The day before US Thanksgiving doldrums

I actually have work to do and am working, in between posting.

We're not going to any family things b/c it's just too much hassle. Thanksgiving is such a half-holiday. We are going to a friend's tomorrow were there will probably be more trees consumed than poultry. ahem.

Other than that a couple of shows are on order, I'm going to try and drag Hank to see Harry Potter and I'm going to clean out the fridge. yay four day weekends! (which means I won't being seeing you bunch till monday. pbb)

okay, nap time.

So what are your plans?

Our director is letting us go at noon. I have some work to do today, and I'll me best to get it out. Such a classic phone-it-in day though.

We've already had the family thanksgiving so I'm relishing a long weekend with no obligations. Options on the agenda:

-a tailgate for the Texas/A&M game with fried turkeys and free beer

-writing a paper comparing Oedipus and Death of a Salesman for my boyfriend's English class (okay this is a must, not an option)

-knitting baby sweaters

-writing

-xmas shopping

-trying to drag someone to see Twilight again with me

-would like to put up the tree but a month away seems too early

ILx?

I'll be in a small room with no windows til 11pm! WHEEE

got to get those pie fixins!

x-post

Are you at least getting turkey?

What kind of pies? I'm having xmas at my house for the first time this year (well just my brother and his family. The rest of my family has stopped celebrating any holidays at all.) Bringing out the best: tamales, banana pudding, and fudge.

Today I will be mostly writing a 15 page paper due tonight, baking cupcakes for thanksgiving, making a stew for dinner and packing. Ugh.

i think imna make an australian apple pie and maybe a strawberry rubarb or pecan

Pecan! It's the worst pie for you but the best tasting.

maybe i will make all three :)

good plan

im dreading going to the insaneo supermarket tho - maybe i will save it for the middle of the nite

xpost

The last two are two of my faves. How is pecan pie the worst?? My mother-in-law has the best recipe. It's pretty much solid pecans rather than a top layer of nut with the rest being soft and treacly.

lol do u guys know abt clear pie - its like pecan w/o the pecans - top w/cool whip!

Pecan pie is just usually the higest in terms of fat and calories which obv means it's the best and most awesome!

Oh shit the supermarket. I have to go too. Maybe I should shower and go now because it's still early-ish.

Clear pie???

should prob just hit the supermarket right now :/

Black Friday anyone? I hate being such a consumer but having four kiddos btw 3-9 to buy for makes me gift crazy. I want to be their Santa Claus. Also there's the grown kid who lives with me and keeps sending me e-mails about who will have various Xbox 360 crap on sale this weekend.

I truly dread hitting the stores this weekend. That might push my limits in terms of tolerating the mass of humanity.

No way will I be shopping this weekend. I can't handle the crowds and craziness.

Tomorrow morning we have to drive to Long Island. I hope that most people will travel today and that if we leave early enough it won't be too bad traffic wise.

x-post

be glad you don't work retail

the one who wants the video games lock him in the basement until new years

xpost - my deepest sympathies.

hmm, not a bad idea. He was just laid-off and srsly my nieces and nephew are my top priority. Maybe we should hold off presents for each other until after xmas. But he has been waiting patiently to receive COD 5 as an xmas gift. I would hate to disappoint.

Studying all day.

Sucks doesn't it? :-(

Working from home today. Gonna nap a lot and then go shopping for foodstuffs.

at the library; "looking forward" to a skype thanksgiving with the fam back home

Driving to Michigan tomorrow to my sisters party. She ordered a Turducken which is something new. Will listen to the Lions game on the drive up. I'm bringing my bowling ball so Friday looks like a beer/bowling afternoon with the nephew.

work lets out at 3 but i am stuck going to class from 6:30-9:15 tonight. wtf.

Sucks doesn't it? :-(

― Lady Gorgorrand (ENBB), Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:32 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

The me of the past is gawking from the window of his time machine.

I'm sitting at my desk with my recipes working up a grocery list. Next, I'll work on my list of what I'm doing this evening/tonite. THEN, I'll work on my big game day plan. Lists!

