Monday Morning Grievance: Left @ Work
Monday Morning Grievance: Holiday [Oxy]Morons
It’s Monday and I haven’t had my coffee.
Christmas Day behind us, New Years’ before us, crazies in full force.
One should stockpile all necessities by Dec 15 and only venture out when needed.
Drivers ignore speed limits, traffic signals, and signage.
Pedestrians refuse to look any direction.
Malls and Grocers descend into chaos.
I want to go home as soon as I reach the main road.
Home has its own problems.
Turn on the radio or TV, and a song, show, or movie will be proclaimed
an instant classic
a new tradition
That’s not how this works, people.
That’s not how any of this works.
I’d get you a dictionary for Christmas, but
(a) they’re expensive and
(b) I doubt you’d read it anyway.
And then there’s the family photographer, stealing a slice of our souls with every synthesized click of the button and telling us
ACT NATURAL!
Being natural, I make no apologies for
not smiling
not sitting up
not looking at the camera
not looking pleasant
not not blinking
If you wanted something else, you’re looking at the wrong person. But for you, I’ll do those things, knowing that the person in the photos is a pseudo-me, an impostor no better than Shopping Mall Santa.
Now I have a machine gun
ho ho ho
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Monday Morning Grievance: Time Change
It’s Monday and I haven’t had my coffee.
I’ve said it before: I dislike time changes.
Now I get to drive to work in the dark . . . and drive back in the dark, too.
Hello, Seasonal Affective Disorder! I missed you . . . not.
I wish I could write more [and I could] but NaNoWriMo beckons and I must obey.
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Monday Morning Grievance: Unexpected Library Fines
It’s Monday and I haven’t had my coffee.
Last Tuesday I went to the Library; Tuesday is my normal Library day. I returned my books and browsed the New Nonfiction shelf, where I found not one, not two, but three books on my TBR – needless to say, I added them to my stack. As it turned out, these were the only three books I desired to check out. Then, I went to the counter, handed the Librarian my card, and heard:
I’m sorry – you have an 80¢ fine on your card.
What? What book was over a week late? It’s impossible for several reasons:
I checked out all my books on the same day
I returned three books, and
the late fee is 10¢ per day, so
either one book was eight days late or
two books were four days late, but . . .
I checked the library cards that morning and they were stamped “Oct. 20”
So I asked the Librarian which book was late; she could not tell me. When I began to plead my case, she said
Sir, I don’t have the authority to clear your fine, but I can let you check out these books and you can pay your fine next time you come in.
I suppose at some point one has to take what one gets, but I’m still miffed about that 80¢.
I know I wasn’t late.
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Monday Morning Grievance: Convention Edition
It’s Monday and I haven’t had my coffee.
You might recall I spent a few days last week at a teacher’s convention. I kept a list of grievances:
- I forgot my toiletries bag at home; luckily, the front desk provided me with toothbrush, toothpaste, and comb.
- Water pressure from the shower head left so much to be desired.
- Vendors: thank you for the free stuff, but I have absolutely zero influence over the school’s budget and even less of my own money to spend. So, just give me your freebies and your handouts and let’s not waste our mutual time.
- Conference Center: no free wifi unless we’re registered guests of the attached hotel? Seriously, I checked your website out before leaving town and you claimed to provide a group access account for conventions/conferences. So, who’s lying – the organizers or you? My money is on you.
- Clickbait Workshops. At least two workshops I attended were nothing like the course description. One ostensibly covering the administrative side of our new standardized testing company could be summed up in one sentence: “Check the website and experiment for yourself.” Another touting an overview of “modern views” used information over ten years old. Modern my foot.
- Bad coffee. Seriously, you’re serving lukewarm brownish water at a teacher’s convention? You do realize we live on coffee, right? This is tantamount to depriving us of oxygen.
Given the list, you might think I had an awful time at the convention, but the opposite is true: I actually had quite an enjoyable time – in fact, taken as a whole, this may have been one of the most enjoyable conventions I’ve ever attended. However, it’s hard to overlook terrible coffee and abysmal wifi.
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Monday Morning Grievance: Schedule, Interrupted
It’s Monday and I haven’t had my coffee.
Despite keeping up with the blog during hurricane-like weather, I didn’t post anything the last few days.
No Free Write Friday
No Uncensored Saturday
I was going to write about gun control again, but I found myself baited into an online argument against an individual who lacked the skill set necessary for debate. Specifically, the individual lacked basic literacy and reading comprehension skills; at least, that was my conclusion based on his so-called “evidence”. After that, I needed to clear my head so I went and bought a banana pudding milkshake and binge-watched some Netflix.
No Sunday Snapshots
To be fair, you’ve already seen my photographs if you read the blog last Monday.
No Wicked Word Wednesday winner
This will be remedied around noon(ish) today
So, I’m just generally annoyed at my own tendency toward laziness after a somewhat strenuous week and with the prospect of a long weekend ahead of me.
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Running In My Head 