In which I rant about my life
I have a baaaaad attitude these days at work. No one tells me anything, I haven’t had any sort of a review in over a year, I have no direction, and I’m just bored. More interesting things to do at home. Like, right now, I’m about to go make some bread (yes, it’s July 1st, and it’s 65F outside. WTF?). Then back to the library. Honestly, staring at a wall is more interesting than work these days.
The financial world is in turmoil. Newspapers are going out of business all over the country. And now, get-out-the-vote phone banks are not working any more, as people switch to cell phones (or use caller ID to screen their calls!).
I’ve started using Google Reader to follow my gadget/tech/personal finance blogs. Wow, has it cut down on the time it takes me to see what’s interesting! More time for Facebook (arg). This is just a crazy month so far, thankfully it’s almost over! I still have these things to do:
Today is the day I get the by-laws done, if I have to stay up to midnight!!! Wish me luck!
I admit it – I am bad with money. Bad with budgets, bad with controlling impulse spending, and so on. I will focus on fixing this in 2009. In light of that, I was greatly amused at the small print in the middle of the packaging for a small stocking-stuffer gift I got for Christmas. I bet you can figure out what I’m talking about…
I’ve been assimilated into the Borg, I mean Facebook. Yeah, that’s it. Pretty amazing how people you haven’t seen in umpty years pop out of the woodwork at you. Sort of like, um, here too.
I also have a new cell phone. A Centro. Free from Verizon after I get their little debit card dealie. I LOVE MY NEW PHONE. This convergence stuff is beginning to seem cooler and cooler. My phone, my checkbook register, my shopping list, my to-dos, all on one small (really small!) so-far very sturdy, device. LOVELOVELOVE.
My boss occasionally indicates that she is amused at the idea that I’m stressing out about something, usually a machine that is not doing what I think it should be doing at that exact minute, or something that has to be done fastfastfast (usually because she hasn’t mentioned it until the last minute), like today – there was a funeral at my work church which I decided to attend, and we needed more bulletins. So the funeral director was standing there taking them as they came out of the printer. I was annoyed because I’m not used to printing them that way; I usually run them off on this really neat-o high speed offset printer thingie we have. The laser printer is sllllllooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww by comparison. So there is my boss out in the hallway saying, “Mary looks like she’s on the edge, I’ll just stay out of her way, etc etc.” What the fuck is it to her? Is it amusing? Does she get points? She seems so smug when this happens. I wasn’t even stressed until I heard her gloating, and then I just got PISSED OFF. It reminds me of the USSR, that very Soviet attitude – “I’m unhappy so you have no right to be happy, no matter how much harder you are willing to work than I am – we’ll all be equally miserable.” My boss is disorganized and thrives on chaos, so she feels she must bring it to everyone else’s work life? FUCK THAT. *This* is what will drive me to hunt for a new job.
A ladder just fell on my face. My glasses are bent, and I imagine that tomorrow morning I will have a truly spectacular bruise on my left temple. Not to mention a really fun headache. I will post a photograph.
(Charles was trying to climb up on the roof. The ladder wasn’t quite tall enough to reach, but it was tall enough to be unmanageable. I’m sure we looked like a Keystone Kops routine in action trying to get the stupid thing down on to the ground.)
So Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter is pregnant. She plans to marry the father, well that’s such a comfort. And here we have this, from the AP:
“Prominent religious conservatives, many of whom have been lukewarm toward McCain’s candidacy, predicted that Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy would not diminish conservative Christian enthusiasm over the vice presidential hopeful.”
Why do I imagine that were this happening to Joseph Biden, we would never hear the end of it?
I’ve decided that I’m just not meant to cook Chinese food. I just can’t get the hang of it. I wonder whether there are any classes in this area. Hm. Must investigate.
Making Light. Where else could I read this (particularly #4)?