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11 June 2008

3-point midweek update. →[More:]

1. At today's team meeting, many grievances were aired about caseloads, targets, removal of admin support, etc. and we asked that these all be passed on to senior management. "There's no point" said our manager, "but you can always email [Head Honcho] yourself." Great. Don't stick your own neck out but let us put ours on the block. Thanks.

2. I left my book on my desk. This is very annoying because I'm not one of those people who has several books on the go at any one time, I read them one at a time. I have plenty of other books to read but hate having to start a new one before I've finished the last. As I'm not back in the office until Monday, I will have to start a new book, as I can't not be reading a book at home.

3. The final of The Apprentice tonight. Lee! Lee! Lee! I so want Lee to win, with his dyslexia and the (to me) heart-tugging insecurity that made him lie on his CV about going to university and his burning desire to win. Lee! Lee! Lee! But I think Claire will win, with her smug face that I want to punch every time I see it. You'll regret it, Sralun, if you pick Claire, she's unmanageable.

post by: essexjan at: 11:38 | 26 comments

I had a soft spot for Lee from episode 1 and I think he's a talented fellow, but I can't excuse his temper, esp in regards to how he bullied Sara in one of the middle episodes.

So begrudgingly, I'm going with Claire. I really don't like Helene; Lee is a Bully & Alex (despite only being 24 & being an awesome salesperson) is a slimy back covering tattle tale.

Claire has her faults, but she listens & she's *relatively* honest.

posted by seanyboy 11 June | 11:50

I can't see Claire having the humility to be the apprentice once the cameras have left. I think she's a nasty piece of work. Her treatment of Simon was atrocious. Of course, Lucinda should have won.

posted by essexjan 11 June | 11:53

Also, I think Sir Alan wants either Claire or Alex. He couldn't put them together in a team in case they were both eliminated, which is why he paired them with Lee and Helene. That way, it's guaranteed that at least one of his favourites will get through to the last two.

posted by essexjan 11 June | 11:55

I think Raef should have won.
Raef was (awesome + 1).

I really hope it's not Alex.

posted by seanyboy 11 June | 12:07

With Raef I wavered between thinking he was awesome and thinking he was a knob. He had the ability to be both at the same time.

posted by essexjan 11 June | 12:13

1. I went to the gym this morning and did 45 minutes on the treadmill and 30 on the elliptical. Yesterday I worked with my trainer. I think I will be a gym rat this summer.

2. My son and husband are at camp this week. My younger son is playing superheroes with a neighbor kid on the trampoline. I'm on the back porch. They were just discussing how "bad guys really do go to heaven you know." :-) It's the Presbyterian preschool. We're such frauds.

3. Tonight I'm playing Bunco in a swanky penthouse. Sometimes it's interesting to be friends with people with a lot of bucks. I get to see how the other half lives.

posted by LoriFLA 11 June | 12:21

1. Flight is booked. Saturday night I'll be with my sweet. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

2. Found a good home for Little Izzy Cross-eyes. Decided it would be too hard on such a skittish kitten to haul her across the continent into a new and completely unfamiliar place when there's someone on island who has one of her litter mates and is looking for a companion for him. Makes me sad, but I know she'll be happier that way. (She's less than a year old and has only ever known the island, and hasn't adjusted well even to the move to my new place, where there are other people around and such.)

3. So much to do! So much to do! I'm going to go do it! And get off the internet! Really!

posted by elizard 11 June | 13:24

(1) This formula cost me some sweat today but (2) it's correct so (3) I'm goin' home now!

posted by Wolfdog 11 June | 13:32

Aw goddamnit there's a typo in that, obviously, it should have a factor of (1/gcd(n,k)) on the inner summation, not you wouldn't have realized that, of course, just I feel obliged to make the correction.

posted by Wolfdog 11 June | 13:36

0) I was feeling fine until I looked at Wolfdog's formula. (Hey, what does it do, anyway? I'm really curious now.)

1) It feels like Monday to me, not mid-week, since we got back last night from a camping trip.

2) Too many mountain hikes = seriously achy quadriceps. I squatted down to pet the cat last night and wasn't sure I'd be able to get back up. They hurt every time I rolled over in bed. Think I need to go on a long-ish walk today to loosen them up.

