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i am made of snot. :(
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This should probably be in open letters, but anyhow . . .
Dear contractor at work,
Just because you write "if you would be so kind as to xyz" doesn't mean I agree with you. We discussed things, I said I would try to fulfill your request, but that it didn't depend on me but on someone else. Especially after we had already discussed things with this someone else, and you said something different. So for you to change your mind all of a sudden, well, it's gonna take time for that someone else to get stuff done (because remember, we asked you at the beginning of the week if you wanted this done because it takes time, and you said no then?). I'm not going to push things along because I'm KIND, I'm doing it because I want my project DONE.
And just because you say things like that isn't going to make it go faster, because there is no way I can go down there and lug a giant dumpster over a few spots with my bare hands. I'm strong, but not that strong.
Signed,
A woman who thinks it sucks bigtime that you are pulling the "be a nice girl and get this done for me" card, when you know that that wouldn't cut it with a man.
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| Posted: Jun 14, 2012 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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My parents just arrived for a visit last night and my mom is driving me insane already. I love her to bits, but agh. First, I have been treated to a nonstop rehash of every news story NPR has run in the past month--I love NPR but this constant stream of 2012 election talk is driving up the wall. Though I did (nicely) suggest that if she was that worried about the Republicans, perhaps she should sign up to do some get out the vote canvassing, etc. I mean, if you are going to talk politics more than most political operatives....
Then she has also brought her own special brand of mom weirdness to the visit. Example: I had to rent a gown for my graduation ceremony this weekend. We were given super explicit instructions NOT TO IRON the gowns b/c it will mess up the fabric. Personally, I do think the fabric could stand some ironing with a low heat iron, but my iron is dying and therefore has craptastic heat control at the moment (and it tends to be craptastic in the direction of WAY TOO HOT). Given that if I mess this gown up I will have to fork over $450 on top of the $50 I already paid for rental...I am just hanging it in the bathroom and hoping a few steamy showers will take care of most issues.
So this morning, my mom comes out of the bathroom, and asks if I want her to iron my gown, which is very nice of her. I explain about my crappy iron, the $450 cost of a ruined gown, and the power of shower steam.
My mother's response? "Oh, well, how about I will cover the cost of the ruined gown if ironing doesn't work?" WHAT? She actually spent some time trying to win me over to this viewpoint, but fortunately my dad agreed that this was ridiculous. I mean, if you are hell bent on ironing, insist on going out and just buying a good iron (cost, almost definitely <$100)...which I would also find mildly ridiculous, but nowhere near as much so. |
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rawrlie
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| Posted: Jun 14, 2012 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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argh. apparently my dude's ex is going to be at a party we're going to this weekend. i was really hoping she wouldn't show up! i care a lot less about the fact that they used to be together and a lot more about how toxic she is. so much passive aggressiveness and negativity, bleh. i really hope we can find a designated driver so i can at least drink the awkward away!
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I feel like people have been sucking harder than usual on public transit lately. There are multiple smokers at my stops every day, when it has been illegal to smoke at transit stops for over a decade. So much trash everywhere, including two empty 750 mL liquor bottles (one broken) and a condom yesterday. And I've been extra scent-sensitive lately, so the general people funk has been getting to me more.
Also, my back is effed up and I need to book a massage before I pack and move all of my possessions into a trailer next week. |
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caropop
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| Posted: Jun 14, 2012 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| PurpleDoor wrote: |
My mother's response? "Oh, well, how about I will cover the cost of the ruined gown if ironing doesn't work?" WHAT? She actually spent some time trying to win me over to this viewpoint, but fortunately my dad agreed that this was ridiculous. I mean, if you are hell bent on ironing, insist on going out and just buying a good iron (cost, almost definitely <$100)...which I would also find mildly ridiculous, but nowhere near as much so. |
You can get a great iron for $40. If she keeps hassling you, go with that and get her to buy one that has burst of steam with the iron when the iron is vertical--made for steaming garments!
