Posted by
Dina on 02.28.06 @ 11:33 PM EEST :: [link]
Monday, February 27th
with a heavy heart
music: TV crap mood: ehh...
...and just in case the few people i cared about (in the company i just quit) wanted to know what went down that made me walk out, i wrote this email to a select few -
Dearest Agents,
I am writing this email to the few of you whom I have worked closely with for the last two years or so, and to those who might have an actual interest in what took place.
I will not go into the horrid details that are included in my last few months at Nest Seekers. However, I will say that on Sunday I received a threat from one of my superiors, stating that if I should walk out (on a Sunday, when I had come in on my own free time to begin with) - he would make my life miserable. Just to make sure I had heard correctly, I asked if I was being threatened. When he confirmed that I was in fact being threatened, I asked him to look around to see that I had witnesses. He once again repeated the threat, which was when I walked out and decided never to set foot back in the office.
As a part of my complete disconnect from a situation that I should have stepped away from long before this, please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this might cause you, as I do not have any plans of assisting the Nest Seekers staff any further.
I regret that things have come to such an awful ending, but alas, I really had no choice. It was a pleasure working with all of you for as long as I did, and I hope that the future holds only wonderful things in it for you.
All the best, Dina.
Posted by
Dina on 02.27.06 @ 11:08 PM EEST :: [link]
redundancy
music: silence mood: determined
i quit. again.
this was getting to be a real pain in the ass. i find it hard to believe that they were able to make the one person they need happy in the office, abso-fucking-lutely miserable. and today all lines and boundaries were crossed and broken when one of them threatened to make my life (more) miserable should i choose to leave, as i was about to do. me leaving, too, was his fault since i was doing them a favor coming in today in the first place, and this guy thought he could just be the dick that he is and expect me to stick around for his crap. sorry. not anymore. when he threatened me (and he repeated it several times) i was slightly on the shocked side. i got on the elevator, left and started marching down town. i had no idea where i was going, i just knew i had to walk it off. as i was walking i got a call from a friend, so i headed in her direction and told her the whole thing. she, too, was on the speechless side. yea...
i haven't told anyone a quit, nor do i plan on it. i'm just not fucking going in there anymore. i will probably inform one of the people i actually like that i'm done, only so they don't send out a search party to see if i'm dead or not... i will simply not be answering any emails or phone calls from anyone. they have crossed the line for the last time and now they have to eat the shit that they dish out.
fuck.that.shit.
tomorrow i start another job, doing something that has absolutely nothing to do with my current skills. i'm going back to retail. and i will be working on a commission based salary. hopefully, my salesmanship skills will come back fast enough for me to make a crap-load of cash. we shall see. either way, this was the best thing i think i've ever done for myself.
thank you and good night.
Posted by
Dina on 02.27.06 @ 12:11 AM EEST :: [link]
Saturday, February 25th
recently
music: silence mood: time to get my ass outta bed
thursday was the first personal day i took this year (i'm entitled to five). i needed it in order to get a bunch of things taken care of. the main reason, which i shall not discuss here, took significantly less time than i thought it would. this was nice since now i was left with all this time to run around and do other stuff, which i never would have had time for otherwise.
i managed to go see two doctors (the first, in order to get a referral and the second, for blood work purposes), visit unimax for the purchase of work-friendly body jewelry, and the eye doctor to see about picking up my contacts. there were a bunch of other, unimportant things that were taken care of as well, which only adds to my feeling of accomplishment. nice. later that day i headed over to my usual thursday night classes and then home to do some homework.
yesterday was also rather high on the efficiency scale, in my book. i managed to see dan for the sketches he came up with for our first session, and to visit with sandra and peter before heading home to do more homework.
today's plans include mostly doing more reading/homework and possibly heading out to the city to pick up more jewelry (this time the not so work-friendly type) and actually getting my contacts, which were not ready on thursday. if i do really well, i will be heading over to batcave to see anathema device play. i haven't seen them play in a while, and getting out might do me some good.
then again, it's a little too cold out there... we shall see.
