Just read Beep Me after few days off the board. Burrell, I'm so very sorry. My deepest sympathies to you and yours.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Shir - Oct 30, 2013 10:40:03 am PDT #10610 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
le nubian - Oct 30, 2013 10:45:45 am PDT #10611 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am learning that people can just be flaky
You know, you are probably correct.
However, my forehead is sore from hitting the desk.
Jesse - Oct 30, 2013 11:00:09 am PDT #10612 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, I love those flaky turnovers!
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2013 11:02:55 am PDT #10613 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Now I want an apple turnover, and *I'm* the one who caused it!
Jesse - Oct 30, 2013 11:26:16 am PDT #10614 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, there have been rumors for some time that my department was going to be moving spaces. And over the past couple of months, people have said to me that they had definitely heard we were moving, but not people in charge of that kind of thing. Then the other day, people started walking around, looking at our space with blueprints in hand. My boss still has not been told anything official! Then today, there was (a) an all-staff meeting where, if your vision was good enough, you could see where we're going on a new floorplan slide, and (b) a colleague came browsing around, commenting on the good light we get! And we still have not been told via channels if/where/when we are moving! It is a little crazy-making.
flea - Oct 30, 2013 11:43:23 am PDT #10615 of 30000
information libertarian
I found out this afternoon that one of my coworkers is retiring in December, and another is having open-heart surgery. This whole place is like, if you haven't worked here for 10 years, everybody assumes you'll leave and doesn't tell you anything. Which kind of makes you think about leaving...
brenda m - Oct 30, 2013 11:53:32 am PDT #10616 of 30000
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
Now I want an apple turnover, and *I'm* the one who caused it!
Damn you all.
Jesse - Oct 30, 2013 11:57:01 am PDT #10617 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe I'll become the person in my family who buys the Pepperidge Farm turnovers, now that it's not my grandmother. (I had the most vivid dream with her in it last night -- I've never had a dream like that before.)
erin_obscure - Oct 30, 2013 12:02:01 pm PDT #10618 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Burrell, so sorry for your loss. coping~ and grieving~ ma to you and yours.
Hil R. - Oct 30, 2013 12:07:19 pm PDT #10619 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I got to one of my classes today and realized that I hadn't brought enough copies of the quiz I was giving. (I had MADE enough copies, and then left half of them on my desk.) There wasn't time to go back to my office and get the other copies. The building I was in had the department office of another department, though, so I went in there, found someone, explained the situation, and asked if I could use their copying machine. She said no. It was for department use only. I begged. She found someone higher-up, and after a lot more pleading on my part, I was allowed to make the copies, but with a warning that this would be the ONLY time I would be allowed to, and that this could not be a regular thing.