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So Crystal-cat decided simply not to eat this morning. By the time we left for work, she seemed more normal and less hidey, but will have to see if she eats tonight, or if I really need to worry.
Latest WoW patch is a love-hate thing. Brought some new stuff (tier 2 armor designs, war effort turn-ins, etc), but also broke a bunch of things. Still having queue and login problems, been about a month now. And the latest maintenance to fix things broke yet other things, so a lot of PCs are moving jerkily or skipping around the screen. Fascinating. But least I have my UI mods fixed again. Took a couple days after the last patch to get those tinkered with.
Because of an off-hand comment I made on Ventrilo, which of course James overheard, he's suddenly all gung-ho on starting characters on Alleria again. I really wish to fuck he'd just leave me alone there. A. I want my own space to just hang out, but B. I raid most nights, and those nights I'm not, I'm generally off farming for my main toon or working on an alt--*solo*. I don't want yet another thing pressing for my attention, or him pressuring me to keep him occupied. Not to mention my guild is closed to recruiting, so he couldn't get in anyway--so I dunno what the hell he wants on the server for. Let him stay on Cenarius or Eldre'thalas with is work buddy or our gaming friends, imo. Leave me the hell alone. (Oh and shoulda seen the massive temper tantrum he had at the game not long ago--not just yelling at it, as he's so wont to do and I still swear he never yelled at EQ/EQ2 like this, but *screaming at the game and having hysterics*. I haven't seen such a pathetic display in like..ever. I was simply appalled. 10 year olds have more self-control, I swear.)
My morale re: work is about as low as I could get, I think. After announcing it a month ago, they finally revealed the reorganization plans. Not *that* bad, I suppose, but it's gotten a lot of people rattled. But the thing that gets me... Our dept. chair is retiring, and since our unit is being merged with the order/acquisitions dept., she's not being replaced since both units will now report to the other dept. chair. So money's being saved that way. At the same time, the dean is *insisting* on going ahead with outsourcing some cataloging work--i.e. spending lots of money to take away some of our work. YET AT THE SAME TIME WE'RE BEING TOLD "THERE IS NO MONEY FOR RAISES" FUCK YOU, DEAN. FUCK YOU, UNO. I feel so betrayed by this man. He seemed like a person that would do good for the Library, but he's not just the same administrative bullshit, he's adding in business/corporate bullshit. Frankly, I'm lucky I live with someone who has a decent income. Single people like Anj and Kelly who have been here 10-15+ years, who live frugally and thriftily, are struggling to make ends meet, barely getting by--and any emergency expense sends them into a tailspin. It gets worse and worse every year. I HATE THIS FUCKING JOB. I absolutely give up, totally despair, that those in charge at any level will ever care about the workers. And frankly, I despair that *anywhere* is there work where business owners or adminstrators care at all about the little people. Yay for growing up meaning a meaningless job that grinds you into the dirt and barely gives you enough to survive until you're laid off before you can collect your pension and all you've got to look forward to is maybe dying. Yay.
...sorry, but I'm really having trouble seeing the point of anything anymore. And career success/satisfaction is certainly one of those things I believe is just a lie, frankly. Ain't gonna happen, ever. Because the haves don't give a shit about the people enabling them to be the haves, much less about the have nots.
And yeah, been extra emo of late--emo mixed with a massive amount of anger at a lot of sources. + cynicism - hope. Lot of things been getting me down--and I'm so glad to see in work, politics, religion, even my damned game, that it's all about gaining for a few by screwing others up the ass. I <3 j00 humanity. Rly.
Latest WoW patch is a love-hate thing. Brought some new stuff (tier 2 armor designs, war effort turn-ins, etc), but also broke a bunch of things. Still having queue and login problems, been about a month now. And the latest maintenance to fix things broke yet other things, so a lot of PCs are moving jerkily or skipping around the screen. Fascinating. But least I have my UI mods fixed again. Took a couple days after the last patch to get those tinkered with.
Because of an off-hand comment I made on Ventrilo, which of course James overheard, he's suddenly all gung-ho on starting characters on Alleria again. I really wish to fuck he'd just leave me alone there. A. I want my own space to just hang out, but B. I raid most nights, and those nights I'm not, I'm generally off farming for my main toon or working on an alt--*solo*. I don't want yet another thing pressing for my attention, or him pressuring me to keep him occupied. Not to mention my guild is closed to recruiting, so he couldn't get in anyway--so I dunno what the hell he wants on the server for. Let him stay on Cenarius or Eldre'thalas with is work buddy or our gaming friends, imo. Leave me the hell alone. (Oh and shoulda seen the massive temper tantrum he had at the game not long ago--not just yelling at it, as he's so wont to do and I still swear he never yelled at EQ/EQ2 like this, but *screaming at the game and having hysterics*. I haven't seen such a pathetic display in like..ever. I was simply appalled. 10 year olds have more self-control, I swear.)
My morale re: work is about as low as I could get, I think. After announcing it a month ago, they finally revealed the reorganization plans. Not *that* bad, I suppose, but it's gotten a lot of people rattled. But the thing that gets me... Our dept. chair is retiring, and since our unit is being merged with the order/acquisitions dept., she's not being replaced since both units will now report to the other dept. chair. So money's being saved that way. At the same time, the dean is *insisting* on going ahead with outsourcing some cataloging work--i.e. spending lots of money to take away some of our work. YET AT THE SAME TIME WE'RE BEING TOLD "THERE IS NO MONEY FOR RAISES" FUCK YOU, DEAN. FUCK YOU, UNO. I feel so betrayed by this man. He seemed like a person that would do good for the Library, but he's not just the same administrative bullshit, he's adding in business/corporate bullshit. Frankly, I'm lucky I live with someone who has a decent income. Single people like Anj and Kelly who have been here 10-15+ years, who live frugally and thriftily, are struggling to make ends meet, barely getting by--and any emergency expense sends them into a tailspin. It gets worse and worse every year. I HATE THIS FUCKING JOB. I absolutely give up, totally despair, that those in charge at any level will ever care about the workers. And frankly, I despair that *anywhere* is there work where business owners or adminstrators care at all about the little people. Yay for growing up meaning a meaningless job that grinds you into the dirt and barely gives you enough to survive until you're laid off before you can collect your pension and all you've got to look forward to is maybe dying. Yay.
...sorry, but I'm really having trouble seeing the point of anything anymore. And career success/satisfaction is certainly one of those things I believe is just a lie, frankly. Ain't gonna happen, ever. Because the haves don't give a shit about the people enabling them to be the haves, much less about the have nots.
And yeah, been extra emo of late--emo mixed with a massive amount of anger at a lot of sources. + cynicism - hope. Lot of things been getting me down--and I'm so glad to see in work, politics, religion, even my damned game, that it's all about gaining for a few by screwing others up the ass. I <3 j00 humanity. Rly.