Great news, Amy! That's awesome.
I still don't know what vertical writing is.
ION, I got this email notice from Emmett's HS:
Yesterday afternoon after the high school was out for the day (we are in early dismissal due to final exam schedule), three of our students, including one freshman and two sophomores, were sitting near the BART tracks near Fairmount Drive in El Cerrito. What we understand is that they were approached by two men who asked about their shoes. When one of our students stood up, one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the student, injuring him critically. Another one of our students was also shot in the face, but thankfully received just a flesh wound. The other student was able to escape without physical injury. The assailants escaped. I spoke with the parents of all three students last night and this morning. The young man who was injured critically is still in the hospital and his mother describes his condition as stable.
That's the BART station Emmett uses every day to get home.
Jesus, Hec. That's awful.
Yays to Amy, and job~ma to Sparky and Jesse.
Hec, that's fucking horrible. I hope all those kids will be all right. I also hope bad things happen to the people who hurt them.
I would be a total neurotic paranoid wreck if I were a parent. No joke. I have nothing but awed admiration for people who can be parents without losing their damn minds.
And I feel like I'm otherwise totally unemployable, so I don't try to look for anything else.
Steph, we are twins in this. This is the first and only non-shit job I've ever had, and despite my bitching I live in fear of losing it, because there is nothing else I'm useful for besides proofreading and pushing paper ("process management", my wide white ass), and I can't imagine finding another job doing it that would be better than this.
Oh god, David. That's really scary.
And I feel like I'm otherwise totally unemployable, so I don't try to look for anything else.
Steph, we are twins in this. This is the first and only non-shit job I've ever had, and despite my bitching I live in fear of losing it, because there is nothing else I'm useful for besides proofreading and pushing paper ("process management", my wide white ass), and I can't imagine finding another job doing it that would be better than this.
Yes yes yes and yes. Maybe we should team up! And...be unemployable!
Emmett can NOT wear his awesome Christmas shoes. He must wear nasty ass shoes. MUST. I said so. period done. He should also perhaps strive to look homeless. just sayin.
We have freezing rain here today. I took our housemate to the train at 6:30 this morning and it was drizzling and warmish. 2 hours later I head out, thinking "Hm, it's gotten colder" just as my foot goes out from under me on the walk. Hooray for fat butts, they provide some cushioning on falling on them, but that much weight going down hurts. I nearly had to crawl to the car. And the walks at work were nicely salted, but the parking lot itself is lumpy hard snow and ice chunks, now evenly coated with frozen rain. One shouldn't need ice axes to get across the parking lot.
Damn, Hec that is so awful and scary. Much safety~ma for Emmett and his friends.
Yay, Amy! Congratulations!
Hec, how awful! That's so frightening.
Scrappy, I don't think I ever said. I'm so sorry about your layoff. Much job ~ma to you.
