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Trying To Think While Sitting Opposite A Fifteen Year Old Who Has Been Deprived Of Attention
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Trying To Think While Sitting Opposite A Fifteen Year Old Who Has Been Deprived Of Attention One would like to say that I have been off having a good time and doing lots of really amazing things: and I have to admit that there are one or two really interesting, fun things stuck in there to chat about if I can muster the energy. I mean there is my very first trip to an adult store that I undertook as part of my personal growth journey that should be explored. Soccer, of course, has been demanding a lot of time of late as my U16 girl’s team is undefeated and untied going into the Easter break: and that is without one of my star players who has just finished serving a three match<b> suspension </font></b>for a straight red card for a very (very very) bad tackle (she is a chip off the old block). I get my back for the next game. But with at least one game and two practices a week, spare time has been rather precious. And some of that valuable time has been spent working on a birthday present for _Safira which is looking more and more like it will be running late...... ********************************************************************************************************************************** Hold on a mo’, I need to put up my deflector shields: Junior Wingman #2 is sitting opposite me and she is, I think, telling me all about Escape The Fate and how they used to be screamo and then they fired the lead singer and got a new lead singer and now they sound more emo and do I like the first album better than the second because she really likes screamo album better than emo album but then again Craig is so hot so maybe she likes the second album better than the first album..... “I canna keep the shields up, Cap’n: I think it’s the dilithium crystals …….” ********************************************************************************************************************************** ...... and as I was saying before the interruption (my shields are currently holding and I just nod my head and say “that’s cool” every now and then) I have been slaving away on _Saf’s birthday present (one of several actually) and JW#2 is visiting, ostensibly, to help with the completion process: should she choose to shut up for just one moment. I have, in her words even, surrendered the TV remote in the forlorn hope that the soothing, narcotic effect of American mass media will quieten her. This will also, probably, cost me my dude license: “I’m sorry sir, but you have committed a Code 1 violation, surrender of a remote control to a female.” ********************************************************************************************************************************** We have a moment of silence: Max is singing from Devil Wears Prada. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I can affect repairs to the shields. Oh no, an Escape The Fate video: it is fueling her power of speech “and Max and Craig and Robert are just soooooooooooooo cute. But they are just so emo now and they used to be so screamo and I really just love screamo, don’t you, dad. Are you listening to me, dad? Are your shields up? “ ********************************************************************************************************************************** No, what is really taking lots of my energy these days is staying employed. We, that is the communal “we” at work, are in the process of losing another one hundred employees and, unfortunately, some of them are in my department. And, worse still, being as I am a planner and scheduler, I know who is going to be gone in my area long before anyone other than their supervisor since I have to figure out how the work is going to get done without that person. However, there was a sudden outbreak of common sense in shipping today and we were able to delay, if not outright cancel, the layoffs in our area. But I have already lost several good friends in this series of layoffs. (And yes, _Saf, I have my employee id stuck to my forehead right now.) And this is not necessarily a layoff of necessity. It is a layoff of convenience for my company. There is a pattern emerging as burned out supervisors, employees who have been working so long for the company that they have blown apart the wage scale and those that the current powers-that-be have a personal dislike for have all been given the call from the nurse that precedes a trip to HR to collect their final paycheck. This is a purge that would have Stalin wetting himself with glee: is there a gulag in Vancouver? Of course, I cannot be called by the nurse. Well actually I can, but nobody will be home. I never bothered to transfer my number or register a new number with the twITs. I will be like Milton in Office Space. “We corrected the problem; he will not be getting a paycheck any longer.” Ask _Safira, she knows all about my super-secret plan, I even still have the other person’s message on my phone. Of course, I am a “free range” employee and can be anywhere on the campus at any time. It’s the “battery” employees, all cooped up like veal calves, that are getting the call. Of course, that can change at any time. ********************************************************************************************************************************** Wait ‒ what is that ‒ do I like industrial vampire music? Cannot --- hold --- back --- the ---tide ----------------------------- I am drowning in nonsensical, non-stop -age girl babble. Please, if you have a shred of humanity, distract her with a chocolate bar........  |
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I'm calling the G-Man ... that badge needs to be stapled to your forehead, Sweets! (And send her to me. You know I'll distract her! Oh-ho ... NOW you're TRULY scared!) *love you* /  / *hugs* /  This is my blog - [blog _Safira]. There are many like it, but this one is mine. RECOMMENDED READING: A F F The Only Site For Me
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you're a strange, strange man...lol... ...and I like it  
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4/13/2009 3:13 pm |
lmao! I need shields for teenaged boy babble...and yes, they do babble... I am the QUEEN of tuning out chattering off-spring when I have more important things to think about...like whether or not my favorite cleaning supplies are on sale at Target... (got my fingers crossed for you that the nurse never finds you...)  "All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you." - Judith Crist, crack film critic
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