Rambling life post
Blissful long weekend in which I actually, for once, managed to adequately balance the amount of sleep I wanted with the amount of social time I wanted to have and the amount of responsible stuff I needed to do:
- Changed sheets on my bed (to deliciously warm flannel sheet set, bliss; it's like a big warm cuddle)
- Watched some Blackhawks hockey and 24/7 (the Flyers/Rangers edition) with
aworldinside (I ended up rooting for the Flyers, she ended up rooting for the Rangers). K mocked my feelings a lot, also we ate hot cross buns and really excellent biscuits
- Washed some clothes!
- Cleaned bits of the house,
genusshrike cleaned some other bits, between us the house is pretty much all good. Hygiene!
- Fed some people lunch on Saturday, with a leek and potato pie and a really excellent feta/walnut/orzo/beetroot salad of
genusshrike's that I'm going to make again really soon because it was freaking delicious
- Watched some very late Farscape; it turns out I've pretty much erased most of S4 from my memory, because we watched all of We're So Screwed and I had barely any idea what was going on at any point. Gotta do a rewatch at some point.
- While Farscaping, FINISHED THE FIRST SLEEVE ON THIS JUMPER!!!!!!!!!!! I have been stuck on this project FOREVER because I stupidly made a million modifications and lost the notebook I did all my calculations in. But on Saturday night I decided, fuck it, I'm just going to make a sleeve up so I did and other than a sticky bit at the bottom which I think I'm going to rip back and reknit, it worked out okay! I picked up and knitted about an inch on sleeve #2 and it's going okay, so I've set myself a challenge to wear this sweater this winter and to be honest, I can't wait!
- Went out to the Wellington Young Feminists' Collective first birthday party which was awesome - some excellent, excellent dancing, first to Sophie & the Realistic Expectations (AWESOME cover band, brilliant vocals, awesome sax/horn, veeery cute bassist) and then Lisa Tomlins (also amazing covers, incredible vocals & guitar) - they both had an incredible energy. They were followed by Disasterradio who plays like original electronica - it was fun to dance to for awhile but, tbh, just way too loud for me and I wasn't convinced that I was getting anything extra out of it being live. Still an awesome gig though.
- Brunch for
aimeesworld's birthday at Plum today - deeeelightful, and although I probably ordered too much food and the service was a) slow b) not what I would describe as competent, it was nevertheless super delicious (I got the Plumster with avocado, hold the mushrooms - poached eggs on sourdough, hollandaise, bacon, sausages, hash browns, grilled tomato - it was totally, unbelievably delicious).
- Aaaand wrote my application for a six-month contract job that's come up. I don't know if I want to get it or not - not really sure about six-month job security, to be honest, although it would be a good way to leave my current job and still be able to go back to study next year - but work continues to be frightful, with another round of being told I was being a horrible bitch to my boss on Thursday. Which sucks and all but I actually have gotten over feeling guilty about it. I have expressed nothing but a willingness to work to amend my behaviour (something she has never offered) but she still refuses to say what is actually so awful about my behaviour except that she's "had a gutsful" and my tone is rude. It's just my tone, I don't speak to her any differently than I speak to anyone else and nobody else has had this issue, so I am starting to think that it is just her damage and there's nothing I can do about it except avoid her (difficult in my organisation) and keep my head down. (Note, apparently it is "my way or the highway", but of the two of us, I am not the one who has gone to our mutual boss and threatened to quit on, apparently, a more or less weekly basis. Also, she is the one who keeps changing workplace policy without talking to anyone about it, so any discussion raised happens after the fact and looks like shit-stirring.)
I was pretty vindicated last week when we got an email from our mutual boss asking what had happened to a job she altered in a bunch of ways that I thought were stupid but was not permitted to comment on (my cheerful email offering to help out and making some suggestions resulted in her removing the responsibility for the task from me, taking said cheerful email to mutual boss and threatening to quit). On the other hand, I am also kind of pissy about it, because most people in the organisation apparently still think it's my responsibility and so I'm stuck between defending her shitty decision to my many bosses, and telling them to ask her about it, which strikes me as ... not conducive to workplace harmony.
I also managed dinner with my family (and poor old
genusshrike) and, for a change, plenty of sleep. (Too much on Sunday, when I slept right through the alarm that was supposed to get me up for the last Blackhawks game of the regular season :( but still, never look gift sleep in the mouth.)
Dance class tonight, and then an early night for me, I think. Oh, and this week's Fringe.
