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Mar. 12th, 2024 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Not feeling up to snuff, thinking it is a combination of allergy season and lack of sleep. Have chosen to forgo the CPAP Machine tonight - to see if I sleep better. I was sleeping better without it. (I don't want my irritating experiences with the damn thing to put anyone off of it? Everyone is different. I may work perfectly well for somenone else.)
Lots of post-nasal drip resulting in a case of laryngitis. I'm not sick in any other aspect. So thinking allergies. The pollen count is high at the moment, as is the mold.
2. At any rate - I kind of bumbled my way through work. Brain fog in earnest. That's okay, not all that much was required. Had a brief chat with Breaking Bad (aka the grumpy philosophy professor - which is actually more accurate, he was a philosophy professor ages ago, I'm thinking an existentialist? He kind of looks like a bewildered Sartre by way of Ralph Waldo Emerson). I don't mind talking to the grumpy philosopher or reporting to him or working with him - it's a lot easier on my mental health and physical health than reporting to the mean drill sergeant.
Found out via Moscow Co-worker - that my nutty workplace has decided to play musical cubicles and move everyone - not to another building, just around the floor. Apparently someone in management got bored? Well, not everyone is moving - just some of us. I, unfortunately got lumped in with the group moving. I'm not happy about it.
The email states that it won't be that disruptive and they are just moving the folks on the east side of the building to the west side. (They lie, what's new?) Since I've absolutely no sense of direction, I asked co-workers which side we were on. Apparently the west, so I should stay put, right? I mean I'm just two rows from the wall, and those folks are apparently staying?
No. Crazy Workplace may be a lot of things, but logical isn't among them.
They are moving me - east - next to Babs. While leaving Babs where she is - which means they are moving me a row down towards the East. We report to Breaking Bad (who is closer to my row) and BYT. (I don't want to be close to BYT who currently has the office at the top of Babs row.) Don't worry my co-workers inform me - BYT is moving back to her previous office which is three rows down and much further away from me (regardless of where I'm sitting).
The people they chose not to move - appear to be the ones that are just hard to move - due to incredibly messy offices, and they have one foot out the door (eyeing retirement) - which are the grumpy philosophy professor (aka Breaking Bad) , Babs, and sci-fi coworker, also everyone on the other side of the aisle from me. They probably took one look at Babs office - and thought, eh, no, let's move SK instead that's a whole lot easier.
I want to lobby to stay put. I do not see why they have to move me? (Apparently they want me sitting next to the person that I'm doing the same things as - because we're incapable of getting up and visiting each other? I like the exercise.)
Babs: Ask them not to move you.
ME: Who?
Babs: BM? The executive secretary?
ME: She didn't create the seating chart. I'd like to strangle the person who did, but it is probably Jay, and I like Jay, so that would be a problem for me.
Babs: You could ask our managers?
Me: The grumpy philosophy professor is not going to care where I'm moving or anyone else.
Babs: well he has reason to be grumpy -
Me: I'm not faulting him for it. Just a factual description. He was an ex-philosophy professor and he is grumpy. And we both know the drill sergeant only cares where the drill sergeant is moving - I've gone through that scenario already.
Babs: Who's the drill - oh right.
Me: Also accurate. She's going to be pissed, but considering she's only here one to two days a week and has a huge corner office overlooking the harbor in Manhattan - I doubt she'll get anywhere. She's lucky to have an office, frankly.
I've decided management is bored and we should give them something to do. Like maybe get us all lunch according to all of our dietary requirements?
I told Babs that I was moving next to her. She was looking at the wrong chart. She followed me into the conference room and we checked out the right chart - a seating chart. We were both annoyed. Although on the bright side, at least we will be further away from BYT. Whose name they spelled wrong on the chart. Babs was amused, so was I. Babs is calling her BYT now. Apparently, Babs decided it was better than the profanity, she'd been calling her FF (fuck face). Hence the reason I came up with BYT to begin with - very few can fault me for calling her Bright Young Thing, although nasty drill sergeant is more accurate. Poor little drill sergeant, she's not having a good year.
I'm bored at work again. So in my own defense - I'm editing my novel at work. I've got more than one novel, I finish this one, start on the next.
That's actually how the last one got finished and published, they didn't seem to mind. They knew I was doing that.
