Time zones are on my shit list.

Okay, so I made a dumb comment in a project doc on Monday. Coworker emails me to schedule a meeting, probably to tell me I'm being dumb, which is fair. I clarify that I made a mistake, but we're still having the meeting, whatever.

Only she emails at 1am my time to say she's scheduled the meeting. At 8am today. I see this when I get up, swear a lot, accept the meeting because I had my work computer on me, and rush to get ready. Join the call at 8am and I'm the only person on it.

With no notice, the meeting is now on my calendar for tomorrow at 8am, on a day when I already have approximately eleventy billion meetings. Now I get to wake up at 6am tomorrow and haul myself into the office just so that somebody can tell me I'm an idiot WHEN I ALREADY KNOW.

It's dark. It's raining. People didn't police their umbrellas on the train.

In conclusion, I hate everything and I'm leaving early.

Can't you decline the meeting saying you get it? I've been brushed off like that before, and it made sense.

Since I'm at fault, I'm going to it. But if it turns out to be useless, I'll know to decline in the future.

With no notice, the meeting is now on my calendar for tomorrow at 8am

Oh, that's a cause for smiting.

I may have sent a passive-aggressive "ahem, my calendar invite says Nov. 6" email at 8:02am.

Dear Slightly smelly driver with heavy heavy smoke smell, please stop leaning in while you have me trapped in an office helping you to enroll for benefits online. I need some scent therapy.

This is why I have a tin of Gardenia solid perfume at my desk. INHALE.

For tommyrot if he's around. "Bitcoin price soars over $266 and hits a new all-time high": [link]

My aunt's housekeeper was over yesterday, working on re-organizing my uncle's way WAY overcrowded walkin closet. (I think my aunt decided to have her do this because my uncle wouldn't be around to rescue all the tattered holey unmatched socks from the garbage. They are just hoarders with a really large house and a lot of storage. And a weekly housekeeper.)

Anyway, my aunt mentioned in passing that the housekeeper likes to talk to herself, but that wasn't the half of it -- it's like the woman keeps up a running dialogue with herself, discussing what she's doing minute to minute. Since she's at the other end of the house, so it was faint, it wasn't distracting... just funny.

She did an excellent job, by the way.

This is where I mention that there is an open invitation to anyone who would like to come for a weekend and help me decide what clothes are super ugly on me and should be removed from closet.

Has there been some sort of bump in visibility for Gothic Charm School that I'm not aware of? Because I was just contacted by the THIRD casting agent/casting director in two weeks with questions about finding goth or alternative types for reality shows and commercials.

a) Casting season is approaching fast.

b) Goth/alt is verra popular right now.

c) DO EEEEET!