Blue Saturday

They hadn't told either of us before, but they were going to do it anyway when I finished my notice period in 3 weeks. And it's completely legal cos thanks to the fucking Tories you have to work somewhere for 2 years before you have any rights.

CUNTS.

I don't believe that was in the works, because that manager sounds fundamentally dishonest. Make life as unpleasant for them as possible. Starting with getting back the docked-but-shouldn't-have-been days you were off sick.

I can't, it's in my contract they don't pay sick pay.

Can someone pls take over my financial management/paperwork? I'll do all the emotional labor, I'll be the cheerful, friendly, cute one, I'll take notes and write articles and stuff, but the idea of doing my taxes, finding out the state is going to take all my money anyway because my student loans are in default, the very THOUGHT of dealing with multiple lapsed retirement accounts that I'm going to have to empty out to live of off soon if I can't make money somehow... it's paralyzing.

My wife was just talking to someone else who recently left the company who alleged that another ex-colleague was made redundant partly because he was gay and the director who chewed me out earlier is a massive homophobe (obviously that wasn't the official reason). Just gossip of course but I can well believe it.

My situation is not as bad as first looked, my new job agreed to move my start date a week earlier and my line manager (who has been really good about all of this shit) has agreed I can do documentation from home for 2 weeks and never come back to the office again. But they're still going to let my wife go after that. I've half a mind to refuse to do the documentation because they are a bunch of cunts, but realistically we're going to need the money soon.

oh man cp, that all sounds horrendous

Oh hey at least you have a new job lined up!! That was well done.

Oh Jesus, CP, echoing The whole "that can't possibly be legal!!!" sentiments, but, basically: CUNTS

Anyway, I have survived; Interpol did not eat me, in fact a certain someone's certain brother was really incredibly lovely to me and took care of me and I've been hugged a bit too much, but, well: BLEEEEEEE!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Symbol_thumbs_up.svg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOj282VD-Q&feature=kp

there must be more to life

There is more to life, but I really feel like I ought to go and make a "InterSecretPolMachines supergroup album five anticipation thread of squee" to go and squee all over because my squee is too squeesome for this thread.

Thanks to everyone who said nice things. I haven't really been posting to ILX much for a long time so I wasn't even sure if people wouldn't just be going "who are you anyway", well maybe you were but that's fine.

I'm currently sucking it up and doing my working from home thing. At least I won't be out of pocket, but I'm really angry about the way they're treating my wife over it. I have checked the contract for my new job and I haven't accidentally agreed to work in a Victorian factory again and they do pay sick pay.

I'm hoping starting CBT next week will help with some of my many issues, but I know a lot of people don't think it's any good.

We are currently enrolling the counselling blud badge holder into something approchaiong a paler buleuf hairnet cum snood of plasticity or something

Sopremtimes there is a beautiful elaouqenuce to the made up foppery of typing exercised prose but aolso at times there is nothing but the empty laxiness of a man who is quietly firtierring his life away in a w ay that wd disgust even hunself where the to talk iopenly about syuch.

hard at it here

oh god i work with madmen, meanies and the occasional damaged niceness

http://positiveattitudechangeseverything.com/

hey, that's my life sorted

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dying here

Ugh Col. Poo that all sounds v. shitty and I'm glad you have something else lined up and can at least tell them where to shove it. Is not paying sick leave even legal in the UK?

positiveattitude website = http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=206 for the motivational guru website era

don't want

http://positiveattitudechangeseverything.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/worrying_is_like.jpg

That is quite encouraging, Branwell Belle, well done.

BLEEEEEEE there are pictures BLEEEEEEEEE but since there is no WDYLL Being Hugged Too Much By A DDB they will not see the light of day. BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh. Also. Thank fuck, I did not mention Fingerbanging. But we did end up discussing semiotics at length. What even is my life.

"sometimes the finger is just a finger, you know?"

"Well, the finger is only the Signifier, but the Signified is the weight of sexuality and desire and the symbolic desired phallus..." <- this is so *almost* how it went, but not quite. Thank fuck.

