Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board The Moaning, Groaning, I just want to Vent thread

At least your skin is still "young" enough to get acne

and trust me, nobody is staring! They're all obsessing over their own perceived flaws!

HAHA! Awwwww, you guys are the best! I know, in my brain, that no one is staring. It's just me being a whiny baby and wishing I were perfect. XD I need to give up the mirror for a month or something.

Damn Pollen.

THERE IS A FOOT OF SNOW OUT THERE. I measured it. A solid foot. I know for northeasterners thats no big deal...but this is Missouri. Thats a lot of snow.

I hear ya, Conjure Lass. I'm in the Kansas City area.

A foot of snow is also a lot of snow up here. We just don't complain (too much) about it because it could have been 2 feet of snow.

Wouldn't it hurt when your two feet of snow melted by the fire?

I am 33 years old. Why do my parents still insist on calling me screaming and drunk and abusive. That's WHY I LEFT HOME AT 19. I hate imagining what mom is going through. I'm a terrible daughter. But sometimes I wish my dad would get liver cancer. Just so he'd be as miserable as he's made me and mom over the years. I just...having a bad day.

, Conjure Lass

This

CL... hang up. Then unplug.

Conjure Lass

Will sound wierd, but...

everyone has been offering me excellent food lately. Mom, The Wife... problem is, I got no willpower right now cause my sugar is off, so I eat it all, which doesn't help. People gotta stop with all the excellent food.

rick, save for the fact that I don't want you to get sick, that sounds like an EXCELLENT problem to have.

Oh, and by the way everybody, thanks for the loves regarding my last post in here. I was having a very bad day. *heh*

No Prob, CL. We gets rowdy when folks bug one of our own.

This is going to go down as one of the least favorable days of the year...if not the least favorable. It's only April and that's how sure I am.

I hear ya. Things are getting so busy at work that I'm sure I'll be swamped for the next three months.

Another project at work...no extra help. This should be fun.

Thankfully, some of my work is being offloaded to another team member. I still feel a bit harassed, though. Probably will for the next two weeks until said person gets up to speed (I have faiht in her though!)

I worked all day ... didn't have time to do a review to keep up with the Archives review thread.

Call it an Apocalypse because it is coming!


<fumes> <explodes> <irradiates the Northern Hemisphere>

So, I haven't been able to purchase my diabetes med for over a month. I bought a book on reducing it/eliminating it. 59 pages in, and the muthahumpa still hasn't said anything on how to do it, other than the vague "diet and exercise, with supliments". yeah, I get that, but, what's the effin formula. I don't need the history of how you got there for thirty pages, I need to know NOW! Tell me or I'm gonna get mah damn cane and beat you to a pulp with it! AGGGGGHHHHHHH! Damn filler writers. They should be stabbed with the pen of brevity and truth! Repeatedly.

And STAY the hell offa mah lawn!

Note... this has nothing to do with this place; it's just a work thing.






"Wow... somebody must have a lot of time on their hands."


...

I'm sorry... what did you just say?

I must have misunderstood, because - clearly - you didn't just look at the thing that I poured myself into... the thing that required not only a creative, non-traditional approach in its conception, but also an extremely dedicated focus in its execution... and - with that casually dismissive statement - suggest that the only reason I undertook it was because I had idle time to fill?

I know that can't be your suggestion because - quite honestly - I think if you gave yourself a moment to think about it, it would become almost self-evident that I explicitly don't have a lot of time on my hands. I would think - from the level of effort evident in the thing you're looking at - that you might imagine that I'm the type of person that doesn't take assignments lightly and, instead, becomes so engrossed in the challenge of the thing - any thing, really - that any "free time" I might have otherwise had, is very quickly consumed.

Or, maybe, what you're actually saying is that you disapprove of the fact that I chose to spend time on this particular thing. Perhaps you think, in lieu of this thing... the thing that I found mentally challenging, creatively enriching, and which - upon its conclusion - filled me with a sense of pride and accomplishment... my time would have been better spent on some other thing.

I suppose that's valid... what would you suggest? What things are you spending your time on? Clearly, since you're saying that my work suggests I have "a lot of time" on my hands, your own time must be simply packed to the gills with amazing accomplishments and valuable contributions... let's have a look.

Oh.

I'm sorry... I guess I just assumed. You mean you don't spend your time challenging yourself in new endeavors? You don't seek out different forms of expressions in an attempt to grow as a person? You're just satisfied to cycle around - day after day - performing the same tasks, in the same completely predictable way, until every single thing you produce is a bland near-replica of every other thing you've produced... none of which require the slightest bit of effort on your part?

That must be sort of boring. On the plus side, though, that must free up hours upon hours when you could have been trying something different. Wow... I guess somebody must have a lot of time on their hands.

Asshole.

Did you learn any Egyptian curses while over there? Or at least pick up an Nth metal mace?

Ex, Ex, Ex ...! What do you expect when you tell people about your collection of trapezoidal shale pebbles from all 7 continents?

Yeah, I almost do wish it was some hobby thing, because then I wouldn't care one way or the other what somebody thought.


Without getting too deep into the details, long story short is that I designed an impact analysis system for hardware and software changes, so we could make more informed decisions about the effects of our changes, instead of just relying on anecdotal opinions. But, to put it into place requires a process change, and there is this bizarre section of the culture in the corporate world (usually long-term employees) who are deathly afraid of any change whatsoever.

It's not so much that this particular jerk didn't like my system - criticism I can handle - it's that he just dismissed it out of turn with a phrase that implied I was foolish for even suggesting it.

It's my experience that "someone's got too much time on his hands" is verbal shorthand for "wow... I'm actually impressed with the hard work that you put into this, but to admit that would be to admit that I'm either incapable or unwilling of doing the same, so - instead - I'm going to belittle your accomplishment by way of saving face."


Sigh... I need to find a new racket, man.