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snippets of life this week
Mar. 17th, 2010 01:50 pmI am unsure if i am content with my life at the moment, or just apathetic... either way I have no strong feelings either for or against the way things are... they just are, some are good, some aren't ideal, but that's just teh way things are... and listening to 80's music makes everything better :)
Work is ... yeah... we move to the new building in about a month or so, and my "manager" (hereafter known as Vinegar Tits) is going to be sharing the same office with us... we had to nominate where we want to sit last week and I've managed to swing it so I am at the opposite end of the office to her, the office is kind of long and narrow, so there are four desks all along one wall and I'm in one corner, then potplant, the other tammy, and vinegar tits in the corner near the door... but even so, I really don't think I'm going to be able to cope with her in the same room as me all day, even just the three days a week that she works... she was in our office this morning and just driving me NUTS, going through our reference file thingy on the desk and pulling stuff out coz "it's out of date, that shouldn't be there, why have you got this? why aren't there any dates on these? what is this for? why do you need that?" ... I was literally biting my tongue to stop from screaming "CAN YOU JUST FUCK OFF AND LEAVE THINGS ALONE?!?!?! DO YOUR OWN FREAKIN JOB AND LET US GET ON WITH OURS!!!!" ... my tongue hurts now... I'm not going to cope. She's taking two months leave from the end of April, thankfully... *twitch*
I had a call an hour or so ago from a guy I think is my second cousin... or third cousin... or something... so... Evil nanna had a brother, Jimmy, who had a son, Teddy, making him mum's cousin... and I think this guy I spoke to is Teddy's son... they used to have a dairy farm in Bega and I remember staying there when I was really young, and Uncle Teddy had three boys, all older than us... and I remember that uncle Teddy and his wife split up when I was a teenager, and they sold the farm and him and two of the boys moved back to Mudgee... and I don't know what happened since then... anyhow, this guy is the right age bracket, and the right surname (and right SPELLING of the surname), and he's just moved to Sydney from Mudgee... I really wanted to say to this guy on the phone "Are you Teddy's son? Do you remember Aunty Shar? I'm her daughter" but that would be inappropriate...
We were introduced to bar chords in guitar class this week... that's where one of your fingers holds down ALL the strings at a particular fret, and the other three hold positions lower down... it's REALLY HARD. I canNOT make my fingers do it, I think my hand is just not meant to bend that way... apparently it's non-negotiable though, there are some chords you just cannot play without using bar chords... sucky :( Also, I cannot change from G chord to C chord with anything approaching smoothness or swiftness... *sigh*
A few years ago I swung my arm sideways against a wall, very hard, in a fit of anger and frustration and self-harm, it turned black and blue all down the side of my hand and wrist and was swollen and sore, and ever since then the sensation down the side of my hand and in my pinky finger has been replaced with a kind of numb pins'n'needles feeling and motor control of my pinky is not so great... anyhow, it's my left hand, which is the one needed for making chords on guitars... and it's really making guitar learning a challenge for me... but it's not impossible and I'm kind of hopeful that the more I practice and put that finger and that hand to work it will get stronger and more dextrous... I like being able to play my guitar, even though I'm not very good at it yet...
Went and saw Alice in Wonderland last weekend... it's awesome!! I want to go again ... this time I want to get there early so we're not sitting in the front row, because front row for big screen 3D movies is really not ideal... by the end I had a bit of a headache from trying to focus and take it all in and keep my head tilted back ... but yeah, it's beautiful and colourful and magical and classic Tim Burton... and Cheshire Cat voiced by Alan Rickman is purrrrrfectly delicious :)
Work is ... yeah... we move to the new building in about a month or so, and my "manager" (hereafter known as Vinegar Tits) is going to be sharing the same office with us... we had to nominate where we want to sit last week and I've managed to swing it so I am at the opposite end of the office to her, the office is kind of long and narrow, so there are four desks all along one wall and I'm in one corner, then potplant, the other tammy, and vinegar tits in the corner near the door... but even so, I really don't think I'm going to be able to cope with her in the same room as me all day, even just the three days a week that she works... she was in our office this morning and just driving me NUTS, going through our reference file thingy on the desk and pulling stuff out coz "it's out of date, that shouldn't be there, why have you got this? why aren't there any dates on these? what is this for? why do you need that?" ... I was literally biting my tongue to stop from screaming "CAN YOU JUST FUCK OFF AND LEAVE THINGS ALONE?!?!?! DO YOUR OWN FREAKIN JOB AND LET US GET ON WITH OURS!!!!" ... my tongue hurts now... I'm not going to cope. She's taking two months leave from the end of April, thankfully... *twitch*
I had a call an hour or so ago from a guy I think is my second cousin... or third cousin... or something... so... Evil nanna had a brother, Jimmy, who had a son, Teddy, making him mum's cousin... and I think this guy I spoke to is Teddy's son... they used to have a dairy farm in Bega and I remember staying there when I was really young, and Uncle Teddy had three boys, all older than us... and I remember that uncle Teddy and his wife split up when I was a teenager, and they sold the farm and him and two of the boys moved back to Mudgee... and I don't know what happened since then... anyhow, this guy is the right age bracket, and the right surname (and right SPELLING of the surname), and he's just moved to Sydney from Mudgee... I really wanted to say to this guy on the phone "Are you Teddy's son? Do you remember Aunty Shar? I'm her daughter" but that would be inappropriate...
We were introduced to bar chords in guitar class this week... that's where one of your fingers holds down ALL the strings at a particular fret, and the other three hold positions lower down... it's REALLY HARD. I canNOT make my fingers do it, I think my hand is just not meant to bend that way... apparently it's non-negotiable though, there are some chords you just cannot play without using bar chords... sucky :( Also, I cannot change from G chord to C chord with anything approaching smoothness or swiftness... *sigh*
A few years ago I swung my arm sideways against a wall, very hard, in a fit of anger and frustration and self-harm, it turned black and blue all down the side of my hand and wrist and was swollen and sore, and ever since then the sensation down the side of my hand and in my pinky finger has been replaced with a kind of numb pins'n'needles feeling and motor control of my pinky is not so great... anyhow, it's my left hand, which is the one needed for making chords on guitars... and it's really making guitar learning a challenge for me... but it's not impossible and I'm kind of hopeful that the more I practice and put that finger and that hand to work it will get stronger and more dextrous... I like being able to play my guitar, even though I'm not very good at it yet...
Went and saw Alice in Wonderland last weekend... it's awesome!! I want to go again ... this time I want to get there early so we're not sitting in the front row, because front row for big screen 3D movies is really not ideal... by the end I had a bit of a headache from trying to focus and take it all in and keep my head tilted back ... but yeah, it's beautiful and colourful and magical and classic Tim Burton... and Cheshire Cat voiced by Alan Rickman is purrrrrfectly delicious :)
