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Jan. 8th, 2005 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxTo restate my last post: it's not that I hate Six Apart - far from it! It's that I don't like them as owners for LJ. I don't like ANYone new as owners for LJ. I don't like thinking of LJ as a commodity that people can use for profit, because I don't like user-unfriendly decisions that are often made when that's the motive. And I don't like that I can't reply to any of my posts on the news.lj.com thread! (The thread is full.) Someone left some really condescending comments, but that was the only disagreement I had. Anyone who asked if they could friend me - yeah, sure, of course.
Yesterday was indeed a bear at work. I was completely exhausted when I got home. I set up and cleared up a huge Italian lunch. I hate chafing dishes. I hate china. I apparently do not have The Gift of Hospitality (as my boss would put it). But I still like my workplace a lot. I realized that the goodness there is that, while there may be some petty power struggles that go on between lawyers (partners and associates, or secretaries and paralegals, or etc), they don't affect me. Nobody is playing mind games or power trips on me, or breathing down my neck all the time, or anything like that. It's awesome. It makes my work bearable. I have a great boss and lots of amenities, and nobody ever treats me like "just the temp." I will be happy to not be hauling around chafing dishes anymore, but I'll miss the place when I'm gone. I have started to make friends with co-workers... the assistant librarian and I are starting a knitting group, for example.
Going out with Tom tonight for the anniversary thing. My uncle and his gf The Dog Lady are here. Not really thrilled about this, as it was kind of a surprise (we were SUPPOSED to be dogsitting; now they're spending the night, and "need" the washer and dryer - which actually I need, to get my work clothes washed and ready for next week - and are going to be in the room across the hall from me, which means I feel uncomfortable about Tom staying over now). I guess T and I will go out for dinner and to see A Very Long Engagement or something like that. He wants to go to El Vaquero, but we allllways go there (comparatively), so I think I want to go to my fave Japanese place, or else to Cosi.
Yesterday was indeed a bear at work. I was completely exhausted when I got home. I set up and cleared up a huge Italian lunch. I hate chafing dishes. I hate china. I apparently do not have The Gift of Hospitality (as my boss would put it). But I still like my workplace a lot. I realized that the goodness there is that, while there may be some petty power struggles that go on between lawyers (partners and associates, or secretaries and paralegals, or etc), they don't affect me. Nobody is playing mind games or power trips on me, or breathing down my neck all the time, or anything like that. It's awesome. It makes my work bearable. I have a great boss and lots of amenities, and nobody ever treats me like "just the temp." I will be happy to not be hauling around chafing dishes anymore, but I'll miss the place when I'm gone. I have started to make friends with co-workers... the assistant librarian and I are starting a knitting group, for example.
Going out with Tom tonight for the anniversary thing. My uncle and his gf The Dog Lady are here. Not really thrilled about this, as it was kind of a surprise (we were SUPPOSED to be dogsitting; now they're spending the night, and "need" the washer and dryer - which actually I need, to get my work clothes washed and ready for next week - and are going to be in the room across the hall from me, which means I feel uncomfortable about Tom staying over now). I guess T and I will go out for dinner and to see A Very Long Engagement or something like that. He wants to go to El Vaquero, but we allllways go there (comparatively), so I think I want to go to my fave Japanese place, or else to Cosi.
