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It was pretending to not let my comments on other people's posts go through, so I began writing this whole long post which was a collection of all the comments I've tried to make the past 2 days. Now I've just found out that some of the comments I attempted to make which looked like they didn't go through actually did, so I'm going to look foolish. But oh well... It has made me realize how much of my LJ time is actually spent responding to other people. Which I think is good, actually. I'd rather be responding to other people than rambling on about myself.
Some of the stuff I wrote before I realized some of my comments actually WERE going through....
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camwyn is working on a story about a Canadian animagus which I just wanted to tell her is very cool. I suppose someone might feel he's overly ugly and peculiar, but I have a fondness for ugly.:) I only wish she wan't going to send him to England. Keep him in Canada!
rowantree is going through a hard time with a co-worker - the sort of thing I'm lucky to not have experienced to quite that extent, but I can understand the situation. Grr, what an obnoxious bitch the co-worker is, and I just wanted to offer *hugs!*
Oh, wait, this comment of mine did go through. But I liked the whole thread, so I'll reference it anyway... In comments on her post "Superheroes are my heroes,"afrai longed for a Chinese geek superhero would would eat ramen and play chess, and later for Jackie Chan to be a superhero, so I suggested she make her own Jackie Chan inspired superhero.:) When I was a kid my best friend and I used to sit around and draw after school, usually while watching "Star Blazers" and such, and we did a lot of superhero pictures. He did backgrounds and machines, and I did humans, but he got pretty good at doing muscle-bound guys, too. Sometimes we'd even try to do little comics, but I sucked at plot and follow through just as much then as I do now. (And now he's a lawyer for the EPA, and I'm a stupid baggage screener, so I guess my follow through still needs work.)
And some work rantings....
I mentioned to someone at work that I wish there was an online community where I could talk with screeners at other airports, and she said she heard there had been one, but TSA shut it down because people were giving out SSI (which is supposed to stand for something like Secured Secret Information, but we always joke it's Super Secret Information). Which is just dumb. I mean, why were people so stupid? They had to know it would get shut down if they posted SSI. The point of having a community would be to compare management styles at different airports. Which our managers would probably rather we didn't.
One of our managers recently went through the Manchester (New Hampshire) airport and informed us all that we look much more professional and better groomed. He went on about how their shirts were not ironed and he saw a male screener out on his break who's hair was down to his waist (contra uniform code - hair has to be tied up so it doesn't extend further than 2 inches below the top of the collar). This manager especially harped on the fact that they don't wear ties at Manchester. Because we have repeatedly asked to be allowed to dispense with the ties. It gets quite hot sometimes, and the collars are quite constrictive, so when you're hauling bags it only makes sense. We're told repeatedly that it's all from the top down, ties are required and "every" airport wears the ties. Bullshit, obviously. This manager seemed to be trying to tie the sloppy look of the screeners at Manchester all in with the lack of ties - apparently getting rid of the tie would be the first step on the slippery slope of slovenlyness.
At least we are getting some new screeners, soon. I may previously have ranted about the fact that they'll be coming in during our busyest season, thus making us have to be doing training for them at the same time as we're trying to deal with long lines and snappish people. Today yet another issue came up, in briefing. One of the new women is rumored to be hired as full-time. The people who are part-timers and want to be full-time are rather annoyed, as you can imagine. One asked about that in briefing, in a circumspect manner, to see what the response would be. "Are any of the new screeners going to be hired in as full time?" "No," was the answer, "They are going to be offered part time to start." So, he lied. Not like we'd expect anything less.
Another part of the same briefing: We were informed that we're not to talk about anyone's health matters - and he left is fuzzy whether that applied to all health matters on only work-related injuries. Supposedly there are strict governmental regulations against that. Um, prohibiting rumor? You might as well as birds not to sing as ask a close-knit team to not wonder and speculate what has happened to co-workers who disappear. And why are we informed of this now? It's a bit confusing. We just had someone come back from an extended medical leave because of a work-related injury, but he was right there to tell us all about his injury and operation himself, so that's not rumor. No, apparently this was related to the fact that a screener just went into the hospital with pneumonia, and another has been missing for quite some time, apparently related to her husband's cancer getting worse. But, these are not work-related injuries, so I'm not sure I understand telling us not to talk about them. We might be forgiven being just the slightest bit concerned, you would think. It just seems cruel and inhuman to tell us not to worry. "If anything serious happened you'd be informed," he said. Uh, right. Sorry if I don't believe that, but you guys lie to us all the f--ing time, so why should we believe you?
