Munching on the Frito Bandito
Apr. 11th, 2003 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whitereflectionSo, this week. Hmm, yeah. Spent a couple days feeling a bunch of anxiety and worry for no real reason. Truly, I can't figure out why. Though I keep getting this worry that I'm going to mess something up about Akon--this feeling of impending doom that I'm going to screw something up, or that someone's going to end up pissed off/in a mood, or something's going to go awry. Eh... *flails* Really, I know nothing's probably going to go wrong--and we got along great last year, so there's nothing to worry about now. I do anyway, tho. >_< In any case, it's already occurred to me to *very* much leave anything political at the door, and I'm going to tell James to do the same. I think I'd rather jump off a balcony than have politics come up in the room or at a restaurant. It's one thing to rant here--it's another thing when hanging out in a group when you intend to have fun. There's simply too many diverging opinions, and most of us can get really worked up if we have to debate said opinions. Eh.
Am already trying to figure out what to bring along, since I know space will be at a premium. Too bad I can't bring my guitar--there's just no way to tote it in an airplane safely, tho. I just really wanted to get Duel Jewel's signatures on it. Gotta bring my cel books for sure, my Reality Checked comics (to get signed by Tavicat Studios), and my Minekura manga, and what I intend to cosplay in. I should probably avoid too much else tho, to keep my clutter down. Ohyeah, my iPod *definitely*. Ah anyway, worry worry worry.
The last stained glass class went ok, and the intructor helped me smooth out some problem areas of my piece a bit. She thinks my iron might be running too hot, so she switched out my tip for one of the shop's they knew worked, and she'll test it and let me use theirs for a bit. And when I assemble my next piece, she says to give her a call, and I can come in and get a little individualized instruction from her on soldering. I think that's really awesome-nice, and definitely above and beyond--one-on-one instruction itself is great, but when it's not even the class anymore, and to not charge me or anything? It's a very cool glass shop. Very decent people.
As for work...budget things have been discussed, and I am very bothered by a lot of what's going on. Especially bothered by some blatant, rub-your-nose-in-the-shit, favoritism by the Library administration for certain other departments. Systems gets to fill an empty position without fucking trying. Serials (also part of Bibliographic Access, like Cataloging is), where my buddy Kelly works, is now down *100* work-hours a week. i.e. *two* staff members down, plus a student worker. And they are *not* getting to fill any of those positions. Our department just has to suck it the fuck up. This despite the fact that Cataloging is still down 40 hours a week from a position that were never filled from the time when I got hired. And when our useless-faculty member retires next year, of course we won't get her position either. Let's just say that yes, Circulation has had to trim some student assistant jobs. But Reference and Acquisitions have remained stable, as have most departments. And Systems not only has *grown* from two people to five staff plus students, but they get to *keep* all that staffing during the budget crisis--but Bib Access (Cataloging and Serials) are taking it up the fscking ass. For some reason, we are the group to screw right now, and the Dean is all smiley-chirpy-cavalier about it. The only thing keeping me working here right now is getting the employee tuition waiver to take Japanese for the next two years. When I'm done, I swear, I have got to get the *hell* out of this place.
And FUCK Systems, the goddamned arrogant bastards that they are. Yes, they know computers. Yes, some of them are good at it. But they can be replaced by others with similar knowledge and skills, damned easily. They are no more indispensible than the rest of us. But man, they and the Administrative Office (i.e. the Dean) are just having a major mutual-appreciation-fuck-each-other-fest these past couple years. Glad the Dean is so orgasmic over them. Whatever. Us and the printed word will just sit here in the corner until someone realizes we're still important, too. Jeezus.
So yeah, been angry some too. Had to take a night off from seeing Michael, and head over to Anj's for some Azumanga Daioh/Taco Bell/Easter candy therapy Wednesday night. Man, Wednesday was just a fucktastic day in general--had a morning of a certain someone being a pompous, know it all, self righteous, overly-critical asshole to start that all off--then the budget crap. Wasn't feeling at all normal until yesterday, and it's obvious I'm still twitchy. And what's worse is I've been slipping on the eating-right thing for multiple days now because I'm letting my mood get the better of me. Dammit. *sighs* I gotta do better today. Last night we did even more AD, as Anj needed to borrow the washer/dryer (her apt's weren't broken...but the *door* to her laundry room was. Some other tenant seems to have jammed it). But me being the sparkling social person I am, I fell asleep while we were hanging out. Bah. I swear I can fall asleep mid-conversation. Go me.
And today I get to finally do that doctor appointment, and find out what she thinks of my blood pressure. I don't think it's changed much--and am wondering what's she's going to do about the allergy meds I'm on. Guess I find out in a half-hour or so. And one odd thing--I had to get an MMR (Measles-Mumps-Rubella) booster shot yesterday. Seems that between the time I graduated high school and college and now, they started requiring two shots of that immunization to get into our public schools and colleges instead of one. And since I'm re-enrolling at UNO (to take Japanese this fall), I had to get the shot. Yay. ^^;; Was not bad, tho. Just kinda odd to be getting a booster shot when nearly 30. (Registration for fall classes starts next week, so hopefully that'll go well--I'm rather excited to start learning the language for real.).
