DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

motherfucker my stomach burns.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Eat when you drink. I recommend hot wings.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I rarely drink, this is just one of my stomach burn attacks that happen now and then.

[Cotigo]

Sigh.  60$ back, more than I figured but less than I hoped for.  And I had to jump through a lot of hoops for that.

Well, there goes the usefulness of those 6-days-a-week of work that I did immediately before the con.

I need a drink and can't really afford it.  blbhe.fdgadf

[Lady Door]

DLCon over.

Sad times.

Back in Oakland, bored to death at work, and trolling the intarwebs, I find that Amazon's Gold Box deal is TWEWY for $10. And so I purchase it.

Good times.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

DLCon over.

Sad times.

Back in Oakland, bored to death at work, and trolling the intarwebs, I find that Amazon's Gold Box deal is TWEWY for $10. And so I purchase it.

Good times.

Excellent.

EDIT: I suddenly got excited for remembering I'll have Chinese for lunch tomorrow. Entirely ignoring the fact I'll have to brave the morning sun as well because of weekly shrink appointment. I'm too easily pleased.

[Idun]

Thank goodness I have a Charles, or else my brother and mother would be stranded in Atlanta with a thermostat and thermostat housing that burst to pieces. I also learned something new about cars as we rushed to go help and putter home with frequent stops for water. He never ceases to amaze me with his usefulness, but I'm proud and amazed that I know someone in general that's worth having around. Not for selfish reasons like: "hay, dude fix mah cahr," but moreso one of those people you'd invite to an island because you know they have a great output and input ratio in making anything better.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Sleepy. Work will be fun for the first couple hours or so. Good thing caffeine is readily available there.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

You got: Hulkastache x1

Whatcha gonna do?

Decided to turn the beard in to the Hulkastache today, on a whim.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Waking up at 7AM out of your own volition should probably be a criminal offense. Hate mornings so much.

[Idun]

Work time. :/ Dun feel like getting up but I need to. Saw next week's schedule and I only have Monday and Friday off. Ftw. I do need money to apply for graduation before Sep. 1.

[Lady Door]

Waking up at 7AM out of your own volition should probably be a criminal offense. Hate mornings so much.

7am...?

Lucky bastard. I have to leave for work at 7am. My alarm is set for 6am. I routinely wake up at 5:30am.

I am up when it's still dark outside. In the summer. ;_; I am starting to miss school already.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Waking up at 7AM out of your own volition should probably be a criminal offense. Hate mornings so much.

7am...?

Lucky bastard. I have to leave for work at 7am. My alarm is set for 6am. I routinely wake up at 5:30am.

I am up when it's still dark outside. In the summer. ;_; I am starting to miss school already.

... 5:30AM? You poor bastard. I usually haven't gone to sleep yet at 5:30AM.

But, more seriously, I just bitch a lot because I loathe mornings, and I inevitably severely undersleep when I have to wake up on those. I've been running on four hours of sleep for two days in a row now, and tend to run at least two four-hour sleep days a week (I leave to work at 7AM on Saturdays).

[Lady Door]

I understand. I just wanted to complain. >_>

I tend to aim for 7-8 hours of sleep per night even though that means going to bed at 9:30-10pm. It sucks, but I start feeling sleep deprived at around 6 hours. I loop around to feeling rested at 2-4 hours, but then I shortly drive myself manic and that causes more problems than the inconvenience that is going to bed so early. <_<

Yay sleep~

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Your complaints are entirely valid. Waking up before sunrise borders on chinese torture, let alone when done regularly. >_>

Man, I wish I could actually fall asleep just by lying down. If I try to go to sleep at a sane time, I end up rolling over and over in my bed until it's like 6AM and then I just can't sleep anymore. Lying down keeps me from exhausting my brain matter in some manner (while not making me overthink any less, so it's a losing trade). Fortunately, I don't require much sleep to feel rested enough nowadays (I'm good with six-seven hours, for an instance), and going past eight hours is actually detrimental to my well-being.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Doublepost because I'm a whore.

So, I went to the university to see about taking grad classes as a special student this morning. Nothing special, just got kicked from bed at 7AM by the sun (the worst thing about living in the top floor of a building is having a window where you can look at the sunrise in the eye. Well, and the best, because sunsets are absolutely stunning from there). There are two subjects I'd care at all to take in the offers (which is fine, since one of them is close to crucial to the thesis I want to work), but one of them clashes with my work hours (the one I really should take). This entails talking to my boss.

Long story short, if I get that class, I can swap my work time from 4-10PM to 7AM-1PM with minimal fuss. Which is nice to know. Let's see how this works out.

[Idun]

Good going on getting that edumukatien.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I probably need it. Gah, I'm getting anxious already, I hate staying out of academia for long periods of time.

[Idun]

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SOMEONE TELL MY BROTHER TO STOP RESTARTING THE ROUTER

BECAUSE IT ISNT GOING TO WORK


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[Lady Door]

The number of meetings this company holds is mind boggling. My direct supervisor, the executive editor, is barely in her office 6 hours a week because she is otherwise in meetings.

Half the building is in a meeting right now, in the room right behind my cubicle, including the president of the company and what seems to be a random selection of other employees (several of the EAs, the job right next in line from mine, as well as the executive editor and people from other parts of the building; it's probably related to a particular book they're working on).

Just... seriously. If you're in meetings all the time, what work are you getting done?

I think it may be a way for them to feel better about how little work actually DOES get done. Hell, this week's department meeting involved decadent pastries (as it does every two weeks!) and playing games. 5 minutes was spent going over the Q2 summary email the president sent. The meeting took 1.5 hours.

GOOD TIMES. >_>

[superaielman]

I am beginning to see why you want to take classes.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

So, um, the company is full of lazy bums?

EDIT:

Classes good.

[Lady Door]

Well paid lazy bums, good sir. My salary -- which I didn't even bother to negotiate, and we wonder why the glass ceiling is there -- for this entry-level admin position is still a good 3-5k/year over the average starting salary in the area.

Which is why we get the decadent, gourmet coffee house pastries, I suppose.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

* Jo'ou Ranbu nods.

At least it's a good pay. On the other hand, I hope you don't mind the general irresponsibility too much, because that kind of environment has to be a jarring hell on workaholics/people who pay attention to things.

[Lady Door]

It is stressing me out a little. I am also bored to death. I can't do not-work, but there's not really work for me to do. Why on earth they even HAVE a department assistant is beyond me. I seem to do redundant/tedium-relieving tasks anyone else could be doing or is already doing.

It's going to drive me bonkers after too long, but I'm also the sort of person who pushes boundaries and then settles in. So far, the internet isn't really monitored (except for a vague "we could watch if we wanted to! and as long as you don't do something stupid we won't") and I don't have to check with anyone when taking my breaks. If they want to pay me for surfing the net all day, and taking slightly longer-than-normal breaks, fine, go ahead. >_>