Edible and tasty!

[Oh god, volunteer chair has emailed me 3 more times -- in the past couple of hours -- since I said "I am working late tonight I can't run out a list for you of the books" to try to get me to run out a list of the books. All of my replies were polite and yet indicating that I HAVE WORKED PAST 11 EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK so no, I can't just jump when you say jump. So the most recent email said "Call me at 10 p.m. and I can talk you through it."

Is this where I get to stop being polite and say "I guess I didn't make it clear enough the first 3 times I said I am working UNTIL 11 TONIGHT, but NO I AM NOT YOUR LACKEY AND I CANNOT GIVE YOU A LIST JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT IT RIGHT NOW SO FUCK THE HELL OFF"?]

Tim heard me yelling at the email and said "Tell her I'll call her and she can walk me through it." Which is sweet, but I hate capitulating to people who think they own your time.

Hmm. This is definitely confirming that my desire to quit is the right idea.

Yup.

I would ignore the emails, you've already answered her questions. She is also abusing you. You don't need to put up with it.

At this point, I would be tempted to respond something like, "This is a volunteer position, and I cannot be expected to prioritize it over the paid job that has kept me working until 11 at night every night this week. At this point, I think it would be best if you found someone else to manage the library. In order to give you enough time to find someone else, I won't step down until the end of September. Meanwhile, I will get you that list of books as soon as I have time, and right now I don't know when that will be."

Oh, hell no, Steph. She'll "walk you through it"? Like the problem here is that you don't quite understand? She is taking advantage of you and being rude and deliberately obtuse. I don't normally advocate just walking out on jobs, even volunteer positions, but at this point I'd be gone.

Seriously, Tep, quit now.

OMG OMG OMG my stepson who we just intro'd to Firefly this summer wants to go as Mal for Halloween. Without prompting. I couldn't be prouder if he'd gotten into Yale.

I'm kinda serious about that.

Fantastic stepson of Strix!!!

Teppy, take care of yourself first. Tim next. Anyone else can F off.

Someone shut off my water at work and no one is fessing up to it. People at work, I'm miffed that you did this, but more importantly, I don't know how long the water was on, and I don't know if I need to drag out the 200 foot hose again (that I had to put away this afternoon) to continue watering, because some random person interfered in my course of fucking business. The three most likely culprits have denied, and I'm gonna feel like an ass, but I've had too many helpful people shut off my irrigation without telling me, and, Surprise!, plants die.

I have a feeling that it was the Executive Director. Lovely man, I'm getting to the point where "I hate him" is an accurate description. When put the question of a sticky business, instead of saying "let X deal with this as according to their contract" he replied "oh, goodness no, you can't plant that because of reasons!". Not the answer needed, the answer was one of responsibility, not plant selection, which, as the most ignorant plants person I have ever encountered, you are excluded from having an opinion upon, and is not your department anyhow. You have a horticulture department and a grounds committee to make those decisions, back the fuck off. you don't know what the fuck you are talking about and I hate you.

I tanked the install schedule. After a 2.5 hour meeting that was still going on when I left because I had nothing more to contribute. Fine, it might be a config issue specific to the test system but until you can figure out what went wrong so we don't do it on ops, you CANNOT install it on ops. That you found another bug not previously know just underscores it. I get it makes everyone pissy, but we do acceptance testing so that ops can have a dry run making sure we can config and run the system according to our procedures. If we can't, that is a showstopper. That's the POINT.

I got to the pool an hour late and swam off my frustration. Now dinner.