Connie, fyi, I had cataract surgery a couple of years ago. The eyes were done separately - two weeks apart, I think - and the interim was miserable. But once I got through that, things got better. I was EXTREMELY nearsighted and now - since the doctor corrected my sight - I can walk around without glasses. I can work on the computer without glasses. It's just annoying that, with two separate prescriptions in my eyes, if I don't have my reading glasses with me I have to close one eye to read something.

I think the number of times I have to stop myself from saying "nothing is fucked here" at work is going up. One of these days I'm going to slip and get in trouble. But it's such a calming phrase!

I'm having one of those Mondays where I'm being nibbled to death by ducks. A button popped off my coat while I was waiting in the rain for a bus this morning, so now I have to buy a sewing kit to take with me to NYC so I can sew the button back on tonight. I leaned against something and got some schmutz on my pants and didn't notice until it had dried. And a bunch of other minor inconveniences and clumsiness on my part, such as accidentally flinging parmesan cheese on myself.

I did call and make a doctor's appointment for a physical next week, so I'm on a baked goods ban until then. I probably should call and schedule an optometrist appointment while I'm at it.

...and I'm going to the optometrist on Friday. Now I'm off to buy a sewing kit before my next meeting.

I keep finding showstopping bugs in acceptance testing.

In a build that was initially to be installed tomorrow. But is now next monday.

I just can't.

And my work laptop has died. Well, not died so much as refusing to function. I'm getting speeds of dialup or less, and I can't even access my work sites. So, off to overnight the thing back to the mothership. No work for me today! No problem. Sure. Not like I'm going on vacation in a week.

Grumpy Cat made $99.5 million in 2 years

Goddamn I am in the wrong business.

I have reached the point where I am absolutely convinced my boss is trying to get me fired. She says one thing in a verbal meeting, I follow up with action items as agreed, and she emails (copying Big Boss) in a panic saying what am I doing this isn't what we agreed to.

I have also reached the point where I sincerely *hope* she is trying to get me fired, because then I would get severance and I wouldn't have to work her anymore.

Sounds like it's time to take notes in verbal meetings and ask her to initial them.

You don't really want to not have a choice about getting fired. From now on when your boss gives you verbal instructions, immediately send her an internal email confirming the instruction. If she then sends an email to her boss panicked, forward the email you sent to that boss.

or, what Connie said is even better, But if she refuses to initial then follow up the note with an email