I'm sad

That sounds GREAT. Although I wouldn't mind including DC people (or Baltimore peeps too, for that matter).

― Internet! (Z S), Monday, September 7, 2009 9:28 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok they can come too. i live in baltimore for the past 3 months btw

i'm not gonna try to convince you that your job is interesting if you don't think it is Z S but at least you're not a high school teacher

yeah i would think it was interesting just because i like boring stuff and i need a job

IM A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, and I like my job just fine.

I guess it would be interesting for some people. Maybe it's more exciting in other divisions. The contract I'm "managing" is depressing. The first day I talked to my boss, he's like "yeah so we're giving you a contract that's being phased out over the next two years. We're cutting your budget by 3/4, just keeping the basics of it going until we can replace it with something better. Any questions?"

Is it easier to land interesting government jobs from inside the government, or does having your foot in the door make no real difference?

Way easier, which is how I justified taking the job. There are lots of jobs that are only advertised internally, and preference is given to current govt. employees. And plus you can always take an elevator up a floor to the division that's hiring and say hello and introduce yourself, which helps. Unfortunately I have to serve out a two year term as part of my hiring process, so I'm stuck in hell for months and months to come.

Mainly I'm just worried about someone finding out that I spend 75% of my working day browsing NYT, political and energy blogs.

Harbl, I thought you were an attorney in a Public Defender's Office. Is my memory misfiring?

at least the reading's topical

xpost i'm a high school teacher too and i've been finding it extremely dreary lately

I was reading an article on the NYT the other day titled something like "What do you do if your coworker is slacking off?" and my first thought was "oh shit, that might be me"

daniel esq i don't know how you would know that but i am not a real lawyer yet. i have worked in a bunch of different pd's offices though.

Only way I would know that is by reading it on/inferring it from ILX threads.

"I see your posts on law-related threads," is a better way of putting it.

oh sorry i didn't mean that to sound like i was saying you're crepey haha

No worries. OTOH, I haven't been called crepey on ILX yet, and I aim to keep it that way.

you work in a PD office, everybody around you is creepy.

I have friends in the State Attorney's Office and the Public Defender's Office; it's difficult work.

gotta wait for bar results to come in so i'll be temping or something for a while

i'm not gonna try to convince you that your job is interesting if you don't think it is Z S but at least you're not a high school teacher

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 01:35 (14 minutes ago)

Aw, that's what I'm going to school to be.

I'm going to school to be ZS. abbottron3k @ zsu.edu

are you serious? TURN BACK

wait, sorry. what's the phrase? I am 3 sheets to the wind, or whatever

For a second I thought you were going to school for contracting, but I know you're teaching biology so contract work probably isn't your main focus!

No I am going to school to figure out how to be an awesome blonde dude who makes animated gifs & has cool kittens.

And then graduate in third place.

At the graduation ceremony the parents would sit awkwardly together and avoid eye contact

ok they can come too. i live in baltimore for the past 3 months btw

― harbl, Monday, September 7, 2009 9:33 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

harbl are you going to any of high zero this year? say hi and introduce yourself if you are, I'm going to it most nights

ZS you should come up to Bmore too! lose the DC blues / travel is broadening

I don't have a car, but if I can convince my gf to go that sounds really fun. This has been a really lonely labor day weekend, since she's been home in MO for a funeral all week and I don't know too many people in DC yet. Getting out of town sounds so good right now.

What a crummy weekend!

That was probably the cause of me being bummed as hell all weekend, definitely. But I feel like in the past I would just get incredibly wasted and do creative projects all weekend to pass the time. This time I ended up just sitting here, literally staring at the wall. Before, I would say things like "how can you be bored? There's so much to learn?", this weekend I would have said "derrrrr"

I have watched a lot of Antiques Roadshow, though, so it hasn't been all that bad

Hey at least you guys had a holiday, you... guys.

I don't complain when you guys have Prawn Day.

nobody is sad on prawn day!

i'd like to get out of DC but now i don't have a job, so i can't afford to leave, but i also can't afford to stay. SO BUMMED, for real

#4 result for 'prawn animated gif' in google is headlined 'king sized prawn penis'

do not want

We have a prawn day? WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME ABOUT THIS DAY.

#4 result for 'prawn animated gif' in google is headlined 'king sized prawn penis'

nice to see my work is climbing the charts

i make every day a prawn day

I don't want no prawn cake on my birthday I want my prawn cake erryday

BTW I would have all this Abbotts and Zacs over for prawn BBQ happytimes at my place yr welcome x

hey the fuckin hey, i (me) started this thread & now here i am 1,00,000 years later in approx the same situ. except worse. life's awesome!!

i shan't let it bring me down

1,00,000 isnt a real number, you know that

hey man andrew l here, great to see you back, soz to hear you're sad :-(

except this time it's springtime

oh hi, how you. actcuually i wouldnt describe me as sad, its sorta good, im gettin out of a fucked up thing & it'll take time & $$$$ but its great

GREAT

Postive Mental Attitude

yeah

ok i gotta go smoke cigarettes

Think of butterflys

― Mike Hanley, Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:00 PM (8 years ago)