AHAHAHAHAHAHA, job craziness update: if I sign the PIP, I can't move to another team. If I don't sign the PIP, we start the process for a 30 day paid job hunt internally. As I don't want to work for Umbridge anymore, guess what option I'm telling the HR minion tomorrow?

On the plus side, the HR director at Cheezburger has been directly emailed my résumé, because I have connections.

If I don't sign the PIP, we start the process for a 30 day paid job hunt internally.

It sounds like the other team wants you, though, right? That's promising. But what a frustrating, needless ball of shit.

On the plus side, the HR director at Cheezburger has been directly emailed my résumé, because I have connections.

ALSO promising!

OMG Jilli. It's a rock and a hard place all in one.

brenda,

forgive me for asking this, but is your sister goddess sized by chance? There have been studies that doctors mistreat larger patients routinely. It is fucking ridiculous.

Good god, Jilli. A curse upon her.

And holy cow, TWO of them is like a curse has been cast upon me.

It's twice the pain!

Have you tried frozen peas? In the bag, I mean. It can help.

Have you tried frozen peas? In the bag, I mean. It can help.

I didn't even think about that. I was trying a warm washcloth, but something frozen didn't even occur to me. Duh.

I have had to resort to ice bags on the cho-cha for an infected cyst (cleaned it myself: slow, but the pain was controllable, but hello, AWKWARD mirror and lamp placement!)

If there's itching/burning, alternate ice bags with cold, wet tea bags -- I had two staph infections on my crotch, buttocks and upper legs this spring. Took till the second one for them to diagnose it properly. Trust me, the itching was worse than poison ivy: before I got the Rx cream, I was seriously thinking a garden rake to the hoo-ha was the only way to go.

hello, AWKWARD mirror and lamp placement!

Ahahaha, you just described my morning!

Teppy, feel better.

Jilli, tons of job~ma. It sounds like getting away from your current manager is for the best.

G was both exhausted and didn't want to go to bed, but he is there anyway. I grabbed a cookbook from the library, so I'll have something to look at while I wait for H to come home.

Just need to get this out somewhere, because someone is driving me nuts on facebook: There are these things called facts. There are also things called primary sources, which can verify facts. If all the primary sources directly contradict the thing that you heard, then the most likely explanation is that the thing that you heard is wrong. And being 80 years old does not make you a better authority than me on something that happened 100 years ago, especially if this is a thing that I have researched extensively.