This Is The Thread Where I Say.......Part Seven!

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(I don't call him HSA because I don't want people to know his name, I call him HSA because he likes it!)

It's really too bad his mum couldn't make it, that would have been fun.

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:32 (twenty years ago) link

Hope you are okay Sam.

I am stuffing myself with biscuits and having mixed feelings about a Christmas bonus I just got. Mixed because, while it's great to get a bonus and I never have had one before, they are STILL fucking about with my new contract (should have been done in AUGUST) so I don't get the full amount but some pro rata fraction because officially I still work PT.

Now I'm going to the cashpoint and then getting a bagel and sitting in the sun reading my Robert B Parker for an hour.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

I want to go dancing too! Yesterday, I was dancing in my car seat (ha ha, that makes me sound like a baby) listening to a mix I made my sister with the Rapture, Kelis, ESG, Kylie Minogue, and LCD Soundsystem.

I did absolutely nothing last night. Ok, I wrote ONE Christmas card, but that's about it.

I need my coffee.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

James Brown!
James Brown!
James Brown!
James Brown!
*breakdown part...4 bars later*
James Brown!
James Brown!
James Brown!
James Brown!
[...]

― Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

Oh joy. Just emailed personnel and they said 'oh we haven't been able to process anything because we haven't had any confirmation from yr line manager'. Who has been swearing blind for months that it's now out of his hands. Grrrrrr.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

Kick him.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

I feel so terrible right now, I'm afraid it is making me too cranky and impatient with people. Even though I've felt worn down for the past week, I felt so much worse this morning, like someone had beat me up. I wish I was one of those people who could keep a positive outlook on things no matter what is going on.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

If it helps any, you're welcome to a woop woop.

(Either I've just noticed your email address or you've changed it.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

I just changed it, too much spam. That kind of goes with the territory with hotmail though.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

Hey Nicole. That's what I feel like too, but at least I can put that down to last night's Xmas FAP. I've been a zombie today (and not the good kind), and have discovered a stiff neck like I've never had before.

I once worked on a film called "Welcome to Woop Woop", for what it's worth.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

For some reason, I read 'canIgetawoopwoop' to the tune of 'can I get a witness'.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

i heard from the teacher across the hall. she said i've had a strict substitute who's been working with the kids on real lessons so I'm fortunate in that.

She also suggested I stay out the rest of the week and just return next week when they're taking exams. gah.. . now i'm wishing i had. my psych wanted me to do this but i said i couldn't afford it (which is true) but it sounds so good now. *sigh*

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

I saw the ads for that, Mark! That didn't come out as impressed as I meant it to.

I just finally got a hotmail account again for pseudonym stuff, and then remembered one of the reasons my old account got cancelled for lack of reading was that Eudora isn't hotmail-friendly. Ah well.

And yeah, Nicole, woop woops aside (I just like typing "woop woop"), I know pretty much how you feel, and I generally am one of the Positive People.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

Tep, Yahoo mail is much better than hotmail, though you have to pay to get it forwarded to an email reader on yr computer. I'm wondering how long I'll have to wait before I start to get spam on my shiny new email which I am NEVER posting on the interweb.

(I don't think the film was any good. I just did a bit of research for Stefan Elliot, the director. It wasn't very exciting, but I was able to do a flawless camp Australian accent by the end)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

It had the guy from That Thing You Do in it who's dating Christina Applegate and was in that scene in The Sweetest Thing (this guy is all about things) and the movie where Jessica Lange chases Gwynneth Paltrow around, I think, didn't it?

I'm not gonna pay just for this email account, it's purely a reader-mail thing, so I figure I'll just check hotmail from time to time.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

I'm having lunch with both my old bandmates in a few minutes! I know, it's a miracle. I haven't been in touch with them at all really since I told them my news. I'm hoping we'll be able to make peace, because I really don't want to lose them as friends, even though I'll be half a country away.

Whoop-whoop, one and all!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

I hope it goes well, Sarah.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, snap.

