Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?

Doyle ,'Life of the Party'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 09, 2015 11:26:13 am PDT #5040 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Oh Toddson. Are you sure you don't work in academia?


Lee - Sep 09, 2015 11:31:13 am PDT #5041 of 30003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I don't want to be doing any of the things I should be doing, so I am pretty much not.


-t - Sep 09, 2015 11:32:44 am PDT #5042 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hard root beer? I don't know if my brain is ready for that concept.

Oh, good, Todd, I know that's what you needed, another thankless task.


Jesse - Sep 09, 2015 11:47:15 am PDT #5043 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't want to be doing any of the things I should be doing, so I am pretty much not.

Same. I was supposed to have a 4pm meeting, so I basically stopped working then. This is basically my slow week -- had a lot of deadlines around the 1st, more to come, but this week I'm just bracing for everything.


shrift - Sep 09, 2015 11:47:59 am PDT #5044 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I don't want to be doing any of the things I should be doing, so I am pretty much not.

I need to write my annual review by tomorrow. Have I started it? Nope! Have I gotten a lot of other things done instead? Yep!

I have an 8pm meeting tonight and a 7am meeting tomorrow, which means I need to be up before 5am. I guess I'm just not getting sleep this week.


Steph L. - Sep 09, 2015 11:48:11 am PDT #5045 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I finished my editing and have nothing until my boss sends me articles tomorrow, so instead of taking a walk, I just watched 2 episodes of 90210 on Hulu. This makes up for working until midnight last night.


Jesse - Sep 09, 2015 11:51:26 am PDT #5046 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I have an 8pm meeting tonight and a 7am meeting tomorrow,

Yikes!


msbelle - Sep 09, 2015 12:05:50 pm PDT #5047 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am in trainings for the next 2 days and should really be plowing through papers on my desk lest there is something important buried. BUT instead I just spent an hour scrambling for our GD wellness program that everyone including me in our office had ignored.

Last year to get the decrease in insurance cost one had to fill out a wellness survey and have a biometric screening. This year you have to do both PLUS earn 10 more "points" to qualify. Points earned by meeting certain standards in the screening, watching short seminars and taking tests, or logging healthy activities. All have to be done by 11/30.

IN ADDITION, this year there is a penalty for anyone who uses tabacco or who does sign an affidavit saying they do not use tabacco. As HR coordinator, but not actual HR employee or professional, in this field office, printing out, understanding, explaining to others, and the tracking some of this falls to me.

Normal days I do zero HR stuff and do this put everything else on hold.


Dana - Sep 09, 2015 12:08:04 pm PDT #5048 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I now desperately want a root beer float.


Juliebird - Sep 09, 2015 12:19:18 pm PDT #5049 of 30003
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Hot and gross today. Boss man kept making fun of me for getting soaked in the sprinklers. Between already sweating like a pig and being miserable, it was the only good thing about dragging hoses around all day.

Morbid humor warning:

Set-up: Coworker sprained her ankle and still had a long night to go for a concert at work (it was visibly swollen). Other coworker had a tank of glyphosate and informed her he was killing things. So she said, "oh good, spray me, please kill me" or something to that effect.

I bit my tongue because first urge was to heckle her with "really, JZ, a suicide joke?! Too soon, don't you think?"

I figured my inappropriate sense of humor might have potentially made her feel bad instead of the actual intent (pure heckling). She also miand these here are narcissuses," turning to another patch, "and here's daffodils.ght have laughed, but I didn't want to risk it. I thought it was f***ing hilarious and shared it with another coworker later because I don't have that much self control. We already know we're going to Hell and have promised save the other a seat if either of us gets there first.