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That sucks. Are they offering him much in terms of payoff? Any retraining, anything?

He got a decent severance package and will get unemployment. But every major computer company has laid off in the past couple of months. It's a tough market and I think since his work experience has been solely with them it might be a drawback. Also he hasn't finished his degree which is now his first order of business.

I'm more worried about him. I've involuntarily lost jobs twice now and it's a real blow to the ego. I can only imagine it's worse for him. :(

And we had just planned a vacation to NOLA after xmas. Boo.

Susan, I'm so sorry. Is he studying something different for his degree?

I am ready to set fire to my paper now. I'm nearing the 40 page mark, so plz keep matches away from me.

Half thinking I should just build on it and do NaNoWriMo at this point, too.

i do not want to do my homework. i am so tired from work + labor relations (i.e. supervised bickering for 2.5 hours) that i can not begin to think about where to draw bathrooms for 350 people in a theater lobby. ugh.

can you please give the women extra cubicles.

yes. actually the law i think is that you have to have 2 stalls for every 1 men's stall.

tza, your homework is even more puzzling than mine. I have to finish this g.d. paper and turn it in, but I really want to just delete the whole thing and quit the program. These papers always make me feel this way. Not good.

xpost give the women more than that; some of them are pregnant and they REALLY need to go.

Not to mention the women are usually the ones taking the kids to the bathroom...

how do i know how many women? like... 350 ppl, but what if it's in chelsea? maybe there would be lots of dudes?

dudes can use the sink

well here's the thing - you can fit many urinals in the space of one stall, so it ends up that they have more places to use (just not more to sit). funny story: the ladies bathrooms in the building where my one on-campus class has 2 "stalls" containing urinals. i think it must have originally been a mens room and then to meet the code, they just put walls around the urinals, so there are effectively 2 usable stalls for an entire floor of classrooms. awesome.

tricky!

public institutions. they like to save $.

Classy place you're going to school there!

lobby done. now have to do backstage? i don't know dimensions for dressing rooms bc apparently they are in some book i didn't realize we were required to buy (when he said it was out of print i thought he meant it was a suggested nice addition to have if you could find it, not that i should be scouring used sites for it?!)

it is kind of zen to sit with a drawing board on my lap (which i know is kind of not allowed bc lines could get messed up but hey, i have a t square!) and put on ipod and be zen lobby master, but also i am tired and i think i am not using the right lead bc lines are too light and my tired eyes can't see them.

I was trying to find citations to support stuff I had written about an hour ago and the words were just swimming in front of my eyes. I have moved past zen anything and am moving on to the detached retina stage, apparently.

well i made some stupid dressing rooms and costume shops and i have no idea if they're right, but i'm done and i don't care anymore. my eyes hurt. did discover this kick ass gorecki symphony, though!

You're ahead of me, tza!

I'm going to finish this paper up tomorrow morning and then have a meltdown trying to send it in via computer. Ugh. I just don't trust that it will actually get there if I don't put it in someone's hands physically.

yeah but this is just normal hw, not a big paper/assignment you can feel proud of. in a few weeks, i will be you x 4. u_u

I am not proud of this absurd paper; I am annoyed by it.

Guess what, J just woke up and vomited all over the place! Yes, the TNC-writing hell can get worse...

Okay your schoolwork sounds both amazing and tiring. I do look forward to going back to school.

Our home chugs along. This economy sucks, seriously

I think one of my students is displeased with me. There's a big wad of fluorescent green gum sticking my tissue box to my desk.

On the lighter side, today is the feast day of St. Homobonus.

Thank god Ned has some good news for us, anyway.

How do we celebrate?

(ps I hope the celebration does not involve vomit, or absurdly long papers)

i am hella nervous today bc my boss has been having v. important meetings with head of h.r.

Yipes. :-/ Crossed fingers for you!

let us know what happens tza. bad vibes in the air all over

My friend is having a quickie wedding on sat. tonight is a batchelorette dinner and sat. afternoon the casual ceremony. Tomorrow night I have to go see a friend's band as I haven't seen them in a few years and they're about to call it quits. All good things though? Yet I dread them all. I am curmudegon who would rather stay home and read humongous books and knit.

I have three friends who are pregnant. Lots and lots to knit. Damn social life.

Susan, I would like to trade with you for the weekend. (And you could come up here and fix my screwed up knitting project and hide in my house and study for my final test...)

tza - I'm sending GOOD VIBES your way.

thanks guys. i mean, i have feared this for a while as massive budget review has been going on. could be nothing... i've half a mind to go tell them to give me a better job and get rid of the more expensive people. they'd save, and i'd do it on the cheap (not as cheap as now, but still way less than they've been paying).

i don't want to put ideas in their head if they haven't thought of canning me though...

But you're idea is a wise one.

"your" even.

You're/your confusion is nowhere near as annoying to me as when people use the word "compliment" when they mean "complement." For some reason that fills me with irritation and dread.

i feel that is a less commonly made mistake, though...

i just clicked on this board and there was a red message at the top saying 'sending subscription email', what does that mean.

No idea! Weird.

xp Guess what mistake is on our course evaluation forms. ARGH

lol that would inspire me to write a scathing evaluation. our evals suck. they are bubble fill-in only, no space for comments.

hey i just watched "The Aura" (argentinian thriller). it was good.

^It occurs to me that everyone on this thread is striving for something different or unhappy with there lot but John sits contentedly in his empire enjoying the benefits of cultured civilisation.

I had a lovely bachelorette dinner with my friend last night. It was at a Brazilian restaurant and I had mussels for the first time. That put me in a good mood. It's lovely to see one of your oldest and dearest friends entering married bliss.

yeah john seems very content. i am jealous.

John is basically always the happiest person in the world.

I am going to get a massage this morning, though, so I think I might be second most, just for the next hour and a half or so.

oh jealous!

John is basically always the happiest person in the world.

True! This is because pain and suffering makes him hale and strong.

i have had two professional massages in my life, and both were disappointing.

True! This is because pain and suffering makes him hale and strong. </BASE BARITONE RECITATIVO>

yarr