I approve of this use of work time.

I'm in awe of people who pull of the big dinner, especially by themselves. The first xmas after my grandmother passed away my aunt and I attempted to recreate her traditional dinner. It completely kicked our ass and I couldn't believe she managed to do it by herself every year.

My family has never had a together-holiday since. Maybe it's our fault b/c we f'ed up the fruit salad. :(

on my way to the CT train. Wish I hadn't awakened at 3:45 a.m. :p

Today -- knocking off a slew of winter quarter prep work so I don't have to think about it at all later, taking advantage of another quiet day (as noted when I started this thread!), plus one last Trader Joe's visit for resupplies

Tomorrow -- dinner with friend Stripey and her family

Friday -- work again! (which means I don't have to work any other holidays and can finish up the rest of winter quarter prep work on an even quieter day) Then a party at a friend's place near campus right after work.

i have to fly later today, which is perhaps my least favorite thing to do.

Writing a brief, then going out to hear some live music with my wife and some friends who just got back into the country from the UK. WOOT!

so dreading going to the insaneo supermarket tonight.

wait: ILX is gonna be dead until Monday isn't it?

dammmmmn

Cruised down the interstate. Only three other kids in the Beeps' class. Found a space a block closer to work.

Love these days.

i realized i forgot butter and milk/cream for the potatoes, which means paying way too much for them at a bodega on my way home tonight :(

wait: ILX is gonna be dead until Monday isn't it?

Either that or drunken, getting-away-from-the-family posts.

oh those are my favorite

I'll be right here to read 'em up!

Ned, you have to work Friday? Now I don't feel so bad about having to work today.

office is quiet, i'm hungry, will go get a quick egg sandwich.

I am excitedly making my sweet potato costume for a Thanksgiving wedding in Los Angeles where "pilgrim, native american and new world vegetable costumes are encouraged"!

Nicole, we're always open the day after Thanksgiving for short hours and since we're open most holidays we have to divvy up coverage. I like taking that day for a slew of reasons -- I don't go home for Thanksgiving anyway, so that frees it up for everyone else if they want/need to travel, it's always TOTALLY dead so it's not really stressful at all, as mentioned it lets me catch up on winter quarter stuff well in advance to knock out a lot of reserves things, and the hours worked turn in to comp time that I apply towards a mandatory three days that has to be taken as vacation during the Xmas break. (Seriously, there are three days that have to be either handled as vacation or comp time. I'll build up the comp time, thanks.)

whoa! xpost @ tuber-man wedding

xxpost, will you have marshmallows?

Our university completely closes down between Dec. 22 - Jan. 5. Which is awesome. Then just a week later we get a three-day weekend for MLK day. Unfortunately, it's a long stretch to Memorial Day after that.

We're pretty good with the staff holidays in the first half of the year, we get MLK, President's, Cesar Chavez, Memorial Day.

Cesar Chavez

! Seriously? Our state is now 40% Hispanic or so and we're totally dissed on this one.

Yeah, it's kinda taken the place of Easter as an official day off. But yeah, state holiday.

that's pretty cool.

i ended up getting a western omelette.

Meanwhile UCI shuts down from Dec. 24th to Jan. 1, and as mentioned three of those days off have to be cashed in via vacation or comp. Unfun. But I've built up enough comp time to cash that in, which is allowing me to finish work on Dec. 19th with a half day and then actually use vacation time for vacation by flying up that afternoon to SF, so for the first time in a long time I can be at my sis's birthday directly on the 20th and then just hang around in the Bay Area and Carmel through the 28th. (I was tempted to add on a vacation day for Jan. 2 but I actually want to use that day just to catch up on all the Reserves requests that will have been hanging fire in the meantime...)

taking the Amtrak from Boston to New York tomorrow, for one of those classic NYC 9:00 PM Thanksgiving dinners...(why they eat so late?)

we work late

thanksgiving dinner should be at 2pm - im from boston i know these things - tomorrow i eat @ 5pm wtf

i'm eating at 530ish, which is way way early, cuz my parents are getting on an airplane the next day

This is the best holiday of the year! I now have two turkeys brining, in a mix of salt water and Southern Comfort. Tomorrow I will smoke these two beasts over hickory, and then play Rock Band 2 after dinner with my guests. I can't feel any doldrums over this.

no doldrums. i'm playing hooky from school, about to go to the gym and then out to my parents' house for food and wines.

