Turn the Rain on your Side

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:21:47 GMT

All right, so an RP advertising in a YGO community is all fine and peachy...but asking for applicants for the character of "Shizuka Katsuya" is just the most incredible stupidest and yet most amusing thing I've ever seen.

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:54:18 GMT

So bored... surfing the Intarwebz for pretty FFVII - AC and/or Kingdom Hearts icons. No news from HQ yet, and I'm preparing some paperwork for my lawyer. This is going to end before the end of the year or it'll literally kill me. I feel like I'm freezing up here, getting numbed and brain-dead, and I just want to leave this place. ~~So not wangsting about me never being able to find another job, I'll leave the emo-ing for another time~~

Is it weekend already?

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:52:17 GMT

You know that your company is going completely to shit when your most calm, collected and social-compassionate colleague just loses it and even raises his voice in discussion with his other colleagues.

Dear HQ, just fucking fire us all already instead of dragging us down in this stressed-out stinkhole with your complete asshat attitude and stupid policies.

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:59:14 GMT

I guess morale has sunk to a new low. With both our bosses out of the way (Boss #1 spends time out of the location here, and is often at our other location and hard to reach, and Boss #2 is on holiday), colleagues and coworkers are talking out loud right now, and spouting lots of frustration and annoyances. We're mostly annoyed with Boss #2 who has clearly neglected fighting for us; we're just like bait dangling on a hook, twisting and squirming in our death struggle, so to say. It's not exactly fair of me to refer to Boss #1 as Boss as he has withdrawn from managing the company over a year ago, but as he was my first boss and he's still some kind of part of the management, I keep refering to him as Boss #1, even though he has barely any influence on the matter.

In any case, people are dissatisfied, and one of my colleagues (who already is quite obnoxious and loudmouthed) suggested that we should all call for a strike or go home with a burn-out. I must admit that this situation isn't doing any good on my stress levels (I'm very tired and easily annoyed, though that all goes away when I'm in the comfort of my own home) but I'm dealing with it the best I can. Some time off sounds good to me, but I don't want to take off all my free days, especially because I don't know how everything is going to go, and I don't want to have time off and getting all relaxed, to jump back into this stressful situation again. I did hear from the obnoxious colleague that he was almost out of work himself (we're not allowed to take on any new projects) which made me kinda relieved, because I was under the impression that I was the only one with not much left to do. Well, HQ wants to kill us slowly and we're not allowed to take on new projects, so... I guess it's more Internetz browsing for the lot of us, but once again, it doesn't do morale any good.

I have been building up this case and printing out files and documents partaining to all of this, so in case of severance-by-law I stand a good chance. As a HRM, I know my rights -and duties-, and I don't mind a severance, as long as it goes with a hefty severance compensation, MUHAHAHAHHAHAAAA!!!! I mean... well, I want everything taken care of with more clarity for everyone, because now it's only "We wait for this decision" and "We wait for that decision". My colleagues are convinced that MicroSoft is going to suck major balls at the negotiations with the interested third party, and if that's so, if they screw up these negotiations and don't sell us, the road of severance with compensation pay is the only way they can take, ending up in costing them a LOT of money.

It's just not fun, and I wish, selfishly, that I was one of those people who eat less when confronted with stress. I only eat more, and worse, because I'm stressed. I have an appointment with the dietist next week, she's not going to be happy, and me neither. *shakes fist*

I think I'm going to take a crack at making lay-outs or icons pretty soon. I have so many journals now ^^ who are in dire need of any iconing/lay-outing that it might be fun trying to get up some graphic pretties as well. (Even though I'm dumb as an elephant when it comes to figure out the tables and HTML thingies. One day, I will learn, I swear!!!!)

I spend my free afternoon goofing around Kingdom Hearts II *soul is consumed by now, I lovelovelove Sora and Donald and Goofy and OMG, Organization XIII is TEH SECKS*, trying to get some more solved at my jigsaw puzzle (1000 pieces, and it's a comical drawn picture of an overcrowded airport. I love this kind of jigsaw puzzles, I have one of the same artist depicting a large banquet) and cuddling with my cats. I didn't want to spend my afternoon resting but I was too tired, so I caved in and was out like a light between five and seven. Stupid body.

There's a car on the parking lot exactly catching the sunlight in its windows, and shining directly into my eyes. Very annoying. /whine

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:12:00 GMT

Wah, fortunately it's no longer hot today, this weather is b0rked, I keep telling you. Yesterday we had up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, now it's easily 50 degrees Fahrenheit, it's that extreme. No wonder everyone is walking around with coughs and stuffed noses, this weather is far too strange to get accustomed to. It was hot yesterday in the bedroom even with a fan, so I didn't sleep that well. Hopefully I can catch up tonight :)

Not much to say at the moment, I'm hoping to get some fanfic out this week now that both my bosses are gone and it's reaaaallly quiet here at work. I'm wasting too much time going all over teh internetz and reading up on the most silliest of things. Too bad I don't have any Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro on my computer, otherwise I could try out stuff. When we got all the new computers at work, our system administrator didn't install it on mine because I don't need it (the other techs use it for cropping and fiddling with the satellite pictures, but I don't work with it at all), but it would've been nice if I HAD it. ^__~

