Yes, I'm Still Harping On That
► I need to do something to start drumming up interest in my journal and get some more readers and commentators (Malcolm needs support). Maybe I should start pretending this is a journal from a terminally ill 14 year old girl. Oh, terminally ill 14 year old girl/former prostitute. Who now writes best selling novels.KimW: I know a couple of people who stopped reading your journal 'cause it was too downbeat and/or reminded them of their own problems.
Don't know any that were offended by the content.
Derek: I'm always afraid I come off too depressed
Derek: when really I'm usually writing it from a humourous take on it
Derek: at least, that's what I try for
KimW: Eh, I think it's only depressing to people who have the same problems and don't want to be reminded of it.
Derek: if I was really so depressed about it I wouldn't be bothering with movie quotes and links, also I often post quotes that mock or make light of the topic of my entry
Derek: ah
Derek: and because I'm slow... you knew people who read my journal?
LiveJournal better not be dying. I've been thinking of getting a paid account.
► Well that didn't work out how I planned. To recap: Adam Hughes "Cover Run" artbook released last year, Amazon had it listed as "not yet released" months after it was, Amazon then switched the listing to "temporarily out of stock". The book has never been listed as in stock on the website, but has the option to order it so that it will be shipped if it ever becomes available. Sunday night I ordered the book as a lark, figuring I'll most likely never get it, and maybe there will be a chance of it someday becoming available so I get a copy.
The book shipped last night. The weird part is that it is still listed as out of stock. Also, unlike every other time I have ordered from Amazon in the previous 6 years, there was and is no shipping estimate, and instead of a delivery estimate with 2 dates, it specifically lists 1 single day for delivery: Wednesday, February 16th. Really weird. I wonder if it might arrive sometime today?
► The past few days have been really hard on my nerves and stress. As Deana's work meeting today was approaching she was getting more and more panicky and freaked out, fretting that she should never have mailed the letters that the Human Rights Legal Service Center advised her to. It got so bad that late Sunday night she came into my room, unable to sleep, in tears. She ended up not going to work yesterday, and I spent all of Sunday night and yesterday morning obsessively worrying about her state of mind and our future. Eventually I crashed around noon and slept for 10 hours.
When I eventually woke, I found Dean in the front room and in higher spirits. Turns out that on a whim she went to her union offices in the afternoon and say the union head. He had apparently been looking into everything that's been going on, and her disability, and agreed that what the bosses have been doing is wrong. He told her in no unwavering terms that he is on her side and will be there at the meeting this afternoon to help her. That's a load off of both of us. Hopefully the meeting will go well and things will improve. I'm not sure how much more of this stress either of us can take.
The funny thing is Dean only just now is beginning to realize how much all of this (the work problems, and her recent mood and mental health issues) has been worrying and affecting me.
► Stephen Baldwin sues Kevin Costner over Gulf oil spill invention - Now that's a headline I never would have imagined.
► Charlie Sheen Rips 'Two and a Half Men' Bosses, Talks About Crack Use (Video) - From the article:'He also said he's able to handle crack "socially," adding, "but that kinda blew up in my face…like an exploding crack pipe."'
I didn't realize that crack was particularly "social" drug. Not unless it's a social gathering in a filth and rat infested crack den.
► Jude Law May Battle Dracula Aboard The ‘Demeter’ - This sounds like a very intriguing movie indeed.
► Dorkly Bits: Ms. Pac-Man's Terrible Secret
Quote of the Moment
Donna D. Logand: The hell of it is, you're only as loved as you think you are
- The Night Listener (2006)
Don't know any that were offended by the content.
Derek: I'm always afraid I come off too depressed
Derek: when really I'm usually writing it from a humourous take on it
Derek: at least, that's what I try for
KimW: Eh, I think it's only depressing to people who have the same problems and don't want to be reminded of it.
Derek: if I was really so depressed about it I wouldn't be bothering with movie quotes and links, also I often post quotes that mock or make light of the topic of my entry
Derek: ah
Derek: and because I'm slow... you knew people who read my journal?
LiveJournal better not be dying. I've been thinking of getting a paid account.
► Well that didn't work out how I planned. To recap: Adam Hughes "Cover Run" artbook released last year, Amazon had it listed as "not yet released" months after it was, Amazon then switched the listing to "temporarily out of stock". The book has never been listed as in stock on the website, but has the option to order it so that it will be shipped if it ever becomes available. Sunday night I ordered the book as a lark, figuring I'll most likely never get it, and maybe there will be a chance of it someday becoming available so I get a copy.
The book shipped last night. The weird part is that it is still listed as out of stock. Also, unlike every other time I have ordered from Amazon in the previous 6 years, there was and is no shipping estimate, and instead of a delivery estimate with 2 dates, it specifically lists 1 single day for delivery: Wednesday, February 16th. Really weird. I wonder if it might arrive sometime today?
► The past few days have been really hard on my nerves and stress. As Deana's work meeting today was approaching she was getting more and more panicky and freaked out, fretting that she should never have mailed the letters that the Human Rights Legal Service Center advised her to. It got so bad that late Sunday night she came into my room, unable to sleep, in tears. She ended up not going to work yesterday, and I spent all of Sunday night and yesterday morning obsessively worrying about her state of mind and our future. Eventually I crashed around noon and slept for 10 hours.
When I eventually woke, I found Dean in the front room and in higher spirits. Turns out that on a whim she went to her union offices in the afternoon and say the union head. He had apparently been looking into everything that's been going on, and her disability, and agreed that what the bosses have been doing is wrong. He told her in no unwavering terms that he is on her side and will be there at the meeting this afternoon to help her. That's a load off of both of us. Hopefully the meeting will go well and things will improve. I'm not sure how much more of this stress either of us can take.
The funny thing is Dean only just now is beginning to realize how much all of this (the work problems, and her recent mood and mental health issues) has been worrying and affecting me.
► Stephen Baldwin sues Kevin Costner over Gulf oil spill invention - Now that's a headline I never would have imagined.
► Charlie Sheen Rips 'Two and a Half Men' Bosses, Talks About Crack Use (Video) - From the article:'He also said he's able to handle crack "socially," adding, "but that kinda blew up in my face…like an exploding crack pipe."'
I didn't realize that crack was particularly "social" drug. Not unless it's a social gathering in a filth and rat infested crack den.
► Jude Law May Battle Dracula Aboard The ‘Demeter’ - This sounds like a very intriguing movie indeed.
► Dorkly Bits: Ms. Pac-Man's Terrible Secret
Quote of the Moment
Donna D. Logand: The hell of it is, you're only as loved as you think you are
- The Night Listener (2006)