J Shea you coming up here for 5 o'clock Thanksgiving? You can get a steakbomb!

Also I went to the supermarket a while ago and it wasn't too bad. Go now if you can cause it's only going to get worse!

no doldrums, just boozin' and jokin' and a fiddlin' and a canoein'

ok just the first two

o fuk the supermarket. Yeah, gotta do that.

wait: ILX is gonna be dead until Monday isn't it?

It's OK, we'll keep it going while you're away.

Signed The Rest of the World.

I don't really mind going to extended-family Thanksgivings -- I'm driving to my cousin's place in Peoria tomorrow -- but I have to say, I'm increasingly envious of friends who are either not particularly close to their families or whose families are so far away that it's not worth it and who therefore just have a big booze-fueled potluck instead.

We've lived very far from all extended family for so many years now that Thanksgiving has long-since become my family's holiday, rather than a holiday I spend with extended family (e.g. Christmas). For years we've made a tradition of inviting people over who have no place else to go---there are lots of these people in university towns. It's always a blast.

Nice. You're doing good work there!

I'm at a worksite; everyone emphasizes they're happy to have me here but they can't quite say what I'll be doing as part of this project. What the hell, as long as they sign off on my timesheet....

(And I would like to get to the store, even if it is going to be a madhouse.)

For years we've made a tradition of inviting people over who have no place else to go---there are lots of these people in university towns. It's always a blast.

^^this. the orphan thanksgivings with a bunch of friends and stuff are always my favorite.

J Shea you coming up here for 5 o'clock Thanksgiving? You can get a steakbomb!

― Lady Gorgorrand (ENBB), Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha no my fam doesnt live in boston no more - im staying here - steakbomb would be amazing tho

Dead day today, just finishing up a grad school app and catching up with friends. Might head down to the Zen Center for the evening service. Gotta work tomorrow morning, hopefully get off early to hit the road for Mom's & a late afternoon Thanksgiving lunch & hopefully enough drinking to make me forget the arguments about Obama by morning. They're leaving town Black Friday morning and I've got the day off, so it's back up to ATX with another 36 hours to kill before work. Not sure what I'll do with it yet.

I am now treating myself to a pedicure bc I am pissed that I have to go to class tonight and there wasn't enough time to go home

haha whaaat http://i37.tinypic.com/2vdr9mr.jpg

I keep thinking y'all seem to have a fucktonne of public holiday weekends but then I rememver you only get 2 weeks a year annual leave with that, or something, rite?

lol after 3 years with current company i have amassed 1.5 weeks paid vacay

Holy fuckaduck! We get 4 weeks a year!

it depends on the company

there is no national law requiring vacation time. many people in the US get 4 weeks a year.

Yes sorry, didn't mean to suggest I was the standard.

Because my position is only good til may/June, I am benefit/paid holiday/vacationless. Sure I get thanksgiving off but I'm losing almost half a week's pay for it. Go me!

Right now I earn 12 hours paid vacation a month and about 8 hours sick leave, so whatever that adds up to.

looooooooove orphan holidays. one of the best xmas' ever was orphan-style

I have a part-time job (so far! I'm applying and interviewing for many others!) and requested time off for Thanksgiving, so I just have no work and no income this week. I am a little depressed that I can't go home for Christmas through New Year's like all of my roommates are doing, because they are mostly students and one person with a good job and tons of vacation. But I have the 30th & 31st off, so I can either invite people or head to NY for New Year's Eve, and that could be exciting.