I have a really dumb pet peeve. The number of flights of stairs it takes to get to any given floor of a building is one less than the number of the floor. If you're going to the second floor, you only climb one flight of stairs, not two. So it irritates me in that really stupid way that my co-workers today keep talking about how we had to walk down 11 flights of stairs for the fire alarm today when we walked down 10. It seriously bothers me less that I had to walk down 10 flights of stairs than that people keep saying we walked down 11. But I can't very correct people because then I would be that crazy person!
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- I haven't been to the gym regularly in something like six weeks. So, not only do I feel all weak and flabby, but I know I've lost whatever progress I had before. Which makes starting up all the more hard.
-All my friends seem to talk about is boys and gossip about other people. I don't mind it in small doses, but it's all. the. time.
-I keep looking at my ex's Twitter page and seeing all his Foursquare check-ins at fancy restaurant dates with his NEW girlfriend. Even though I know it will never end well. Long story short: I hate technology. (Except when it's web browser add-ons that let me block pages that upset me and I can't stop looking at.)
-I've only worked four days and already racked up 10 of overtime. My brain is fried.
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2012 7:08 am Post subject: |
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My dad was a mega-smoker for decades (like, chain-smoked all day), and he quit when I was 7 for health reasons. He maintains that breaking his routine during the points of the day he really missed the habit was key, eg. he switched from smoking constantly while he drank his morning coffee at the kitchen table with the newspaper to drinking his coffee in front of the kitchen window while looking at birds with binoculars. It really sucked for him though -- he really loved smoking. |
The routine break is incredibly helpful! A and I were not heavy smokers when we quit (5-6/day, maybe?), but we quit right after my stroke, so my routine was completely GONE, and his was shaken up a little bit - but by the time my regular routines came back, I was done being a smoker. We used the patch, too, and I'd put down cigarettes for MONTHS (like 7-8 months, maybe bumming one out at the bars, but that was it) and gone back before. I obviously have extra motivation to not smoke at all, ever, again, but I think that the patch really really helped me get to this point. (we also accidentally ended up on a higher step of the patch than we needed, whoops, so our process took longer lol, but I think it worked out!)
And as someone who is also careful with what she eats, I definitely had to get used to not being able to quiet hunger cravings with a smoke -- I discovered that I did that a lot too! I wonder if you could try to plan out your day so when you know you'll be getting hungry and might crave a smoke, you could allow a small healthy snack?
But all of that is beside this point: you have made SO MANY positive changes in your health lately and you are doing AWESOMELY! I'm so happy for you and hope that you are really feeling proud of yourself for being such an agent of positive change in your life! I hope you feel empowered :)
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I have a really dumb pet peeve. The number of flights of stairs it takes to get to any given floor of a building is one less than the number of the floor. If you're going to the second floor, you only climb one flight of stairs, not two. So it irritates me in that really stupid way that my co-workers today keep talking about how we had to walk down 11 flights of stairs for the fire alarm today when we walked down 10. It seriously bothers me less that I had to walk down 10 flights of stairs than that people keep saying we walked down 11. But I can't very correct people because then I would be that crazy person! |
Holland to the rescue! This is why we refer to the ground floor as "ground floor" (well actually: "parterre") and the one above it "eerste verdieping" (first floor above ground floor), the one above that "tweede verdieping" (second floor above ground floor), etc. So here you actually climb one flight of stairs to get from the ground floor to the first floor. Elevators also go from 0 to whatever is the top floor, 0 being the ground floor. Totally sensible.
There's not much I feel the Dutch have to offer to the world, but floor nomenclature is somewhere in the top four, together with legal weed, marriage being open to gays, and illuminated bike lanes.
