Man, you just get darker and darker, and the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.

Host ,'Why We Fight'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Zenkitty - Mar 12, 2015 2:25:45 pm PDT #22090 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Yay, raise, Connie!

House ~ma, Suzi and Strix!


Connie Neil - Mar 12, 2015 2:28:59 pm PDT #22091 of 30000
brillig

I hate when the supervisor says "Can you come to my office?" on an IM. Odds are I'd know if I was about to be fired, but there's always that adrenaline spike.


sarameg - Mar 12, 2015 2:48:19 pm PDT #22092 of 30000

Maria, rather than burnout, could it just be TOO FUCKING MUCH WORK? Because a shitton just got dropped on you at not ideal time. I mean that facilitates burnout if it never relents, but the onset of a period of that sure feels the same. Senior review for this 36 month long painful project is Monday. If we get approval, launch in a month. Worst of the work is done, but I'm not off the treadmill from hell yet. And then I can focus on the other six projects from hell that are also high profile that have languished as this thing has tortuously ground along.


Calli - Mar 12, 2015 3:25:38 pm PDT #22093 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Housing~ma to those dealing with it.

You know, three-buck Chuck is surprisingly drinkable, at least in the Cab Sav version.

I'm rewatching the Avengers and wondering if any of the jobs to which I've applied will ever call me for an interview. Or maybe climate change will make the North Atlantic Current stop, and I can make a living subletting my second bedroom to Midwesterners fleeing encroaching glaciers. Both seem equally likely.


tommyrot - Mar 12, 2015 4:16:53 pm PDT #22094 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Insert to profile addy, SailAweigh.


sarameg - Mar 12, 2015 4:23:27 pm PDT #22095 of 30000

Federal tax refund received. Going to admire the balance in my checking for a moment and then put it in savings and forget it happened. My version of savings these days.


shrift - Mar 12, 2015 4:56:40 pm PDT #22096 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I need to do my taxes this weekend. Ugh.

It's almost 9 and I haven't eaten dinner yet, although it's just out of the oven now. I was going to make lemon pepper tilapia with pasta, but I am working late due to shenanigans so I went with flatbread because it's quick.

This week has been brutal.


sarameg - Mar 12, 2015 5:17:45 pm PDT #22097 of 30000

I concur, shrift, and I wasn't even international. Pool better be fine tomorrow, I need my 2 miles. My 3/8 of a mile tonight didn't undo today's stress kinks. And I've got to make cookies for the Monday senior review from hell and I have to find time this weekend, which...I don't know. It'll happen, but possibly in wee smalls. I'm out of sugar and butter. So no prep tonight.


Burrell - Mar 12, 2015 5:47:34 pm PDT #22098 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Unless date night or sexytimes are involved, dinner at 9 is pretty much a recipe for disaster in my experience. Much sympathy~ma.

And sarameg, I love how even when life is crazy there is still time for cookies.

Franny's icky teacher is having a big Pi Day celebration tomorrow, so we got a pie. And are now baking a big sugar coated "pi" to decorate it.


Zenkitty - Mar 12, 2015 5:52:40 pm PDT #22099 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I was going to send out Pi Day cards, but I failed at getting the cards in time. I blame the snowstorm. So next year I will send out Pi Day cards.