Okay, enough bitching for tonight. On a positive note: I was in the laundrymat Sunday and overheard a dykey teenage girl talking on the phone to a friend. Sounded like she was giving a play-by-play of her interactions with a girl who seemed quite interested in her, possibly at the Pier Dance. That was wonderful to me, because when I was her age I would have certainly never dared to talk about such a thing in public.:)
And let's see, one more sillyness before I wander off to do dishes and go to bed.
I posted on the yahoo group for Real Ghostbusters Slash just to get people talking, because it had been quiet for a while. I said that I thought if the movie was made today they'd have made one or more of the team female, and invited people to speculate on which character would make a good female, and why, and what the result would be. It did raise some responses. Sharakh said she prefered stories where a guy got turned into a woman, and then speculated on which character would be most likely to have sex with another team member just in order to experience sex as a woman. She thought Ray would be likely to do that, because he's the sort who never turns down the opportunity for an experience, and that he'd initially choose Peter as his partner, but Winston might get jealous. Hm. That just fits so well with my story arc where I'm trying to find a way to get Winston and Ray together. I HATE using plot devices like changing a person to female, but it's also kind of goofy-ass fun, so I might have to do a one-off at least.:) She said she didn't mind if I did. Although when I'm going to find time I don't know....
Oh, hey! I got my vacation time approved! I don't have to work the week of July 18th and that week which is split between the last days of August and the first days of September. Yay! Something to look forward to.:) July 18th week iseor's family get-together, and then I'll get a few days off to myself. *hugs them to her, selfishly* Then Aug/Sept week we hope to go to Orgonon in Rangely, Monhegan Island, and King Richard's Faire. We'll just about kill ourselves with our rest.;)
Of course now that I've talked about our plans I've probably jinxed us. *knocks wood* (Okay, it's actually particle board, but it's made from wood. At some point. sorta.)
Now, yes, really, I've got to shut up already and go sleep.
Some of the stuff I wrote before I realized some of my comments actually WERE going through....
camwyn is working on a story about a Canadian animagus which I just wanted to tell her is very cool. I suppose someone might feel he's overly ugly and peculiar, but I have a fondness for ugly.:) I only wish she wan't going to send him to England. Keep him in Canada! rowantree is going through a hard time with a co-worker - the sort of thing I'm lucky to not have experienced to quite that extent, but I can understand the situation. Grr, what an obnoxious bitch the co-worker is, and I just wanted to offer *hugs!*Oh, wait, this comment of mine did go through. But I liked the whole thread, so I'll reference it anyway... In comments on her post "Superheroes are my heroes,"
afrai longed for a Chinese geek superhero would would eat ramen and play chess, and later for Jackie Chan to be a superhero, so I suggested she make her own Jackie Chan inspired superhero.:) When I was a kid my best friend and I used to sit around and draw after school, usually while watching "Star Blazers" and such, and we did a lot of superhero pictures. He did backgrounds and machines, and I did humans, but he got pretty good at doing muscle-bound guys, too. Sometimes we'd even try to do little comics, but I sucked at plot and follow through just as much then as I do now. (And now he's a lawyer for the EPA, and I'm a stupid baggage screener, so I guess my follow through still needs work.)And some work rantings....
I mentioned to someone at work that I wish there was an online community where I could talk with screeners at other airports, and she said she heard there had been one, but TSA shut it down because people were giving out SSI (which is supposed to stand for something like Secured Secret Information, but we always joke it's Super Secret Information). Which is just dumb. I mean, why were people so stupid? They had to know it would get shut down if they posted SSI. The point of having a community would be to compare management styles at different airports. Which our managers would probably rather we didn't.
One of our managers recently went through the Manchester (New Hampshire) airport and informed us all that we look much more professional and better groomed. He went on about how their shirts were not ironed and he saw a male screener out on his break who's hair was down to his waist (contra uniform code - hair has to be tied up so it doesn't extend further than 2 inches below the top of the collar). This manager especially harped on the fact that they don't wear ties at Manchester. Because we have repeatedly asked to be allowed to dispense with the ties. It gets quite hot sometimes, and the collars are quite constrictive, so when you're hauling bags it only makes sense. We're told repeatedly that it's all from the top down, ties are required and "every" airport wears the ties. Bullshit, obviously. This manager seemed to be trying to tie the sloppy look of the screeners at Manchester all in with the lack of ties - apparently getting rid of the tie would be the first step on the slippery slope of slovenlyness.
