Ginger, love him!

My coworker has a turtle that hibernates from October to June. That is my turtle for real.

Kitty named Siouxsie! Aawwwww.

I was assuming from the names the dicks are given that there's no actual estimation going on there at all. Me, I traumatised myself by typing "Misha" where I meant to type "Castiel", and, well: [link]

Timelies all!

~ma to your sister, Burrell.

The two cats we currently have are quite enough, thanks. (Nova is currently singing us the song of her people- how she has never been fed. Ever.)

Spare Cat just goes for the Nip of Her People.

Siouxie and Eddy are both adorable.

A friend adopted a cat from the same place that has Siouxie and she has nothing but good things to say about them.

Maybe tomorrow, if I've shaken this stomach bug, I'll go out and look.

Nothing so definite as actual looking, but I'm thinking it's getting to be time to get another cat. But I've also decided I really, really want another Maine Coon or Maine Coon mix. So I think it might be a while yet.

warning: incoming work rant:

Today ended on a bad note. First there's an email sent to the board telling them to pick a date to volunteer for me. Great idea, I'd love to have the people who hold the keys to approving additional staff to get out and see that we actually need more trained reliable staff. But, um, maybe discuss it more concretely with the staff who's time your volunteering so that we can settle on dates and tasks. It's not the concept, it was the initiation of the idea that irks me. I wouldn't have known about her outreach to the board if the ED hadn't replied with me CC'd that she had used an old Board contact list from 2011 and spanked her for not involving the Volunteer Coordinator, even as an FYI kind of thing.

Then I discover that new boss lady is planning to be away galavanting at another garden the day we have 50 highschool volunteers, and apparently stated at the staff meeting that I missed that she had confidence that I and the intern would be more than capable of handling it. Wow, thanks for discussing that with me. I appreciate the vote of confidence, but it is based in ignorance and apparently no real-world experience. Then a coworker asks what I did today, since this is the first time I've felt well enough to leave my desk and she couldn't find me. I told her that she was going to be mad, because new boss lady had me hack back the only thing providing blooms in a prime rental spot. And the fact that I tried (weakly) protesting the idea and also knew that the rental lady would be mad put a lot of the culpability on me when I didn't argue the point strongly enough and caved (because I felt awkward that the first task given to me by new boss lady would be one that I'd refuse. Hi! I'm back to actual work, no I won't do that. So colleague is pissed and I feel guilty. And I couldn't even bring myself to apologize because I was on the verge of tears.

New boss lady is pleasant, but I'm already getting tired of her "England this, London that, when I was at band camp, if this plant behaves like it does in England--" "You do realize that plants here don't grow the same as there, right?" "Well, it's that or my experience from California" --OMG, she has no hort expertise in the Northeast!-- "Let me tell you awesome things about myself, London this, let me tell you long-winded stories while you're trying to work, let me come in a day when I wasn't supposed to, then have to cancel a Saturday volunteer program because I don't believe in working 6 day weeks, England that..."

I actually have, after one week of being stuck in the office with her, learned to not encourage conversation or respond to her cues (laughing at something on the computer) like a usually would any other coworker.

/tl;dr

ita !, hah!

I was going through Marvel characters and their actors. Typed in Scarlett Johansen's name and got THE TORNADO MEGA ROCKET LAUNCHER.

I traumatised myself by typing "Misha" where I meant to type "Castiel"

I did try Castiel and now I feel sorry for the angel.