(rebooted)
evile: back. yay for computer stupidity!
SkyeDS: wb
evile: You know, I got a wild hair a couple months ago to go to RHPS.
Glad I allowed my instincts to guide me. I got a very strong feeling
someone I didn't want to see would be there if I went.
evile: Assumed that would be Xtal, since she's still friends with
Joanna, who is a die hard Rocky freak.
SkyeDS: nods
evile: I'm glad I do sometimes trust my irrational intuitions
evile: I am probably biased, but when I was a Rocky Regular the crowd
seemed a lot more attractive, interesting bunch of people than the
current ones.
SkyeDS: agreed
evile: And then when I went back around 90, they were all YOUNG. But
still very cute & interesting.
evile: The last time I went, I was so bored & disgusted, I left
before the movie was even halfway over.
evile: Then again, maybe it's just me. I get that way at faire some
days, too.
SkyeDS: music is like t hat
evile: I can see that, for a musician like you.
SkyeDS: lol I'm just an old fuddy duddy now
SkyeDS: although I can happily listen to just about anything
evile: I can put up with anything, but actually 'listen' to very
litte, music-wise (like radio & at clubs & such)
evile: another reason I like the internet radio so very much...there
is far less to tune out while I wait to hear something I really
like :)
SkyeDS: I am really liking launchcast
evile: me too.
evile: Helped me survive the superbowl blather around here yesterday,
since you weren't here :)
SkyeDS: yesterday was a bad day
SkyeDS: I am going to resign should another such occur
evile: Yucko. I'm sorry to hear that.
SkyeDS: I can make as much money (taxfree too) teaching riding
lessons as here
evile: Yeah, but then you run into the whole marketing/drumming up
clients hassle.
SkyeDS: got that solved
SkyeDS: someone is going to advertise for me
evile: cool :)
SkyeDS: for free even though I offered a discount
SkyeDS: that reminds me, I need to check out what lessons/riding
rentals run these days
SkyeDS: so I can undercut the market :)
evile: heh.
evile: It would be ideal to do what you like doing (and do anyway,
out at the parks) and actually get paid :)
SkyeDS: amen
SkyeDS: I could make 20 an hour tax free doing half hours for 10 ea
evile: *fingers crossed*
SkyeDS: which is about half of what others are charging
evile: That would be cool.
evile: My 1 attempt at teaching failed pretty miserably, so I
probably wouldn't try it again.
SkyeDS: I'm just not going to bill myself as something I'm not
SkyeDS: I'm good at teaching kids the basics. that's it.
SkyeDS: I don't rodeo, I don't do English.
evile: But a lot of kids need basics, so I'm sure you could find a
niche.
SkyeDS: even if they don't need lessons, just a rental for half an
hour for 10 is way cheap
evile: true.
evile: And then if you got a Travis co. pass or a McKinney Falls
pass, you could write it off as a business expense --'classroom
rental' for you & your students :)
SkyeDS: good idea!
evile: Figure the kids would want practice on a couple of different
trails/terrains.
SkyeDS: once I'm sure of them in a controlled situation, yes
evile: right. Not first thing, but as a 'field trip' or
a 'commencement exercise' or something.
SkyeDS: nobody wants to be bored riding
SkyeDS: and eventually, once the wonder of just being on a horse
wears off...
evile: yup. Plus you really do need different environments & riders
need to get confident about stuff--crossing water, climbing hills,
etc.
SkyeDS: that's true
SkyeDS: I can teach trail as a discipline
SkyeDS: and that would also give me time to do some trick training
SkyeDS: and I could buy an entire library of training books and write
it off
evile: sure. :)
SkyeDS: some free style dressage would be good for faires/events
evile: yup.
SkyeDS: http://www.amysponyrides.com/rides.htm
evile: Nice.
SkyeDS: I could undercut that quite comfortably
evile: sure.
evile: They're stripping & waxing the floors & we have to get
everything up off the floor. I can't even tell you how much it bugs
me to have my hard drive & boxes I'd stowed under the desk up on top.
egh. I do not do well when my environment gets changed.
SkyeDS: I believe you
SkyeDS: the move is what made this place unbearable
evile: Just little changes can be stressful.
SkyeDS: I have finally achieved an "Office Space" state of bliss
SkyeDS: so I really don't care, and will be perfectly happy when they
say leave
SkyeDS: "oh no, please don't throw me in that thar briar patch!"
evile: hee.
evile: That was just at the Drafthouse. Kinda sorry I missed it. But
it was downtown, at midnight. ech.
SkyeDS: when we were young and could exist on 4 hours sleep
evile: I was thinking more about the parking situation on a weekend
night at midnight, but you have a point there, too. I'd probably need
a nap before going to the midnight show of anything these days.
