I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.

Book ,'Serenity'


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.


Daisy Jane - Dec 22, 2010 5:50:51 am PST #12492 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I have a meeting in 10 minutes that I expect next to no one to show up for, and those that do will not have anything productive to contribute.

I need to check my meeting invites and look into a promotion for a title coming out on 1/11, but after that I think I'm done.


Tom Scola - Dec 22, 2010 5:55:42 am PST #12493 of 30001
hwæt

I was hoping to take some days off this week and next, because I have some vacation days available. Unfortunately, another coworker is taking this week off and next due to a family emergency (on top of the other people who scheduled time off), furthermore he dumped a big job on my lap that needs to get done in spite of the fact that we're in a change freeze.


Strix - Dec 22, 2010 5:56:27 am PST #12494 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Well, it looks like weather will allow us to travel to Iowa tomorrow (yay?) so I have to get a bunch of stuff done. I have to wait till D gets home to finish a bunch of the shopping, because he has the card (STILL waiting my my card to come in the mail, after I closed mine and we made his a joint checking. UGH.)

I need to: do laundry, pack, load a movie or shows onto iTunes for the trip, get smokes, go to Sears for my dad's Xmas present, go to the Plaza to get some presents, wrap presents, get something(s) to read...

Hmm. So I guess I'll do laundry, pack, wrap the presents I have and download stuff on iTunes.

Also, I'm getting nervous. I ordered some stuff from thinkgeek for D's Xmas present, and it's still not here, and we leave tomorrow morning.


Jessica - Dec 22, 2010 5:57:53 am PST #12495 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I realized at the last minute that I had more vacation to use up than I thought, so today is my last day before maternity leave! (It's bending the HR rules to take vacation + company holidays and right before a long leave of absence, but my manager doesn't mind and HR doesn't seem to have noticed, so nobody tell, ok?)


Consuela - Dec 22, 2010 6:01:15 am PST #12496 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Crap, overslept. Still sick. Late for work. I think I'll drive: I don't have it in me to wait for the bus today.

If I didn't have a meeting with my managers, I would so take the day off. Bah.


brenda m - Dec 22, 2010 6:01:56 am PST #12497 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Ugh, Tom. I've been there.

We technically have a full day tomorrow, but that never actually happens. I expect I'll be out by about 1, assuming the project I'm trying to wrap up doesn't go funky. Then I'm off until the 4th trying to use up the last of my PTO. I'll still have a couple of days that hopefully I can take in January, though technically it's use-or-lose.

I'm WFH today and don't have a ton to do, so I'm hoping to get some laundry and packing and stuff done.


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2010 6:08:44 am PST #12498 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Doesn't help that I slept squat diddly last night, and feel like hell.

They did a study somewhere that said you looked better if you slept more. Well, duh. Give me your grant money, and I'll let you use my mirror.

I need to start packing! And do laundry!


lisah - Dec 22, 2010 6:15:40 am PST #12499 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

I have work to do but I am super unmotivated!


Calli - Dec 22, 2010 6:16:20 am PST #12500 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm working from home. The one thing on my plate requires IT input, and the IT person involved is on vacation until the 27th. So much for that.


Liese S. - Dec 22, 2010 6:19:15 am PST #12501 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I am awake, foiled in my sleeping in plan by my pastor who called me to remind me about a meeting Dave has. I know! And I can`t tell him, because he`s already left for the meeting. Which isn`t until an hour from now! Grump. Well, I suppose I should have gotten up anyway.
 
Dave`s present should arrive today and my refurb Nook should be here tomorrow. I am having a big Christmas, I tell you what. I did not get people as awesome presents as they got me.