Bitching ahead

[itsallovernow]

First of all, Kinkos can bite my shiny metal ass. Thank you Bender for giving me the world's most appropriate Fuck You phrase.

Five different Kinkos. FIVE!!!!! Yesterday, I got up, tweaked my report, took it to Kinkos, which couldn't print it because there were no IT people on staff during the weekends and their printers were down.

I hared myself off to haphazardmethod's where I was only able to stay for a few minutes, but still had a lovely sandwich and got to wave at people as I ran out the door to go be a flower.

Ran from ballet rehearsal back along the 405 to Culver City to teach, then back across to Northridge to teach, then went to the Kinkos on Wilshire (no Quark. At all). The Kinkos on Vine (Quark, but the one Mac working would recognize the disk I gav it, or the next one). Back to the Kinkos on Sunset (where I'd been the night before, learned to turn my doc into a PDF, although since it was a demo version, when I gave it to the geniuses, it had a big DEMO over it), printed FINALLY, tried to make color copies, but couldn't because all of their color copiers where down!! Finally got the man behind the counter to print one double sided copy for me in color from the copy I'd printed (and the PDF that I made ate two of my blank pages. Any thoughts?) Starting time: 10:00 a.m. Finished=10:00 p.m. Of course, yes, that accounts for the rest of my day, but now I'm so frelling exhausted I can't focus.

The problem was that the client called me on Friday afternoon, at 5p.m. at home wanting the entire print run on Monday morning. Um, hello? First, free printing from my printer, and therefore, not bringing a document than I know still needs one more good proofing to him on the WEEKEND. Ain't gonna happen. So I was furious, and stressed, and grr. Still intensely pissed.

Came home to find M. playing Spider Solitaire on the computer, which he's been doing for four days. Not a problem. He doesn't have any money, so he didn't want to go get beer. Which is understandable. So I had tea and a cigarette (yeah, yeah - and if you think I'm not smoking this weekend you're crazy:) and played solitaire and read the paper, and yes, Bucky Katt did make it better.

Got up this morning to get to the client's by 8 a.m. and M. had purchased Budweiser sometime during the night, stacking it up like a fortress on the coffee table and was playing video games. He tells me to have a good day, and I just snarl at him. "Is this what's upsetting you?" He gestures to the fortress of beer cans. I sigh, shake my head, "No. Not really." And left him to it.

I'm overtired, overstressed, cranky and want to be able to enjoy this weekend with people I adore. I also have to go to the DMV at 8 a.m. on Friday morning to get the tags for my car. Got pulled over last night for expired registration. Because the cops driving up and down La Brea have nothing else they should be doing!! Argh, I know it's my fault, but honestly, why aren't they busting criminals instead of me!?!

What all of this means is that the novel has been abandoned until December. Sigh. I just can't keep up with the writing, and that makes me said, makes me feel like I've failed and I hate that. Hate giving up in defeat, but I can't squeeze the time out of the nonexistance of my current free time.

On better notes, crankygrrl receives her BA today!! Congratulations babe!

And rubberneck finished Little Acorns. Go, read, send feedback. It's an amazing piece of work, and I'm intensely proud of her.

Comments

[ropo.livejournal.com]

Are you gonna be in my neighborhood today? I didn't get enough thassalia yesterday. Although I did have a piece of that cake, and YUM.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee:) Sadly, I am in your neighborhood. (This is sad only because I have to teach until 9 pm and then need to go to the gym to counteract all of the sitting and driving from yesterday:( I agree, there was simply not enough ropo time, but I am already using the bookmark:) Thank you!

We need to figure out a time to have dinner or a drink! (And I'm almost always teaching over there on Monday nights, depending on what your schedule is like. After four hours of teenagers, a drink is always welcome).

Hee - and I'm very jealous about the cake.

[ropo.livejournal.com]

'Til 9pm without a dinner break? Who are these slavedrivers that you're teaching? Ugh!

on the other hand, I bet you were a bootiful flower yesterday.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - I was a very late flower:) Well, not as late as one might have guessed:)

Mondays are a bitch for me. Fortunately, my 7-9pm clients love me and give me platefulls of cookies and coffee:)

[ch1pper.livejournal.com]

Yes, Bender's words have changed us all. How I love that cranky drunk.

(((Thea)))

You will have fun this weekend, you will!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - Ah Bender and Blackjack and Hookers:) I looooove Bender:) And hee, I should have used my Bender Pimpmobile icon:)

Thanks honey. And I will have fun. Just gotta get there first:)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

i'm sending you comfort and empathy, no one should have to drive all over those highways and be pestered by annoying people to boot. *sigh*

and yeah, bender. i so love that quote- it fits so very many occaisions.*veg*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Thanks honey:) And hee, just saying Bite My Shiny Metal Ass makes me feel better:) Also, antiquing!

