How do you feel today? v. 3.0

Post by **Cambo** » Sun May 15, 2011 1:21 pm

sgt.null wrote:i have suffered from insomnia my entire life...

Yeesh. It took two weeks of insomnia to have me ready to be committed to a mental ward...you are made of stern stuff, sarge.

Post by **danlo** » Sun May 15, 2011 5:33 pm

Things, finally, keep making more and more sense with Sarge, don't they? How long has this taken?

Post by **Phantasm** » Sun May 15, 2011 6:22 pm

sgt.null wrote:
Phantasm wrote:
sgt.null wrote:what job phantasm?

work sucked yesterday. had a problem with i/m and my boss seems reluctant to rid the problem by ridding us of him. typical response.
Hall managers job sarge.
at the prison? like a sergeant here or so?

Yup, I expect it's about the same.

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon May 16, 2011 5:00 am

cambo - it is why i like the meds when i get them. i remember having trouble as a kid.

danlo - hah.

phantasm - my sgt's title at work is more of a supervisor role. i do not equal the building sgt in stature. good luck to you and i am pulling for you to get it. swing by texas sometime and i will get you a tour. at an 800 man unit (plus 300 at trusty) down from my 1500 (plus 300 at trusty)

Post by **Vain** » Mon May 16, 2011 10:06 am

@danlo...LOL !!

Post by **Phantasm** » Mon May 16, 2011 12:28 pm

sgt.null wrote: phantasm - my sgt's title at work is more of a supervisor role. i do not equal the building sgt in stature. good luck to you and i am pulling for you to get it. swing by texas sometime and i will get you a tour. at an 800 man unit (plus 300 at trusty) down from my 1500 (plus 300 at trusty)

Thanks for the vote of confidence, next time I'm in Texas, I'll let you know

You're welcome in Glasgow anytime.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:26 am

I'm feeling cranky. Probably has something to do with the number of days I have left 'til vacation, and the amount of mind-numbing craptastic tasks on my plate at work this week.... (BILLS!!!

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Also has to do with Magickmaker being indecisive about coming home this summer or not. Within the past three weeks or so, she: was/wasn't/was/wasn't/had a campus job/didn't have a campus job/had a campus job but no campus housing/got campus housing/wasn't sure she wanted to stay anyway/took the job and the dorm room/found out campus "job" isn't a paid position/is coming home, after all. That was at last word. Commencement isn't 'til Sunday; she may yet change her mind again.

Also -- can I be unreasonably whiny for a second?

For years, I've eaten lunch at my desk. Then a few months ago, I decided to start getting away at lunch, so I started sitting with this group of five women. I liked two of them a lot, thought two others were okay, didn't know the last one at all. Since then, one of the okay ones has dropped out, the one I didn't know is retiring this week, and the rest of them are driving me crazy. They're boring! Seems like all they talk about are diets and dating and TV shows, etc. -- stuff I have zero interest in. Sometimes we'll talk about work -- I can join in there -- but mostly it's this boring prattle. Ugh. I guess the best way to remove myself from the group is to "get really busy" and start eating at my desk again for awhile. Then maybe go to lunch at a different time and see if there's another group to join. Or not.

I liked my workplace a lot better when I wasn't sitting with *anybody* at lunch...

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Tue May 17, 2011 3:00 am

Ali, just tell the ladies that you are starting a walking thing at lunch and then you can have the best of both worlds. Map out some places to walk to that have a bench or spot for you to sit and have lunch and then you get a short walk in, have lunch away from your desk and get to eat alone while enjoying a book or the art of people watching. It's a win/win situation.

Post by **peter** » Tue May 17, 2011 9:28 am

sgt.null wrote:i have suffered from insomnia my entire life...

Me too Sarge! Any break of routine and I'm done! It's a weird thing... when you're in a bad bout (5 days without is my worst) the world isn't the same place. You're never really awake or asleep all the time - strange is the only way I can describe it. Luckily I have learned to get by on lots of small hits of sleep with rest in between. I remember about twenty plus years ago I went pulling fishing nets by hand with a friend of mine (just for a day). Eight hours at sea in a small boat expending energy from start to finish and I came home and sat in a chair and this wonderful feeling of sheer exhaustion came over me. I struggled to bed and slept true sleep for the first time in years - it was a thing of beauty!

Post by **Damelon** » Tue May 17, 2011 11:31 am

There are three of us in my office. The only day we eat together is usually on Fridays. I don't know if I could eat with the same people day in and day out. I like to get up and wander a bit at lunch time.

This Friday is my Dad's birthday. He'll be seventy-five. For the last twenty-five years he's been president of the board of the agency that helps people with downs syndrome and other mental issues in the county. He told me that he spends about twenty percent of his time on issues related to the agency (he also owns his own business). Well, he told them that he is stepping down from the post as of June 1. They are having a reception for him tonight that I'm going to stop by at.

