Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.

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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.


SuziQ - Mar 13, 2015 7:29:43 am PDT #22128 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

People need to bow down the awesomeness that is shrift.

This waiting til late Sunday/Monday and NOT falling in love with the house and NOT making plans sucks mightily. I do not wait well. Check my tagline.

I can't distract myself with retail therapy, cause I need to hold on to what money I have. I can't even wish list shop cause that will make me think about the house and what I need for the house.

I am already hitting stir crazy. I couldn't sleep last night, so I worked for a couple of hours. Now I'm working and I want to take a nap. My brain is a mess. Can I just be put in a coma until they decide if they will take my offer over all the others that they have?


meara - Mar 13, 2015 7:32:06 am PDT #22129 of 30000

Yeah, right now there are all kinds of issues on my one project because we're using new systems and processes, and no one is QUITE sure how it should work, and no one is sure WHO should be doing the things that we don't know how they work...and half our team just got told "your choice is severance, find a new job in the company, or take a 25% paycut" and they are all flipping out, so we are reluctant to say that they'll do ANYTHING, lest they all leave/quit, and we have no one doing that and no one who knows how. But the whole point of their job was to make my job easier, so now it is none of that. Ugh. (The issue being their job is new, and the company was planning to hire people for it, but some folks in my job wanted that job, and got it when they were first creating it, but now they're cracking down on the fact that it's supposed to be a less-well-paid, less-experienced job, and they don't want to pay people like they're still doing my job). UGH>


Zenkitty - Mar 13, 2015 7:41:24 am PDT #22130 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

UGH, meara. What a clusterfvck.


Zenkitty - Mar 13, 2015 7:45:54 am PDT #22131 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I don't, however, understand why after I have been attempting to run for YEARS now, I still can't run for three minutes and not have my heart rate be above what they think my max should be. Seriously, how can I STILL be so out of shape???

IANAD, but are you gasping too? is there a chance you could have asthma? Pre-official-diagnosis, I used to dance a lot and work out three or four times a week, and go hiking and stuff, and I would always be breathing hard and falling behind everyone else, and I thought I was just somehow still out of shape. I'm sure my heart rate was high, too, but I never checked it. Asthma didn't even occur to me.


Jesse - Mar 13, 2015 7:50:13 am PDT #22132 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ah, nothing like coming into work this morning to see the team whose day I ruined has thrown me under the bus for being the messenger.

(The issue being their job is new, and the company was planning to hire people for it, but some folks in my job wanted that job, and got it when they were first creating it, but now they're cracking down on the fact that it's supposed to be a less-well-paid, less-experienced job, and they don't want to pay people like they're still doing my job).

Ugh, you guys!

I am high on my job today, but that can change in an instant...


Trudy Booth - Mar 13, 2015 7:56:12 am PDT #22133 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Turns out, its not merely Pi Day, but a SPECIAL Pi Day.

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flea - Mar 13, 2015 8:07:29 am PDT #22134 of 30000
information libertarian

Folks, if you were applying for a passport for your kids or spouse, would you think that somehow those people didn't need to come to the appointment? Like, a woman just called and she wanted to apply for a passport for her husband, but she would just bring in all the paperwork and he wouldn't come. This just boggles me. It's a hugely important identity document - our job is to verify that the individual applying exists and is who they say they are, and for that, we have to SEE THE APPLICANT!


Steph L. - Mar 13, 2015 8:23:52 am PDT #22135 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Maybe that's the passport equivalent of "Oh, my boyfriend goes to another school; you wouldn't know him..."


Maria - Mar 13, 2015 8:45:13 am PDT #22136 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Zen, fuck the laptop. I need to resist the siren call.

I just made myself a frittata with broccoli, cauliflower, and a little bit of Colby and Jack cheeses (only kind I have in the house right now), and then drizzled it with Sriracha. My nonna is rolling over in her grave, but it was delicious.


Burrell - Mar 13, 2015 8:52:05 am PDT #22137 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

that sounds tasty, Maria