Post by laurenpetro on Aug 1, 2014 11:30:02 GMT -5
our receptionist/expeditor has totally checked out. she was supposed to stay through mid-October but didn't tell anyone and has made arrangements for her to leave late september. which fucks me because they take for goddamned ever to hire people and they're leaving for a weeklong trade show in mid october and her replacement won't be ready in time. receptionists response? "whatever. not my problem. i won't be here." asshole.
and since she's totally fucking checked out people are coming to me to do her work. i am not the expeditor. she is. tell her to fucking do it. i have my own shit to do, TYVM.
Despite the fact that I know my tummy can't handle milk, I caved and had a bowl of cereal this morning, my first in years. I am so fucking paying the price right now.
Post by cattledogkisses on Aug 1, 2014 11:39:14 GMT -5
H's whole family is in town right now. He's one of 5 kids, and it's really rare to have all of the siblings and their spouses together like this, since we're scattered around and several are in the military (the last time we were all together was 3 years ago). MIL and FIL are watching all of the kiddos tonight so we can have a sibling night out on the town. I woke up with a full-blown head cold and cough this morning and I feel awful. I've taken all of the cold/allergy and cough medicine that I can take and it's not doing a thing for my symptoms. I don't want to be the stick in the mud tonight so I'm going to pretend that I'm not wishing I was home in bed and power through. I'm so annoyed about being sick.
Despite the fact that I know my tummy can't handle milk, I caved and had a bowl of cereal this morning, my first in years. I am so fucking paying the price right now.
Lactaid. Well, next time. For now, pepto.
I'm so glad I no longer have to wait 3+ hours between water and bathroom breaks without potentially jeopardizing my career. I'm also glad I don't have to go 3+ hours at a time without food.
We're going to see Ghost the Musical tonight (season tickets). I kind of don't want to be bothered, then again it'll probably either be good or truly awful, either of which will make going worth it.
I have one of the new Stila palettes ready to go in my shopping cart on Ulta. I wish they had it on the sephora website because I'd rather continue building up points there. I also don't know how long shipping through Ulta takes as I've never ordered from them before. Hopefully not long.
I recently read a book that had a really romantic love triangle. I have been really droopy ever since because my life has no romance in it. I keep thinking about an ex-boyfriend of mine from 2004 and all the romance we had and how hot our relationship was. Not just sex...just everything about us made me tingle. Still does.
Someone on ML thinks Ray Rice is "a really good guy" and has been punished enough because he is not using his social media accounts anymore which is something he really liked to do. ^o)
I have a new boss, who runs a very tight ship and is tough on staff and maybe scares me a little bit. She has spent her first two months pressing me HARD on everything that is dysfunctional or fucked up. Its been a long two months.
Today she told me that she thought my old boss slapped me with the worst projects and assignments and wasn't using me to my full potential.
Which is nice, and kind of mixed messaging.
But then she took away one of my big areas of responsibility! And my crappiest employee! Wheeeee!
Someone on ML thinks Ray Rice is "a really good guy" and has been punished enough because he is not using his social media accounts anymore which is something he really liked to do. Â Â Â
Well. That's interesting. I will say that rr always gave the appearance of a nice guy. Got involved in the community. Etc. So it was extra jarring when that story broke. But still. He's not tweeting so he seems extra sorry? Get a fucking grip.
AW: My paper proposal on the departure from the standard of care at Catholic hospitals was accepted at an international conference. So I'm going to be going to Montreal in October to deliver it. (GTG anyone?) I'm pretty excited. Even though my law firm (understandably) asked me to use my academic affiliation rather than referencing them.
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
Thank you. I'm a lot nervous. They've sent out about 5 emails so far and all of them are kind of like, "We have expectations. You will meet them or we will ask you to withdraw your paper." :? Plus I haven't written the paper yet, so they could still read the paper and be like, "Yeahhhh, we thought you might be good, but actually you're not. Sorry."
I'm sure they'll love it.
But if you want an extra set of eyes, let me know! I'm not that far removed from my LR staff editor days.
If I see one more "whee! school is starting, it's about time!" post on Facebook, I'm going on a defriending spree. There are two sides here people, TWO sides. Be considerate.
AW: My paper proposal on the departure from the standard of care at Catholic hospitals was accepted at an international conference. So I'm going to be going to Montreal in October to deliver it. (GTG anyone?) I'm pretty excited. Even though my law firm (understandably) asked me to use my academic affiliation rather than referencing them.
If October didn't suck with tons of things already scheduled in my life, I'd totally head up to Montreal. Anything to go to Montreal, I fucking love that city. I don't know if you've ever been before but you must eat poutine. MUST.
Despite the fact that I know my tummy can't handle milk, I caved and had a bowl of cereal this morning, my first in years. I am so fucking paying the price right now.
I hope you made it worth while and ate something like Captn Crunch.
No. Fucking Raisin Bran, which didn't help. I am not a gassy person, but I am farting like an environment-destroying cow and the smell is not something a thriving human being should be capable of producing. I took my kids to the grocery store, and I kept farting and walking away so that people would think it was my kids instead of me.
I hope you made it worth while and ate something like Captn Crunch.
No. Fucking Raisin Bran, which didn't help. I am not a gassy person, but I am farting like an environment-destroying cow and the smell is not something a thriving human being should be capable of producing. I took my kids to the grocery store, and I kept farting and walking away so that people would think it was my kids instead of me.
I hope you made it worth while and ate something like Captn Crunch.
No. Fucking Raisin Bran, which didn't help. I am not a gassy person, but I am farting like an environment-destroying cow and the smell is not something a thriving human being should be capable of producing. I took my kids to the grocery store, and I kept farting and walking away so that people would think it was my kids instead of me.
IIOY, I know more about the status of your colon at any given moment than I do about Chaucer.
But if you want an extra set of eyes, let me know! I'm not that far removed from my LR staff editor days.
It's not a legal conference. It's... well, they're calling it multi-disciplinary, but it's obviously Gender Studies within different disciplines, so I think that means I'm going to have to follow MLA formatting. I actually just downloaded and printed their "formatting handbook." I feel like I'm back in legal writing. It's so damn specific, and it's not Blue Book. Proof of compliance: counteroffer. LOL!
ETA: One of the rules is NO PARENTHESES. Parentheses are my favorite!
ETAA: "Chicago Style". While I love the name, I didn't even use that when I was in college. No footnotes, end notes only. There's going to be a good bit of law cited in my paper. How in the hell and I going to do that with endnotes only? I think if I'm talking about law, I should get to cite it like... law.
Oh man. I did an ad hoc editing job for a combination vet medicine / law article, and they decided to use bluebook for the legal citations (which they assigned to me... it was written by veterinarians with law degrees who don't often do legal academic work). It was still all end notes, though. It was...interesting.