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Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.

'Heart Of Gold'

Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.

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msbelle - Sep 07, 2023 5:59:47 pm PDT #25175 of 30000

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

2:1 meeting thing

Yeah, my boss just has her jargon wrong. she asked me to set up 2:1 with her and the two new chief hires, so I set up a meeting with both of them and her and she called me and said "no, not both of them a 2:1 is when it is their 2nd 1:1 since they already have one with their Deputy Director." No, no nonono crazypants wrongheaded lady.

Same boss has halted progress on my application for another job in the Department for stupid and petty sounding reasons, but unofficially and I only know from off-the-record back-channelling. Now I am applying for positions outside of our Department.

erin_obscure - Sep 07, 2023 6:01:41 pm PDT #25176 of 30000

Occasionally I’m callous and strange

remember when traveling was exciting? Those were good times for traveling.

Jesse - Sep 07, 2023 6:12:49 pm PDT #25177 of 30000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Getting the rental car has always sucked, I'm pretty sure.

Good luck with everything, David.

-t - Sep 07, 2023 6:40:18 pm PDT #25178 of 30000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Wtf, msbelle. Good luck with the outside the department apps

DavidS - Sep 07, 2023 6:50:53 pm PDT #25179 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Flight arrived at 7pm.

Got rental car after an hour long wait and just got checked into the hotel 9:45.

I had to drive unfamiliar Atlanta freeway roads in the dark, dammit!

Also, this room is weirdly averse to working outlets. There isn't one at the desk and the ones by the desklight don't work, so my phone is plugged into the bathroom and my laptop is plugged into the light behind the chair.

I really want to crash but my nephew is weirdly a minute away so we're meeting at the hotel bar.

Dana - Sep 07, 2023 6:54:41 pm PDT #25180 of 30000

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Hotel room outlets are always shit.

Jesse - Sep 07, 2023 7:01:12 pm PDT #25181 of 30000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I mean, I get it, it's only been 20 years since people would be carrying devices they would want to charge and not just hairdryers.

DavidS - Sep 07, 2023 8:50:11 pm PDT #25182 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So, as you might deduce it was no accident that my nephew was here. He drove from Savannah and is meeting his wife and son to drive up with them to see Judy.

I didn't realize his new job was in Savannah (as his wife is still in Orlando).

Tomorrow is his birthday and we both agreed that would be very poor form for his mom to die on his birthday so we don't think she will.

(Also she's not that close, but has started to sleep more, so it's coming.)

It's weird to have just left this space with my own family and now I have to deal with my nephew and niece's grief and process.

sj - Sep 07, 2023 9:16:56 pm PDT #25183 of 30000

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

David, it’s too much and unfair that you have to be dealing with this so soon.

aurelia - Sep 07, 2023 10:15:35 pm PDT #25184 of 30000

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

David, I hope you and your sister are able to have some good moments together.

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