HALF HOUR LEFT OF WORK!

test run of my sweet potato costume: doesn't look much like a sweet potato. looks pretty weird though.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/3063072652_ac3e17a610.jpg

This'll be one strange wedding.

i'm impressed, looks like you put some effort into it! i wonder how many vegetables vs. pilgrims and indians there will be. (and since it's a wedding, i really hope "smallpox blankets" cracks don't come out like they seem to at pilgrim/indian costume parties.) you should report back.

lol that hat!!!

good luck usa

i wasnt in the doldrums yesterday. i was hunky dory. today im not so good. shitty football on the tv, old friends from highschool calling me wanting to get together (i am avoiding them), and no thanksgiving dinner to boot. my dad had shoulder surgery yesterday and im sitting in his room right now keeping him company. he cant sleep and the pain is too intense, and he doesn't want to be alone. im so anxious i just tried to rearrange my parents cupboards and fridge. i just washed the butter dish and replaced it with a new fresh stick of butter. outside the sky is covered by a blanket of dirty grey.

i cant wait for tomorrow.

Best to your dad, Mandee -- hope he recovers soon -- and good thoughts to you all.

Bah,last day of long weekend.

i get these a little early sometimes

HMMMMM

the anticipation of a four day holiday weekend is usually better than the four day holiday weekend. i am enjoying life today, even though i am at work.

A few hours to go.

Work emails I needed to get written this week: about 100.
Work emails I wrote this week: 1.

whole day disrupted/no work accomplished, due to wife's dental emergency (thankfully resolved). fighting a cold too. but thanksgiving is my favorite holiday so fuck a doldrums.

Real doldrums doubtless being experienced by whoever is out there stuck in an airport. And I KNOW you're out there.

At home, sitting around reading ILX / a book and listening to music, kind of wish I was doing something more, but not really wanting to do much more.

Went through final inspection of my new house, but I don't close on it until Monday. I could spend the weekend organizing and sorting through my stuff, but why bother? I have a whole house to unpack it into.

:)

just talked to the boyfriend and his mom, who are baking and anticipating my arrival early AM. feeling ok.

kind of wish I was doing something more, but not really wanting to do much more.

yeah, this

i just finished exams 2day, half the ppl i hang with from school are doing stuff (but not for an hour or so), the other half are getting w/their fams, and i'm hell of tired. i want to/feel obligated to be social or w/e, but i also just want to watch something hilarious and go to sleeeeeeeeeeeep

also someone flipped the winter switch here, it's about to get real

i want to be social but no one's fucking available

congratulations on winter btw

no real doldrums, just a little tired of cooking. ready to do some EATING.

all that's left to make is the turkey and gravy... and i still have to do some minimal cleaning around the house.

oh wait, i forgot about the green beans i picked up at the farmer's market today. i'll be making those too.

:D

i posted this on twitter earlier -- it's the stuffing i made. i'll try to remember to get a money shot of the bird when it's on the serving plate.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/4135062268_8c6cbd9573.jpg

damn son

Stellar!

arrived home around midnight, had a few drinks with my mom, talked about like, seriously heavy shit and whatever.
really psyched on tomorrow. gotta make some taters and some green beans.

my mom's house is kinda lonely without any kitties tho. :-(

Jody that stuffing looks delish!!!

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but we're living abroad this year and so the kids have school. It's a totally normal day here. It's a weird feeling. On the plus side we strolled along Boulevard Haussmann last night and gazed at the grands magasins, all lit up with Christmas displays in place, with people selling roasted chestnuts. It was marvelous. So I think it will just be a different kind of holiday this year.

guys what about day of doldrums

hi dere

yeah, this

dum dum dum.

I spent nearly all 24 pre-Thanksgiving hours in airports and on airplanes. Phwwwwwww.

Attention. Attention.

CAN WE ALL GO HOME PLEASE.

five hours to go :(

BLARGH

DOCTORS FROM TEXAS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO WRITE THEIR FIGURE LEGENDS

what is that an anagram of?

Only working half day, thankfully

HAAAAAAAALLP

please let us get off at 3 today. please please please god I won't survive a full day of this boredom

...
...
...

Someone needs to revive a ridiculous thread so I can type stupid things for a couple of hours instead of pretending to work in this ghost town.