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

What is this weird sub-subcultural pit?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, hello Nick. It's nothing that would interest you. Move along now.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

I've never even checked these threads before.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

They tend to be a niche interest, Horace. Not enough bile and sarcasm for most ILXors ;)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

or too much, perhaps

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

How so, JBR?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

It's sort of like a place ILXors act all chummy and lame crap like that, huh?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

ps x-post

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

no comment

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

That's about the size of it, yeah.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

so, like, just by posting in here, I'm entitled to some hollow platitudes?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

*sigh*

Take that attitude elsewhere, Horace.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

well, cuz I could use some unmerited praise or something today...

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

it's just where a few of us check in with each other and update on our lives.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, nope. It's probably the only place on this bitch where platitudes have some kind of meaning. We don't bother with the "I'm more cynical and clever than you and for some fucked-up reason this makes me happy".

(x-post)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sorry, I was just having a bit of a larff and seriously was sorta in my passive-aggressive way testing the waters to see if it was safe to post about how freaking nervous I am about my "meeting" with my boss's boss in 80 minutes.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

Well in that case :)

What's the meeting about? Are you likely to be judged in some way? Will action (positive or negative) be the outcome? Tell all - I'm sure we can all empathise.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

I just ate a whole raw clove of garlic and fluid is oozing from every hole in my face.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

Well, basically, either I'll be fired or I'll quit. It's sort of ridiculous and I think I've forced his hand on this. I'm just hoping I don't chicken out. Cuz if he doesn't fire me and I don't get up the nerve to quit, that's the end for me.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Walk Tall, dear sir. Steal his pen, too.

― Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my hokey. Well, if it's that cut and dried, then I guess fate will take you wherever. It may well be that he'd much rather have you resign than fire you - it's easier for all concerned, they don't have to worry about labour laws etc. etc.

Good luck regardless, H. Mann - it'll be sucky but over soon. Let us know how it goes.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

also, it'd probably be a good idea to erase as much of your sent email as you possibly can.

just to make sure...

― Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

they don't have to worry about Labour Laws anyhow, since it's my f/lance boss('s boss). But basically I called him and my, uh senior colleague on some bullshit and I'm best-possible-worlds going to get an apology and possibly some more favourable terms (ha ha ha ha ha) or I'm going to take my dignity elsewhere.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

What, exactly, are you worried about quitting for? I mean I'm sure getting paid shit is nice to do crap work that only pretends to advance your career, but since you've got exciting freelance opportunities elsewhere in more prestigious place *and* you'd probably make about as much money working at the Petro-Canada, you might as well walk out with your head held high...

Man, also I am really not getting back into this job thing. I feel like playing hooky again. And having a drink. Though maybe just of coffee. Bleh.

Also, H., it always seemed odd that you didn't post to these threads.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

It is also a bit tricky getting back into the ILX swing of things, since suddenly wow do I not care about most of these threads. But I still like you lot on this thread (and some folks on some of the other threads, of course), so I'm still here.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

the size of these threads is intimidating. i don't do well in crowds.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

and it's the whole bird in the hand thing with the f/lancing. and I do like the intimacy (to a degree) with my audience here.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

Casuistry: once you've been here everything else just seems like kind of a waste of time, huh? ;-)

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

I've been in the same boat since November, Chris, and don't seem to view the water any differently even though it's been a few weeks. One of those things.

Horace, don't sweat it, these are pretty low key threads. I think of them as like a faculty lounge without the misery poker.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

"Misery poker"! Ha! I haven't heard that one before.

H, if you want that intimacy, go back to writing stories for the PD (or just give in and pitch the stories to the paper, but tell them to fuck off with their exclusivity claptrap).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

and I get it from the radio show anyway. which is waaay more fun. if I'm not gonna make any money, I better damn well have fun. Yeah. Now I'm getting psyched up. Eye of the M-F tiger, yee-ow!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

(plus there's a sick and twisted Count of Monte Cristo part of me that really thrives on antagonism, but I suppose that's everywhere, huh?)(by that I mean antagonism, not obsessions with the C of M C)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

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