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14 March 2006

What are you dreading? →[More:]Me:
- Paying my damn taxes.
- Moving, again.
- My daughter dating (okay, so that's kind of far off, but still)

post by: mike9322 at: 13:53 | 25 comments

continuing apartment hunt.
joe jobs strecthing for eternity.
diet cocaine.

posted by jonmc 14 March | 13:54

Although I'm looking forward to living in my new place, I'm dreading the actual packing, driving 8 hours, unpacking part of it. Also, the bar exams.

posted by amro 14 March | 14:05

35-40 more years of soul crushing work.

And I actually like my job (a lot of the time). I'd give it up in a heartbeat if someone offered to support me though. All I need is some space outside for my garden and inside for my bookshelves.

posted by gaspode 14 March | 14:05

Extracting data for 52 jurisdictions from a mainframe architecture that is 30 years old.

posted by sciurus 14 March | 14:06

- mike9322's daughter dating
- jon's apartment hunt
- 'spode's soul being crushed

Oh, and um, I guess my daughters' dating. And the next snow storm, which will crush my spirits.

posted by richat 14 March | 14:10

rich, there's a guy out here. He says he's gonna take mike's daughter to my as-yet-unfound apartment and then crush the 'pode's soul. Should I let him in?

posted by jonmc 14 March | 14:14

-coughing up $2300 for a condo assessment
-finding out I owe more than a few hundred in taxes
-stumbling moronicly in front of potential clients

posted by chewatadistance 14 March | 14:15

The big boss retiring this year and having to prove myself all over again in the vain hope that I might get promoted after 9 years.

posted by tommasz 14 March | 14:17

I have a bunch of stuff that I need to do that involves dealing with all kinds of bureaucratic ickiness... I've put it off so long that it's just so wrong now. I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up a crazy old homeless bag lady one day. These two things are not unrelated.

posted by taz 14 March | 14:20

-dealing with the 'restructuring' at my job and the ridiculous workload that will dropped into my lap as a result

posted by Miko 14 March | 14:26

Having to wait another quarter to be able to pay off my credit card because I was going to exercise my options to do it but now I need to wait until the next exercise period, because our stock went down a bunch, but I'm sure it will go up again.

posted by matildaben 14 March | 14:26

Let's see:

-Starting a new job in a new field and hoping I fit in.

-Getting all the arcane paperwork in for the above without pissing off the nice HR lady.

-Surviving the rest of the month in old job's hellish hostile takeover environment.

-Hoping my strange, cranky car doesn't explode.

-Hoping the landlord's vanishing crackboat doesn't indicate my imminent eviction.

-That, and I just accidentally sent an email to the HR lady with my blog's html address in the tagline. Hopefully she won't read it and decide I'm some kind of security risk.

Full of dread...

posted by selfnoise 14 March | 14:27

Dreading and looking foreward to my thesis defence on thursday.

posted by porpoise 14 March | 14:28

diet cocaine? What's that? Red Bull?

posted by StickyCarpet 14 March | 14:31

Oh, porpoise! You'll have to tell us how it went on Friday!

Earlier I was trying to think of what I should mention for the "greatest compliments" thread, and I didn't think of this then, but one of my closest friends here invited me (and only me) to sit in on her thesis defense for her PhD. That was a great compliment.

posted by taz 14 March | 14:41

Congrats Porpoise! I am nowhere near defending.

Things LF dreads:
-my upcoming comprehensive exam
-my final for the course I'm in
-marking 500 exams, and then doing it again for the final
-reading any credit card bills or bank statements

posted by LunaticFringe 14 March | 14:46

One day I'll choose to shave my beard off.

posted by Hugh Janus 14 March | 15:16

Hugh, just don't choose to do so, and boom, dread gone.

posted by richat 14 March | 15:20

True, but I've never been very good at predicting my future mindset.

posted by Hugh Janus 14 March | 15:49

Death. Death of my pets, husband, and self. More so, loosing independence and faculties (although I don't think I will loose my faculties).

posted by rainbaby 14 March | 15:54

Pretty much everything. I'm a constant morass of dread.

posted by mygothlaundry 14 March | 16:03

Tomorrow.

And then the day after that.

posted by Skrik 14 March | 16:20

In addition to what skrik dreads, I also dread:

- Going back to the field. Actually this is half-and-half, since I'm also looking forward to it.

- Working for a living. I tell myself "it hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will!" :)

- Losing my teeth. I'm hoping it won't happen.

- Submission (of my thesis). It's not for a while yet so it's a low-level background dread. Its time will come.

posted by nomis 14 March | 16:50

You guys need to think big, here. Me, I lose sleep over parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the coming economic collapse, peak oil, the final paryoxsms of our fragile civilization as the last desperate scramble for resources gets underway, and the human propensity to fall victim to religious hysteria in times of stress-- the whole Easter Island scenario.

And then, you know, having to deal with the mess in the kitchen when I get home.

posted by jokeefe 14 March | 17:31

most things. tomorrow. the day after. and so on.

posted by jann 14 March | 23:24

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