Depending on how I feel tomorrow morning - will depend on if I have to call in another FMLA day. Damn, I'm taking more FMLA this year than last.
Oh, as a side note? Co-workers were impressed by my new hair cut, and really liked it. It was very different. And one wondered if I had a new name to go with the haircut, something fancy like Vanessa. Apparently my given name isn't fancy enough.
3. I think my actor crush on an actor may actually pan out for a change. I'm notorious for developing crushes on actors who don't appear in anything and I have to hunt down their roles in increasingly shitty stuff, or worse they were really only good in one role and nothing else (I'm looking at you James Marsters and Anthony Stewart Head, Richard Hatch, and sigh Katee Sackoff, Ben Browder, and Claudia Black, etc.). But this round...my crush is on Cillian Murphy who managed to blow away more people than just me. He also blew away Robert Downy Jr, Emily Blunt, Margot Robbie, Matt Damon, Christopher Nolan, etc. So I've hopes to see him in more movies.
The NY Times - even suggests a few options (I already tracked down a lot of them this summer.) So far I've seen Sunshine, and I discovered him in Peaky Blinders. Also seen him in everything but Dunkirk that Nolan's done.
4. Mother's friend, MG, barely survived surgery on Monday.
She went to get a cancerous tumor removed from her kidney, and well the entire kidney removed. It was supposed to a problem free surgery - in and out. But she's about seventy pounds if that, and five foot four. Her heart stopped three times, and they broke three ribs reviving her. She's in critical condition.
But survived the night. So there's hope. Mother was wondering if she'd have wanted to be revived and put on respiratory tubes, etc. But I think so - she was scared of dying in surgery, and seems to not be ready for death quite yet?
Cancer is a horrible thing.
5. Politics and religion, albeit briefly..
We're standing in the conference room basking in the warmth of the sun and wishing we could move our cubicles in there.
Babs: That's the air traffic control tower in the distance.
Me: What is?
Babs: that tower to the right of the construction - see the construction with the netting?
Me: You mean the thing with the cross on top?
(She takes a picture and enlarges it and shows me that it is in fact a tower and not a cross.)
Me: And in the news today, the Catholics are paying $1000 to pray for Marlago..
Babs: You're kidding?
Me: Wish I was.
Babs: The Catholics?? Whatever for? (pause) Oh abortion.
Me: I'm tired of that issue. It should be a medical issue not a legal or religious one.
Babs wisely changes the topic back to the control tower.
6. I'm enjoying "The Bride" on e-books (Kindle), it's also available in paperback (saw it in the book store). It's about a snarky vampire who gets roped into marrying a Werewolf to keep the peace. But she doesn't agree to the marriage for that reason - she agrees to find her best friend and the only thing in the world she actually cares about, who went missing around the werewolves and particularly the one who she married.
There's some interesting world building - in regards to Weres and Vampires, who are species, and not humans turned into weres and vampires, but separate species from humans, with different blood.
It's kind of innovative? I like innovative Vampire stories, mainly because they are difficult to find.
Also enjoying "Yellowface" - which is a biting and rather subtle satire about the publishing industry and its racist attitudes towards people who aren't white or not in power. Most of which are just lazy-ass ignorance, and a desire not to look at one's own short-comings and guilt. It may help that I have an ax to grind with the publishing industry myself and am finding this oddly validating and cathartic at the same time?
7. This leads me to a sort of realization this week as to why I've stopped reading or really writing reviews (I write them, just not as often, and more to keep track of what I've seen and read, and thought about them).
The whole thing is insanely subjective. Glenn Kenny, the neighborhood film critic that I used to have drinks with - with Wales, back in the day - disliked American Fiction and found it toothless, but raved about the Holdovers and Killers of the Flower Moon (he's a Scoreses fanboy, so there's that). And I thought - this is why I don't read film reviews any more.
Meanwhile, there are other critics who loved American Fiction. To each their own, I guess?
8. Almost forgot? I managed to make Orange-Pinapple-Mango Sorbet via the Ninja Creamer. Added a little rum - which ensured it didn't freeze into a block of ice. Smashed down the Pineapples and did same with mango, and used orange juice and a bit of rum. Made it more orange sorbet than pinapple. But it is kind of cool combo together. Refreshing.
