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 +Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 4:09 PM Well I feel like a terrible person. I haven't been this close to tears at work for a personal matter since the infamous e-mail fight with my sister-in-law of 2004. Chris, if you're reading this, please don't ask.I was talking to friend online and she was venting about things going on at work. Basically, she got screwed over with her salary for her new position. Apparently I wasn't empathizing, and was instead giving solutions and not being all that sympathetic because it's what I've come to expect from just being in the workforce. She asked me if I could once in my life be an understanding friend, and just listen to her vent. It was a slap in the face. I was angry at first, but then close to tears. Look back at the conversation, I really wasn't being understanding. Even though I know that the written word always sounds harsher than if you hear someone's voice, she had a point. I think it's time that I do some serious re-thinking of my attitude and how I come across to people. I know that I do have this persona of being a cold bitch, but I don't want that to affect how I relate to my friends. She might have been overreacting, and I might be as well to all this. I don't think I deserved the "once in your life" part of the comment, but maybe it will push me in a more positive direction to being more empathetic. +Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 10:18 AM The History Channel ran a special last night about the National Guard and Hurrican Katrina. Aside from the fact that it was nice to see something positive about the military's efforts in New Orleans, Shawn had cameos all throughout the special! I didn't recognize him a few times because he was so bald and covered in weaponry. It was incredible to see him and his fellow Guardsmen at work and to see what horrible conditions they were all in. Now I understand a little more why he said that Katrina was worse than his time in Afghanistan.+Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 9:09 PM Even though the astronomers of today have decided that Pluto is no longer a planet, I can't help but feel that poor Pluto has been ousted due to size discrimination. If it was the size of Jupiter, no one would be having this discussion. After talking to Jen a bit about, I came up with a new shirt for my cafepress store announcing that Pluto is still a planet to me. Go knock yourselves out. Oh, and buy one while you're there. ^_^+- 3:59 PM I'm feeling kind of bummed today.I was planning on going to Atlanta for AWA in September, but two trials have been scheduled for the Monday after... and both are specially set as #1 on the docket. Of course both can't go, but with the special settings and the age of both cases, one will definitely go. Well, can't say definite. But if they both don't go, I won't know until the week before. It will be too late then to buy plane tickets for $200. I made plans to go to Atlanta later in the year, to make up for it a little, but then Rin-chan calls me last night to tell me that she and Jules will be in Toonami panel for Cartoon Network at AWA. I would love to see them at the panel. They both keep talking all the time how they would make the panel better, and I'm dying to see them put their money where their mouth is. So I'm a little bummed about that. What I'm really bummed about is not going to Japan. Rin's little CN group goes to Japan every other year, and I was invited to go this year. We were going to go in October, but then real life descended upon various group members including myself, and none of us could go. For me, I started a new job and didn't have enough time accrued to take off a couple of weeks so soon after starting. I think that now the plan is to go next October. Even though I'm already planning on going to Greece for my 30th birthday, I could afford to go on both trips. And if both trips are only a week each, the time factor wouldn't be a problem either. However, if all goes well, I'll be starting school in January, and I probably won't be able to miss a week of class in the fall. Of course this doesn't mean that I'll never go to Japan with them or anyone else. I'm just bummed that I had been planning to go since last summer, and now it looks like it won't happen for a couple of more years. I know I know... poor little Keri can't go travel everywhere she wants to, boo hoo. Normally I wouldn't have so much traveling planned. I spent years hardly going anywhere. I guess it's just all the excitement of planning to make all these trips and then it's a huge let down when it doesn't work out. I have to remember that I'm still young, take a deep breath, and realize I will still go, just not right now. And who knows... things may work out after all. You never know with my job. +Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 3:20 PM Renea apparently cracks the whip for me to update my blog through Shawn whenever she calls him. So sorry that you've had to go a few days without me yammering on about nothing. Here goes another edition of blah blah blah...I have really gotten into this blog called Comics Curmudgeon, that uh, deconstructs newspaper comics. He has a very special affinity for the soap opera comics like Mary Worth and Apartment 3-G. He's got me even reading them. Mary Worth has been particularly interesting as of late. A reader found it so interesting that she started her own blog as Mary Worth herself blogging about the current comic's events. A rather entertaining read. This past weekend Shawn and I went tubing for the first time in three years. We've always meant to go, things just kept falling through. I was determined this year. I told him that I didn't care if it was just the two of us, we were going to go, dammit. We started to plan things out, got a hotel room in New Braunfels, told friends in the area that we would be in town, etc. And then of course it looks like Shawn will be going out of town. We cancel the room, everything. Then on Thursday Shawn can go. Thank God Carleigh and Trey offered us a place to stay with them, so we didn't have to worry about booking the hotel again. We drove down Friday night after work, stopped in Waco to have dinner with Severy and Keira at George's (El Nino baked potato goodness), and made it to Carleigh & Trey's in Austin by midnight. It was just the four of us for tubing, but we had a blast. We floated the river twice, for a grand total of six hours. In that time, we drank about a case of beer, I smacked my lower back on a rock (ugliest bruise since the rugby days), Shawn lost his sunglasses and his shirt, we watched New Braunfels cops chase down a guy who tried to fight someone else in the river, watched three people save a guy drowning, and none of us burned. I didn't burn thanks to packing my sunscreen in the cooler and Trey making me reapply it every 45 minutes. Shawn losing his sunglasses was rather funny. After the first tube chute on the river, there is a little waterfall, about a two-foot drop. I flat refused to do it. Trey called Carleigh and I babies for not wanting to do it. Shawn said, "See? It's no big deal!" and went over... and flipped his tube. Carleigh and I looked at each other, said "fuck that," and swam over to the side to take the tube chute down (where ironically, is where I smacked my back on the rock). Basically, good times were had by all, and it looks like making this an annual tradition that Carleigh and I talked about last year will actually happen. Oh and in other blah blah news, Bacon-kun continues to update my Irish dictionary with fun words like "gobsmacked" and "snog," both of which I've used a lot as of late. My new derogatory word is "ass-hat." It makes me laugh and clearly explains itself all at the same time. +Sunday, August 13, 2006 - 11:37 AM Finally got up the pictures from Aspen and Allison's wedding... now back to my essay for my school application.+Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 2:33 PM Shawn suggested this one to me, so here it goes. Kind of nails me on the head.
