Life's Mixed Bag

Yinello · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 3348

So Disney's Frozen is apparantly about Hans Andersen's Snow Queen. But the plot summary of that movie seems different from the fairy tale so I'm confused. It annoys me too because Snow Queen is an amazing fairytale that breaks traditional fairytale traditions with a sister who has to save her brother and a bandit daughter who helps her out.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:21 am Post subject:

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Mini J · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1184 Location: Vancouver, BC

Got my credit score report today:
+ Everything is R1 (or I1 or O1)
++ No evidence on there that my identity has ever been stolen!
- They have me listed as "unemployed" (and my "prior employment" as a retail job I had 11 years ago...)
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TIAB · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 719

+Met someone last night at a show
+She and I really hit it off, like the same music and even danced together(with others, in kind of a train...thing)
-I also met her boyfriend
+Her boyfriend is a great musician, and he and I played a few songs together

Overall positive, but it's hard not to feel a little disappointed since it's been a while since someone new actually sparked my interest.

Jinx · Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:33 pm Post subject:

Are you bigger than him?

Just saying . . . .
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CTrees · Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 3772

I just found out our program managers consider me to be in charge of my team. Not officially, unfortunately, but part of that may relate to the fact that all of us presently have job titles unrelated to our actual jobs. This business unit tends to do things like that, though - for example, there was my secret promotion a few months back, which gave me a big raise and changed my "official" (but never used aside from my paystub) title, but which I was forbidden from telling anyone about.

Why is this not in the pleasures thread, but with a minor caveat? Well, it means that I'm responsible for a woman we'll call S, who doesn't always take the course of action management appreciates. S also has seniority over me, and I don't have the official backing to *actually* be in charge of her. And apparently they've been considering me to be in charge for awhile. And I only found out about this because I had an unhappy program manager sitting at my desk complaining about her work, how I'm responsible for her work, and using a lot of terms like "illegal" and "fradulent."

Real mixed emotions about the whole thing, is what I'm saying.
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DeD CHiKn · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:16 am Post subject:

Hey, at least you got the raise to go with the promotion. They just altered our job description to include the work.

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Darqcyde · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:02 am Post subject:

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 19840 Location: under the bed

TIAB · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 719

So, no clear signs of MRSA any more, but still a fair amount of scar tissue. She suspects that she might have C. Diff now, but she's been taking probiotics the entire time and is still taking them which is probably helping if that is the case. Not much else to say on that, but we did apply for aid and are waiting for the determination on how much we will receive.

Also, I'm still employed as a temp, but all week I've been watching several people come in to be interviewed for the position I am currently filling. My boss is unable to tell me if I will even be interviewed because HR is making the call on who gets the interviews and they don't let him know names until the last minute. So on the one hand, I don't get any information about if/when I may be interviewed, but I at least get the information as to why I'm in the dark and that they are moving along in the process, as opposed to being completely in the dark.

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11274 Location: PDX

I'm running for student government.
It feels like high school all over again.
Except in high school we didn't have a $1 million budget.
Luckily, I'm just running for a position that represents students in the development of the curriculum (basically a lobbyist for students with the professors who decide how the program runs). No one should give me budget money.
I'm ambivalent enough that if I win I will feel useful and if I don't it will be a relief.

I want to make posters with pictures of me giving a thumbs up, written in sharpie, covered in glitter.
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Him · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 4275 Location: On edge

Yinello · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 3348

++ I'm back into writing and loving it.
- I'm torn between continuing my original fiction (which I like to call lunch break fantasy because they have short chapters which I write in my own lunch break) and starting a fanfiction because I have become obsessed with a fandom recently.
+- I know I'm doing it for fun, but original fiction kind of feels more mine... if that makes sense.
- I can't do both because my brain won't let me do that.
-- I kind of want to draw pictures for it too (not a comic but just loose panels to describe certain important moments) but I can't draw during my lunch break. I need to push myself to do it at home.
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