Lots of post-nasal drip resulting in a case of laryngitis. I'm not sick in any other aspect. So thinking allergies. The pollen count is high at the moment, as is the mold.
2. At any rate - I kind of bumbled my way through work. Brain fog in earnest. That's okay, not all that much was required. Had a brief chat with Breaking Bad (aka the grumpy philosophy professor - which is actually more accurate, he was a philosophy professor ages ago, I'm thinking an existentialist? He kind of looks like a bewildered Sartre by way of Ralph Waldo Emerson). I don't mind talking to the grumpy philosopher or reporting to him or working with him - it's a lot easier on my mental health and physical health than reporting to the mean drill sergeant.
Found out via Moscow Co-worker - that my nutty workplace has decided to play musical cubicles and move everyone - not to another building, just around the floor. Apparently someone in management got bored? Well, not everyone is moving - just some of us. I, unfortunately got lumped in with the group moving. I'm not happy about it.
The email states that it won't be that disruptive and they are just moving the folks on the east side of the building to the west side. (They lie, what's new?) Since I've absolutely no sense of direction, I asked co-workers which side we were on. Apparently the west, so I should stay put, right? I mean I'm just two rows from the wall, and those folks are apparently staying?
No. Crazy Workplace may be a lot of things, but logical isn't among them.
They are moving me - east - next to Babs. While leaving Babs where she is - which means they are moving me a row down towards the East. We report to Breaking Bad (who is closer to my row) and BYT. (I don't want to be close to BYT who currently has the office at the top of Babs row.) Don't worry my co-workers inform me - BYT is moving back to her previous office which is three rows down and much further away from me (regardless of where I'm sitting).
The people they chose not to move - appear to be the ones that are just hard to move - due to incredibly messy offices, and they have one foot out the door (eyeing retirement) - which are the grumpy philosophy professor (aka Breaking Bad) , Babs, and sci-fi coworker, also everyone on the other side of the aisle from me. They probably took one look at Babs office - and thought, eh, no, let's move SK instead that's a whole lot easier.
I want to lobby to stay put. I do not see why they have to move me? (Apparently they want me sitting next to the person that I'm doing the same things as - because we're incapable of getting up and visiting each other? I like the exercise.)
Babs: Ask them not to move you.
ME: Who?
Babs: BM? The executive secretary?
ME: She didn't create the seating chart. I'd like to strangle the person who did, but it is probably Jay, and I like Jay, so that would be a problem for me.
Babs: You could ask our managers?
Me: The grumpy philosophy professor is not going to care where I'm moving or anyone else.
Babs: well he has reason to be grumpy -
Me: I'm not faulting him for it. Just a factual description. He was an ex-philosophy professor and he is grumpy. And we both know the drill sergeant only cares where the drill sergeant is moving - I've gone through that scenario already.
Babs: Who's the drill - oh right.
Me: Also accurate. She's going to be pissed, but considering she's only here one to two days a week and has a huge corner office overlooking the harbor in Manhattan - I doubt she'll get anywhere. She's lucky to have an office, frankly.
I've decided management is bored and we should give them something to do. Like maybe get us all lunch according to all of our dietary requirements?
I told Babs that I was moving next to her. She was looking at the wrong chart. She followed me into the conference room and we checked out the right chart - a seating chart. We were both annoyed. Although on the bright side, at least we will be further away from BYT. Whose name they spelled wrong on the chart. Babs was amused, so was I. Babs is calling her BYT now. Apparently, Babs decided it was better than the profanity, she'd been calling her FF (fuck face). Hence the reason I came up with BYT to begin with - very few can fault me for calling her Bright Young Thing, although nasty drill sergeant is more accurate. Poor little drill sergeant, she's not having a good year.
I'm bored at work again. So in my own defense - I'm editing my novel at work. I've got more than one novel, I finish this one, start on the next.
That's actually how the last one got finished and published, they didn't seem to mind. They knew I was doing that.
Depending on how I feel tomorrow morning - will depend on if I have to call in another FMLA day. Damn, I'm taking more FMLA this year than last.
Oh, as a side note? Co-workers were impressed by my new hair cut, and really liked it. It was very different. And one wondered if I had a new name to go with the haircut, something fancy like Vanessa. Apparently my given name isn't fancy enough.
