Comments | bratenfrau: It's the Monday that keeps on giving.

bratenfrau

It's the Monday that keeps on giving.

Jul 11, 2006 11:13

For some reason, I have that sinking, rock-in-the-pit-of-my-stomach feeling that usually only accompanies the knowledge that it's Monday and I'm at the very bottom of a great big work hill I must toil and climb before being allowed to see the light of Friday. I suppose this is a normal feeling, shared by nine-to-five wage slaves the world over, ( Read more... )

sucktastic, work

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f_o_n_y July 11 2006, 15:48:27 UTC

entertainment: i just posted 300 photos of alaska for you to browse. :)

bratenfrau July 11 2006, 15:49:34 UTC

Hooray!! I thank thee, and am in dire need of some puffin action anyway. :)

f_o_n_y July 11 2006, 15:51:27 UTC

i'm embarrassed about the number of puffin souvenirs i now own. BUT I REALLY LOVE PUFFINS.

bratenfrau July 11 2006, 16:08:52 UTC

I can't think of puffins without picturing this doggie. It's double-jointed and can put its nose on its own back! Maybe that's why puffins are rare these days.

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beigekhakis July 11 2006, 16:17:15 UTC

But isn't it better to be a wage slave than to kill yourself working 100 hours a week?

bratenfrau July 11 2006, 17:16:33 UTC

It totally depends on what I'm doing for a living. If I was working for myself, I'd happily put in 18 hour days. It's not the amount of work I'm whining about, just the uselessness of it.

beigekhakis July 11 2006, 17:30:52 UTC

well... what'll you do

bratenfrau July 11 2006, 17:44:55 UTC

What will I do about what?

erikthedane July 11 2006, 16:24:20 UTC

Just keep swimming, dear. The players in office politics usualyy reap what they sew and tend to alienate everyone else. Sun Tzu once said something to the effect of "If you wait by the river long enough, the bogies of your enemies will go floating by."

BTW, is that you pictured in your icon?

bratenfrau July 11 2006, 17:14:50 UTC

You're right of course, I just keep getting dragged into the fracas (and, in her case, thrown under the fucking bus all the time). Oh well. Something bad is about to go down, I can feel it, and I don't want to be around when it does.

The icon? The cartoon picture of Daria? Uhm, obviously not, but that was my nickname in high school. :)

erikthedane July 11 2006, 17:21:43 UTC

The icon I was referring to was the one of a woman and man dancing. Would dat be you?

bratenfrau July 11 2006, 17:24:16 UTC

Oh. Ha! I wish. No, that's Bettie Page. :) But this one happens to be me.

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bratenfrau July 11 2006, 19:11:10 UTC

Perhaps we're all just collectively PMSing at the same time!

ohlapetite July 12 2006, 00:22:27 UTC

Office politics can really wreak havoc on my mental status. I'm glad I'm off for the most part during the summer to regroup, that's for sure. I hope your week gets better!

bratenfrau July 12 2006, 13:13:52 UTC

Lucky!! Are you a teacher or something? And thanks for the support, I need it. :)

ohlapetite July 13 2006, 03:45:37 UTC

Indeed I am! I cherish my summers like crazy. I'd be institutionalized if I had to teach 12 months out of the year.

bratenfrau July 13 2006, 15:09:17 UTC

I have a secret desire to become a high school history teacher (one of my college majors/lifelong obsessions). But I kind of hate children and would be doing it as much for the 180 days a year off as I would be for the love of history as a subject. Would that make me a bad teacher? :)

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