Yanno?

[rolanni]

. . .I may not be cut out to be a secretary.

cue laugh track

Also, the odor of carpet glue wafting up from the ground floor is...unfortunate. I've got a headache and I'm two floors up. Ghod knows how the guys who are installing the stuff are coping. Nose-plugs, maybe?

Today, we have sun! on the outside, which is unexpected, but appreciated. No snow in the forecast for the next several days. autopope! Send us our winter back!

In other news, an interesting article about the old neighborhood (and thanks to Steve for the pointer).

Comments

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Having been one in a university myself, that might mean you fit right in. But I do know what you mean. Best of luck!

[tammy-g.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Many years and two bosses ago, I filled in for my boss's secretary while she had surgery (I'm a lab tech at a university). My second day, I disconnected the dean. Oops!

Re: "old neighborhood"

[murphy73.livejournal.com]

It's like reading about a death in a family when you read something like that.

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to comment that I wouldn't mind sending you OUR weather. Record and near-record lows all this week and into next week. Freezes, emergency proclamations by the governor, massive covering of plants and news reports of agriculture / citrus crop damage. (Strawberries are probably going to be expensive this year!)

But then I checked your weather..... Some of your HIGHs are in the vicinity of our lows.

I guess it is all in the eye of the beholder.

Susan
Orlando, FL

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd been reading in another friend's blog about how it was cold in Florida.

I didn't laugh. Well. I didn't laugh a lot.

[(Anonymous)]

For your laughing enjoyment:

www.wesh.com/slideshow/weather/22171586/detail.html

Even the international airport is having difficulty. We don't have any deicing equipment. So they have to find a sunny spot to park the planes to melt the ice.

Also, on the same page is a link to a construction update / peek at "Harry Potter World" for those interested.

Susan
Orlando, FL

[(Anonymous)]

We could do with a couple good 9 degree (F) days in a row -- right now the ice isn't thick enough fir the snow mobilers or ice fishermen... Steve, writing hastily for the office back-up machine

Starting to wish for snow

[(Anonymous)]

Yanno, if it would snow, it would warm up. Like maybe just above freezing. I'd like that.

Re: old bookshops --- I missed the Peabody by 3 years but it sounds like a fabulous place I would have enjoyed. I was just chatting with a fella last week who worked at Louie's Bookstore.
Sigh. We definitely miss Louie's. Great brunches and desserts and
the most eclectic (read WEIRD) selection. Double-sigh.

I'm sorry about the secretary thing - it's a drag to be stuck in a
job you neither like nor are suited for. The thing is, if you got
a job you'd love, would still have the energy to write fiction? Or
would your creative energies get sucked up by being creative on
the job?

Lauretta (Constellation Books)

Re: Starting to wish for snow

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The Peabody was...definitely strange, and perhaps an acquired taste. I was only there a few times myself, but I lived in the neighborhood and it was a neighbor...

I'm sorry about the secretary thing - it's a drag to be stuck in a job you neither like nor are suited for. The thing is, if you got a job you'd love, would still have the energy to write fiction? Or would your creative energies get sucked up by being creative on
the job?

Well, I had a job I loved, but I had to go to part-time so we could have health insurance. I would say "food," but at the time I went "back to work" as the saying is, the Fledgling serialization was feeding us, the cats, and paying the mortgage. No wonder I'm so fond of Theo...

I'm actually quite a good secretary, from a skills-and-efficiency point of view. Where I fall down is in the Tolerance for Asshattery category. There really is a finite and very low limit to how much Stupid I can take until something gives.

Apparently, to be a really successful secretary, I'd have to be far more willing delighted with the prospect of doing the same thing eight times over as a result of a system that is obviously broken. Also, it would help if I could really find a way to enjoy being talked down to.

Re: Starting to wish for snow

[(Anonymous)]

Oops, did NOT mean to imply the writing was Not A Real Job.
It IS a Real Job.

And you're right - being a secretary = a high tolerance for
systemic stupidity. Been there, done that, found a new job PDQ.
:/
Lauretta

Re: Starting to wish for snow

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

did NOT mean to imply the writing was Not A Real Job.

You didn't. One of my new co-workers, when I first stared the day-job, asked me why I had decided to go back to work. I started laughing and couldn't stop for...rather too long. Unnerved her, I think.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

I'd send you the snow and cold if I could!!

[baggette.livejournal.com]

The carpet guys LIKE that smell; it keeps them high enough that they don't care they they are manual laborers.

Ass-hattery, indeed. A secretary must lmost develop and appetite for such things. That's why so many (But certainly not ALL ) of us devolve into gossippy old biddies.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

may not be cut out to be a secretary

You think?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Oh, now you're just trying to make me feel better.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Might you be suggesting some deficiencies in my bedside manners?

:-)

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I love that thing you do with your eyebrows...

Serge, are you and Sue going to NASFiC? Or making the trek to Melbourne?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I see that you've heard of my other profession, eh?

As for cons... No Melbourne, but we have our NASFiC memberships so we should be going, barring financial surprises, or complications with the replacement of Sue's knee-replacement in mid-April. Also, I have no idea what's going on with NASFiC. Their site hasn't been update since the last day of last year's worldcon.

[ingrid44.livejournal.com]

Be carefull what you ask for - New York is expecting snow tonight and into tomorrow. Did you see England? Poor things - 16 inchs I believe, and they really, really are NOT good at coping.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. But New York knows, at least better than, say, Scotland, what to do with snow. And certainly Maine does. Our snow movers are languishing for lack of anything to move! So, tragic.

The SNOWMEN...

[swedishsis.livejournal.com]

Can't we consolidate the snow movers to regional areas that *need* them? Kind of like what they do with volunteer firefighters when a massive fire flares out of control? 'xcept with less you know flames?