I'm eating a homemade maple oat scone right now AIFG! For lunch, I have a fred steak salad and for 3:00 snack I have a mushroom and steak cornish pastie.

Nom nom nom.

My boss is getting short with me because I am asking him to do his job. Wah Wah Wah man-child, I deal with a tough 8 year-old each night, you are no match.

I've never understood the point of mission statements.

I get goals, but missions statement are just what we do. If you are a company or nonprofit -- the basic purpose shouldn't be changing. Goals might change , because of an area of percieved weakness- but changing mission words is more for customers.

Reading it 57 times a day isn't going to help

Hey, I just got some nice emails from DonorsChoose on behalf of a Ms. G. Yay!

Also, I just remembered what I really miss about working in my office -- all of the hilarity. We were dying laughing in our update meeting just now, because most of the updates were about (a) the toner box someone has to carry around to prop up her injured arm, and (b) the temp who was insisting that someone who keeps Kosher must really want to try the King Cake and get the Baby Jesus!

Who wants to help me identify appropriate training and professional development activities for next year?

Once I do that, I will be done with my evaluation.

appropriate training and professional development activities for next year?

I, Perkins, will endevour to attend each and every conference located near a Buffista. Thus, I will only be in the office approximately 3.7 days in 2010.

Big meeting we had to dress up for is done. They served enough food that I can spoil lunch, but probably not enough to be lunch. Random food too. Nothing as tasty as msbelle's or kat's.

I ran the team meeting yesterday instead of New Guy. We spent the start of it in hilarity about the horribleness of living in the Midwest (ribbing on the team member that calls in from Minnesota). It was pretty clear that this only happens when I run the meetings. I don't think it's a black mark on me (Boss didn't come in for that part of it, so he never need know).

ita, is New Guy behind you a permanent thing? Or just temp? 'cause that sucks.

I've never understood the point of mission statements.

The problem is that so many of them fail to meet the criteria for good mission statements: clear, memorable and measurable. The last two places I worked had mission statements with "world class" in them, e.g. "become a world-class electricity provider." What the hell does that mean? Given the right criteria, anything can be world-class. I am a world-class person named Ginger posting on this board.

Permanent. I'm really bitter about it.

My b.org screen is styled to remove most of the colour and graphics, so I'm not going to restrict my use here much, but other twitchy browsing is going to be curtailed.

Bah! It's just how I work. Dip into work, break brain out.