...I should stay home tonight. Make dinner, get chores things done, get some AIM time as it's been days and days again. *sighs* But...it's going to be in the 70s, and today's the opening home game for the Omaha Royals. I should stay home...but I wanna go out and see baseball. I only got to go to one game last year... *ponders, flails* I wanna go to the baseball game! Someone tell me I need to stay home and be an adult. Especially since I'll be taking up a good deal of tomorrow with going to a glass sale at the shop, then going to the zoo with Anj, Gina, and maybe James, and a portion of Sunday for more FB viewing with the others (postponed from last week). I should be an adult tonight...I *should* be. But...but... *flails* Maaaaaaaaaan...
Am already trying to figure out what to bring along, since I know space will be at a premium. Too bad I can't bring my guitar--there's just no way to tote it in an airplane safely, tho. I just really wanted to get Duel Jewel's signatures on it. Gotta bring my cel books for sure, my Reality Checked comics (to get signed by Tavicat Studios), and my Minekura manga, and what I intend to cosplay in. I should probably avoid too much else tho, to keep my clutter down. Ohyeah, my iPod *definitely*. Ah anyway, worry worry worry.
The last stained glass class went ok, and the intructor helped me smooth out some problem areas of my piece a bit. She thinks my iron might be running too hot, so she switched out my tip for one of the shop's they knew worked, and she'll test it and let me use theirs for a bit. And when I assemble my next piece, she says to give her a call, and I can come in and get a little individualized instruction from her on soldering. I think that's really awesome-nice, and definitely above and beyond--one-on-one instruction itself is great, but when it's not even the class anymore, and to not charge me or anything? It's a very cool glass shop. Very decent people.
As for work...budget things have been discussed, and I am very bothered by a lot of what's going on. Especially bothered by some blatant, rub-your-nose-in-the-shit, favoritism by the Library administration for certain other departments. Systems gets to fill an empty position without fucking trying. Serials (also part of Bibliographic Access, like Cataloging is), where my buddy Kelly works, is now down *100* work-hours a week. i.e. *two* staff members down, plus a student worker. And they are *not* getting to fill any of those positions. Our department just has to suck it the fuck up. This despite the fact that Cataloging is still down 40 hours a week from a position that were never filled from the time when I got hired. And when our useless-faculty member retires next year, of course we won't get her position either. Let's just say that yes, Circulation has had to trim some student assistant jobs. But Reference and Acquisitions have remained stable, as have most departments. And Systems not only has *grown* from two people to five staff plus students, but they get to *keep* all that staffing during the budget crisis--but Bib Access (Cataloging and Serials) are taking it up the fscking ass. For some reason, we are the group to screw right now, and the Dean is all smiley-chirpy-cavalier about it. The only thing keeping me working here right now is getting the employee tuition waiver to take Japanese for the next two years. When I'm done, I swear, I have got to get the *hell* out of this place.
And FUCK Systems, the goddamned arrogant bastards that they are. Yes, they know computers. Yes, some of them are good at it. But they can be replaced by others with similar knowledge and skills, damned easily. They are no more indispensible than the rest of us. But man, they and the Administrative Office (i.e. the Dean) are just having a major mutual-appreciation-fuck-each-other-fest these past couple years. Glad the Dean is so orgasmic over them. Whatever. Us and the printed word will just sit here in the corner until someone realizes we're still important, too. Jeezus.
So yeah, been angry some too. Had to take a night off from seeing Michael, and head over to Anj's for some Azumanga Daioh/Taco Bell/Easter candy therapy Wednesday night. Man, Wednesday was just a fucktastic day in general--had a morning of a certain someone being a pompous, know it all, self righteous, overly-critical asshole to start that all off--then the budget crap. Wasn't feeling at all normal until yesterday, and it's obvious I'm still twitchy. And what's worse is I've been slipping on the eating-right thing for multiple days now because I'm letting my mood get the better of me. Dammit. *sighs* I gotta do better today. Last night we did even more AD, as Anj needed to borrow the washer/dryer (her apt's weren't broken...but the *door* to her laundry room was. Some other tenant seems to have jammed it). But me being the sparkling social person I am, I fell asleep while we were hanging out. Bah. I swear I can fall asleep mid-conversation. Go me.
And today I get to finally do that doctor appointment, and find out what she thinks of my blood pressure. I don't think it's changed much--and am wondering what's she's going to do about the allergy meds I'm on. Guess I find out in a half-hour or so. And one odd thing--I had to get an MMR (Measles-Mumps-Rubella) booster shot yesterday. Seems that between the time I graduated high school and college and now, they started requiring two shots of that immunization to get into our public schools and colleges instead of one. And since I'm re-enrolling at UNO (to take Japanese this fall), I had to get the shot. Yay. ^^;; Was not bad, tho. Just kinda odd to be getting a booster shot when nearly 30. (Registration for fall classes starts next week, so hopefully that'll go well--I'm rather excited to start learning the language for real.).
...I should stay home tonight. Make dinner, get chores things done, get some AIM time as it's been days and days again. *sighs* But...it's going to be in the 70s, and today's the opening home game for the Omaha Royals. I should stay home...but I wanna go out and see baseball. I only got to go to one game last year... *ponders, flails* I wanna go to the baseball game! Someone tell me I need to stay home and be an adult. Especially since I'll be taking up a good deal of tomorrow with going to a glass sale at the shop, then going to the zoo with Anj, Gina, and maybe James, and a portion of Sunday for more FB viewing with the others (postponed from last week). I should be an adult tonight...I *should* be. But...but... *flails* Maaaaaaaaaan...
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Date: 2003-04-11 07:00 am (UTC)I disagree entirely, Go To The Ballgame!!! ^____^ Go out and live it up and enjoy that weather. It's Friday for cripes sake. It's spring time. Feel no guilt at all my friend and go do it.