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[[deleted user]]

Right now I am searching for the Misha’s nice thread, I am desperately in need of some R&R. Oh damn, it's only Monday.

[janine]

i just hung a clock on my wall. i picked the right screw, used my ikea screwdriver to stick it in the wall and hung my new clock on it.

[[deleted user]]

Atta girl Janine!

[Félix]

What time is it, Janine?

[RandomAnthony]

Barb wrote: "Just talked to our little darling before bed (she's out of town with her grandma), and she was crying because she missed us. Poor little thing - phone hugs just don't cut it."

You're a good mom, Barb....

I'm about to teach my first class of the semester. I love the first day of school.

[Jonathan]

I am procrastinating because I have to finish a thousand-word article by tomorrow morning and am not yet sure what to say...

[Félix]

Jonathan wrote: "I am procrastinating because I have to finish a thousand-word article by tomorrow morning and am not yet sure what to say..."

That's where I am with my novel, too. :)

[Cynthia]

I'm sitting at the computer when I should be going to the gym. Haven't been since just before the flood.

[Jonathan]

The first sentence is always the hardest.

[Heidi]

Gail "cyborg" wrote: "Right now I am searching for the Misha’s nice thread, I am desperately in need of some R&R. Oh damn, it's only Monday."

You found it! :)

So last Thursday while working at job #2, we were crazy busy. On top of that, we were in the middle of moving to a new, larger location in the neighborhood.

In truth, I think the customers know more about the move schedule than I do. So the store owner was talking to someone who asked if they were going to be open at the new location on Sunday or Monday, and she said they'd be closing for two weeks to get the new store prepared.

So, naturally, I asked if they were not going to need me for those two weeks while they were getting the new place ready. She got an "Oh. Shit." look on her face... and I dropped the subject while the customers were around. But when we didn't have anyone in there, I asked about it again. And she said they wouldn't need me for the two weeks... and she didn't know what they'd need after that.

I left thinking I didn't know if that meant my last day at job #2 was going to be on Friday or it was just a two week vacation sort of thing from there.

So on Friday when there weren't any customers around, I brought it up again and told her it was okay... I understand and look forward to the break in the evenings. And then I stressed I just wanted clarity so I could make plans. And her response was "I HAAATE confrontation."

I laughed and said this wasn't confrontation. It's just business. And then she said she only owns half of the business so she doesn't have final say in whether or not they keep me around. And I stressed again that all I wanted was for them to respect me enough to keep me in the loop on what was going on - Clarity and communication was what I wanted... and either way, I'd be okay with whatever happens. Then she said they'd be mailing me my check for the past two weeks.

So in conclusion, I still have no idea whether or not I still work there after the two weeks...

I'm going forward with personal plans, though. Wednesday nights are full. Thursday nights - not available. Sundays - playing kickball.

[janine]

Larry wrote: "What time is it, Janine?"

time to get groceries.

[Félix]

Better get going!

[Heidi]

Barb wrote: "Shit Heidi. That stinks - I hate uncertainty, and I imagine you do to.
Don't you just love people who don't have the balls to just be direct and open with you? It's not like trying to brush off ..."

I'm seriously cool with whatever the outcome is - I have a wonderful primary job. That one was for fun... and a bit of extra change in my pocket. But the way they've gone about this seems disrespectful and ungrateful.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Jonathan wrote: "I am procrastinating because I have to finish a thousand-word article by tomorrow morning and am not yet sure what to say..."

I'm sure no one will notice if you crib a few words from Maureen Dowd's column. Here, I'll help:

In “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” a history of such national follies as England’s South Sea Bubble and Holland’s Tulip Frenzy, the Scottish historian Charles Mackay observed: “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

The beauty of it is it can be squeezed into any article about any topic.

[Jonathan]

Lobstergirl wrote: "The beauty of it is it can be squeezed into any article about any topic..."

I've referenced that book in other contexts.

But right now I'm writing about the Spanish modernist Joan Miró's trip to the Netherlands in 1927 and what Miró learned from the Dutch Masters. Hard to segue into popular delusions and the madness of crowds, I think.

Hendrick Sorgh, "The Lute Player" (1661)



Joan Miró, "Dutch Interior I" (1927)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Ok, in that case, you'll want some Tom Friedman.

