snowleopard

have a cathartic whinge from time to time (read all 13 entries…)
I was going to 12 months ago

write my gratitude entry now, but I can’t think of anything much to say so instead I’m going to have a moan!

  • no cheers all bloody day! assuming I get some later they’ll probably all arrive when I want to go to bed
  • the horrible horrible woman who had a real go at me today about something ridiculous (the Slow Minion had put the wrong reference on something). I can totally see the horrible woman’s point of view and I sent her an email giving her the references that she needed but what got me what how she was so unnecessarily unpleasant about it. I ended up crying in the loos instead of huqing. Yeah, not good. Am feeling better now and nobody noticed, fortunately, but I really need to grow a thicker skin to cope with dreadful people like that
  • recycling not done
  • haven’t been to the gym for ages
  • have used up my Nano ending already and now have to bullshit for 14,000 words which is a challenge even for me! zonino!

Sorry. This is my cathartic whinge goal. I’ll try to be cheerier tomorrow.

In the meantime has anything good happened?

  • I was able to take the piss out of Min II who accidentally stole the DP’s cows-shagging mug – she didn’t realise it belonged to the DP. Nevertheless, a dreadful lapse of taste on the part of Min II as there were plenty of other mugs available. Actually come to think of it Min III unloaded the dishwasher and put the mugs in a different cupboard, so to be fair to Min II perhaps she thought the cows-shagging mug was the only mug available. This won’t stop me relentlessly teasing her about it…
  • I revised the whizzy spreadsheet twice for the chief exec and he was very pleased with it. World Domination beckons!
  • I’ve written 1500 words today already and it’s not 8.00 yet
  • Madam Ish is cheering me on and I can’t let her down ;)
  • the flat is clean and tidy (apart from the pile of recycling)

Nov 25, 2008, 12:00PM PST | 6 cheers


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Curlychaos SoapDragon is sending lots of love and support to Wren

No cheers here either

but have a sympathy grolw!! Argh, I hate people like that horried woman, even though she may have had a point that someone had made a mistake, she shouldn’t take it out on you in a rude manner! If she calls again, tell her you know a pack of extremly scary poodles who will not hesitate to defend you!
It’s hard not to let things like that get to you, ideally one should just forget the idiots the second they stop talking, but well, I let those sorts of things really get to me too.

Good thing about the clean apartment and spreadsheeds successes though! And of course the ongoing nano-success!

Nov 25, 2008, 12:25PM PST | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

snowleopard

I just got some!

you may possibly have been given one or two, carefully rationed ;)

Yes, she’s a total bitch actually (she once asked me “Why are there so many of you? What do you all do?” this is when there are 9 of us running a £100m charity) and I should forget all about it. If it hadn’t been on the phone obviously I’d have had no option to get out the EC but it’s good to know there’s a pack of uber-terrifying poodle wolves in Oslo to be called upon where necessary! ;)

Right. Nano beckons. We’re currently flattering Morten Harket and telling him how young he looks in an attempt to get him to put down his rocket launcher all plot ideas gratefully received at this point ;)

Nov 25, 2008, 12:29PM PST | Thread | Respond to this 4 cheers

Curlychaos SoapDragon is sending lots of love and support to Wren

You could

have the gang offer TWMMH some lovely instant diet cappuchino to confuse him, and when he’s trying to recover, they steal the rocket launcher (is it desktop size?) and run off, but morten comes to his senses and chase them and steal it back. Then you can have them chasing eachother around for about 2000 words before ending up in a nursing home, where an unfortunate incident occurs and then the desperate search for tea to cure the nursing home incident shock starts. ;)

Nov 25, 2008, 12:35PM PST | Thread | Respond to this 4 cheers

snowleopard

wow!

Great thinking! I already got the instant diet cappuccino in yesterday (it was a poor substitute for a trip to Madam Ish’s Espresso Bar) but that idea about the nursing home is completely brilliant, thanks for that!

Nov 25, 2008, 12:39PM PST | Respond to this 2 cheers

Zanna Campanula bookcart lady

what a cow

i’m trying to remember overly polite boilerplate sentences to fire back at nasty people, because in my experience (a) the overpoliteness sometimes takes the wind out of their sails and (b) i can’t possibly think of anything clever to say in such stressful situations, so need a boilerplate.

my standard reply to people who shout at me for no good reason now is something like: “thank you very much for the friendly comment.” (to be said with a smile and a wave, if possible, with no trace of irony.) it could do with some improvement, so any ideas welcome.

the standard german reply to a complaint (where the english would naturally apologise) is: “oh, that’s annoying!” i might start using that more, actually.

Nov 25, 2008, 01:11PM PST | Respond to this 3 cheers

Cloudberry is a highly skilled migrant.

crisp test?

wherein our hero(in)es order up an enormous selection of salty snacks of the world in order to undertake a thorough, blind taste test, and fall asleep from the effort, b/c the instant cappuccino doesn’t have quite the caffeine kick it should, and… and… Morten again? fit it in with what Stine just added?

I don’t know.

Nov 25, 2008, 01:27PM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer


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