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| 2012-11-06 14:22 |
| I call shenanigans |
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I am told by a coworker with a smartphone that the line at his voting location is at around 1500 people, and they're down to one working machine (from 3).
ETA: Turning off comments because of spam that keeps hitting this post.
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The very last thing I need today is for a guy I lived with for a little while (platonically) sending me a Facebook message:
1. Admitting that he lied about his age and only just turned 21, and
2. Professing his feelings for me (which I always knew about but ignored because he was already too young for me and I'm bad at confrontation).
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Googling "vascular lesion knee" is both largely unhelpful and mildly terrifying. Upshot -> to the orthopedist I go.
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| 2010-11-03 12:28 |
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(Will Journalfen ever fix what broke for Dreamwidth's crossposting tool? I can't be the only person who wants it. It would be different if it had just never worked because the code is too old over here, but it used to be just fine.)
We had a mandatory meeting at work today, to review our corporate policy on harassment and abuse. Apparently, it has been happening on our team recently, and they wanted to remind us that we’re required to report any that we see and to promise that they’ll take every report seriously.
It reminded me of my old job, a couple of years back, about something I had actually completely forgotten about. For a short period of time, I had a manager (two levels up) that used to do to me what would apparently fall in my new company under the “demean and belittle” clause. This was back when I was in a major depressive cycle, so I guess it had gotten lost in the general haze of my memory of that time. (And even my normal memory is more strainer-like then swiss-cheese-like. Everything streams right out.)
I freely admit that I was a horrible employee at the time, and it’s a miracle I wasn’t fired for completely legitimate reasons. I was burned out after 10 years at a job that the typical person only lasted 3 years at, was distracted because I was having fertility issues and desperately wanted a child, and was deep enough into depression and my GAD to be having panic attacks every time I went to check my work email.
Still, this had been happening for awhile, and this is the only one of my managers that I ever had a problem with. Sure, I had had meetings with the others about my performance, and I am extremely sensitive to criticism in certain contexts (see: GAD), so those hurt. But none of those other managers ever made me feel like this. I internally cringed every time I had to talk to him.
When I finally talked to other managers about it, and eventually reported him to HR, I was (reasonably, and I don’t hold that part against them) asked for specific examples of his behavior. Problem was, it was hard to come up with concrete evidence, as it was 95% tone of voice, body language, etc. And I am pretty much deaf to body language, so it had to be very blatant for me to feel threatened. But other people present at our meetings hadn’t noticed anything (or, more likely, didn’t want to say anything negative about a Very Important Person).
So they said that he was just “direct”. No one else had ever made a complaint, they said. I was being too sensitive. (The primary person assuring me of this, by the way, happened to be one of his best friends.)
With a couple of years distance, I can look back and evaluate his behavior more dispassionately.
You know what? He was fucking abusive.
I hope someone else eventually reports him too, and they take that person seriously now that my complaint is on record. Fucking asshole.
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I GOT THE JOB!!!
Starting at substantially more than I asked for, and in the three weeks I asked for.
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| 2010-07-08 12:21 |
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The dogs are anxious and are trying to harass the cats and picking bark wars with the neighbor dogs, one of the cats decided to tip over a cat box (spilling it all down behind a bunch of big, heavy boxes) and is now hiding under one of the beds, and the peanut butter was full of ants. It's amazingly oppressively humid out there, and even the adorable!baby!scene!kid down the street looks morose smoking in the yard.
So this is going to be one of those days.
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| 2010-05-18 16:33 |
| To be clear, I was the seller. |
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After months and months (and months and months), the house (short sale) has just (finally) closed!
\o/ \o/ \o/!!!
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| 2010-05-16 16:35 |
| I'm starting to become a little concerned. |
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My Zach, the (probable) basset hound/pit bull mix, likes to escape sometimes and run around on his own while I have a heart attack worrying about cars. He managed it again last night when I was 75% asleep at about 5:00am, coming back in the house with Duncan (cattle dog/dachshund). He came back home carrying a bone, as has become common since moving here.
At first they were just medium sized chunks of bone, cut off, so I had assumed that he was stealing them from a nearby dog. Then they became actual small-to-medium-sized entire bones, and I started to think that maybe he had found a long-dead deer out in the woods. This time though... this time it was two large bones, still connected by some tissue. This worries me. If there's a human bone yard out there somewhere, I'd really prefer not to know about it.
( Torturing family is THE BEST. )
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| 2010-05-14 15:30 |
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The combination of bipolar and PMS is a pain in the ass sometimes, meds or no. My vet (via assistant) has informed me that he'll write the prescription for Bentley's Hartguard, but he can't fax it and I'll need to pick it up instead. This has ruined my entire day.
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| 2010-05-11 18:18 |
| Late night hypochondria is nobody's friend |
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Good news - it looks like I was being paranoid! The bumps and itching were gone except for on my palms by the time I got up today, and the palms were back to normal by mid-afternoon. I just took tonight's dose so I'm going to keep a close eye out for any recurrence, but for the moment I'm chalking it up to something I touched at the laundromat yesterday or something. HUGE relief.