SkyeDS: I couldn't do it at all on a worknight
evile: oh, hells no.
evile: potty break - brb
evile: I guess I should look on the bright side of this floor-waxing
nonsense--it'll finally get swept under my desk. There are feral dust
creatures down there that have been here longer than I have.
SkyeDS: nods
evile: people keep complaining about sick building syndrome and they
keep telling us the building is fine...but I think there may be
somehting to the complaints.
SkyeDS: entirely possible
evile: I am OK unless I do something that stirs up the dust under my
desk or on the monitor/cubicle/etc. Then I get all the good allergy
symptoms.
SkyeDS: lovely
evile: Yeah. Theoretically we have people who come in and clean after
hours. They empty the trash, but that's about it. Every once in a
while I just get sick of the dust & dirt, clean & suffer the
consequences :P
evile: oh, egh. debate re: the death penalty.
SkyeDS: don't understand why people are more hyper over Janet's fake
tit than over the budget "conservative" Bush just passed.
SkyeDS: his track record to me looks like he's only a social
conservative, and a fiscal liberal
SkyeDS: and that is completely fucking assbackwards
SkyeDS: (to me anyway)
evile: When you're raised with a silver spoon up your nose, money
doesn't mean anything.
evile: I am not a big enough conspiracy nut to think that the Janet
boob hoo-ha was created to distract the public. But that plus CBS
refusal to air an anti-bush commercial does make me think a litte.
evile: I can't even imagine what it must be like to be able to look
at ANYTHING and say "I could buy that" But that's the way Bush's
entire life has been. Companies, cars, women, drugs, accolades,
college degrees, titles, homes, anything ANYTHING he has ever wanted
has been his for the $.
SkyeDS: must be nice
evile: He is a giant asshole cockroach. If having everything you
could ever want as soon as you want it makes you that way, forget it.
SkyeDS: "if the Gods wanted me to vote, they'd have given me
candidates!"
evile: But he just cannot relate to 90% of the US population because
of that. When people complain about no job or no money, he literally
can NOT relate to that at all. He is a total sociopath with no
empathy whatsoever.
evile: Sadly, the dems won't pull their heads out of their butts in
time, I don't think. The next election is gonna belong to W.
evile: Interestingly, I just read that 36% of the current deficit is
NOT due to the war or the economy, but to the tax breaks W gave
everyone (especially his rich friends)
evile: Oh well, you can do anything with numbers & percentages.
SkyeDS: can't remember whether it was Twain or Disraeli that
said "there are lies, damn lies, and statistics"
evile: too true :)
evile: Silly what people waste their moral outrage/energy on. A boob
isn't going to hurt anyone, whereas a few more stupid fiscal blunders
could bury this country
SkyeDS: nudity is more important than the budget doncha know
SkyeDS: "but it was a depiction of violence against women"
evile: Only if you stop to think how much she probably paid for that
boob.
SkyeDS: yes, well, I will teach my daughters that if they see
that/experience it, to beat the shit out of him
evile: Justin Timberlake should be locked up. First he deflowered
Whatsername the teen girl singer, now he's grabbin' on Miss Jackson.
SkyeDS: brittney spears
SkyeDS: who turned around and kissed Madonna to get back at him after
they broke up or some such (or so it's been said on news radio) why
it'snews is beyond me
evile: I wouldn't kiss Madonna on a bet.
evile: She was cute when she was doing her 'boy toy' thing, but now
she's just too hard & stringy looking. Plus she probably smokes & has
diseases they haven't named yet.
SkyeDS: lol
SkyeDS: she has a musical career to envy, but that's it to my pov
evile: yup.
evile: Mostly marketing.
evile: A lot of times I don't think it's about talent or even beauty,
but marketing & ambition. (neither of which are my forte,
incidentally )
SkyeDS: I don't think she's got beauty, I know I'm not in the
mainstream thinking that, but she's got talent, and marketing and
ambition to spare.
evile: Some talent, but by no means the best voice I've ever heard or
anything. And very weak in her first couple albums until she got some
actual training.
SkyeDS: nods
SkyeDS: she did have something worth training apparently
SkyeDS: that goes back to the nature v nurture / genetics v
environment thing that has always interested me so much
evile: yup.
evile: argh. One of the loudest & most talkative people in my unit
comes over and tells me the fricken life story of this particular
piece of paper and then gets all snippy when I attempt to shorten her
visit with humor. ergh.
evile: And I always enjoy the built-in implication that I fucked
something up...when in fact, there was no error.
