Comatose non-reaction.

[reddragdiva]

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redcountess is packed off to WHITBAAAHHH, I'm off work again (I'm really suspecting a sick building) because my throat hurts like hell (doctor this afternoon) and Freda is still taking her damn time.

I am bored and annoyed and there's a ton of stuff to do here and I haven't the health, really. So what are you doing today?

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[sparksoflight.livejournal.com]

I approve of that macro too, it's great.

[squiddity.livejournal.com]

Except that it should be 'grammatically correct', not 'grammatically accurate'.

Fortunately, that is an error in semantics, not grammar.

[reddragdiva]

It's flibbertysodomly grammatically cromulent.

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

Work. *sob* I'm not going to Whitby until tomorrow... :/

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

I'm going to bed soon. Been up all night doing bits of wikipedia and making $loads of elastic bracelets. I seem to have written an article on a quango this morning, as you do..

[deerfold.livejournal.com]

Did it move around as you were writing it?

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that Inquirer article is dreadfully written; a shame, I read the site every day from when it first started until a year or so ago. Not entirely sure why I stopped, come to think of it.

As for today, I am mainly trying to fit work around concentration-destroying clatterings, whirrings and thumpings from the builders upstairs. If they carry on much longer I shall have to grumble to someone, I think. Also pondering where I might be able to get hold of a lens spanner in a hurry -- I think I shall have a weekend of cleaning up cameras, so I might as well try and get all the camera-related jobs done at once.

The fun never stops around here! *yawn*

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Freda is still taking her damn time.

Just cut the damn babe out already!
*waves spear*

Or, in terms less influenced by "300":
So, how overdue is it? I thought second births were easier than the first?

[reddragdiva]

She's not in fact overdue (37 weeks), A's just been in pre-labour for about nine days now without things getting started!

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, women, they're just evil and all.
They take forever to get ready. She's prolly doing her eyeliner and stuff.
It'll happen at the most inconvenient time, for sure.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

She's actually my third child. No two pregnancies/births are ever quite alike however. This latent stage of labour (waiting for it to turn into active labour) only took a matter of hours with both my first two, but with this one I had a hindwater leak at 35 weeks and now contractions with little else happening for well over a week now - close to 9 days. Then again, I know a couple of mothers who were stuck in this stage of labour for a couple of weeks before things started happening.

At this point, it's a case of being patient and getting as much rest as possible because we certainly won't get any once she decides it's time!

[greylock.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of words in there I don't want to understand, but clearly there's a lot about the topic I don't understand - but then when the last few pregnancies once has been around have not turned out well, you can accept that (two miscarriages, one born 8 weeks prem).

It's amazing how something so natural can be so complicated.

At this point, it's a case of being patient and getting as much rest as possible because we certainly won't get any once she decides it's time!

I'm sure one billion people have suggested copious amount of sex, so I shall not.

[mangosteen]

I'm keeping twelve work projects in the air, along with a side business and a performing group. I'm thinking that maybe 'slacker' isn't as accurate an appellation as it used to be.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Does my job suck like a vacuum cleaner withn hiccoughs? No, it's worse.
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Does it suck like nonsurgical treatments for overweight men admitted to hospital after exposing their buttocks on a golf range?

Worse, far worse.
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Today my job sucks like an armless man retrieving lost quarters from five-dollar crack whores in Philadelphia.

I am performing the all-too-familiar task of reconciling two spreadsheets, one containing a commercial-property portfolio prepared by our Loan Origination analyst three months ago, and one submitted by the borrower for the current quarter.

We're talking about anything between a hundred and a couple of thousand separate leases, here...

Neither sheet will have the same names and numbers; some properties and rental units will have changed, appeared or vanished, and there are no unique identifiers or reliable names that would enable us to automate the reconciliation process. Just in case it's all too easy, one of the borrowers sends the data as a noncontiguous file ie: it's not a table, it's an irregularly-formatted report with arbitrarily-sized data grids separated by headers.

Y'know, I thought I'd be programming when I started this job.

[wheresandals.livejournal.com]

I'm faffing around with writing and job applications, as usual, while outside it rains - as usual. I'm planning a trip to Vancouver tomorrow to do some shopping for my six month old niece who is being taken to Ireland soon for her Christening. Lacking knowledge of babies, ceremonies and religion, the three in one does pose a few problems. I'm as likely as not to end up buying something completely inappropriate, as when I purchased a cute animal t-shirt from Alaska in a size suitable for a six-year old. I kid not. My dad and his girlfriend found it quite amusing. Perhaps I'll stick to a card.

But your life is way more interesting. 'The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work/That points at him amazed.' Come on, Freda.

[grega.livejournal.com]

I'm informed that drinking a few glasses of red wine and a bit of jiggy-jiggy (of either kind) can help induce birth.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose the red wine would taste nicer than castor oil - end result would be the same though, with me throwing up everywhere (on account of being allergic to red wine). Alcohol actually inhibits labour however.

As for the other... I hardly think Diva actually needs encouragement in that direction!

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I am making soup. Also, er, reading LJ instead of looking for work. Yeah.