The King is Dead…

Posted in Music on July 5, 2009 by Kat in NY

…Long Live the King.

Unexpected and yet not. Could you have pictured him an old man?

I think the saddest thing I have read about this (and there are many of them) is that the only reason he wanted to do the last tour was so his kids (born after things got weird and he became a punchline) could see him perform. To see what made their father great, before he became more famous for things other than his music.

Friday

Posted in Life on June 8, 2009 by Kat in NY

I’m tired of rain.

Was feeling anxious about the amount of people Scheria invited on Friday. Turns out I needn’t have worried – it was the few and the proud who actually turned up, only two of the four were current SW employees. Not sure how I should feel about that. Once I got drunk enough to forget why I was in a terrible mood, I had a lot of fun with the folks who stayed for games. I’m better at air hockey when people haven’t bought me shots though, I swear.

Reason for pre-party terrible mood: Had a cheery (seriously) conversation with my boss about my apparent pending demotion. Yeah. I’m apparently bad at my stupid, easy job.  Nearly thirty and still trying to figure out what I’m good at, if anything. I feel like the second I get my head up above the waves something always shoves me back underwater.

Not a great weekend.  And now it’s over and I get to do it all again.

Make Way For Gosslings

Posted in New York on June 7, 2009 by Kat in NY

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Alright so…

Posted in Life on May 16, 2009 by Kat in NY

This week sucked. To make up for it I went drinking with two of the coworkers who still like me.  It was fun – being drunk is fun. Unfortunately my brain was overriding my ability to have coherent conversation on the ride home with the need to pee.

(Pause in this story to laugh because thw cat fell off my desk. Hee.)

Under my extreme embarressment, I’ll focus on the fact that before I lost the ability to speak he called me a friend. And that’s pretty damn good.

Blargh

Posted in Life on April 22, 2009 by Kat in NY

Dramarama at work. Increasigly paranoid that I am going to get fired.

Have a case number for bankruptcy. Lawyer not optimistic.

Idol is boring this year.

Tired.

Yeah that’s all I got right now…

Not Much to Say Lately

Posted in Life on April 11, 2009 by Kat in NY

Disconcerted about the lawyer visit Tuesday.

The wheels seem to be coming off at work. 6 menus on the priority this week.

I know better than to be friends with boys with girlfriends.

About 5 minutes at a time is all I can handle at the moment.

The MTA

Posted in New York on March 27, 2009 by Kat in NY

Here is how the MTA cuts would affect   10305

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Service Type Name Change Time
Bus
S76
Service Eliminated
Weekends
Express Bus
X1
Service Reduction
Weekends
Express Bus
X10
Service Reduction
Weekends
Subway
R
Fewer Trains
Weekdays – 9 PM-Midnight
Subway
R
Fewer Trains
Weekends
Subway
R
Fewer Trains
2 AM-5 AM

13 dollar toll on the VN Bridge.

I am apparently never leaving my house again.

Dear Clothing Makers:

Posted in Life, New York on March 22, 2009 by Kat in NY

I have a waist people.  Swear to god. I tried on a shirt yesterday that was comically unflattering. Not only did I look pregnant, I looked about two weeks overdue.  I couldn’t even be upset about it because it crossed over into hilariously bad.

I want to go here, soon if I can’t muster up the energy today:

Re/Dress

And here on April 4th:

Fat Girl Flea Market

Buckle Your Seatbelts…

Posted in Life on March 17, 2009 by Kat in NY

This one is a doozy…

I had an hour long meeting about my attitude and the temperature of the department at large today. I was told I had been very critical and “biting” lately.  I was told to get over my repeated attempts to steer away from disaster re: the menu editor.  I was pumped for gossip about my coworkers.  How do I explain this? You are out of the loop because you are a terrible manger and everyone hates you.  I was also given a lecture about manager/underling relations.  I didn’t know having a conversation on the ride home was a problem, let alone any of her business.  Oh and then I got a gentle email reminding me that mental health services are covered by our insurance.  So many things were wrong with today I can’t even blog coherently about all the different ways this day was made out of fail

Here’s an excerpt from an email I sent another coworker, with some of the more personal details edited out:

Here are things that make me angry:

I want her salary for doing her job. She told me today I should just handle ALL the RDS stuff without her involvement. What does she do again?

Stop telling me I need to act on my own, and then invariably tell me I am wrong.

Stop asking me to gossip about my coworkers. If I think something is a problem, I def. bring it up of my own accord. Any conversation that occurs outside of 232 Madison, especially if I was drunk, is none of her business.

Either I help with staffing decisions or I dont. Dont demand I do what is very clearly your job (to me) and give you a half assed hours breakdown that plays with anyones employment, and then dismiss me when I tell you I have no use for a temp anymore. Her menus are steadily getting worse as her departure date nears.

She does not treat people equally. There are heroes and there are goats. Ive been on both sides of the line multiple times, and her moods seem to change with the tides.

We dont have a nap room

Sarah found the SeamlessWeb Gift Card page. Through google, she couldnt find it on the real page either. They are VISA gift cards fedex overnight shipping for one is 27 bucks. That takes balls.

The menu editor sucks and our IT department is ghetto and or largely incompetent. Want me to pretend otherwise? Youll probably have to start buying me Prozac.

So many things are wrong. I need a vacation.

Today

Posted in Life on March 13, 2009 by Kat in NY

Still hate my job and still on the verge of financial ruin, but today one nice thing happened, that while probably not very significant, made me be not miserable for the duration of the day.

It really takes so little to make me happy…