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09 November 2006

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My kitchen ceiling began to fall apart last night, presumably from a leak in the roof, and I have no idea how quickly the landlord will fix it. In the meantime I have water that looks suspiciously like urine dripping out of the sagging and cracking plaster and it's not going to get any better since we've been having heavy rains recently.

post by: cmonkey at: 12:48 | 39 comments

I am in the cmonkey camp rather than jan's. Thank you for providing shelter and booze for the likes of us, c.

It stopped raining. I hate, hate sunny winter days, they ruin my melancholic mood. Sheesh!

posted by carmina 09 November | 12:53

Hey, at least you don't own the damn thing. Both my mom and one of my closest friends are freaking out because the houses they bought recently are leaking.

posted by pieisexactlythree 09 November | 12:55

Shoot. The only thing I can say about that is: it's not urine. It's just water colored by the plaster and wood and dirt and whatnot.

My bad day woe: I'm coming down with something and feel like ass. I almost stayed home today; I think I'll go home in an hour or two. Wish me luck in fighting it off.

Also, a glider bit me last night hard enough to draw blood. Sigh.

posted by Specklet 09 November | 12:59

The only thing I need to do today is being hindered by an error I have no control over; and I don't think the people in charge of it have any idea what they're doing.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 November | 13:03

I never fully woke up today. I feel confused an a little bit frightened.

posted by pieisexactlythree 09 November | 13:06

a glider bit me last night hard enough to draw blood

I'm coming down with something

These two things are not unconnected. The glider bite has changed your DNA and you're metamorphosising into SpeckGlide.

posted by essexjan 09 November | 13:19

will she fight crime?

posted by jonmc 09 November | 13:26

I have a horrible cold & feel gruesome & we've had school groups here all day today & yesterday & my head hurts. Yesterday I had to clean 2nd grader vomit up off the carpet - ah the glamour of the museum career.

posted by mygothlaundry 09 November | 13:31

The glider bite has changed your DNA and you're metamorphosising into SpeckGlide.

OMG that's so awesome! But wait! Don't they have to be radioactive?

posted by Specklet 09 November | 13:35

Yes, and I'm surprised you never noticed the glow.

posted by pieisexactlythree 09 November | 13:38

On the train coming back from a gig last night I kept looking up and seeing a very cute lady smiling at me. I assumed that she was looking at someone behind me as there were a party of people split up at either end of the carriage (it turned out she wasn't looking at someone behind me on the train; I was sat against the carriage wall). As we got off the train, she gave me a really sweet, lovely smile which, still assuming it was for someone else, I ignored. And then she walked off, alone, into the distance.

posted by TheDonF 09 November | 13:42

Also, it's 6:45pm and I'm still at work

posted by TheDonF 09 November | 13:45

Just got laid off.

Truthfully, I'm not sure if this falls under "good day" or "bad day."

posted by occhiblu 09 November | 13:57

*seethes with envy at occhiblu*

posted by jonmc 09 November | 13:58

* shows jon the $40,000 in school loans she took out two months ago *

posted by occhiblu 09 November | 14:01

*acknowledges that he dosen't envy that part*

posted by jonmc 09 November | 14:05

sorry to hear about your job occhiblu. It might work out for the best though. Chin up!

posted by carmina 09 November | 14:06

What were you doing occhi?

posted by pieisexactlythree 09 November | 14:07

Damn, occhiblu, sorry to hear that.

posted by essexjan 09 November | 14:12

occhi, looks like something has been taken off your plate, for better or worse. Do not worry, sweetie. You can collect unemployment and take a few weeks to decompress.

posted by Specklet 09 November | 14:18

As far as things go, it's not bad. Continuing full-time through the end of the year, unemployment (supposedly; I have questions) after that, then very possibly continued freelance work. It's just... I've had this job for a looooong time at this point, and feel a bit helpless about surviving without it.

But yeah, Specklet, especially after yesterday's stressball freak-out, a large part of me is highly relieved.

posted by occhiblu 09 November | 14:22

stressball freak-out
Tried a boobie-ball?

posted by pieisexactlythree 09 November | 14:24

(pie, I'm a copywriter/editor.)

posted by occhiblu 09 November | 14:24

pie, honey, she's already got two of them.

posted by Specklet 09 November | 14:42

eek, that's pretty specialized. Do you plan to stay in the same field? I don't even know what sorts of companies besides newspapers you'd work for.

posted by pieisexactlythree 09 November | 14:42

I'm actually currently in a Master's program so that I can completely switch fields, so no, I don't plan to stay with the same stuff. I pretty much just need to figure out if I can cobble together rent and credit card payments with freelance work, or if I can add a part-time job, or what makes sense.

