Tom, I commented in Bitches, but I'll repeat - glad you're getting a decent severance (which may well last more than six months, since you won't be dragging yourself in at all hours of the day and night AND buying lunch AND having to pay to dryclean clothes that get icky from icky, icky computers - I remember the one you showed us), take some time to regain your balance, enjoy what promises to be some nice weather, and find something better.
I'm a big girl. Just tell me.
Inara ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Jan 31, 2012 11:15:54 am PST #19363 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Toddson - Jan 31, 2012 11:17:03 am PST #19364 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And because it deserves its own post:
Plei, that very first photo of Cumberbatch? my hair is almost that exact color. Sadly, it looks better on him. Does he glow in the dark? If anyone gets the chance to find out, SHARE.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 31, 2012 11:21:58 am PST #19365 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yikes, sorry to hear about the layoff Tom. As others have said, hopefully this will work out for the best and let you score a new job that will be fulfilling and enjoyable for you.
Jesse - Jan 31, 2012 11:33:53 am PST #19366 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom, I've also been thinking about the time I decided I was going to quit my job, like six months in the future, and then I got fired the next week. I was SO PISSED and hurt and everything else, even though I hated that fucking place by then. "I'm not fired! I QUIT!!" Anyway, just saying.
Kat - Jan 31, 2012 11:37:34 am PST #19367 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Pertussis outbreak = no good. Jeebus, Amy.
My nose is runny and I feel like shit. But it's finals week and I have to be here every day. Yay for forced stockpiling of sick days?
Oh! If I take two more sick days, then I have to retire a year later.
Zenkitty - Jan 31, 2012 11:47:18 am PST #19368 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh! If I take two more sick days, then I have to retire a year later.
...what? Are you serious?
Jesse - Jan 31, 2012 11:55:26 am PST #19369 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, what?
sumi - Jan 31, 2012 12:00:52 pm PST #19370 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
That's just bizarre, Kat.
How does that work?
amyth - Jan 31, 2012 12:05:16 pm PST #19371 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Kat, that's messed up.
Burrell - Jan 31, 2012 12:17:15 pm PST #19372 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I wish I was surprised Kat, but knowing your employer, I'm not.
I think--I hope!--I just successfully talked a student out of writing a paper comparing medical residency to comedy writing and/or sex. Oy vey!