I'm not hot shit in a wineglass, more curried goat in a paper cup

I should put a bookmark right here
http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20090528
and save it for winter, when a sunny afternoon is cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

Sorry I don't seem to have much to say during the week and I just want to hide in a dorky comic. Work is kind of wearing me out. In the weeds isn't the half of it, I'm up the creek without a paddle, totally at sea, and I'm not sure I'm even keeping my head above water. Can you think of any other boat related phrases? Because my Dad named me after a boat he said always rode out the worst weather. :) I was headed out to a medical appointment yesterday, a little late and way too caffeinated, and the not-boss got in my way asking me questions about where we were on this and that and why I hadn't done something else over the weekend, and I told him it was because there hadn't been anyone here who needed that training on Sunday and hadn't he had me doing fifteen other things?

"I'm doing my best, but there's only one of me! Only one!"

"You got that right," he said. But he got out of my way.

Today I said I was sorry if I'd seemed a bit snappish, but he brushed it off. I think we're on the same page about all this. I'm getting stuff done, it's just that there's so much. He says he's reminded the Big Guy that another person at my level was supposed to have been hired months ago and that it's ridiculous to expect me to do everything alone.

( cut for dorkiness - the great teaspoon/Tablespoon debate )
ETA The Third: Okay, consider the evidence in. lemondropgirl referenced Google, mec407 weighed in with his Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks from the 50s and 60s, and camwyn has added the testimonial of her textbook from Food Prep and Hospitality Management 101 and 102.

And the conclusion is - derien and eor are complete dorks. As everyone always expected, right? :)

ETA the Fourth: The only explanaition I can find for the fact that our Tablespoon measure appeared to agree with our belief is that our psychic (or possibly psychotic) fields actually changed the size of the measuring spoon to match our belief. ;)

ETA the Fifth (2013!) The last measuring spoon set we bought actually had 2 different "Tablespoons" in it: One is 15 milliliters, the other is 20 milliliters.

and a Sixth ETA Eor says he and I have discussed the fact that the 20mil Tablespoon is Australian. I didn't remember that.

It's a lovely morning, so I went for a little walk - and still I had to convince myself to leave my computer by telling myself I'd get a coffee while I was out.  What's wrong with me?  I should enjoy the fresh air just for it's own sake. 

And of course when I got back here I immediately opened up LJ again.  I told myself I was getting into the shower and then doing dishes and going to work, but no.  I started singing "Dragonstea Din Tei" and wanted to look at the Wiki page about it so that I could check how far wrong I had the words, but then as I logged into LJ I noticed that they have a link on the public login/make yourself an LJ page called "latest posts" - it's down there to the right next to the orange button that says 'XML,' see it?  Anyway, perusing the recent posts assures me that most posts which aren't in Cyrillic are unreadable because they're in very bad English or just talking about stuff nobody is interested in.  Or they're random pictures.  But, hey, these are people's journals, I shouldn't expect more out of them, right?  It just makes me happy that I've got people on my f-list who write about things I AM interested in. ;)  (*ignores the obvious logic that she's interested because these are the lives of people she likes*). 

*notices that every time she clicks the latest posts link again there's all different posts!* 

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What was I doing?