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comments.
- Changed sheets on my bed (to deliciously warm flannel sheet set, bliss; it's like a big warm cuddle)
- Watched some Blackhawks hockey and 24/7 (the Flyers/Rangers edition) with
aworldinside (I ended up rooting for the Flyers, she ended up rooting for the Rangers). K mocked my feelings a lot, also we ate hot cross buns and really excellent biscuits
- Washed some clothes!
- Cleaned bits of the house,
genusshrike cleaned some other bits, between us the house is pretty much all good. Hygiene!
- Fed some people lunch on Saturday, with a leek and potato pie and a really excellent feta/walnut/orzo/beetroot salad of
genusshrike's that I'm going to make again really soon because it was freaking delicious
- Watched some very late Farscape; it turns out I've pretty much erased most of S4 from my memory, because we watched all of We're So Screwed and I had barely any idea what was going on at any point. Gotta do a rewatch at some point.
- While Farscaping, FINISHED THE FIRST SLEEVE ON THIS JUMPER!!!!!!!!!!! I have been stuck on this project FOREVER because I stupidly made a million modifications and lost the notebook I did all my calculations in. But on Saturday night I decided, fuck it, I'm just going to make a sleeve up so I did and other than a sticky bit at the bottom which I think I'm going to rip back and reknit, it worked out okay! I picked up and knitted about an inch on sleeve #2 and it's going okay, so I've set myself a challenge to wear this sweater this winter and to be honest, I can't wait!
- Went out to the Wellington Young Feminists' Collective first birthday party which was awesome - some excellent, excellent dancing, first to Sophie & the Realistic Expectations (AWESOME cover band, brilliant vocals, awesome sax/horn, veeery cute bassist) and then Lisa Tomlins (also amazing covers, incredible vocals & guitar) - they both had an incredible energy. They were followed by Disasterradio who plays like original electronica - it was fun to dance to for awhile but, tbh, just way too loud for me and I wasn't convinced that I was getting anything extra out of it being live. Still an awesome gig though.
- Brunch for
aimeesworld's birthday at Plum today - deeeelightful, and although I probably ordered too much food and the service was a) slow b) not what I would describe as competent, it was nevertheless super delicious (I got the Plumster with avocado, hold the mushrooms - poached eggs on sourdough, hollandaise, bacon, sausages, hash browns, grilled tomato - it was totally, unbelievably delicious).
- Aaaand wrote my application for a six-month contract job that's come up. I don't know if I want to get it or not - not really sure about six-month job security, to be honest, although it would be a good way to leave my current job and still be able to go back to study next year - but work continues to be frightful, with another round of being told I was being a horrible bitch to my boss on Thursday. Which sucks and all but I actually have gotten over feeling guilty about it. I have expressed nothing but a willingness to work to amend my behaviour (something she has never offered) but she still refuses to say what is actually so awful about my behaviour except that she's "had a gutsful" and my tone is rude. It's just my tone, I don't speak to her any differently than I speak to anyone else and nobody else has had this issue, so I am starting to think that it is just her damage and there's nothing I can do about it except avoid her (difficult in my organisation) and keep my head down. (Note, apparently it is "my way or the highway", but of the two of us, I am not the one who has gone to our mutual boss and threatened to quit on, apparently, a more or less weekly basis. Also, she is the one who keeps changing workplace policy without talking to anyone about it, so any discussion raised happens after the fact and looks like shit-stirring.)
I was pretty vindicated last week when we got an email from our mutual boss asking what had happened to a job she altered in a bunch of ways that I thought were stupid but was not permitted to comment on (my cheerful email offering to help out and making some suggestions resulted in her removing the responsibility for the task from me, taking said cheerful email to mutual boss and threatening to quit). On the other hand, I am also kind of pissy about it, because most people in the organisation apparently still think it's my responsibility and so I'm stuck between defending her shitty decision to my many bosses, and telling them to ask her about it, which strikes me as ... not conducive to workplace harmony.
I also managed dinner with my family (and poor old
genusshrike) and, for a change, plenty of sleep. (Too much on Sunday, when I slept right through the alarm that was supposed to get me up for the last Blackhawks game of the regular season :( but still, never look gift sleep in the mouth.)
Dance class tonight, and then an early night for me, I think. Oh, and this week's Fringe.
This entry is crossposted from http://labellementeuse.dreamwidth.org/358694.html, where there are
comments.