I haven't heard any chatter about leaving early around here, so I'm just going to work extra slowly to avoid having nothing at all to do at the end of the day.

paper clip necklace anyone?

came back from lunch with coworker, another coworker asks "why did you even come back?"

Thanksgiving pot luck at work. I'm not friend of turkey but had a striking conversation with my boss' curry mashed potatoes.

i'm doing a lotta work, slackers

And we give you thanks.

i am resizing jpgs ad infinitum, my eyes are going to fall out of my head

SEND HELP

five-day workweek in three days.

rare occurance of 12/1 falling in between thanksgiving and coming back to work.

i'll be here until at least 0100 GMT.

Pretty much what I'm doing too, vg.

holidays: not worth it.

io9 just posted this as a distraction. A good idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iAgSyGy5iE

five-day workweek in three days.

This. Errbody that left early busted their humps to make sure I was swamped this week. Thank god for the recycle bin.

...

FOUR HOURS TO GO.

still no email from HR about leaving early

sulu: set boredom speed to minus 10

Actually I should say that more in the Bernard Sumner voice from "We All Stand"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4pIXQvxMeA

FOUR HOURS TO GO

i wanna be sedated

Three more hours here. If I worked 9-5 like normals, I'd be leaving in about 45 minutes. ;_;

add some Hayden to your day

I was listening to That Dog earlier, so I've already added Haden to my day.

word on the street is we're stuck here til 5

fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

You and I will ride out this storm.

you, me and REO Speedwagon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFgEBq0EKM

looks like I'm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eU_HP8Cn8Q

SILENCE OVER THERE

WE'RE GOIN HOME

wine bottle's low, watching for the snow

it will delight you to know, Ned, that I gave your librarian colleagues some work about an hour ago.

^^^bastard

sorry, i'm leaving too. but now i have to go to penn station, which is going to be hell on earth

it will delight you to know, Ned, that I gave your librarian colleagues some work about an hour ago.

When we are recording tonight I will have things to say.

"work" = "HI! I was notified that my interlibrary loan book arrived. Can you...?" "Sure."

So far in my big day of just watching movies, I've knocked down ... one and a half.

i'm going to be working on a big freelance thing throughout the holiday, so rah. however, i am currently roasting turkey drumsticks for the collard greens i'm bringing to a potluck tomorrow.

I just killed 30 minutes figuring out how many Pearl Jam concerts I have been to

only 2 hours and 50 minutes left to go
FUCK MY LIFE

answer: 15 since 1995

Pfft. And you say you're a fan.

my only pearl jam story is the time I left a festival because I didn't want to see them play, and then eddie vedder's ex-wife crashed our restaurant reservations

cool story bro

:)

xxpost mr veg & his friend have seen them like 30 or 40 times, total deadhead territory

it's like their sphere was going to fuck w/my evening one way or another

on another note, I snuck out of work and am on the couch at home

i wish i was on a couch at home

instead i am on a chair at woooooooooooooorrrrrkkkkkkkkk wwaaaaaah why god why

pearl jam

Got sprung from work early. Didn't stop me from doing no work whatsoever while there.

you're all jerks imo

Actually, I got into a conversation about Pearl Jam with a coworker. Do you happen to remember who opened for them in 2000? I thought it was Sleater-Kinney, but my coworker thought Jesus Lizard.

Off work today, but it's not all good. I'm forcing myself to get thru Computer Chess.

Sleater Kinney opened the 2003 tour iirc. In 2000 it was Sonic Youth -- I double-checked online, they did a few dates with Supergrass as well.

Ah, right, I thought Sonic Youth had opened, I just had the year wrong. Thanks!

Sleater Kinney opened the 2003 tour iirc

True! It's the only time I saw either band. Also, for the encore, S-K, Steve Earle and Cheetah Chrome all came out and played Sonic Reducer.

Oh no, wait. Cheetah Chrome played on Sonic Reducer (duh!) and S-K and Steve Earle came out for Fortunate Son and Rockin in the Free World.