[Jonathan]

Tom Friedman: The world is flat. So are modernist paintings.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

That's about the level of his analysis.

[Jonathan]

Friedman also likes to dub things two point oh. For instance, he might call Miró's work "the Old Masters 2.0."

I probably could get away with doing this...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The whole 2.0 thing makes me stabby.

[Jonathan]

And yet Friedman is much in demand as a public speaker, reportedly making upwards of $50,000 for an appearance.

Gawker refers to him as "the Magical Retard."

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

HAAAAA I love it. Well just in case his speaking fees ever drop to $45,000, his wife is the heiress to some fortune....I forget which....not the Singer sewing machine fortune, that would be Martin Peretz's wife.

[Jonathan]

Lobstergirl wrote: "not the Singer sewing machine fortune, that would be Martin Peretz's wife..."

I'm pretty sure Marty and the missus split a couple years ago (although maybe they're just separated, not divorced).

Having a rich spouse is probably quite helpful in many ways. I sometimes think it is very inconsiderate of my wife not to have been born an heiress...

[Kevin]

i just got back from a wonderful lunch with my daughter. she is such a peach. def one of the sweetest and funniest people i know. i am blessed

[Heidi]

I'll bet Sting smells yummy.

[[deleted user]]

Trying really hard not to take a nap at my desk.

[ms.petra]

taking a break from fall yard/garden work, cleaning my garage, and all that stuff I wish I had a man slave to help with :)

[[deleted user]]

Trying to remember if I took that 11 o'clock dose of meds... Ah well, I doubt double dosing over the counter sinus meds is going to kill me.

[Cynthia]

I am trying to process the day I had. I went to the funeral of a woman from my neighborhood. I went mostly out of concern for some of her close friends, who are close friends of mine.

As it turned out, this woman's sisters completely trivialized her life, citing her decorating ability, her beautiful smile, blah blah blah, while completely ignoring her two young sons, sitting in the front row. Yeah, she taught me how to use a credit card, we liked to go shopping. What the fuck is that for a legacy. Pissed.

And I think her life was trivialized, simply because of her physical beauty. Sucks. Glad for once I am not one of the lookers of the world.

[Cynthia]

I don't mind a light, funny eulogy. Sometimes it is representative of the deceased. I think this woman was spiritual and religious, that was a big part of her. The family members who spoke about her life just did not seem to address that part of her, maybe because they don't share her faith? It was confusing.

[Cynthia]

Yeah, call your brother.

[Jim]

Call my sister too please.

[Kristi]

Sitting, waiting for substitute teacher training class to resume from lunch break.

[Carol]

I'm thankful to whomever pointed out the 'reply' option in these here groups. Doi (from another thread)
I'm antsy waiting for more posts on the lyric game so I can watch the Big Brother finale. Four threads in one!

[Phil]

MEEP!

[Brittomart]

right now I'm sitting in my night shirt drinking a snapple (that magically improved in taste from sitting in the fridge all week). About to go have some me time

[Jonathan]

On the train to DC right now. Wifi is working. This is so much nicer than flying...

[[deleted user]]

Do the trains supply Wifi?

[Jonathan]

No. I have one of those little wireless hub devices, very handy for traveling.

[[deleted user]]

Of course, I love catching trains. When you refer to DC is that Washington DC?

[Jonathan]

Yes. I have to go to a press event at the National Gallery tonight, so I thought I would head down early and take care of some archival research I've been meaning to do for a while.

[[deleted user]]

Just the mention of archives makes me run for cover. Yours I am sure are considerably more interesting than what I have to face. Archived boxes of accounting records. Yetch.

[Jonathan]

It all depends what you're looking for. If financial information is part of the puzzle, then archived boxes of accounting records could be pretty interesting. Today, I'm mostly looking at correspondence files.

[Jim]

Archived accounting records are never "fun"!

[Kevin]

unless doing the mentioned chore with penelope cruz

[Jim]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "unless doing the mentioned chore with penelope cruz"

She never seems to be around when that type of work needs to be done :-)

[Jonathan]

She's meeting me in DC.

[Cynthia]

Jonathan, you dog.

[Jim]

What Cynthia said!

[Jonathan]

In my dreams. Anyway, pulling in to Union Station right now, and no Penelope in sight. Drat.