+Tuesday, August 08, 2006 - 10:25 AM This is a message for all sales reps.DO NOT STALK YOUR PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS!!!! As part of my job, I order medical records on the plaintiffs so we can get their entire medical history to understand their position and develop a defense strategy. At the last firm, there was this one sales rep for records services that would hop from records service to service and then contact me and another friend, begging for a meeting so she can market her new service. If we granted a meeting, she would call every few weeks and ask why we hadn't tried out the service yet. She'd stop by with M&Ms and Cracker Jack. Arti and I started hiding under our desks or in the bathroom if we heard she was in the office. When I left for a new office, I thought that the madness would stop. I only told the services I was using that I was leaving, and I didn't change my voicemail message to say that I was leaving or where I was going. Quite simply, if you didn't know, there was no need for you to. (Yes, I told clients and opposing counsel... I wasn't that heartless or unprofessional.) Since I've been here, I started to use another records service, just to try them out. Within weeks, my stalker joined that service. She came by to thank me for using them. Yeah, that's great. But you're the sales rep, and I already use them. Soooo, I shouldn't be talking to you anymore, right? Sigh. I got an e-mail from her asking me to go to lunch, and when I didn't respond, she sent me an e-card. Okay. Honey, you are not my friend. You might have become my friend if you weren't such an annoying stalker begging for me to use whatever service you decided to work for that month. And since you are hounding me with a service I already use, I'm tempted to stop using them because you annoy me so much. For the first time in my life, I really, really want to call a manager and complain about an employee. So to all sales reps, I know that they teach you to not take "no" for an answer and all that in Sales 101, but holy crap learn where the damn line is. +Monday, August 07, 2006 - 8:26 AM
Very cool. And very true. Science fiction sort of envelops fantasy in this genre, right? +Friday, August 04, 2006 - 8:44 AM Happy five years!! What's the secret of our success? He's been gone for half of it! Baddum ksssssh! +Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 8:42 AM I'm trying to remember when I stopped being fun. Nicole has been asking me to go see Section 8 (comedy group) with her the past three Tuesday nights and I haven't gone. The first couple of times were because Shawn was out of town, and it's hard to rush home to take care of the dogs and then leave them immediately to go out. I feel guilty. But Shawn is home now, and I didn't go last night because I realized that I get up very early in the morning, and going to a 9 p.m. comedy show was just too late to be out. The earliest I'd get back is midnight. I wouldn't get much sleep and I'd be very tired at work, possibly late, etc. When I realized why I wasn't going, it suddenly hit me that I've stopped being fun.Grad school wasn't that long ago, and I had to get up early for my job back then. And then I would have school at night and sometimes go out with friends. I remember when Christi and I would go tanning practically every night and then go hit the Taco Cabana and talk until two in the morning. I was able to haul my ass out of bed at 6 a.m. back then to go to work. Now, I'll go out on a Thursday night. Maybe. And I'll try to get home before 11. So when did I turn into all work and no play during the week? Is it because I own a zoo and have more responsibilities at home? Is it because I'm married? Is it the mark of getting closer to 30? Is my personality changing? I would try to change myself and force myself to go out when invited, but I find that I really, really like sleep. +Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 10:17 AM Have I ever mentioned how much trial stresses me out and disrupts simple scheduling in life? I know I have to Shawn. Countless times. He's as tired of that as he is of me complaining that he's always out of town. Well, he is!!I had three back-to-back trials scheduled recently. July 18th, July 31st, and August 7th. One settled and the other two were continued. One at the last minute and the August 7th one just five minutes ago. As soon as the final order came down, I bought my plane tickets to Houston for the weekend, so I could make my parents' 35th Wedding Anniversary shindig. (Normally I would drive, but they didn't want me driving alone since Shawn is going to be out of town. See! He is always out of town.) That was one pricey Southwest plane ticket. I'm about to have another similar situation pop up. Erin and I have a tradition that she comes to Dallas for A-kon and I go to Atlanta for AWA. AWA is in September. I had three trials scheduled in September. Yesterday, two were continued. One still remains, and of course, it's the one scheduled the Monday after AWA. It's an old case, and it does need to go, but I have a feeling that it will be continued. The question is, when? The week before? Three weeks before? The Friday before? It makes trying to buy a simple plane ticket complicated, not to mention, possibly more expensive. It's times like these that make me wonder which of us has the job of no fun: Shawn or me? |
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