This meeting is agonizing. How can a group of communicators be so bad at meetings? The person who's running the meeting has an echo on her mic, so she had to move to someone else's desk. She doesn't know how to use the software, so we have to sit here and listen to her fumble. People constantly forget to take themselves off mute. It makes me homicidal to get up at 7 for this every two weeks.
None of it means a damn thing.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
Dana - Oct 19, 2017 3:20:26 am PDT #17931 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
sarameg - Oct 19, 2017 4:05:52 am PDT #17932 of 30002
Strange men stomping around my roof really freak out my cats. Loki is hiding under a chair.
sarameg - Oct 19, 2017 4:36:16 am PDT #17933 of 30002
Loki still under a chair. They're gone. Pumpkin investigated, then took a nap, then tried to steal my cheese and crackers.
Jesse - Oct 19, 2017 4:40:04 am PDT #17934 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My mother stayed in my spare bedroom last night, as she has friends in from out of town, and poor Buddy was on edge all night. At least, I'm going to blame that for how badly I slept.
Connie Neil - Oct 19, 2017 5:48:27 am PDT #17935 of 30002
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I love vote by mail. Got my ballot yesterday, filled it out, mailed it out today. I enjoy voting in my underwear. Now if there was only an app I could activate that would erase all the political ads and signage and mailings from my life now.
-t - Oct 19, 2017 5:58:29 am PDT #17936 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Everyone would vote so early if they could opt out of political ads by doing so.
{{Jesse}}
I am all at sixes and sevens and no end in sight for that. Just not on top of anything. Perhaps chaos is my natural habitat.
Dana - Oct 19, 2017 6:06:16 am PDT #17937 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
You've certainly got reasons to feel chaotic, -t.
-t - Oct 19, 2017 6:32:56 am PDT #17938 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Perhaps. I would like getting dressed and going to work being less of a struggle. I was pretty good at that for a while.
Jesse - Oct 19, 2017 6:41:46 am PDT #17939 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, I just got a great metaphor from a colleague, which I think will resonate with a lot of folks -- I said, it was a long time coming, and she said, You still get hit by the bus, whether or not you've seen it coming. You're still hit by the bus!
Which I appreciated.
Y'all, I'm sure at some point I will be able to post about other stuff again, and thank you for bearing with me here.
msbelle - Oct 19, 2017 6:46:53 am PDT #17940 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
That is a good metaphor.
I am behind on work because of slaking online and 4 days off the last 2 weeks, but goddamn if half of what I need to do is not cleaning up mistakes by others that were mostly avoidable.
I got a little pissy about it via group wide email this morning by basically saying, can ANYONE, just maybe check things first?
And I also haven't eaten yet this morning, so I am about to rip the next person's head off who does something stupid that impacts me.