Good show.

i only saw pearl jam once, at lolla '92, jones beach.

not too shabby!

Twice for me in 1992, Lolla out here and way earlier in the year, at the second Rock for Choice show ever...

http://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/not-just-the-ticket-28-fugazi-headlining-rock-for-choice-january-24-1992/

http://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/not-just-the-ticket-58-lollapalooza-92-sept-12-1992/

got off work 2.5 hours early, was mad i couldn't do more work :(

saw the Sleater Kinney-PJ show in '03, at which I had the pleasure of standing behind fans yelling "Get these dikes off! PEARL JAAAAMMMM!"

ughhh

seeing them as middleaged lame douchebros now slightly makes up for them now but still, they were always the worst part of pj shows

they give themselves away when they hi-five over "jeremy"

gonna be two states away by the tme veg gets off work

;_;

And an hour to go HOW THRILLING.

This front window I love so much has turned me into a zoo exhibit after hours.

8 minutes and counting

GET ME THE HELL OUTTA HERE

So far in my big day of just watching movies, I've knocked down ... one and a half.

Fled at 3:45 and made the BAM screening of Michael Ritchie's Smile. "Only if Florence Henderson dies."

Now should probably find out when dinner is tom'w.

DONE. Heading home, dammit.

Just wrapped movie #3, heading out for #4. The day certainly got on track, belatedly.

I'M FREEEEEEEEE

I actally just had an impulse to "like"a post here wtf is with me

Another year, another Wednesday of NOTHING. (Oddly enough my initial post still applies even though I'm in a different library -- we're normally at four staff and today counting me it's two.)

leaving in 15 to see Spielberg/Hanks and get a haircut

Eggs and bacon in about 10 minutes. Yoga in about 60 minutes. Death in about 120 minutes.

Very precise, that.

lol, i'm drinking and sharing peta links on fb

leaving in 15 to see Spielberg/Hanks and get a haircut

Missed the "and" -- I thought, jeez, those guys aren't even trying anymore.

nobody here, my dept still swamped w work, pushed a deadline earlier am now struggling to remain productive so next week isn't murder

one of three ppl left at work (out of like 20 normally); my train isn't until 6:30

should be writing something that's due in a week and a half but am instead largely sitting here watching champions league/college hoops

woke up, wrote a thing about okkervil river, wrote a thing about grimes, now going to work out and pick up a shipment of soda and a shipment of bottled water and a shipment of candy and go down to the theater and cook the chili and cook the curry and go to the bank to replenish the petty cash and load the drive with whatever this weekend's movie is into the RAID and make cranberry sauce and buy weed. hoping for a very relaxing tomorrow.

(leaving out all the ilx refreshing there obv)

My office closes in ~55 minutes. Currently flipping around between ILX, Twitter and Facebook and creating banner ads for deployment in December/early 2016.

Could be worse, everyone. You could be stuck in this airport waiting on your delayed flight with nowhere to sit...and then you have to hear this

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/11/animal-collective-are-debuting-their-new-album-at-bwi-airport-right-now/

Didn't die, but now am sous chaffing for my brother-in-law, so you know ...

gonna hafta google that

Tumbleweeds here. Complete nonsense that our office is open

I've done the one actual task that there was to do, and even that was more personal than work-related. Everything else I could have done that WAS work-related I did...yesterday. 2 1/2 hours to go.

almost made an eagles reference on twitter

still at work but i am going to drink a beer at work, so

*farts*

no signs of human life for the last two hours.

There's one person here quietly working away at a computer. Think I'm going to fire up an old MST3K episode to pass the time.

You could always strut, pout, put it out. That's what you want from grandma.

Oh my.

loool

I am writing a quick Setsuko Hara obit before rushing to buy a new kitchen faucet to install tomorrow and to eat sushi at my friends' home.

thanksgiving isn't even real, you guys

this radio show proves it is real (the gifs too)

https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/63768

^"Spin the Bottle" is a longtime fave of mine, and i'm sure many of you will sound like that in 24 hours.

btw when i got to the famous barber mill, my guy's station was cleaned out; photos of Italy on the mirror, gone (he's likely in his 70s). I didn't have the heart to ask if he retired or what, so i left w/out a haircut.

