I will put up with a lot of shit from people, witness my last job, because I am an incredibly even-tempered person. This is not any particular virtue on my part but rather the fact that my default temperament is one of good-natured apathy occasionally broken by cranky irritation. Getting angry requires effort, and I am just too damn lazy. However, ( Read more... )

I suspect there's something odd about me, that I'm somewhat amused at getting a speeding ticket ( Read more... )

I e-mailed my boss today and got official permission to spend company money to buy "Holiday" aka Christmas decorations for our office. As of today we have /nothing/ so yay for a clean slate. I do have to give them a general proposal, and more than likely go whine good-naturedly at my boss, that yes, we need the $198 upside down tree from Lowes. It' ( Read more... )

I don't often wish I had a camera phone, but today I would have killed for one. I was standing around at work with a co-worker, when I glance out the window at a woman walking her dog. No big deal, right ( Read more... )

I had my 90 day performance review today ( Read more... )

Apparently I forgot to tell Disney Movie Club not to send me their featured movie(s) for last month, or clicked the wrong button or something. (Probably the last company that clings to that outdated model, but it was the only way to get the Zorro series.) Thus, in the mail today I got the 30th anniversary edition of School House Rock! /and/ Donald ( Read more... )

I'd always thought golf was one of the sillier sports ever invented. Having played my first game of it yesterday for our company tournament my opinion hasn't changed, but it's an addictive silly game. I didn't make a complete idiot out of myself, which was my main goal, and unless my co-workers were lying through their teeth I didn't completely ( Read more... )

One of these days I should post about how my job really doesn't suck and that I really do work with pretty cool people now but...Arugh! I hate incompetent admin people in the medical industry ( Read more... )

I hate her for making me cry more than once. My cat hates her because my "What? No!" scared her more than once today ( Read more... )

I just finished watching "Bridge to Terabithia" which was one of my favorite books as a kid, though it's been years and years since I read it. I thought it was wonderfully well done and true, in spirit anyway, to the book. The ending seemed not quite right, though, and I'm not sure if it's because it didn't jive with my very vague memory of how the ( Read more... )