3. I think my actor crush on an actor may actually pan out for a change. I'm notorious for developing crushes on actors who don't appear in anything and I have to hunt down their roles in increasingly shitty stuff, or worse they were really only good in one role and nothing else (I'm looking at you James Marsters and Anthony Stewart Head, Richard Hatch, and sigh Katee Sackoff, Ben Browder, and Claudia Black, etc.). But this round...my crush is on Cillian Murphy who managed to blow away more people than just me. He also blew away Robert Downy Jr, Emily Blunt, Margot Robbie, Matt Damon, Christopher Nolan, etc. So I've hopes to see him in more movies.
The NY Times - even suggests a few options (I already tracked down a lot of them this summer.) So far I've seen Sunshine, and I discovered him in Peaky Blinders. Also seen him in everything but Dunkirk that Nolan's done.
4. Mother's friend, MG, barely survived surgery on Monday.
She went to get a cancerous tumor removed from her kidney, and well the entire kidney removed. It was supposed to a problem free surgery - in and out. But she's about seventy pounds if that, and five foot four. Her heart stopped three times, and they broke three ribs reviving her. She's in critical condition.
But survived the night. So there's hope. Mother was wondering if she'd have wanted to be revived and put on respiratory tubes, etc. But I think so - she was scared of dying in surgery, and seems to not be ready for death quite yet?
Cancer is a horrible thing.
5. Politics and religion, albeit briefly..
We're standing in the conference room basking in the warmth of the sun and wishing we could move our cubicles in there.
Babs: That's the air traffic control tower in the distance.
Me: What is?
Babs: that tower to the right of the construction - see the construction with the netting?
Me: You mean the thing with the cross on top?
(She takes a picture and enlarges it and shows me that it is in fact a tower and not a cross.)
Me: And in the news today, the Catholics are paying $1000 to pray for Marlago..
Babs: You're kidding?
Me: Wish I was.
Babs: The Catholics?? Whatever for? (pause) Oh abortion.
Me: I'm tired of that issue. It should be a medical issue not a legal or religious one.
Babs wisely changes the topic back to the control tower.
6. I'm enjoying "The Bride" on e-books (Kindle), it's also available in paperback (saw it in the book store). It's about a snarky vampire who gets roped into marrying a Werewolf to keep the peace. But she doesn't agree to the marriage for that reason - she agrees to find her best friend and the only thing in the world she actually cares about, who went missing around the werewolves and particularly the one who she married.
There's some interesting world building - in regards to Weres and Vampires, who are species, and not humans turned into weres and vampires, but separate species from humans, with different blood.
It's kind of innovative? I like innovative Vampire stories, mainly because they are difficult to find.
Also enjoying "Yellowface" - which is a biting and rather subtle satire about the publishing industry and its racist attitudes towards people who aren't white or not in power. Most of which are just lazy-ass ignorance, and a desire not to look at one's own short-comings and guilt. It may help that I have an ax to grind with the publishing industry myself and am finding this oddly validating and cathartic at the same time?
7. This leads me to a sort of realization this week as to why I've stopped reading or really writing reviews (I write them, just not as often, and more to keep track of what I've seen and read, and thought about them).
The whole thing is insanely subjective. Glenn Kenny, the neighborhood film critic that I used to have drinks with - with Wales, back in the day - disliked American Fiction and found it toothless, but raved about the Holdovers and Killers of the Flower Moon (he's a Scoreses fanboy, so there's that). And I thought - this is why I don't read film reviews any more.
Meanwhile, there are other critics who loved American Fiction. To each their own, I guess?
8. Almost forgot? I managed to make Orange-Pinapple-Mango Sorbet via the Ninja Creamer. Added a little rum - which ensured it didn't freeze into a block of ice. Smashed down the Pineapples and did same with mango, and used orange juice and a bit of rum. Made it more orange sorbet than pinapple. But it is kind of cool combo together. Refreshing.
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Date: 2024-03-13 10:01 pm (UTC)Oh, wow, that is awful about your mom's friend. I hope she makes a turn for the better soon!
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Date: 2024-03-13 10:32 pm (UTC)Mom's friend is doing better or improving or so I'm told. Mother visits her daily - braving traffic and what not.
No, or not really - on the sleep issue? I still use it. I'm struggling with allergies and it does help a little there. Not much, but a little. I don't know what I'm doing with it at this point.