(And it's less specialized than you think -- my job right now, with a travel company, is basically turning IT-speak and Sales-speak into writing that customers can actually read, and decipher. It's being the staff writer for the company, basically.)

posted by occhiblu 09 November | 15:05

wow occhiblu, that's horrible - I hope something comes along soon. What about looking at some kind of comms role in a company? You can obviously write well, so that's half the battle. Large companies will have internal and external comms teams dealing with different things, but you might already know that.

posted by TheDonF 09 November | 15:11

The issue is, I'm in school full-time. It's in the afternoons and evenings, but it basically requires that I be in class by 4pm two days a week. In September, I'll also have to add a traineeship, which is basically an unpaid internship, which further cuts down my available hours for a traditional job.

The major huge big plus to my current job has been that I telecommute, so it's a bit flexible with regards to working hours.

Truthfully, the more I think about it, the more unemployment benefits + possible freelance work (depending, of course, on the frequency and pay rate of that work) might be just about perfect for the next half-year. Full-time work, even from home, plus full-time school was getting untenable, and it was only going to keep getting worse as school progressed.

So... I don't know. It still leaves a big hole for the next academic year, but that seems far enough away that I can probably get my shit together by then. I hope. Eeek!

posted by occhiblu 09 November | 15:19

I'm sick and stayed home today.

Bummer, Occhi. Hope something good comes up.

posted by matildaben 09 November | 15:29

occhiblu, you'll be fine. I only know you from how you come across on the internets, and you seem like a really strong, confident, focused, and ambitious woman. Things suck right now, but I get the impression that you're a pretty tough lady. kick ass!

posted by scala di seta 09 November | 15:41

Sorry to hear, occhi... could ya take out a little more loan money, if needed?

(I know, I know... probably the last thing ya wanna do... I'll be payin' off mine 'till I'm sixty.)

posted by Pips 09 November | 16:15

It'd have to be private loans; I'm at the federal limit for grad school loans. It may come to that, but I'd rather avoid paying those interest rates if I can avoid it. (Plus, I still have tons in undergrad debt on top of this new school debt.)

But it does seem like there may be some jobs at the school that pay in credits, rather than cash, which means that the loans could be diverted to living expenses rather than tuition. So that's something to look into.

posted by occhiblu 09 November | 16:23

Not exactly "bad day" so much as "waaaah, my gerber is cold":
My girlfriend set fire to the apartment.
Again.

posted by lekvar 09 November | 17:06

How about those of us having a bad week? I have spent something like $3,000 repairing cars in the past week, with another $2500 still to go on one of them. Plus, my iPod died. Plus, I'm just plain stressed and missing you all.

*leans out window*
"I'm as mad as hell and ... ah, fuck it"

note - the above is impossible as none of the windows in this concrete-and-glass prison they call a workplace fucking well open.

On a brighter note, I got a call yesterday to say that I have been shortlisted for a management job I applied for and have an interview on Tuesday. So, I'm kind of a combination of pissed off, depressed, excited and terrified (mostly terrified after the e-mail I got confirming my appointment, just in passing, asked me to bring "two documents, both of which you were the primary author, which you believe best demonstrate your ability to provide written briefings or reports of a strategic nature at a D-G/Minister level". I think I may be over-reaching a tad with this application.

posted by dg 09 November | 17:16

I had the worst day of my life today. I was *this* close to tears.
What compounds it is the fact that I believe tomorrow may be even worse, and saturday aint gonna be a walk in the park either.

*sigh*

posted by seanyboy 09 November | 18:47

*big BIG hugs for seanyboy*

:(

posted by gaspode 09 November | 18:48

"waaaah, my gerber is cold":

I actually read that as "waaaah, my gerbil is cold".

((((seanyboy)))))
and occhiblu, maybe this will turn out to be a really good thing.
(((occhiblu)))

posted by redvixen 09 November | 20:41

For what it's worth, ochiblu, I got laid off about 2.5 years ago and am now in a job I love way more than the one I was laid off from, earning ~20k more (plus lots of good benefits), working with people I like and (as above), have been shortlisted for a job in the same department that, were I to get it, would see my earnings reach very slightly under double what I was getting in the old job.

It's not in my nature to say that every black cloud has a silver lining, but sometimes it's true just the same.

posted by dg 09 November | 21:18

There was supposed to be a meeting of owners who want to get rid of the management this morning, where we were to find out the results of sucking up to Farkas, but when I rang my neighbor's doorbell, her daughter answered and no one else was there. I left a message with the neighbor who's been arranging these meetings, but I just got in and he has yet to return it. Cuomo won and I have no idea just how enmeshed he and the spoiled prince are.

*hugs specklet, seanyboy and occhiblu*

Speckglide? hmmm...lube or floss? ;-)

posted by brujita 10 November | 00:43

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