SkyeDS: Sharon's favorite game seems to be to tell someone to do
something, jump on t hem when they do and then say "I did NOT tell
you to do that"
evile: that's pretty fucked up.
SkyeDS: and not a damn thing I can do about it either
SkyeDS: sineater suggested a micro recorder, but he damn well knows that
both Dell a nd IBM don't allow recording devices. That would be
instant dismissal.
SkyeDS: handler suggested a diary.
evile: a paper trail would be better than nothing.
SkyeDS: as I told handler, I am well aware that I am guilty without a
chance to prove myself innocent.
SkyeDS: everyone knows what's what, but nobody's going to stick their
necks out for me, I understand that.
evile: during my last days at IEC, I kept a minute-by-minute log of
absolutely everything that happened-phone calls, instructions from
supervisor, my actions in response, etc. And photocopied it and put
it on her desk every day.
evile: I process about 100 appeals a day. So it's really not
productive for someone to come wave a piece of paper in my face and
say "Do you remember this one?"...um,no. Not without looking him up
in the system or looking for documents on my desk in my various piles.
SkyeDS: I halfway suspect there will be a call from the handler long
bout 5 today
SkyeDS: about a half-foot tall pile of desk files that she told me to
recycle, and then upon finding out yesterday that she needed them
after all, blamed on me
evile: ugh.
SkyeDS: and every time she comes in here to find my computer on, she
throws a fit.
SkyeDS: I'm tired of pointing out that I'm running the clock and the
radio while I work.
evile: good lord.
SkyeDS: she came in, and for the dozenth time threw a fit about the
puter
evile: jeezus.
SkyeDS: and I said, I'm running the radio
SkyeDS: and she said, what's with the groklaw webpage loaded?
SkyeDS: and I said, well, I have that set as my homepage. I read it
first thing this morning while checking voice mail, and I haven't
looked at it since.
SkyeDS: having to explain that level of detail is just aggravating
evile: micromanagement is always pretty intolerable
SkyeDS: she's beginning to act pretty much like Jeanine Lehman did,
and I begin to wonder if most (not J-Law) women lawyers are like that
evile: could be.
evile: J-Law gets panicked, I would not want to work under her. She's a
good friend, but I could never work for her.
SkyeDS: Sweetie said I needed to work for a senior partner, and
preferably one who is a strong dominant alpha male (which I assume
would be part and parcel of being senior partner)
evile: that's interesting.
SkyeDS: and he said, I should never work for a woman
SkyeDS: he didn't explain
evile: hee. Probably true, considering your issues with your mother.
SkyeDS: don't know about that one way or the other
SkyeDS: but I know I don't like being micromanaged
SkyeDS: and I don't like having my integrity questioned
evile: yup.
SkyeDS: and this business of telling people to do something, them
doing it, and then getting onto them for following orders, that's
f'ing BS
SkyeDS: Sharon doesn't just do that to me either. I've seen her do
it to others too.
evile: Sucks to be them--they're probably permanent FT folks, unlike
you, who has a light at the end of the tunnel.
SkyeDS: I do have that light now, after last night, and that's no
doubt why my neck feels so much better, even though I'm out of muscle
relaxer, went off and left my remaining prescrip NSAID at home on
accident, and haven't applied the heating pad at all yet today
evile: mind over matter.
SkyeDS: came home yesterday in a world of pain, just like Friday,
despite the medicine
SkyeDS: got in the saddle and all the pain went away (I'm not
supposed to be in the saddle mind you)
evile: I'm sure you didn't overdo it--time with loved ones is always
healing.
SkyeDS: well you know Mirage has such gentle gaits, even a trot isn't
painful, and the lopes are easier than the trots
SkyeDS: nothing better for the inside of me than the outside of
Mirage.
evile: yup.
SkyeDS: people at my family reunion said it, even sineater's family said
it (when they weren't jumping on me), and two or three people at SCA
have said it
SkyeDS: I should teach children to ride.
SkyeDS: and the Lord Marshall's wife said she could find me several
clients immediately if I printed cards and gave them to her (I had
already intended to publish them in the bus card register of the
local newspaper)
evile: cool :) That would be really ideal.
SkyeDS: I have always let her kids ride for free, and said, that
should hardly change if you help me build a clientele
SkyeDS: but she insists on paying me if I start accepting money
SkyeDS: and didn't even want to hear about only paying halfprice
either
SkyeDS: beats all I've ever seen
evile: That's very cool.
SkyeDS: our SCA just is nothing, not a damn bit, like the Austin SCA
evile: Rockdale?
SkyeDS: nods
SkyeDS: they've practically adopted us, and they are a very happy
little family
evile: As with HFS, I'm sure each groups 'feel' depends on the
individuals involved.