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2012 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="WorkAndPlay"]
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| PurpleDoor wrote: |
I have a really dumb pet peeve. The number of flights of stairs it takes to get to any given floor of a building is one less than the number of the floor. If you're going to the second floor, you only climb one flight of stairs, not two. So it irritates me in that really stupid way that my co-workers today keep talking about how we had to walk down 11 flights of stairs for the fire alarm today when we walked down 10. It seriously bothers me less that I had to walk down 10 flights of stairs than that people keep saying we walked down 11. But I can't very correct people because then I would be that crazy person! |
Holland to the rescue! This is why we refer to the ground floor as "ground floor" (well actually: "parterre") and the one above it "eerste verdieping" (first floor above ground floor), the one above that "tweede verdieping" (second floor above ground floor), etc. So here you actually climb one flight of stairs to get from the ground floor to the first floor. Elevators also go from 0 to whatever is the top floor, 0 being the ground floor. Totally sensible.
There's not much I feel the Dutch have to offer to the world, but floor nomenclature is somewhere in the top four, together with legal weed, marriage being open to gays, and illuminated bike lanes. |
Those are all terribly excellent things!
Some buildings in the States follow that, where the main floor is not the ground floor, but not most 1980s office buildings.
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| It seriously bothers me less that I had to walk down 10 flights of stairs than that people keep saying we walked down 11. But I can't very correct people because then I would be that crazy person! |
Architect. :) |
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caropop
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| It seriously bothers me less that I had to walk down 10 flights of stairs than that people keep saying we walked down 11. But I can't very correct people because then I would be that crazy person! |
Architect. :) |
The funny thing is that they're all engineers! They're just traffic engineers rather than building engineers.
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2012 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| WorkAndPlay wrote: |
| Holland to the rescue! This is why we refer to the ground floor as "ground floor" (well actually: "parterre") and the one above it "eerste verdieping" (first floor above ground floor), the one above that "tweede verdieping" (second floor above ground floor), etc. So here you actually climb one flight of stairs to get from the ground floor to the first floor. |
We do that too. I mean, not in Dutch, obviously, but Ground, First, Second etc.
A vent: The woman I was working with who was trying to help me get a job has helped me get a job. This is good, but she still effing calls me and emails me about keeping up my applications and stuff, because it's a temp job not a permanent one. It must be linked to her pay or something, I dunno, but I don't care. GO AWAY, LADY.
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2012 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| It seriously bothers me less that I had to walk down 10 flights of stairs than that people keep saying we walked down 11. But I can't very correct people because then I would be that crazy person! |
Architect. :) |
The funny thing is that they're all engineers! They're just traffic engineers rather than building engineers. |
Smirk. Don't get me started on how not all engineers are the same. One of our engineering summer students was asking me A TON of questions today about HVAC stuff, really basic things and finally I asked him what type of engineering he was studying. Civil. Aha! (says the building engineer, who laughs at the fact that the school she works at doesn't even have a building engineering program, and yet so many people ask if she studied at that school . . . nope! it didn't and still doesn't offer a building engineering program!)
Edited to add: I know we have a few civil engineers here, so I wanted to add: I LOVE YOU!!! I just kills me that the school I work at has no good program for people who want an all purpose building related education. They have an architecture school, yet they cut out all the classes that actually teach anything related to building systems. Civil . . . that focuses mostly on road and infrastructure.
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2012 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| It seriously bothers me less that I had to walk down 10 flights of stairs than that people keep saying we walked down 11. But I can't very correct people because then I would be that crazy person! |
Architect. :) |
The funny thing is that they're all engineers! They're just traffic engineers rather than building engineers. |
Smirk. Don't get me started on how not all engineers are the same. One of our engineering summer students was asking me A TON of questions today about HVAC stuff, really basic things and finally I asked him what type of engineering he was studying. Civil. Aha! (says the building engineer, who laughs at the fact that the school she works at doesn't even have a building engineering program, and yet so many people ask if she studied at that school . . . nope! it didn't and still doesn't offer a building engineering program!)
Edited to add: I know we have a few civil engineers here, so I wanted to add: I LOVE YOU!!! I just kills me that the school I work at has no good program for people who want an all purpose building related education. They have an architecture school, yet they cut out all the classes that actually teach anything related to building systems. Civil . . . that focuses mostly on road and infrastructure. |
For as good of an architecture program as my college has, it has only a mere token of a civil engineering program. It's all computers and chemistry.
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