unclear.

It sounds like you deserve some couch time. With music!

Naps are good, Tom. Nap long and hard, I say.

I have all kinds of work to do today, so this is my procrastinating. I need to stop now.


meara - Jun 09, 2013 8:20:18 am PDT #25345 of 30001

Having broken up with the girl and thus not being required to go to her softball game this morning or help her finish cleaning her old apartment this afternoon, I find myself with lots of free time. What to do?!?

I'm going to the farmer's market when it opens (at 11AM--the gayborhood knows the gays don't get up early) but can't buy much, since I leave tomorrow for work. Then I think downtown to Sephora. After that?? ...I should do some work, since I have shit due Tuesday and Wednesday that I haven't done, and I'll be busy traveling. But don't wanna!


Jesse - Jun 09, 2013 8:37:59 am PDT #25346 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So I guess the breakup isn't bad, meara? Also, how do you track your work time? Do you worry about it?


sarameg - Jun 09, 2013 8:45:40 am PDT #25347 of 30001

Well, I had plans for today.

Instead, I have a completely terrified orange tabby hiding in a carrier in my basement room. Has a collar, no id. Anna noticed him yesterday- he'd run from behind her ac to my basement window when she'd go out on her back area. Who knows how long he's been out there.

Clearly scared, I was able to coax him in through the open window and carried him to the room. Soon as he discovered the carrier, he was in it. No sign of interest in food or water, but the poor thing is clearly scared out of his mind. Definitely acts like a cat who did not mean to be outside.

Posted to the neighborhood listserv. Spammed my neighbors.

Oh my fucking god, really? I'll have to wait until Tue or Weds to get him to the vet to check for disease/microchip. Unless an owner turns up. If one doesn't....hey lisah, want a cat???


Jesse - Jun 09, 2013 8:46:45 am PDT #25348 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Aw, poor orange cat!


-t - Jun 09, 2013 8:48:58 am PDT #25349 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Poor kitty. I hope the owner finds you!


meara - Jun 09, 2013 8:49:53 am PDT #25350 of 30001

Work time--depends on how much I'm traveling, really. I have to bill 40 hours a week (though that can include stuff like training or administrative stuff, not just client-billable). Basically, for each visit I do I have to write a report (and do expenses and stuff). And if I'm really busy, then I usually bill plenty more than 40 hours just between time at the sites and travel, and so I'll work however many hours I need to write the reports and it's no big. Sometimes I'll bill 13 hours Monday, 8 hours Tuesday, 15 hours Wednesday, 6 hours Thursday and 8 Friday. As long as I'm getting the work done and totaling 40 or more, they don't mind. But my reports are due at a certain time after I do the visit, so sometimes I have to work extra hours on a day I'd already worked enough, to make sure it gets in on time. ...in this case I had a headache Friday and didn't get shit done, and had fucked around online on Thursday, so...yeah. Probably if I actually do work today, I'll just pretend I did it Friday and bill the hours to that.


meara - Jun 09, 2013 8:51:07 am PDT #25351 of 30001

Oh my fucking god, really? I'll have to wait until Tue or Weds to get him to the vet to check for disease/microchip. Unless an owner turns up. If one doesn't....hey lisah, want a cat???

Poor kitty! Somehow they find you, though...

(My foster kittens are still SO CUTE. But stinky)

Also, breakup is...probably a good thing in the long run, and good in that I now have lots of me time. But bad in that I'd RATHER have lots of good "US" time...except lately it wasn't good us time, so...yeah.


-t - Jun 09, 2013 8:56:08 am PDT #25352 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm sorry, meara. Breakups are no fun even when they are right.

Maybe I will listen to music while I mow the lawn! Probably not, though, I've got podcasts piled up.


-t - Jun 09, 2013 9:11:59 am PDT #25353 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

And I killed the lawn mower. That's not good.