Branwell is yr dn a joke about the tuberculosis

Thorstein Veblen, actually.

Oh I don't know who that is. Well you've prevented me from making a terrible consumption joke anyway

What was the consumption joke.

(Thorstein Veblem invented the concept of "conspicuous consumption" in The Theory of the Leisure Class, which was a bit of a totemic tome I read at a particularly vulnerable stage in my intellectual development. I've been thinking lately about how there is a strand of conspicuous un-consumption in a certain strand of leftie anti-consumerism or whatever, but also, a pun-failure on a misreading of "conscious uncoupling" or whatever. Display names that have to be explained are a failure, but here I am explaining anyway.)

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/5

cc: hepatic misery thread. I will post in that thread tomorrow when I will be dying but for now just gonna say that video was a help

BB I know the phrase conspicuous consumption obv but I never knew where it originated. There is stuff in the news about cats spreading tb & I had idly considered playing on that and then I saw your sn, just a coincidence really

It's OK, when you don't know where a concept originated, just assume it's the Simpsons, and all of ILX will back you up.

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wins OTM

It is a fuckin beautiful day in Cambridge. I'm wandering around aimlessly cause I'm sick and locked out of my house still (I haven't been home since Thursday morning). Pretty sure I smell like a chip shop too cause we've been frying crisps in the lab all week & I can't change clothes. My head is fuzzy. I need eggs.

I am trying to work up the courage to send an email. I also need eggs first, though.

I had time to go home before the gig last night & see if there was anyone about but I was so sick from drinking on Thursday, I had managed to hold it together at work but then I had to go hide in the library, I got myself a booth in the bfi mediatheque, put the headphones on & tried to nap listening to stuff like that eafa film and a Welsh documentary about cerdd dant (is that what It's called, I can't remember. The singingcpoetry with the harp)

Xp eggs are the answer. I would like q dippy egg cause I've got the notion but I would feel weird ordering one out. I might anyway.

I saw the stranglers last night, that was weird. I don't know them except for 2 songs. The crowd was really bald, and male; my friend said there was no queue whatsoever for the women's toilets, but when I went to the men's the queue was ridic. I got really confused because one of the band started talking in a geordie accent, having sung all the songs like a southerner. He also said he had just turned 50, but it was a 40th anniversary tour! Turns out he's a guy they drafted in to impersonate the original guy. They played about 300 songs.

I found some eggs, in a dumpling bar.

hi wins, i enjoyed your review and i'm glad you found some eggs.

Ha thanks. I'm in poundland. I had exactly one pound and I couldn't decide whether to buy a coffee table book about Sylvia plath's art or one about dictators' homes. In the end I went & got some cash out.

I thought I saw a merzbow cd but it was actually merz whoever that is

I need to work on my impulse control. Capricious consumption

Big Issue seller asked me what the matter is. Nothing's really the matter but I told him about my health issues. He had alcohol poisoning at xmas. I dunno tho when you find yourself complaining to a homeless man about being locked out of your house for a couple of days

wins are you in fact larping Ulysses?

(and if so can i play?)

winsday? Sure

It occurred to me that I'm exhausted, and it is too hot to be wearing a coat. Came to the library for another bfi nap but got sucked into actually watching stuff. I bought an edition of Harold nicolson's diaries that had been withdrawn from circulation; I can't be sure but I think I was the last person to check it out, in 2009.

There is some big community event going on today to celebrate the re-opening of our library, which I should really go to, because I'm technically part of the Friends society (even though I got about as far as drawing them a logo before deciding the meetings were boring and giving up).

I have managed to email my rock star (hopefully without rambling too much) I was like "send me spacerock!" and he was like "send me recommendations of good books to read" so hopefully we can swap. It's fun feeling this giddy and starstruck and crushy.

Capricious consumption, this is the way forward, yes.

bleeee saturday :)

New display name; thanks, Estela!

:D

adults shouldn't have "crushes"

why is win locked out