SkyeDS: hopefully I won't muddy the waters like I managed to w/ both
Drandmir and BD
evile: You are giving yourself way too much credit for those screwed
up situations. I'd say it was more about 'them' than you.
SkyeDS: to an extent
SkyeDS: but I didn't help it by having a thin skin and other social
skill problems
evile: Live & learn. Which I think you have, yes?
SkyeDS: think so, time will tell
evile: good. That's all you can do
SkyeDS: met some of the Temple SCA, military pagans :)
SkyeDS: as long as I don't mess up irreparably with Katy or Thax, I
don't care so much about Drandmir anyway.
evile: yup.
evile: I'm not sure where things stand with me & Liz.Thax still seems
Ok with me, but I like Liz & I wanted us to be friends.
evile: She said she understood my POV (finally) re: the LJ entry that
made her un-friend me on LJ, but then she never re-added me to her
friend list. *shrug*
evile: It's not 100% but I'm trying harder to keep my LJ "what i am
doing" and also trying harder not to speak/type before I think. Much
improvement is still needed. My brand of honesty is unwelcome &
hurtful in most situations.
SkyeDS: looks faintly guilty of that myself
SkyeDS: next time I see Thax, I'll see if I can take him aside for a
second to see if we're ok
evile: He may just have other stress going on. Definitely a good idea
to ask before making an assumption
SkyeDS: with Liz being the way she is, it might not have anything to
do with me, why he's ramped down the harmless flirting
evile: The last couple times I've seen Liz, 1) she went to sleep and
2) she dropped off some people and drove away [I was assuming she was
going to park & get out herself, so I didn't run over to the car or
anything]--so I haven't had a chance to chat with her at all about
anything.
evile: Thax is just...flighty. Usually he just wants to go play &
doesn't have time to sit around gabbing. or at least that is the
impression I get.
SkyeDS: he doesn't flirt like he used to, and doesn't seem as
lighthearted somehow
evile: I guess I don't have enough experience to have a basis for
comparison. When I see him at craft day, he's task-focused, when I
see him at the park, he's game-focused. Any hugs before/after are
just incidental.
SkyeDS: he used to be an incorrigible (but delightful and harmless)
flirt in a big way, with a great sense of humor, and very
lighthearted and playful
evile: hm.
evile: Well, pretty much since I've known them Liz & Thax have had
job troubles, car troubles, money worries, and Liz's baby rabies...
so maybe I never knew him at his 'best'
SkyeDS: nods
evile: Nobody can be 'on' all the time. I know this from personal
experience in my "Legendary Evile" days. Ya hate to disappoint the
fans, but when it comes down to it, you're only human.
SkyeDS: lol it is hard to live up to a legend isn't it
SkyeDS: and the legendary me is much more interesting than the real
one
evile: My friend Donna has this trouble with her faire persona quite
a bit. It's a struggle.
SkyeDS: tis a good thing that it isn't a stretch for an Italian witch
to play a Romany.
evile: heh. true.
evile: they always say 'write what you know' which probably applies
to RPG and stuff just as much as novel writing.
SkyeDS: kind of wish I felt like I could spend the money on PHantom
of the Opera, it's coming soon
evile: That would be cool to see at least once.
SkyeDS: you don't see much of it when you're performing it in the
pit :-/
evile: true :)
evile: Well, dang, it's about time for me to make my rounds & get the
heck outta here.
SkyeDS: yep
evile: I'm going to try & get to skate night tonight & Poly dinner
tomorrow. Maybe see you?
Keep me posted about Excalibur :)
SkyeDS: I wanna go skating <sniff>
SkyeDS: we used to have a rink and a theater in Rockdale but don't
have anymore
evile: suck.
evile: You probably shouldn't risk it until you're better healed...
SkyeDS: not only that, need to start walking and strengthening the
ankles first
evile: yow.
evile: Well, my goal for Feb. is to hit skate night every Tues, if
you decide you want to come out.
SkyeDS: I can start doing weeknights in general when I am rid of the
IBM monkey on my back
SkyeDS: (ie, I will be working for Hugh during the day and not at
night0
evile: cool :) Keep me posted
SkyeDS: yes ma'am
SkyeDS: safe journey home
evile: Sorry, did that come out rudely?
SkyeDS: lol no
evile: Oh, okay then. I usually only get called ma'am when I'm being
wretchedly rude.
SkyeDS: it does lack something without the drawl
evile: heh.
SkyeDS: the drawl is needed to make it humorous, sorry
evile: Okay, no prob. Always better to ask than assume :)
evile: *hugs* Hang in there! See ya soon!
SkyeDS: ciao bella
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