Today sucks eggs. Rotten stinky eggs.
Sing it.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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.
brenda m - Dec 11, 2012 9:01:00 am PST #3961 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
P.M. Marc - Dec 11, 2012 9:01:41 am PST #3962 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I, umm.
Damn. I've got nuthin'!
Lee - Dec 11, 2012 9:06:35 am PST #3963 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Do you have any TJ cookies left, Suzi? Would they help?
eta: and I am sorry about the sucky day, of course.
Consuela - Dec 11, 2012 9:39:18 am PST #3964 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow, we have a new co-worker and she seems totally cool and competent! And she likes to go drink beer.
I'm astonished, frankly.
Jesse - Dec 11, 2012 9:48:18 am PST #3965 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fuucccckkkkkk. I have a thing due by "COB." There's a huge section I need from someone else. A third person is also waiting on it to finish another large section. When has it been promised to us? 4pm. That is not enough time!!
aurelia - Dec 11, 2012 9:54:03 am PST #3966 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I brought brownies to work today.
Whoever wrote this headline is a dick. [link] The article itself is lovely.
Ginger - Dec 11, 2012 9:55:22 am PST #3967 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The number of writers who understand risk and what constitutes an effective study appears to be -1. It's annoying and possibly life-threatening in articles about cancer.
I always felt uneasy with enforced gifts to people further down the hierarchy. My feeling was that if the supervisor wants to give a Christmas bonus to the cleaning staff, he should just give a damn bonus. In several places, we gave cookies or presents to other departments we worked with. These were often departments that had just disappeared with the layouts or put another job on the press when ours was scheduled. There was a temptation to give poison cookies. Also, the men in the department always seemed to be exempt from baking. It one point, the women in the offered the men instructions for buying cookies and recommended they get a can of sweetened condensed milk and follow the magic cookies recipe on the pack. There may have been someone yelling, "You can't measure and dump ingredients?" It may have been me.
The closest to a random act of kindness recently was helping a woman in the grocery store figure out what the "pumpkin puree" in her recipe was.
Jessica - Dec 11, 2012 9:57:52 am PST #3968 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There may have been someone yelling, "You can't measure and dump ingredients?" It may have been me.
Love this.
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2012 9:58:07 am PST #3969 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
GET OFF THE INTERNET, JESSE.
We will see you after business has closed.
Just had my first 1:1 in forever, and apparently the official word from the boss is: fewer details. And his side of the bargain is: fewer agitated demands for details. My fingers are crossed that this works out--it makes sense. My boss that got fired wasn't replaced by this guy. This guy was fired boss's boss. We're missing a person between my manager and my boss, and there's no way he can handle as much as he asks for and we need to stop throwing it at him.
Kind of a shame, because my auto-debrief-on-encounter really had my projects going more smoothly for a while--he wasn't surprised, and everything was calm.
But we do also have explicit permission from our manager to escalate beyond her if she's not giving us what we feel we need, so that's good, at least on paper.
We have to do year end self-evals by the end of the week, which is Thursday morning for me. Yikes! But they sent out the recognition award summary yesterday, and I got two. I have no idea for what, though, because no one told my manager, and it wasn't her. I need that info before I send in my self-eval. Belying the "self" part of that.
Jesse - Dec 11, 2012 10:03:20 am PST #3970 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
GET OFF THE INTERNET, JESSE.
We will see you after business has closed.
I can't do anything! I need the stuff from the other people! wah wah wah.