That is a lot better, yes.
The talk has been set to tomorrow afternoon with both partners. Which is great. I did get a 20 minute brief talk which has settled most of the anxiety, but... sigh.
ETA: To be clear, the "this is great" bit? Yeah, that was sarcasm. I'm not gonna get a lot of sleep tonight.
@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Rinel That must be hell. I would be a catastrophe of anxiety in your shoes. Fingers crossed the boss realizes this added stress to the situation.
I'm going to tell him, but obviously it's not appropriate to do so in the conversation we'll be having soon. Still, it's definitely going to be a conversation we have later. It wasn't a big deal today outside of being very upsetting for me, but I have tons of appointments and things to do throughout the week. If I cancel one because I'm asked to pencil in my boss for an important phone call, I'd better damn well be getting a phone call.
ETA: Right now I'm letting the anger smolder before I shove it into a box for the call itself. Beats being terrified.
Triple post: To hell with this. The call got moved from between 3 and 4PM to 3PM to "after another phone call is finished" to "while my boss drives home."
I feel held hostage and I resent the hell out of this and it is taking all of my effort to make sure I don't bring up how pissed off I am about it until next week once everything is settled.
Do not make appointments with your employees that you break because they prove mildly inconvenient.
Well the meeting that was scheduled by my boss to be between 3-4 and then to be at 3 hasn't happened, and the boss didn't answer my call...
...great.
ETA: It's all good another emergency call happened and it wasn't related to me
That makes me feel a lot better, actually. Thank you. 
@saosmash said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Sounds to me like you need better mentoring if you were filing something for the first time ever and didn't have somebody on hand to talk to about the nitty gritty.
The person who knows filing best was busy and I decided that I could definitely handle it on my own (spoiler: I could not) and there was no need to bother her (spoiler: there was such a need).
@saosmash said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
today, i drove to the wrong courthouse, in the wrong city, for a hearing.
This is meant in the spirit of solidarity, not oneupsmanship.
Today I learned that in relation to the writ application I filed last week (my first time personally filing anything), I:
My boss is calling in an hour to discuss the event. I'm hoping I can put on my big girl pants and stop being a total wreck before then.
@Derp said in Privacy in gaming:
is a thankless scenario with little to no reward
You get to help people have fun!
ETA: I am the worst staff member ever
Fucking hell HBO is just hitting it out of the park after the disaster that was GoT. Between Chernobyl and Watchmen, they're putting out some of the best television I've ever seen.
Thankfully, I have pimples rarely. Unfortunately, the tradeoff is seborrheic dermatitis. I look like a zombie half the time, with my skin all sloughing off. 
Funny how all this class solidarity seems to be stomping downward...
Work related. Well, professionalism related. Well, related to my lack of professionalism.
If I post a comment on Facebook about how it's at best an ignorant look for attorneys to be claiming that they'd spend time in jail to erase their student debt (an unfortunately popular meme making the rounds these days), please do not try to defend the meme. Especially if you are a criminal defense attorney. Especially if you are a criminal defense attorney who I personally know to be lazy and unwilling to visit clients.
I WILL SAY IMPOLITIC THINGS
@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:
I believe this conversation has exhausted its usefulness. Thank you.
@Jeshin said in Favorite Wallpaper Collections?:
When you say manage your dual screens, what do you mean by manage? Also what is the name in case I too want a best of wallpaper thingy.
By manage I mean have single images spanning the screens, having two separate images at once, etc. It's https://www.displayfusion.com/ .
@tek said in The Work Thread:
Mythology: "Wait for Me" from Hadestown (Tony Award performance)
Current Events: "Why we Build the Wall" from Hadestown. Which was composed, IIRC, during the first term of the Obama presidency. Prescience in art! Blessed by Jayus, obviously.
Yeah, I mean... I'm not going the DIY route, but there is definitely a "you had one fucking job" going on right now.
Went in to the doctor's office on Friday to learn how to do subcutaneous injections. Nurse came in with the syringe and guided me through the process.
Went to go do it myself yesterday. Prescription says to do .07 mL. She did .7 mL. Call and leave message--.07 mL is crazy small anyway, so the label is probably wrong. But better to be sure, right?
GOOD FUCKING THING I CALLED. Nurse gave me literally ten times the estrogen dose I was supposed to receive. Thankfully estradiol valerate isn't really something you can OD on; people have regularly had ten times what she accidentally gave me with no ill effects.
Still... what the fuck? Avoiding this shit is why I've gone through the expensive route of getting a doctor instead of just DIYing it like so many trans people do.
Nurse told me that side effects might include "feeling emotional the next few days." Well that would explain why I was so depressed that I could barely get out of bed this weekend.
för helvete
I used to go to InterfaceLift, but it's turned into a repository of HDR-ruined hypersaturation. I have a program on my PC whose name I can't remember that I purchased to handle my dual monitor setup (it does that well, too), and it turns out that you can give it feeds of wallpapers to cycle through. So I set it to the most popular of various websites that I trust not to churn out images of scantily clad women draped over expensive cars.
Which isn't to say that I never get those pictures. I just get them sufficiently infrequently to make it manageable.
@magee101 said in TS - Danger zone:
@Rinel I don't think you'll be able to get a reasonable disccusion because @Tinuviel just doesn't like TS, is what I get from most of their quoted answers I see in this thread.
I don't TS either. I just don't find @Tinuviel 's arguments on the matter compelling.