3) Lots of shit to put away. Then need to catch up on the job search.

posted by mudpuppie 11 June | 13:39

1. the short sighted idiots at the high school cancelled my always-awesome computer drop in time, saviour to little old ladies everyplace. I'd feel bad about it if it weren't such an obvious screw up and probably targeted at my (awesome) boss who I think they are trying to get to quit. They are going to be knocked on their ass by the force of the little old lady letter writing campaign, and I'm only out a little bit of cash anyhow. Fuck em!
2. I get this way when I get back from the pool. Pool!
3. Have a "yes you're moving in" verbal deal with my new landlady and notified my old getting-back-from-Peace-Corps landlady. This *might* just all work out okay. Moving!

posted by jessamyn 11 June | 13:44

Hold on to yer horses because this is very exciting and horses freak out easily: it counts the number of conjugacy classes in a certain group of order (n*2ⁿ) which is best described as a semidirect product of the n-dimensional vector space over the field of two elements, with a cyclic group of order n, where the cyclic group acts by cyclically permuting the components of the vectors.

All those words in that order do make sense.

When n is a prime, in which case I rather call it p instead of n, it simplifies a great deal to (2^p-2p²-2)/p, which you can figure out as easy as falling down stairs, but when n is composite, that's when the fun begins, but oh mercy me how I do run on at the mouth when I already said I was goin' home.

posted by Wolfdog 11 June | 13:47

Um, thanks!

posted by mudpuppie 11 June | 14:02

1. Free sushi at work has made me happy enough to forget my brain is foggy.
2. I'm wondering if I should go back and get some more sushi.
3. I really like sushi.

posted by occhiblu 11 June | 14:07

2a. I got more sushi!
3a. I *told* you my brain was foggy.

posted by occhiblu 11 June | 14:13

/holds onto lead line of bolting horse...

posted by mightshould 11 June | 14:17

1. It's been raining so much here I'm contemplating building an ark.
2. But then I look at what's been happening to people in other parts of the Midwest (such as that town in Wisconsin Dells that totally washed out) and I feel fortunate. And sheepish about complaining.
3. I'm sleepy right now, after a two-hour nap. What's with that?

posted by lleachie 11 June | 14:22

1. I've made a decent start on a (hopefully showing off my awesomeness) project that I kinda sorta stole from someone else (they had 2 years to get to it...and didn't do anything...I call that fair game).

2. I wish I had some work-appropriate t-shirts to wear because long sleeves are sucking right now.

3. I'm not sure if I should try and smooth over the situation with said person I stole said project from. I asked the boss about doing said project, he said to talk to coworker. I talked to coworker about it to see what his plans with it were. I told him I had some ideas about how to deal with said project. He said go for it. I'm not sure he understood the fact that I was pretty much going to 'go to it' and not really wait for him to get off his ass.

...

3a. I'm ready to get out of here.

posted by sperose 11 June | 15:51

1. Too busy to have three points.

posted by mygothlaundry 11 June | 15:54

1. Attended my youngest's "moving up" ceremony today. He's going from the elementary school (kindergarten through 5th grade) to the middle school (6th, 7th, and 8th grades). I was surprisingly moved.

2. Tried to take said son to the local lake for a swim, only to find the water is off-limits. Rats.

3. The honoree wants Chinese food tonight - yay, no cooking!!

posted by redvixen 11 June | 16:00

1. Pitched a fit over the reorg and got a raise and promotion out of it. Yay!

2. Actually got good sleep last night as my problem hip has stopped hurting.

3. Not thrilled about the boys' summer daycare - I've been spoiled by the uber-expensive d/c they get during the long semesters.

posted by lysdexic 11 June | 16:28

1. Feel like crap physically

2. Feel like crap emotionally

3. My issues, let me tell you them:

[deleted long list except to say: I may have Cushing's Syndrome/Disease (testing later this month)]

3a. I'm going to take a nap

posted by deborah 11 June | 16:33

{{{deborah}}}

1) so behind on a web site. Very bad.

2) Dog is wondrous. So good.

3) drinking way too much for a Wednesday. Never mind.

posted by taz 11 June | 16:37

1. Getting a prepaid phone since my old US phone was stolen in Latvia...silly burglars, little did they know they got the crappiest phone evaaaaar (that won't even work in Latvia [sticks out tongue]).

2. Eating some spinach and mushroom orzo from my super-chef dad. Yay Dad!

3. Milestone: same super-chef dad did not pointedly refuse to visit me overseas as he has done previously. This is a big step.

posted by mdonley 11 June | 16:43

1. Lee!
2. Lee!
3. Lee!

Yaaaay!

posted by essexjan 11 June | 16:43

the boy did good. I really felt for him in the end.

posted by seanyboy 11 June | 18:13

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