Is Rage Nurse the really evil co-worker you have who says mean things to you? And if not, does your new position mean you won't have to deal with that mean co-worker?

Yes, and yes.

I'm actually going to miss some of her astonishingly petty and mean spirited comments. They were bracing in their transparency and intent to wound.

No, wait! I won't miss that.

I have frozen waffles, a jar of Nutella, and pumpkin spice eggnog.

This way better than my department's Christmas party, which I'm skipping due to rehearsal tonight. They've gone bowling.

Woo for JZ escaping the evil ones!

Is Rage Nurse the really evil co-worker you have who says mean things to you? And if not, does your new position mean you won't have to deal with that mean co-worker?

Yes, and yes.

Oooh, yay! She was pure distilled evil.

Other good stuff: The Boy brought home drugs so that I can (hopefully) unstuff my nose and breathe through it again and maybe actually get some sleep tonight for longer than 2 hours at a stretch.

Less good: I think I have developed a polish addiction. Family members may be staging an intervention.

Well if you need talking points or tricks to hide your polish, let us know. We're here to help. You, I mean. Not those people who want to keep you from pretty nails.

My sister opened my guest room medicine cabinet, where I keep the majority of my nail polish, and started laughing.

I didn't tell her about the ones in the drawer, or the the ones in the other medicine cabinet.

I got let go a half-hour early (with pay) so our office of temps could go to the Xmas party. However, I grabbed a couple of crackers and booked, so I got home early! Whoa, the equivalent of a $5 bonus....

Mmm. Sorrel time.

Liese, start with Sky& Telescope. I actually suck at equipment recs (because, see, I have a handy dandy dadshaped resource....)

So, my mom has pneumonia. She was fine on Sunday! Thing is, she is really susceptible to it, having had a raging case of it a few years ago, where she probably would have been hospitalized had it not been a holiday. If she starts getting better tomorrow (they learned before to hit it hard and fast, so she's pumped full of drugs,) the dr will ok her to fly Tuesday. Poor mom.

1) Allyson tell the Jackhole at work that if he has a lousy sex life then you will truly believe him that women are risk averse.

2) Thanks for the head's up about Charlie Brown Christmas.

I had more, but I forgot. My house is cold and I need to make dinner. I want to play on the interwebs all night, but mac wants to use the computer.

Is Rage Nurse the really evil co-worker you have who says mean things to you? And if not, does your new position mean you won't have to deal with that mean co-worker?

I see Hec already answered, but YES!

She's trying to make up for it by being extra-nasty in the waning hours of our occupational cohabitation. I still want to punch her in the throat, but it's incredibly soothing to remind myself that she's just trying to get her last licks in before the clock ticks down to zero and I disappear.

My officemate left early to have a meeting with her union rep about all the reassignments, layoffs and underpay and the general incredibly dysfunctional behavior of the division (she volunteered to do this -- I've got a family to support, but she's a bohemian young childfree will o' the wisp who's been planning to ditch this job and spend a couple of years in New Zealand anyway, so she feels she has nothing to lose by blowing up some bridges).

Allyson tell the Jackhole at work that if he has a lousy sex life then you will truly believe him that women are risk averse.

Oh, SNAP. Please, msbelle, may I fly you out to accompany me on my last day in this office so you can effortlessly hoist her on the petard of whatever last insult she tries to fling at me?