At least we are getting some new screeners, soon. I may previously have ranted about the fact that they'll be coming in during our busyest season, thus making us have to be doing training for them at the same time as we're trying to deal with long lines and snappish people. Today yet another issue came up, in briefing. One of the new women is rumored to be hired as full-time. The people who are part-timers and want to be full-time are rather annoyed, as you can imagine. One asked about that in briefing, in a circumspect manner, to see what the response would be. "Are any of the new screeners going to be hired in as full time?" "No," was the answer, "They are going to be offered part time to start." So, he lied. Not like we'd expect anything less.
Another part of the same briefing: We were informed that we're not to talk about anyone's health matters - and he left is fuzzy whether that applied to all health matters on only work-related injuries. Supposedly there are strict governmental regulations against that. Um, prohibiting rumor? You might as well as birds not to sing as ask a close-knit team to not wonder and speculate what has happened to co-workers who disappear. And why are we informed of this now? It's a bit confusing. We just had someone come back from an extended medical leave because of a work-related injury, but he was right there to tell us all about his injury and operation himself, so that's not rumor. No, apparently this was related to the fact that a screener just went into the hospital with pneumonia, and another has been missing for quite some time, apparently related to her husband's cancer getting worse. But, these are not work-related injuries, so I'm not sure I understand telling us not to talk about them. We might be forgiven being just the slightest bit concerned, you would think. It just seems cruel and inhuman to tell us not to worry. "If anything serious happened you'd be informed," he said. Uh, right. Sorry if I don't believe that, but you guys lie to us all the f--ing time, so why should we believe you?
Okay, enough bitching for tonight. On a positive note: I was in the laundrymat Sunday and overheard a dykey teenage girl talking on the phone to a friend. Sounded like she was giving a play-by-play of her interactions with a girl who seemed quite interested in her, possibly at the Pier Dance. That was wonderful to me, because when I was her age I would have certainly never dared to talk about such a thing in public.:)
And let's see, one more sillyness before I wander off to do dishes and go to bed.
I posted on the yahoo group for Real Ghostbusters Slash just to get people talking, because it had been quiet for a while. I said that I thought if the movie was made today they'd have made one or more of the team female, and invited people to speculate on which character would make a good female, and why, and what the result would be. It did raise some responses. Sharakh said she prefered stories where a guy got turned into a woman, and then speculated on which character would be most likely to have sex with another team member just in order to experience sex as a woman. She thought Ray would be likely to do that, because he's the sort who never turns down the opportunity for an experience, and that he'd initially choose Peter as his partner, but Winston might get jealous. Hm. That just fits so well with my story arc where I'm trying to find a way to get Winston and Ray together. I HATE using plot devices like changing a person to female, but it's also kind of goofy-ass fun, so I might have to do a one-off at least.:) She said she didn't mind if I did. Although when I'm going to find time I don't know....
Oh, hey! I got my vacation time approved! I don't have to work the week of July 18th and that week which is split between the last days of August and the first days of September. Yay! Something to look forward to.:) July 18th week is
eor's family get-together, and then I'll get a few days off to myself. *hugs them to her, selfishly* Then Aug/Sept week we hope to go to Orgonon in Rangely, Monhegan Island, and King Richard's Faire. We'll just about kill ourselves with our rest.;)Of course now that I've talked about our plans I've probably jinxed us. *knocks wood* (Okay, it's actually particle board, but it's made from wood. At some point. sorta.)
Now, yes, really, I've got to shut up already and go sleep.
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Hey, as long as it's not meant to be serious, there's nothing wrong with utilizing a fanfiction cliche now and then! This idea does sound like a lot of fun.
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My brother did his graduate degree in Korean studies, and does speak Korean passably well, enough so he can translate on the fly in a pinch. My friend Teena, second-generation Korean American, can't speak Korean. I don't think she's had as much opportunity to be embarassed by her lack of Korean as you have by your lack of Chinese, so far. But she doesn't dare go to Korea for fear she'd be made fun of.:)
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