They let us out at 4...thaaaaaank god

well, happy thanks-killing. i'm drunk! and, i'm still posting peta shit on facebook and riffing about how turkeys get their beaks and toes chopped off without any painkillers, etc.

cheers!

It is happening, again.

Lol

so peaceful in nyc

Well except for that car crash

well only suckers drive here (RIP)

wednesday before t-giving doldrums, is this a thing because I have them

So a thing

I'm going to pick up several days' worth of Chinese food in a little while (and still going to family t'giving tomorrow).

Oh, and in 4 minutes I'm quitting my email program.

WFH = sitting around doing nothing

office is technically open until 1pm but no one is here. did they take vacation time? is it just that their bosses don't care/aren't here either? it is a mystery

i'm basically just reading ebooks on my computer

xp - May I introduce you to the "Random Threads" button?

Lucky me, everyone I support seems to have dug deep last night before splitting for the weekend so that I might enjoy the privilege of scaling To-Do Mountain this morning. THANKS CHUMS.

Yeah, you others can count your blessings... A *fellow temp* just volunteered me for additional work this afternoon via email.

Boss has a dumb meeting this afternoon so all of us schlubby minions have to sit around until that’s over with

The quiet before the storm (of going to the grocery store to get things that ought to be FRESH for my guests tomorrow).

i had no idea bartenders had to attend non-aa meetings

I had off today but I'm working Thursday through Sunday. At least I have no overnight hours.

Frankly I feel like those doldrums have arrived a day early.

It's raining, and I have half as many meetings as usual, but none of them are good.

i “get” to work from home tomorrow but i would rather stay in bed all day

bo-ring

we had pre-Thanksgiving potluck brunch so now i'm in my office nodding off.

might as well not even be here, shit all is getting done by me.

My routine in recent years has been to spend Thanksgiving with my gf's family and then Xmas with my own. My recently-brainwashed aunt (by marriage) brought her Trumpite new husband to the turkey day festivities last year (hosted by my cousin) and apparently has decided, counter to everyone else's preference, that an annual spectacle of instability is the best way to celebrate the holiday. So I'm only vicariously experiencing the doldrums of my otherwise sane family members.

Why are actual people here this morning, I ask you.

this is the fakest work week

Judging by last year's post and my experience over the last several days, it's a fake week for everybody else who's been whipping all their shit into my inbox just before their mad rush out of town. At least very little new has come through today and I'm just burning off that prior glut.

Luckily I am NOT at work today, because today are my 50th birthday. So, pluses and minuses, I guess.

Happy Birthday!

Nothing's worse than employers at a "gig" job who say "Oh, leave early!!" as the supervisor says "and I'll adjust your timesheet." (ie take money away from you)

Nicely lighter traffic on the 5 a.m. commute = bonus!

i am protesting this day of “work” by staying in my pyjamas while i work from home

I am too. But I do that every day.

happy birthday Liz!

Okay this breaks some doldrums for the LOLs.

Ummm what. pic.twitter.com/QKiVptoClf

— Laura Hayes (@LauraHayesDC) November 27, 2019

And indeed, separately, happiest to Liz!

‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving
And all through the bar

My busiest day in last six months. Had to do Wednesday, Thusday and Friday all in one day.

Not so bad. Office was quiet for once, so I got a lot done.

final 3 hours: zero emails

fucking waste of a day

area pajama-wearer unsatisfied

highlight of my day was the leftover half-a-burrito i had for lunch

It’s on

Good morning!

I'm at Disney World!

Last night while I was trying to fall asleep I had the brilliant idea of using bamboo steamer stacks to transport deviled eggs in a small footprint.

work got closed yesterday due to snow which is basically free PTO, but i was sick all day so i dunno

Last night while I was trying to fall asleep I had the brilliant idea of using bamboo steamer stacks to transport deviled eggs in a small footprint.