The Sheila Variations

I'm pretty much planning on it becoming a tradition. I think last week, people demonstrated an undeniable need to just have some place where they can tell whomever to suck it, no matter how minor or stupid.

Totally. I am about to go out into the homeless-clogged streets again and I feel MUCH better about it already.

well, I added mine. Both my personal gripes and also a couple of more "global" ones.

you know, it's an awesome idea. Just having the ability to semi-anonymously lash out at people or things that have been riding your last nerve. I know it makes me feel better.

I'm actually kind of concerned at how much you seem to enjoy yourself on those threads, Ricki. ;)

hahahahaha.

Emily, it's because I'm such a nice person in daily life - and because I have no one I really feel comfortable griping to (no spouse, no boyfriend, and am not that comfortable unloading on friends or cow-orkers). So by Friday I'm kinda like the dam holding back the flood.

you actually perform an important public service for me. You allow me to go on smiling and nodding at the student who comes to my office and spends 20 minutes unloading her SoapOperaNet like life story on me by way of asking if she can have an extension on the homework. Otherwise, I'd want to throttle the little wench and ask her, "Didn't your mother ever tell you that unless you want to risk having a kid, you need to keep it in your pants? Much less with three different guys?!?" or other kinds of moralization that might make me feel better, but which are kind of too late to help said wench.

I'm with ya, ricki. Here at work I'm known as "the nice one" (I know! /Monica Gellar) but that's only because I repress.

I'm afraid that if I started venting IRL, after a day or two, I'd finally be drug off to the looney bin screeching thing like, "And then there's the gum chewing! THE GUM CHEWING!!!!!!!"

It's the strawberries, Lisa, not the gum chewing.

Sheila, Thank you for this site. It has made my day much better.

Hopefully it continues every Friday.

ricki - I know it's just a typo, but seriously - I cannot freakin' stop laughing - at the cow-orkers typo.

I KEEP hearing it phonetically - as though there are cows who ork ... and you don't feel comfortable sharing your gripes with them (uhm - because they're cows?) I know I'm such a dork, but seriously, I can't stop laughing!

I don't think it's a typo, Sheila.

Ricki, you need a blog. Seriously.

I have 3 people on my s-list. One is the person who wants me (meeeee ... why?) to match up asset numbers with equipment when they are closing us down so who cares, already - okay, I know they have to close the books but good lord. The list has like, "Temperature controller". Okay, that can apply to about 60 different things.

The other two are the Amazon used textbook sellers who sold my child teacher's editions that it's illegal for her to have on campus and who won't take the damn things back for more than a half-refund. I have bought used textbooks from Amazon for years and have never had that happen, they waited for her to order some. If I was within slapping distance I'd slap their damn heads off. Mess with my kid.

Okay, I'm all right.

Oh man I totally assumed it was a misplaced hyphen and normally I would NEVER point something like that out - but that one is just too good.

Cow-orkers.

I think it needs to enter into the public lexicon. I really do.

"Happy hour sucked. I was surrounded by cow-orkers." Etc.

actually, cow-orkers has been a usage for a long time in some usenet groups. I'm not innovating anything, just picking up on a bit of geekery floating around out there.

I'm sure it ORIGINATED as someone's typo, but cow-orkers is too good to let go...

That's one of the best on going threads of the Blog World.