Post by **lorin** » Tue May 17, 2011 12:33 pm

aliantha wrote: For years, I've eaten lunch at my desk. Then a few months ago, I decided to start getting away at lunch, so I started sitting with this group of five women. I liked two of them a lot, thought two others were okay, didn't know the last one at all. Since then, one of the okay ones has dropped out, the one I didn't know is retiring this week, and the rest of them are driving me crazy. They're boring! Seems like all they talk about are diets and dating and TV shows, etc. -- stuff I have zero interest in. Sometimes we'll talk about work -- I can join in there -- but mostly it's this boring prattle. Ugh. I guess the best way to remove myself from the group is to "get really busy" and start eating at my desk again for awhile. Then maybe go to lunch at a different time and see if there's another group to join. Or not. I liked my workplace a lot better when I wasn't sitting with *anybody* at lunch...

Have lunch with them once a week and there will be more to talk about. And walk the other four days like Jenn suggested. You are a good walker, I can attest to that. OR schedule lunch activities like getting Weight Watchers in the building, or lunch lecturers or a knitting group at lunch.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue May 17, 2011 12:46 pm

Happy b-day to your dad, Damelon. He sounds like a cool guy.

If I did take a walk at lunch, I'd have to strong-arm one of the women who would want to come with me and turn it into a 45-minute power walk. She's obsessed with losing weight. We met at Weight Watchers at Work, actually.

The WW group disbanded due to not having enough people at the firm willing to sign up. The other ideas are good, tho. Basically I need to come up with some alternate activities. I did think about forming a "substantive discussion" lunch group.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Tue May 17, 2011 5:09 pm

Now that the family knows, I can spill the beans to all of you. It looks like the baby that my wife is having in October will be of the female gender. Hurray! Now I've collected the entire set, and no longer have to have any more babies after this one.

aliantha wrote:They're boring! Seems like all they talk about are diets and dating and TV shows, etc. -- stuff I have zero interest in. Sometimes we'll talk about work -- I can join in there -- but mostly it's this boring prattle. Ugh. I guess the best way to remove myself from the group is to "get really busy" and start eating at my desk again for awhile. Then maybe go to lunch at a different time and see if there's another group to join. Or not. I liked my workplace a lot better when I wasn't sitting with *anybody* at lunch...

Believe me, it isn't unreasonably whiny. I've been in a situation with discomfortable lunch buddies before, particularly ones that had been fun. One thing to liven things up is play short games during lunch that you can eat and play. Card games work (Racko being one in particular that worked pretty well), but I found that Take Two really drew crowds, and ended up having a frequent shifting assortment of lunch buddies. And any number of people can play.
Take Two is the game played with Scrabble tiles without a board that you form your own structure. I know it's been discussed on Kevin's Watch already, and we even played at Seafest a bit. People coming into the lunch room will be curious, and ask about the game, and you'll explain the basics and invite them to join in. You could easily accidentally form an entirely new lunch group full of people who want to have fun at lunch. Although, it does make the time tick away a lot quicker.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue May 17, 2011 5:27 pm

See, I *knew* you guys would have good ideas. Why can't you all work at my workplace? Lunch hour would be so much fun!

Cag, that's a cool idea re Take Two. I'll have to refresh my memory on the rules (you posted 'em here somewhere -- I remember...) and then find a set of Scrabble tiles, as Magickmaker absconded with the game... Hmm, maybe cards would be easier....

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed May 18, 2011 1:27 am

cags - congrats!

peter - many nights i can only manage 3 or 4 hours sleep. i catch up at the end of the week. out of exhaustion.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed May 18, 2011 5:53 pm

Wish me luck...job interview for Rome News Tribune. Maybe this blasted English degree will finally pay off!

Post by **Phantasm** » Wed May 18, 2011 6:03 pm

Lord Foul wrote:Wish me luck...job interview for Rome News Tribune. Maybe this blasted English degree will finally pay off!

Good luck !!!!!!!!!

Post by **aliantha** » Wed May 18, 2011 8:45 pm

Good luck, LF! Nothing wrong with a career in journalism.

So earlier today, our vaunted webwasher software here at work arbitrarily decided that the Watch was a security risk, potentially home to viruses and spyware and other nasty things -- and blocked my access.

Luckily I didn't have to plead too hard with IT to see reason and release the block.... (First they blocked all games, even the newspaper's Sudoku and crosswords. If they'd made the block on the Watch stick, I'd be looking for another job right now. They don't know how close they came....

)

And then earlier than that, Magickmaker got the last of her grades back for this semester. And she definitely passed. So she will in fact get an actual degree at commencement on Sunday.

Post by **lorin** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:09 am

I feel whiney, bitchy and snivelly today.....so............

whine, whine, whine
bitch, bitch, bitch
sniff, sniff, sniff
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bitch, bitch, bitch
sniff, sniff, sniff
whine, whine, whine
bitch, bitch, bitch
sniff, sniff, sniff
whine, whine, whine
bitch, bitch, bitch
sniff, sniff, sniff

well......you asked how I feel..............

Post by **aliantha** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:33 am

I totally know the feeling, lorin...