I've been going through my old original fiction as of late. Some of it is truly heinous (I can spot the plot holes within five minutes, and I thought I was teh shit back then XD), I'm talking about ten-fifteen years ago, and even though I didn't write Mary Sues, some characters were modeled after what I thought I could be/how I could behave. I used to write about a female duo who solved murder cases in the world of popmusic, along the lines of 'the competition is murder', if you know what I mean. I have 58 parts of it (on small paper, by typewriter) and it's awesome to read it again, because it's silly and stupid and fun at the same time. One of the duo was a bass player, and she was kind of Mary Sue, because in that fictional world of popmusic she was the only one who could do that, she was pretty much smart-ass and pretty. Though she did catch some flak for her brusque behavior, and the other one had more compassion and empathy. The funniest thing is, that the bass guitar player was an American XDDDDDDD. *hides*

In any case, when I do pick up my original fiction again (and that's pretty soon I guess ^^), it's not going to be about them. I abandoned my thriller/murder stories a long time ago in favor of fantasy (dear me, I have also something about a private detective agency, that's more like a soap opera, and I thought I could get away with someone stealing a F-16, which is a fighter plane. Hello research?), and I think I'm going to concentrate on that. I have this idea that I haven't told many people about (besides for clarediva and apollymi) and maybe I'll bug them some more about feedback on it.

And I still want to write that YGO/CSI crossover. I already have a very vague plot about who's going to be the victim and whatnot, but it's on a backburner, first Red Dawn and other WIP's. I've been slacking on them enough as it is.

I want ice cream. Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough Ice Cream. *drooolz*

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:51:27 GMT

It's slow at work, so I e-mailed my YGO ficcu to myself so I can try to work on it, otherwise I'm never going to make it before the deadline. ^^;; Damn you procrastination!

Went swimming yesterday, and it annoys me that it's the second-to-last class. They're closing down for the summer holidays (we are in a special pool that keeps water heated to a certain degree) so that means 6-8 weeks no swimming for me. Well, I can always go for lap swimming, but I think I'm going to keep a few evenings to myself, I've been busy enough as it is. Besides I don't like lap swimming all that much - it bores me. It makes for good thinking about stories and fics, though. When you're just swimming around, you have all the time in the world to think :)

I hate feeling random pain, and now it's my ribs. I didn't fall, I didn't pull a muscle or whatever, it just hurts. Bah! Whenever I make a movement, I have to suck in my breath from the pain. What's wrong with me? Ever since that #!@#! diabetes was diagnosed, I've been in constant pain. Fortunately, not life-threatening pain or that it hindered my daily life, but constantly, continuously pain here and there. My leg. My fingers. My neck. Now my ribs, for whatever reason. I've never visited the doctor so often than ever since november '06 - I used to see a doctor once every two years, and only for a very stubborn cold or something; now I'm there every month to get something checked out. Fortunately my skin condition is over, but the medication left me with rather much TMI, so hopefully it gets out of my system soon again. It's like fighting fire with fire, and you never know where the next flames are going to rise.

Exercise class for me tonight as well, and I need to clean up around the house and fold my laundry. ^__~

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:59:48 GMT

So far nothing good on the Dell/DHL saga; I keep calling and calling people and customer services, but we're all turning around in a merry-go-round of who's to blame, what has happened, why this, how come that - I dun care. I'm not looking for someone to place the blame on, I want my sound system! T__T If I don't have it this weekend (and I'm not expecting to, grr), this will be my fourth weekend without sound, and I hate being on the desktop without sound. I can't play any of my games, or listen to any music while writing. *snarl*

I'm also very annoyed at traffic. At the crossroads which I need to take, they are going to renew the traffic lights, but the work would be done in the late hours, so that the rush hour was avoided and such. NOT, I was waiting for over seven minutes before a stupid police officer finally let us go. Of course, all other directions were allowed to drive three times before. Asshole. I swear, this country, as small as we are, is going to get completely stuck with traffic so that nobody can either move forward, or backward. I would consider public transportation if it hadn't been, you know, completely stripped of everything. I can still recall the time (god I'm old) that we had a bus going every hour to the train station, for example. Nowadays, you have to fall on your knees in gratitude if there's a bus going in the first place. Very frustrating, and it used to be so good - I know, because I used the bus for two years to get to my work (I didn't have a car/ driver's license yet), all without a problem, and I like being transported. I love driving, but I don't mind being driven either. ^__^

I think I have low tolerance for everything because I'm so pissed off at the work situation. If September 1st is the deadline, they sure as hell are doing nothing about it. Well, I don't mind being at home with an allowance for a month, but I prefer to have a job, one I can do well and have some spare time left to work on my writings and art and do nice things.

Dear me, but it's raining, raining, raining!

Thu, 17 May 2007 07:46:04 GMT

It's a national holiday today, and corporate HQ was as kind to give us the day off after that as well, so long weekend YAY! There's nothing more that I enjoy than paid time off, and get up lazily and have breakfast without hurrying, etc. I'm sitting here in my comfy pajamas - it would've been even more perfect if the sun were shining, but all right. :)

Going to work on my novellae this long weekend, hopefully I can get 2K in on the YGO one every day, and editing the hell out of the GW one. When it's August and the deadlines are met, I'm really going back to my WIP's and (try to) finish them. I have three nanowrimo novels that I wanted to turn into ficcus and I never got past the first chapter :). So, there's enough to do for me yet *happily ignores other challenges*.

I hear the ding of my oven, my bake-off bread is ready. Mmm, oven fresh, and nice and warm. ^___^

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:01:56 GMT

I really shouldn't forget about this journal ^____________^;;;

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:19:38 GMT

I'm in the mood to write some h4rdc0r3 YnM x YnB x YnY, but I better try to get things from the to do list done than getting distracted again with another writing project.

I edited my GW novella almost half way, soon I'll start on the other fic challenge and I've been personally invited to write for yet again another GW challenge. Eh, yay? ^^;