harbl encouragement thread

farmer high five

i'm going to take hunting "classes" next fall btw

i was supposed to begin a 2 week murder trial tomorrow but we got some new info on friday so i believe we will get a postponement and i am very excited to sleep a lot and go to the gym and maybe clean my house and make cookies. also best september weather in years. it's usually too hot. encouraged, for once.

― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, September 10, 2017 9:34 AM (five months ago)

time to face the music w/ this thing. i want it to be over.

No such thing as a plea bargain on work life balance grounds NB IANAL

i would love for that to happen but nope

best encouragement to you

i found a dress for you

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oh yes i love to wear dresses
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it's still not over. maybe wednesday. i'm trying to force myself not to work today but it's hard.

i finished it maybe i can resume having an abnormal but not extremely abnormal work-life balance

i did something really brave today and i just want to say i'm proud of myself

i am proud of you, too. you are wonderful.

i got this in my head and i can't get it out:

"working harb or harbly working"

hey lxy i haven't made lentils in forever but you reminded me i like them and i got some berbere from the ethiopian store and i am dead. real ethiopian lentils. i am sorry but they were better than lxy lentils.

errr

this is a fraught situation for any harbl encourager who is also a lxy lentil believer

harbs no

(enjoyably fraught)

lxy lentils were really good though

all lentils are bad

there, i've solved the fraughtness

Clearly you have not had my mujaddara.

leave my muja out of this

made more lentils yesterday

i made split pea soup last weekend

am going to make lentil loaf for TG dinner

how was this loaf

i'm applying for not one but two, maybe three jobs this weekend

congrats dude

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thanks, bros! i'm really excited. a new lease on life.

tomorrow is my last day at my old job

congratulations, harbl!! are they taking you out for leaving drinks?

yes, i didn't want to but you can't really not do that. it was ok. i'm going to the office today to clean up and move things out. it is mostly done already.

harbly, i hope you like your new job.

i feel like i can never leave my job because i've worked here for so long they'd never let me get away without some big do and it seems utterly excruciating. but on the other hand refusing a do would be scandalous? i don't know, this is the type of nonsense that worries me on a regular basis. "fortunately," i have a good number of years left to decide which approach i'll take.

you can totally refuse a do imo!

(would it then be a dont he wondered)

thank you for your encouragement, a leaving don't it is!

presumably you then *should* let the door hit you on the way out, idk

always the big do

don't go, buy the w/d

congrats harbs

not going. already re-budgeted my saved $273.

oh, l&j! the sweater i was starting at your house...i'm still cranking away at it but it's almost done! i may run out of yarn. by like 100 ft. oops!

two great pieces of news!

will you finish with a different yarn? an ongoing reminder of measure twice cut once?

well it turns out i may have exactly the right amount. or i will be like 1 ft short and will use my swatch. this is a mass produced kind so i could get more but they come in giant skeins that cost like $20. so i'd have to find a partial one on the internet.

please post pix. or come back wearing it.

i am in fact 2 ft short. working on it.

so my new job is looking to add a 4th supervisor. i have been there one month. i am crazy but not unstable and i think i would be a good supervisor. but if i apply and don't get it, will there be office politics problems? weirdness? it's only open to people already working there.

can you guarantee no office politics or weirdness under any circumstances

if not go for the option with more cash/holidays/lackeys imo

i spent years supervising part-time student staff, then full-time professional staff, then no staff, now part-time student staff and full-time professional staff. i am a good supervisor but i hate it and wish there had been a way for me to advance without becoming a supervisor again.

so, i am not a good person to ask.

yes this is also true managing people is horrible

i trust this has all been helpful obv