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Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:31 pm
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Cowboy called me in for my end of the year review. He asked if I had any questions, complimented my work and then we spent 25 minutes talking about where we wanted to take vacations. If this job has anything going for it, it would be that the supervisor on my half of the floor genuinely wants to be a good boss and solve problems. He suggested that my misdetermination could be mitigated and might not count against me in the long run. I suppose they have some discretionary power in assigning penalties for those things. So it's okay, and I'm mostly over the madness of yesterday.

Even though I've done a mad amount of work tonight, my mind wanders. I wonder what the evolutionary advantage is to intense pain and mood swings, amongst all the other side effects of ovulation and menstration. What gives there? I understand a little better these days why societies developed so many rituals to isolate women at that paticular point of the month. It's not really pretty. I never thought I suffered from much other than the physical pain, but I am beginning to think there must be something to the mood swings that is connected to the hormonal shift. Oh how that thought irritates me.

Never did I want to be a boy more than when I learned I had to bleed once a month, every month.

Contingent upon the schedules of friends, I am thinking about buying plane tickets for an April trip to New Jersey and New York.

I have to go to the DPS office again because they are idiots. Oh the joy. It's okay for the moment, because I'm listening to Concrete Blonde over and over, and it makes me more happy than sad. It's a good thing.

I don't have much interest in our d20 Modern campaign at the moment. I want to go back to playing my young sorceror. I have a stronger attachment to that character. Speaking of wizards, my Snape action figure is above my moniter and he holds a Happy Bunny sticker that reads "you suck big yime." Fear the Happy Bunny. He makes the office fun.

Does anyone remember a childrens/young adult book or series about dragons? In specific, dragons that got old and their claws grew soft, like butter. Some dragons dipped their buttery soft claws in steel to keep them sharp. I think the book, or at least one of them might have been called Dragon Pearl or something similar. Anyone? Bueller? I'm trying to find these for Alan, as they were the first books he sat down and read all the way through when he was a hyperactive child.

Date: 2004-02-03 10:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alainn-sorcha.livejournal.com
I love Happy Bunny.

At Hot Topic they sell little tins of mints and one says: "PoisonMints for Frends." I also enjoy the t-shirt that says, "Your anger makes me happy."

Date: 2004-02-03 11:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com
Bwahahaha. You know, my sister works at Hot Topic. I should get her to buy these things for me.

Date: 2004-02-03 10:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puella.livejournal.com
I've been skipping my period the last few months via skipping my placebo week, but I hate not having that not-pregnant assurance. You can't win either way. Menstruation is some sort of biological flaw as far as I can tell. The pain is INTENSE (not for me any more due to birth control). How could that be neccessary? There are no other bodily functions that involve pain. I did finally figure out (in my head anyway) why humans have periods so damn often though. Most animals are in heat much less often but they also have a lot more babies at a time than we do. We almost always have one baby at a time, so I guess we need lots of chances to get pregnant to make lots of babies. But I don't want lots of babies! Damn modern society and very un-modern bodies.

Date: 2004-02-03 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com
Foolish unmodern bodies! It is so frustrating. All I can figure is that the cramps are evil biological punishment for not being pregnant. Ack.

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Date: 2004-02-03 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puella.livejournal.com
The problem with that theory is that women often feel even *more* sick and awful when pregnant! So basically . . . . god hates us.

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Date: 2004-02-03 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com
We're doomed! *hides under the desk*

Date: 2004-02-03 10:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonqui.livejournal.com
*counts her fingers* Hmm...supposed to be getting period this week, but seeing as i've missed all the indicative signs, i don't think it's gonna happen. Atleast i know there's no way in hell i'm pregnant. Really, there have got to be much more likely candidates for imaculate conception...

April? *teasing* Missing my birthday? And i was gonna actually have a party this year... *pouts* :)

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Date: 2004-02-03 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonqui.livejournal.com
Then again, i have been moody and my back hurts...oh, wait, I'm always like that... heehee. :)

Date: 2004-02-03 11:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com
No immaculate conception in my circle of friends. I'm sorry. I just can't deal. :P

I'm not sure when we would be going yet. It's all still up in the air so to speak.

Date: 2004-02-03 10:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] delchi.livejournal.com
Which Concrete Blonde song ?

Date: 2004-02-03 11:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com
Pretty much the entire Bloodletting Album Kat sent to me.

Date: 2004-02-04 05:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a311renegade.livejournal.com
I just got Bloodletting at a used CD store not long ago.

Date: 2004-02-04 01:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com
It is a great album.

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