Wishing it was Thursday But It Really is Wednesday Randoms

[secretlyevil]

Last night I was having dinner with a friend and we both seem to be struggling a little bit and she mentioned we should read Rachel Hollis for inspiration. The name rang a bell as to something discussed on here. Am I misremembering?

[seeyalater52]

Today is ... Wednesday.

[secretlyevil]

May 1, 2019 7:16:22 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Today is ... Wednesday.

Well now you know where my brain is at.

[seeyalater52]

May 1, 2019 7:20:46 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

May 1, 2019 7:16:22 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Today is ... Wednesday.

Well now you know where my brain is at.

It has been a LONG week. I got excited for a second when I saw the title!

[Bernadine]

We're going to see Avengers after work. I think I read we don't need to stick around for the credits- is that right?

[georgeglass]

May 1, 2019 7:13:49 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

Last night I was having dinner with a friend and we both seem to be struggling a little bit and she mentioned we should read Rachel Hollis for inspiration. The name rang a bell as to something discussed on here. Am I misremembering?

I have not read her books, but the criticisms of bootstrapism and plagiarism are everywhere, including Christianity Today - www.christianitytoday.com/women/2019/march/girl-stop-apologizing-rachel-hollis-get-some-footnotes.html

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May 1, 2019 7:22:46 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

May 1, 2019 7:20:46 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

Well now you know where my brain is at.

It has been a LONG week. I got excited for a second when I saw the title!

[secretlyevil]

May 1, 2019 7:25:33 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

We're going to see Avengers after work. I think I read we don't need to stick around for the credits- is that right?

There isn't a scene per se...but it is worth sticking it out to the bitter end IMO.

[seeyalater52]

May 1, 2019 7:28:15 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

May 1, 2019 7:22:46 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

It has been a LONG week. I got excited for a second when I saw the title!

Me every week.

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seeyalater52, we've been moving the conversation up to Tuesdays in our house lately.

[Vespasia]

I'm about to take our dog for one last walk and then dropping her off for ACL surgery. I know she will be fine but I feel so badly for her. She's really going to hate all the activity limitations once she starts recovering.

[StrawberryBlondie]

I had a dream last night that DH and I had dinner with Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris (and their respective husband's) at a really dive-y college bar/grill near my law school.

Why my brain picked that place, I have no idea.

[Velar Fricative]

So the restaurant where some friends and I did pub trivia for years suddenly closed down in early April; unbeknownst to us, we were there for the very last trivia night before the restaurant shut down (no notice at all; my friend's cousin walked by the place a few days later and texted my friend to ask if she knew the place shut down so that's how we found out). We found a new place we're trying tonight. It worked best in terms of day of the week and location but bonus - Austin Rogers of Jeopardy! fame hosts it. I hope it's great.

[jackie011]

Just yesterday I saw a work friend as we were wrapping up and he said “have a great weekend” as he left and I said “uh, it’s Tuesday.” He said he was having his wisdom teeth pulled today and that as far as he was concerned it was Friday.

[juliej]

Going to see LIZZO tonight!!!

[juliej]

May 1, 2019 7:25:33 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

We're going to see Avengers after work. I think I read we don't need to stick around for the credits- is that right?

Need? No. There's a callback of sorts after the credits, but it's not a scene.

[wawa]

My direct report gave her notice. NO PLEASE NO COME ON!!!! Hiring is the WORST. Training is only marginally better. and she was great. she got a call from a place she'd applied to before she came here with an offer we couldn't match. I hold no hard feelings. but i'm going to MISS HER SO MUCH. she was really really good. Reliable, competent, fast, pleasant to be around, smart as shit, learning quickly, really good technical writer. UGH. And then just to rub it in she came and handed me the coffee I'd abandoned in our copy room and couldn't figure out where I put it. Also now I can't get her to let me practice my terrible spanish on her.

Now accepting condolence cards and hair pats.

[Vespasia]

wawa my overeager but otherwise awesome RA put in his notice recently too. I am still not over it! Thankfully he won't leave for several more months but I was really looking forward to offloading some stuff on him and now there's no point.

We need some commiseratory cocktails.

[pixy0stix]

I kinda wish I could put in my notice, and have people freak out. sigh...

I slept like utter shit last night. Fucking allergy cough.

[wawa]

May 1, 2019 8:36:36 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

wawa my overeager but otherwise awesome RA put in his notice recently too. I am still not over it! Thankfully he won't leave for several more months but I was really looking forward to offloading some stuff on him and now there's no point.

We need some commiseratory cocktails.

Uhh, yes.  you have a PM.

[audette]

I have a video-interview with a staffing firm in 25 minutes.


They wanted me to fill out an online application before this interview, which is cool. But they also wanted me to list everywhere I have already applied.


Uh. I've applied for over 130 jobs already. There is not sufficient space in your little text box for me to list all of the places I have applied... (I realize this is basically a way for them to CYA and ensure they get their placement fee if they find a job for me, but still, it feels silly...)

[aurora]

Good luck, audette!

H was looking at the active ingredient in a sleep aid and realized it's identical to Benadryl (even the same dose). I guess we don't need to keep both of them around!

[taratru]

I need to get out of here. Today in our staff meeting they handed out the pins for service (every 5 years), and I got my 15 year pin. I am doing the exact same thing I was doing 15 years ago. After the second masters and internship and the dean gig, I ended right back up where I started.

I want to just go home and drink that away, but no. I have to go work a track meet in a different city, because the only people who recognize that I actually do something aren't even in my own building.

Oh, and to add a damn cherry, the pharmacy can't refill my meds without reauthorization, which won't happen by today (see above track meet), so I can't wait for the withdrawal symptoms to kick in.

eta: ANNNNNND, I just got a letter that my life insurance policy price is going up because I'm turning 45 this month.  I'm laughing so I don't just put my head down and cry. 

[mbcdefg]

63rd and Broadway in NYC today was renamed Sesame Street for the 50th anniversary of the show.

Sesame Street characters showed up en masse to celebrate.

Cookie Monster just chilling out like that is KILLING me.





ETA. A group pic with some of the human characters who’ve left the show ... I see Gordon, Bob, Luis, Maria, Susan, current character Alan ...

[alleinesein]

May 1, 2019 7:25:33 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

We're going to see Avengers after work. I think I read we don't need to stick around for the credits- is that right?

No scene. There are enhanced cast credits and at the very end is a short audio clip. Bail after the enhanced cast credits.

[2curlydogs]

wawa - hiring is the WORST. I'm so sorry. I'm dreading the day one of my current DRs gives notice. Ugh.


I'm over all of the rain.

[WOT?*]

I applied for another job. This time as a legal assistant for the county legal services. Pay sucks but it would be with an organization that I really would love to support. (Hell, I'd volunteer if I could but the hubs won't go for a 32-hour/week unpaid gig when we would have to pay for me to drive up there and pay for doggy day care. Because George would go to puppy camp so he's not bored and home alone because he's a totally spoiled puppers.)

[eponinepontmercy]

My hair is poofy and out of control, but I don't have time to get a haircut for at least the next 2 weeks.

[Velar Fricative]

wawa, I'm the opposite. I love recruiting people (but don't love losing great people, obviously), but I hate training people. I'm good at it, I just don't enjoy it.

[pixy0stix]

Why do people in my dept want to continue to use carbon copies? I'm refusing to order them until they've thought through the error of their ways.