This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


-t - Dec 16, 2010 2:33:23 pm PST #11677 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Woo for JZ escaping the evil ones!


Steph L. - Dec 16, 2010 2:33:31 pm PST #11678 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

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.


Lee - Dec 16, 2010 2:36:42 pm PST #11679 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

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.


Theodosia - Dec 16, 2010 2:42:41 pm PST #11680 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

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....


§ ita § - Dec 16, 2010 2:43:50 pm PST #11681 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Mmm. Sorrel time.


sarameg - Dec 16, 2010 2:50:17 pm PST #11682 of 30001

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.


msbelle - Dec 16, 2010 2:53:24 pm PST #11683 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

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.


JZ - Dec 16, 2010 3:16:32 pm PST #11684 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

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?


Zenkitty - Dec 16, 2010 4:01:59 pm PST #11685 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I have a Very large sweet potato (not a euphemism)

You have a root!

JZ, so glad you're free of those toxic people!

Good stuff: My oldest niece got the job she wanted! This is especially wonderful because not only is it a Good Job(tm) that will have her doing the work she's really good at, it gets her out of a very toxic work environment.

Also, Amazon says they're shipped Sam the Bat to me! I am pleasantly surprised.


Nora Deirdre - Dec 16, 2010 4:49:55 pm PST #11686 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Good thing: tomorrow is my last day of work for two weeks, which is a perk of working at my job- we get the two weeks off with holiday pay.

Also, I am having a beer tasting party on Saturday! With my new beery friends!