me: are you the only one wearing a uniform these days?
paul: practically.
paul: i liked james' shirt yesterday.
paul: it said green day and it had the military on it.
paul: do you even know what green day is?
me: a band.
paul: [silence]
me. was i not supposed to know that?
can i just say that whoever invented "reply to all" SHOULD BE TAKEN OUTSIDE AND SHOT?
what passes for strength of will and strong convictions might actually be apathy or inertia (or forgetfulness).
for example, you should see the looks i get when i tell people that my decade-plus commitment to meatless eating was initially fueled by curiosity and then continued out of habit.
certain people at work are taking an interest in my welfare and are expressing concern about my late hours. amazing.
my almost 2-year-old daughter loves shoes and identifies herself as "baby."
funny how she's already a stereotypical filipina.
i am a little alarmed to discover that the federal "age discrimination in employment act" protects employees 40 years and older from harassment and discrimination. um, how am i just five scant years away from being a protected group based on AGE? should i start touching up my gray?
cam, paul, nola and i have been sick for what feels like years.
paul has been in and out of school. cam has spent quite a few days working from home. (my mother guilted me for going to work while nola was ill.)
everyone coughs, snuffles and swallows painfully.
i had pinkeye!
these past few days have been particularly galling because cam and i seem to have gotten worse (although it's been okay today) instead of better. i'm losing my voice for the second time in two weeks, and the illness is completely different from what it was then. nose, please stop dripping.
must we run through the entire gamut of potential colds/flu before this winter is over?
speaking of "questionable," why on earth would nordstrom consider a sandal with a lucite heel a good "wear to work" option? it may be a "chunky" lucite heel, but lucite is still lucite. a "stripper with poor balance" shoe doesn't strike me as properly business casual.
am in the middle of completing a mandatory workplace harassment prevention training seminar (online, thankfully) for work. i'm learning that i'm pretty trigger-happy when it comes to defining harassment. yikes. i need to remember that not everything can be labeled appropriate or inappropriate from the get-go -- "questionable" is a valid categorization.
