What might be making you a tad apprehensive, but might not, as it's too soon to tell - Page 18

glatt · 02-12-2013, 01:28 PM

It sounds like a typical meeting with nothing really resolved.

DanaC · 02-12-2013, 01:39 PM

Gods that's one thing I dont miss about being a councillor. Meetings about meetings to discuss the findings of a meeting and set up new meetings to oversee the work that came out of the meetings, that is to say more meetings.

It's been a while since I had to engage with staff meetings, performance appraisals, back-to-work interviews etc etc. Not really since I was made redundant from the lit teaching and went swanning off to uni instead. I remember them being pointless, soul destroying, vindictive sessions. Like when they had a problem with my attendance (not my fucking fault I was ill. and you twats with your less than helpful help were stressing me out and making my stress related illness ten times worse) and had endless action plans to help me cope....fuck you, your system is broken, all your staff are either bitchy, ambitious, selfish fucks or decent people snowed down under the work of twice their number and constantly shifting and contradictory expectations.

Inf: You have your plan. You are actively engaged in getting healthy. You can deal with this, or more accurately you can take control over the impact it has on you.

Also, you are so totally due some good luck.

infinite monkey · 02-12-2013, 01:47 PM

Thanks. I'm reminding myself to breathe, and to not overthink...

And this:

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It's been a while since I had to engage with staff meetings, performance appraisals, back-to-work interviews etc etc. Not really since I was made redundant from the lit teaching and went swanning off to uni instead. I remember them being pointless, soul destroying, vindictive sessions. Like when they had a problem with my attendance (not my fucking fault I was ill. and you twats with your less than helpful help were stressing me out and making my stress related illness ten times worse) and had endless action plans to help me cope....fuck you, your system is broken, all your staff are either bitchy, ambitious, selfish fucks or decent people snowed down under the work of twice their number and constantly shifting and contradictory expectations.

You're singing my song.

Was today the day the blind carpenter picked up his hammer and saw? We shall see, I guess.

In the meantime, some good luck would sure feel good. First my dad, and now even my mom (who, let's face it, have known me my whole life!) say 'You have the worst luck" or "if you ever have good luck it's going to be a doozy" and things like that. And THEY are the first sort of people who believe you essentially control your own destiny and make your own choices. Even they have had to look back on my life and say "sheesh girl, i remember when this happened which ruined your chances of that happening" or any of the other number of troubles that seem to find me.

But, as you said Dana (and thanks) I AM actively involved in getting healthy and I know it won't happen overnight and I have hope. I'm still going to run into shit, at work or anywhere. I just can't let said shit run over ME.

Lamplighter · 02-12-2013, 02:38 PM

There's a popular saying: "Be the hammer, not the nail".
But if you're a really good, hard nail, they can't screw with you.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-20-2013, 05:36 PM

As you go through life,
no two days will be alike.
When you're the anvil, bear.
When you're the hammer, strike.

BigV · 02-21-2013, 05:44 AM

I like that very much xoB. Thanks.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-21-2013, 03:18 PM

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I like that very much xoB. Thanks.

My High School English teacher wrote that in my yearbook.

Sundae · 02-21-2013, 06:04 AM

Bruce, I think of you as the Anvil Bear.

BigV · 02-21-2013, 08:05 AM

An anvil can be a devastating hammer too.

infinite monkey · 02-21-2013, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by BigV

An anvil can be a devastating hammer too.

There are many examples in popular culture of just that. If an anvil remains at rest, it's an anvil. An anvil in motion will stay in motion until it hits someone on the noggin. And they ALWAYS hit someone on the noggin.

monster · 03-12-2013, 07:57 AM

My jeans are all too big. And I hate shopping. And if I buy some smaller ones I'm bound to pile the weight back on. But the are noticeably too big

Buying new ones might be ok......

infinite monkey · 03-12-2013, 08:10 AM

Sam, you made the pants too long.

(anyone? Bueller?)

limey · 03-12-2013, 08:10 AM

I dithered about that until they were uncomfortable and I had to by TWO sizes smaller. Was good. Now they're straining at the seams

but I'm back on the swim, apple wagon, and a few days on the Sundae diet (you didn't think she's staying here without earning her keep, did you

) will do me a lorra lrra good, too!

xoxoxoBruce · 03-12-2013, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by limey

...will do me a lorra lrra good, too!

I tried to Google that but it brought me back here. Unique R Us.

limey · 03-12-2013, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I tried to Google that but it brought me back here. Unique R Us.

Sorry Bruce I misspelled it, shoulda been "lorra lorra"

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glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It sounds like a typical meeting with nothing really resolved.

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monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	My jeans are all too big. And I hate shopping. And if I buy some smaller ones I'm bound to pile the weight back on. But the are noticeably too big Buying new ones might be ok...... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	I dithered about that until they were uncomfortable and I had to by TWO sizes smaller. Was good. Now they're straining at the seams but I'm back on the swim, apple wagon, and a few days on the Sundae diet (you didn't think she's staying here without earning her keep, did you ) will do me a lorra lrra good, too! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

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