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[slemslempike]

Training course with non-restricted internet access! I read your entries. There were not nearly enough of them for my taste.

Anonymous comments, please. (They are enabled, and IP logging is never on in my journal anyway.) What's annoying you? How shit is work? What do you really want someone to get you for Christmas? Are you planning any exciting presents for someone else? General bitchiness, as ever, and perhaps a dash of schadenfreude?

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[(Anonymous)]

Yesterday I asked a neighbour to feed my cat for me while I am away next weekend. I never, ever thought I would be the kind of person who was on friendly enough terms with the neighbours for that sort of thing to occur. It's half nice, and half makes me uncomfortable in case it's an indicator of future COMING ROUND FOR TEA or EXCHANGING SEEDLINGS OVER THE FENCE. What horror.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Lordy. Perhaps you should keep some sort of nettle in reserve in case they offer you a seedling over the fence, you can throw it in their faces. Or build a higher fence. I hope you have a nice time being away next weekend.

[(Anonymous)]

I am scared of my house, and of being near my house, and of being away from my house. (OH WHO COULD I POSSIBLY BE?) Also these letters look strangely tall and thin.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Houses are very difficult beings. So temperamental. I give you lots of sympathy. How about having a tent in the living room of your house? Then you're just camping, in what happens to be a house, rather than inhabiting a house.

[(Anonymous)]

Strangely I have been considering setting up a camp bed in the living room. I'm not so scared of the living room.

[(Anonymous)]

Yay for total Internet! Training courses are usually far too slow, anyway, so the least they can do is let you use the Internet while you're waiting for them to catch up.

Christmas is too far away to think about, yet. But I am planning a graduation present for someone!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Usually the training courses are talking round desks. Some of them aren't too bad! But this was was a bit dire. I had flexi to use, so I left shortly after three.

That's nice of you! My graduation present equivalent was money from my parents to go to the US last new year. (My family doesn't do rewards for completing/doing well in someting, but for taking part. So I got a present for attempting a PhD, rather than after my viva.

[(Anonymous)]

I am about to go into a meeting with a member of my team who I strongly suspect wants to hand in her notice. Awkwardness! Will report back afterwards.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Lordy! How did it go?

[(Anonymous)]

I get very few comments on my journal these days, which is obviously no-one's fault bar mine and all the other social networking options out there, but it makes me sad. And there's no way to express that without sounding needy and awful and entitled.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It is very weird. I don't like not talking to people as much as I used to, and I miss comments, and like you say you can't say so without sounding really needy. I don't think you sound needy in this comment though!

[(Anonymous)]

I had to move desks a couple of weeks ago and the people I now sit between never talk.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

BOO. There is a really chatty cluster in my division, and I sit on a small block a bit further away. It is nice being a bit isolated, but I am sometimes jealous.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a friend who I've met a couple of times in real life but mostly know through LJ and DW. A few days ago a debate blew up in in an DW community we're both on, about a sensitive subject, and she expressed and then repeatedly defended an opinion that was on a par with 'Well, I think we should consider the feelings of people who are deeply hurt by the thought of same-sex marriage' or 'But what about white people who are accused of being racist - isn't that just as hurtful as having someone be racist to you? What we should really be discussing is how POC can be more careful with their language.'

I should probably say something about it and try to save the friendship, but I feel attacked and bewildered because it was so unexpected. Advise me, wise slemslempike?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Dude, I have no idea. That is tough. I am very not wise, and I don't really know what to say.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry for dumping that on you. I worked out how to take her off my 'default view' and now at least I don't have to keep seeing her posts. I know she's having a hard time, but all I want to comment is "I wish you'd told me you were a bigot two years ago."

Guh. Sorry. Sorry.

[(Anonymous)]

My new boyfriend is AMAZING. Also I got paid today unexpectedly (well, I expected it on Friday, not sooner) and the Council put some money into my account, so I'm taking my amazing boyfriend out to dinner. You should meet him sometime. And given that we live in a village, you almost certainly will. Yeah, this is so anonymous.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a huge crush on someone at work with a girlfriend and a baby. I keep telling myself that I can look but not touch, but I'd totally touch if he seemed amenable. I'm evil.

[(Anonymous)]

Work is depressing because most people don't know whether they're still going to have a job after 31/03/11. Apart from the people who know they're not going to have one. And me, because I don't know whether I'll still have a job after 31/12/10. I'm hoping they tell me before Christmas.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That is pretty shitty. I hope you get to find out before Christmas too.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes it feels like everything is terrible, but not always. I just need to find something to hang on to while I wait for the waves to die down.

BAH.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Dude, I hope you find an amusing and firm novelty lilo, possibly with a hole to put a drink in, that is TETHERED to the ground so that you don't get swept out to sea.

[(Anonymous)]

I know it will happen when I'm ready, but shit, I really want to be in a relationship right now. I don't particularly want the scary negotiation of I-like-you-do-you-like-me and oh-god-you-make-my-heart-flutter-in-a-not-entirely-pleasant-way bits, but I want the comfort and the companionship. A lot.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. I was about to hope you find it soon, but maybe it's more appropriate to hope that you find yourself ready when you're in a good space. And that it ends up being with someone who is also in a good space and not a FUCKWIT.