May I just say...

[rolanni]

...that it is frelling cold out there? And that I have already been up and down the damn' hill twice, schlepping boxes? And no way I feel like going out there again, especially since my reward will be to drag fifteen pounds of green books (formerly blue books) uphill in the teeth of a minus five wind?

Why, no, I don't have a particularly good attitude. They can make me do it, but they can't make me smile while I do it.

*gets hat and gloves*

Comments

[mardott.livejournal.com]

At the very least, they should have a cup of hot cocoa waiting for you. And not that fake sugar stuff, either. REAL cocoa, made with dark chocolate and honest milk.

And maybe a splash of rum...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

REAL cocoa, made with dark chocolate and honest milk.

Ahhh...

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Sympathies. It's one of those days.

I get lots of requests to send out mass emails, so I skim the request and send them out. Unfortunately, buried in the text of this request was a note to please do not send it out until tomorrow or Monday. Which I completely missed and sent it today, trying to be on top of things and such. Fail.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Eep. Sympathies.

I keep telling myself that things will be better after the Christmas Crazies.

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Different, then, at least. There won't be all the candy and chocolate around my office to give us all sugar highs in the afternoons.

Hope you got some hot chocolate (or some other warming beverage) after your trip out.

So blue books aren't blue anymore?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Blue books are now green, to reflect Our Communities Commitment to Green Practices. They are, to be fair, made with recycled paper.

In the fall, I sent my long-suffering student worker down to the bookstore for "blue books," old habits dying hard, and she came back with the green ones, apologizing that they hadn't had any blue ones.

I told her I still say "icebox," too...

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Aw, you're not old enough to have had an ice box! Unless you lived out in the countryside, come to think of it. Me, I've always lived in towns and cities.

A friend grew up in Canada in a tiny hamlet, and it's as if that added 10-20 years to his age of what he knows compared to me from the LA 'burbs.

[srmpublisher.livejournal.com]

Actually, cities had ice boxes quite late, because they had ice house infrastructure. I lived in an apartment building where the iceman delivered to the second and third floor. Circa 1955 my father won a sales contest that brought in a refrigerator and a television set! My aunt had her round-headed refrigerator into the early 1960s, IIRC. This was the same area where the street arabs brought by fruit and veggies most of the year.

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Huh. This helps explain the differential between my friend and I. I don't think LA had ice boxes past the 40s. Certainly everyone I ever visited in the 50s had 'fridges.

[mardott.livejournal.com]

"she came back with the green ones, apologizing that they hadn't had any blue ones."

Now,that's funny.

I still say "icebox",too. Glad it's not just me...

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Is that not why they have student-employees?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it is the Pre-Exam Solemn Period of Scholarship, when the children by college policy may not work, so that they may better devote themselves to their parties studies.

[lagilman]

"I am not smiling. I am thinking how warm your blood will be when I rip your throat out..."

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

And which he so richly deserves. It's not, mind you, that we were out of exam books. There were 800 exam books in the closet. We were out of His! Preferred! Exam Books! and there was no way in mint-flavored hell he was gonna touch Those Other Things.

...yeah, still pissed.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

can you sled down on the box? That would be fun.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but walking back up? Not so much.

Cold outside..

[capricchio.livejournal.com]

You aren't fooling me. There's not a snowball's chance Rolanni is going to go back outside to sled downhill.
It is really freaking cold outside and windy too. And I live 'south'. The only amusement for my working day was watching our company's upper management stand outside in the 18 degree weather with the wind handing out frozen turkeys to the employees. :) Made me aspire to upper management.

Re: Cold outside..

[isabellag.livejournal.com]

I don't think you should refer to your upper management colleagues as 'frozen turkeys'. That's just not nice :-)

[painoarvokas.livejournal.com]

We've been having our first bout of Real Winter here, -20 to -25 degrees Celsius, in the last couple of days. Refreshing. Right now it's a nice mild winter, only -15 degrees Celsius :)

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I've got nothing against a nice, calm five degree Fahrenheit day. Yesterday's high was 9F/-12C, I think, but the killer was the wind, gusting up to 30 mph, giving us a windchill of -14F/-25C. That I do object to, though thank Ghu, I had found my scarf. Also, referencing the reason I was out walking in the weather, I just kind of object to ass-hattery, whenever.