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| 2010-05-11 04:52 |
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I was lying in bed lightly scratching my unexpectedly and relentlessly itchy back of my thighs, when it occurred to me:
1. I had been attributing the itchy spots that appeared on my palm today to some sort of bug bite or maybe allergies,
2. I don't usually get allergies in the spring, just the fall, and
3. I just increased my Lamictal dose another 25mg last Wednesday.
If this is Lamictal rash, I am going to be PISSED. I'm told that they usually take you off of it immediately even if it's not one of the fatal ones, and I have less than no desire to switch to Depakote or Lithium or such. Or to deal with the mood swings that would be happening while I switch over. While job hunting.
Cross your fingers for me that it disappears before I have to call the doctor tomorrow.
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| 2010-05-07 16:26 |
| Wow. |
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I am thoroughly unimpressed by this whole propane water heater thing. I've never seen a company(ies) so reluctant to take my money.
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| 2010-04-28 12:41 |
| I can haz a tattoo! |
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My first! Yesterday I finally went to get an appointment at the tattoo parlor I had googled as one of the best in Philadelphia, for the tattoo that I've been sitting on for the last year. A dragon on the arm is cliched, I know, but it's in honor of my father, despite being in a different style and location. He had his my entire life, and it's an ingrained part of my mental image of him.
The guy manning the desk was this guy, and his portfolio looked good and he got what I was trying for and seems to know what he's doing. I googled him when I got home as a double check of his reputation (that's how I found his FaceBook).
It's custom, which is what I always intended, but he'll be making it sorta-Balinese and I gave him reference samples and the colors I want and such. ("Sorta" because I don't want the intensely detailed scales and headdresses that they typically have, or the bulging eyes. It'll be more "the kind they import to the US as knickknacks" then the real thing, but I decided I could live with that in return for actually liking how it looks FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.) He's going to try to have it wrap around my arm and have wings (both highly preferred, but optional if the design just isn't working), and have a somewhat subtle grayscale background, probably smoke but possibly clouds, water, or abstract. Something easy to add to in a way that looks like it was always meant to be there, in the extremely unlikely event that I should go completely nuts and decide to do more.
In the end it should almost be a half sleeve, but my philosophy of tattoos says that if you're only going to have one, then go big or go home - get something of the highest quality you can that will age well (physically and mentally) and attract attention. Otherwise, what's the point, really?
In the end it should also take about three sessions and run around $500-600 or so, but hey, at least both will be spread out over a few months. Please don't remind me of how poor I am right now, I'm busy ignoring that. D:
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| 2010-04-26 16:08 |
| It definitely wasn't there Saturday afternoon, so they move fast. |
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Just grabbed the mail from the box, then realized after the fact that I had reached right past an chicken egg-sized wasp nest and the several very industrious wasps who are still working on it. It's probably in everyone's best interest that I find a way to evict them today.
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- My dogs ate my cellphone. D: D: D:
- I'm unaccountably amused that Fuse is celebrating Earth Day with a Green Day marathon.
- It kind of bothers me that the minimum length for the Bandom Big Bang is 10,000 words. I know different fandoms have different standards for Big Bangs, but that's hardly a novella, never mind something impressively large. .
ETA: I realized that sounded kind of bad - definitely no insult to the authors or maintainers is intended! For instance, I read Fngs fr th Mmrs the other day and thought that it was all sorts of awesome. But I noticed it in the BBB community yesterday and was honestly shocked, because I had actually been regretting that it was so short! ETA2: No, seriously, everyone should go read Fngs fr th Mmrs, even if you're not into Patrick/Andy. Summary: In which Patrick is a vampire, with a raging caffeine addiction, photophobia, and a poor grasp of the basics of vampirism. "So, he had a bad time with this guy?" Pete asked, his voice icy. "And you decided to help him out?"
"What?" Joe asked.
The motel room door opened again, and Patrick barged in, sunglasses balanced over the top of his ordinary glasses, and took the coffee out of Pete’s hands.
"Thanks," Patrick said.
Patrick turned to look at Andy, and even through two layers of glasses, Andy would have sworn that Patrick’s eyes were far too bright and sharp, going right through him.
"Andy’s riding in the back with me," Patrick announced, in the kind of voice that no one, except his mother, would argue with.
Patrick pushed his way out of the room, scooping up the last coffee off the counter on the way, and Andy heard him say, "Oh, for fuck’s sake, who ordered all this sunshine? I’m going to get fucking sunburned in New Jersey in March."
"He’s taken all three coffees," Joe said, sounding aggrieved.
"Do you still think I took advantage of him?" Andy asked Pete.
"Only in the way that Gaul took advantage of Attila the Hun," Pete said. "By not have adequate defenses."
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* Conceptually, that is. The fic itself was actually pretty good.This entry was originally posted at http://risha.dreamwidth.org/9525.html.
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This is why I need the fucking meds in the first place. I have such a headache too.
Warning: waaaaaay too much text.
( In which insurance is a pain in the ass. )
( In which I am an asshole to my pets. )
( In which I am an asshole to my mom. )
I'm currently baking a cake. Maybe it will help balance my karma with the universe or something.
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| 2010-01-01 20:30 |
| This probably doesn't make sense to non-Philadelphians. |
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You gotta love the Fancy Brigades!
Thank goodness for nighttime shows for those of us who sleep through the parade.
ETA: Hopefully the makers of Halo aren't watching the South Philly Vikings right now. Somehow I don't think they paid royalties. :)
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| 2009-12-25 11:10 |
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Merry Christmas/winter celebration of your choice, be it recently over or yet to come/Yultide to all!
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