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genie
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 Posted: 10/30/02 - 14:57 Post subject: Home today......I've had it
I had to cancel my planned long weekend this weekend, was going to take off Friday and next Monday, just to decompress, get in some quality workouts and escape from the hell that is work lately, however I just have too many *$#*&@&^# projects going on to do that, so I settled for today. Or, what actually happened is, my new boss, the one I really like, said something yesterday that totally hit me the wrong way and I completely lost it. I hate being female!!! I should have known better than to take it as an insult because he's the nicest person in the whole department and is really trying to be supportive through all this nonsense, but after four weeks of stress, pressure and overwhelmedness (is that a word?) I just lost it. One can only take so much, you know??
So, we had a long talk and it all came out, that corporate America is just not for me and I told him about my plans for grad school, which he fully supports, told me he'd work out whatever we had to accommodate, etc. What I didn't want him to think is that I am unhappy enough now that I'm not going to do the best job possible for him til I leave, which is why I had been so hesitant about discussing my plans with him. We did a lot of talking and I did a lot of crying, which I was still doing about three hours after I got home. Total meltdown, mainly fueled by years of frustration at not working at my full potential. I am doing so much more than my position requires right now because it NEEDS to be done, but because I don't have a damn PhD (this is a research setting) I don't have the title OR the respect, in a lot of cases, to get things done that I see need improving. I'm sure many of you in the corporate world can relate. What pisses off is that I COULD be a damn PhD right now if not for some of the stupid decisions I made when I was younger, hence my eagerness to go back to school and do it right this time.
So, at 1:30 in the afternoon, I am still in my PJs and Taz slippers, drinking hot chocolate and staring at my computer without an ounce of energy to do anything productive. I answered a few emails and PMs I had neglected, and talked to a friend on Yahoo this morning, but I just literally cannot move. I guess I'm just venting.....sorry this got so long. All attempts at fubbiness and slapstick humor are welcome! 
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 15:02 Post subject:
Look on the bright side! There's only 17,817,117 seconds left until Madison!
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TreKay
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 15:17 Post subject:
Hang in there Genie, just remember you have awhole lot of friends here to lean on. 
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spongebob
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 15:29 Post subject:
Naked!
(Oops, wrong thread. Sorry genie.)
Edited to say:
Call me at work (719) 598-5991, ask for Dave. I bet I can make you laugh.
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prohemp
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 15:35 Post subject:
Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding... almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis... is this room actually stretching? or is it your imagination, Hmmm? and consider this dismaying observation... this chamber has no windows and no doors. Which offers you this chilling challenge: to find... a way OUT! of course, there's always my way............................................
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rolling rock
The Pinball
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 15:42 Post subject:
Taz slippers are good for starters.
now, take a lice check 
hope it gets better.
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copteacher
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 15:46 Post subject:
| prohemp wrote: | | Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding... almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis... is this room actually stretching? or is it your imagination, Hmmm? and consider this dismaying observation... this chamber has no windows and no doors. Which offers you this chilling challenge: to find... a way OUT! of course, there's always my way............................................ |
what pro hemp is trying to say is
take a nice hot bath and call him in the morning
if that does not work-call him for some other devices that i am not at liberty to say
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jrjo
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 15:53 Post subject: paging Dr Genie
Mental health days rock!
w/3 kids, my mental break is the office 
Rock on Genie, we'll call you 'Doctor' if it helps
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Pebbles
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 16:01 Post subject:
I know just the thing to make you feel better, now put down that hot chocolate, put on some tunes and do the fubby dance!!!
Just make sure you don't fall in your Taz slippies!!
[scroll:40bed9eb92] [/scroll:40bed9eb92]
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TriBob
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 16:06 Post subject:
mental health days are very important. So keep up the nothing and enjoy it.
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Molly600
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 16:11 Post subject:
sounds like a much needed day off....wish I was home with you, sounds lovely! Maybe it's really good you got all that stuff off your chest with your boss and you can start moving forward with those plans. Enjoy the rest of your day, I hope you continue to be unproductive and just take some "you" time.
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blue
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 16:47 Post subject:
| Runner X wrote: | Naked!
Call me at work (719) 598-5991, ask for Dave. I bet I can make you laugh. |
i called... dave wasn't there...
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pokychick
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 16:48 Post subject:
| TriBob wrote: | | mental health days are very important. So keep up the nothing and enjoy it. |
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omega lambda
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 17:04 Post subject:
| prohemp wrote: | | Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding... almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis... is this room actually stretching? or is it your imagination, Hmmm? and consider this dismaying observation... this chamber has no windows and no doors. Which offers you this chilling challenge: to find... a way OUT! of course, there's always my way............................................ |
heh heh
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shelflifers
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Posted: 10/30/02 - 17:08 Post subject:
Okay, you take a bath:
genie--->
I'll bring Cappy over there and give him repeated grundies to entertain you! (can you believe he falls for that 'pointing thing' again and again?)
---->cappy <----me
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