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

antiquing? ah...i could be a bad influence on you then. there are several large group stores within 5 miles of my house...and it's new hampshire prices.

i've lucked out over the years getting stuff from the arts & crafts movement...although i've been very good at avoiding clutter it can be hard to resist the lure of the store when it's so close to home. heh. *veg*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - not really antiquing (although I have a thing for old hats and hairpins). Just the word:)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

it's a good word. and old hairpins can be amazing...especially around the turn of the century...er, the last one. *g*

Sock Monkey!!!

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

*gives Thea a great big hug and pulls her down to the floor next to me at FBF's puppy pile party*

Dude, that sucks and not being able to write a novel in a month is Not. Failure. NaNoWriMo is fun but a lot of those people (I've decided -- total lack of empirical or statistical evidence alert) have jobs or school or time enough to spend a couple of hours a day just writing, which you and I and any number of people we know just don't due to work and other things. So: NO. BEATING. YOURSELF. UP.

I am totally ready and willing to devote myself to a private version of NaNoWriMo in December, if that'll help you get your novelistic yaya's out, hon. *hugsyou* You will have a good time this weekend. I will make sure of that. And think of the fun of taking Feldman and I to the DMV... *grin*

Re: Sock Monkey!!!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

My vision of you and Feldman and the DMV.

"Yes, this is normal. No, you cannot go wandering around on Hollywood and Vine by yourselves. Yes, that is a man. No, I realize that it's hard to tell, but the moustache is decidedly testosterone fueled. No, don't take the flyers from the insurance guy, it only encourages them. Yeah, I bet you could walk in those shoes, but I can't afford to take you to the hospital due to the lure of the stripper shoes. Yes, it amazes me too that all of these people have driver's licenses. And no, they can't actually read or speak English. Oooh, I wouldn't touch that. Or stand very close to it. Yes, please, please keep me from beating the DMV rep with the partitioning pole."

It will be an adventure:)

And thanks honey. I am taking you up on the private December version of NaNoWriMo:) And on the offer to be part of the puppy pile:)

And there is no doubt that I'm going to have a great time. I'm getting to see some of my favorite people in the world. How can that be bad:)

Re: Sock Monkey!!!

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

"Yes, this is normal. No, you cannot go wandering around on Hollywood and Vine by yourselves. Yes, that is a man. No, I realize that it's hard to tell, but the moustache is decidedly testosterone fueled. No, don't take the flyers from the insurance guy, it only encourages them. Yeah, I bet you could walk in those shoes, but I can't afford to take you to the hospital due to the lure of the stripper shoes. Yes, it amazes me too that all of these people have driver's licenses. And no, they can't actually read or speak English. Oooh, I wouldn't touch that. Or stand very close to it. Yes, please, please keep me from beating the DMV rep with the partitioning pole."

*rotflmao*

I can totally see that happening, especially, "no, you cannot go wandering around Hollywood and Vine by yourselves."

Yes, keeping the Toronto chick from accidentally getting herself killed in Big Bad LA will be an adventure within an adventure... *hee*

Re: Sock Monkey!!!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

The lure of the grime and the shiny make Hollywood very, very dangerous. And you will still think I'm kidding until we actually go to the DMV on Friday:)

Re: Sock Monkey!!!

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Hee. This will be fun. I'll be wearing my Hussy shirt and a black hockey shirt with a big red maple leaf on the front. NOBODY is gonna think I'm a tourist or anything, right?

And, yeah, all yours in December.

Re: Sock Monkey!!!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah!!

No worries, Hollywood is an adventure, tourist of not. Just promise me you won't lose the ability to cross the street at appropriate times like most tourists.

Re: Sock Monkey!!!

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

Dude, I do that now. It's every Beacher's constitutional right to cross the damn street any time they feel like it. *grin*

Seriously, though, I tend to get very cautious about traffic when I travel -- you never know if you've hit a town where pedestrians are considered sport...

Re: Sock Monkey!!!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Pedestrians are an oddity, and drivers don't always no how to react:)

[lomer.livejournal.com]

I hate Kinkos too! I had to get a copy of my headshot for my show and they gave me a DAY to do it. So I go to Kinkos to see if they'll do a photoquality copy... they say no, it's a professional photo therefore they can't copy it without a letter from the photographer saying its okay.

It's MY fucking headshot. Plus how do they know it's a professional photo? There's nothing there to say it's professional... but grr, they still refused.

So I'm all with you in the Kinkos hate.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we will rise up and defeat Kinkos!!

[scorpy808.livejournal.com]

Did ya ever see that Dave Chappel that spoofed Kinkos ... I laughed my ass off ... years ago I worked at Kinko's and I tell you it's all true! Kinko's blows.

and *squee* for Burbank!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee:) I don't want to hate them, and truthfully, the employees at at least two of them were really nice and as helpful as it was possible to be, but unfortunately, that wasn't terribly helpful.

And hee, love the Dave Chappelle skit.

Yeah Burbank.