Posted by
Dina on 02.25.06 @ 11:21 AM EEST :: [link]
Friday, February 24th
more on (my) modification
music: office noises mood: ok
the last time i only had one hole in each ear, i was 13 years old. yep, i officially took out the two 6g stretchings i had cuz they're not evenly distanced from the 12mm's. it was getting annoying. i figure that if i ever want them back, i can repierce them in a more symmetrical fashion =)
Posted by
Dina on 02.24.06 @ 09:50 AM EEST :: [link]
Thursday, February 23rd
just a little more
music: in my head - and one mood: ok
12mm!! (for the record - it's between 7/16 and 1/2, which is my goal =)
oh, and... i have the BIGGEST personal collection of body jewelry ever! i don't wear anything but my current 12mm plugs and a septum retainer. what a waste. lol.
Posted by
Dina on 02.23.06 @ 11:03 PM EEST :: [link]
Wednesday, February 22nd
yea
music: family guy mood: ok
homework done. lobes stretched to 7/16.
Posted by
Dina on 02.22.06 @ 11:57 PM EEST :: [link]
when?
music: nothing mood: blah
i'm so incredibly frustrated. for so many reasons. i've come to notice that no matter how hard i try (and i do), i am just incapable of being happy. that is to say, that even when i think i am - there is little chance of that feeling being sustained for more than a few hours at a time.
when? when is this trip through hell going to be over?!?!
Posted by
Dina on 02.22.06 @ 02:15 PM EEST :: [link]
haha
music: office noises mood: heh
i was just playing with my septum jewelry, which my boss doesn't know i have... he probably thinks i was picking my nose =D
i'm so sexy =P
Posted by
Dina on 02.22.06 @ 01:19 PM EEST :: [link]
Sunday, February 19th
isn't that nice
music: TV crap mood: heh
wouldn't ya know... after having been in school for over four years, and not having this happen to me a single time - i now have a crush on one of my professors. lol.
figures.
Posted by
Dina on 02.19.06 @ 11:28 PM EEST :: [link]
books, eyes and metal
music: silence mood: hungry
on the vision front - i went to see an eye doctor on friday in order to finally figure out what the hell to do about my contact situation. i mean, i like my glasses and all but sometimes i just really don't want to be bothered with having them on my face. not to mention that i'm always afraid i'll misplace them when drunk, as i've been known to do. so i walk in there, express my frustration (it takes me a year and a half to put the contacts in, another year to take them out and to top it off i can feel them in my eyes all day), and prepare for another examination. the doctor does what he does and tells me what's up: the reasons i am feeling my contacts are that my eyes are slightly dryer than normal and i have a relatively large cornea... so i have to switch to daily disposables cuz they are thinner. these are more expensive, but he also tells me that i really don't need to wear my right contact, so it actually comes out slightly cheaper. so now i have these ultra-disposable contacts that are MUCH easier to put in and take out, which i do not feel all day. wheeeeeeeeee!
on the same day i went to visit rob at ian's to get my septum pierced. i don't have any photos yet since i'm only wearing a retainer and there's not much to show. it's funny cuz i really used to dislike septum piercings. they always made me think of a bull/cow... but since so many people i know have one, i think the idea grew on me. so much so that i felt that i needed to join the fun too. not to mention that it's on my face and i can hide it (for work) without having to take it out. hehe. rob is a talented piercer. he also knows how to make his client relax. i was pretty fucking nervous. i mean it's been about six years since i got anything new pierced. all i've been doing is taking most of my piercings out. that too will change soon enough...
later that day, too, i met up with sandra and kristen for dinner and drinks. we were also celebrating kristen's birthday (a little late) so sandra and i decided to treat her =)... we started at cafe orlin, followed that up with a visit to korova and finally ended up at sundown. i drank waaaaaaaaaaayy too much, and enjoyed a resulting hang over the following day. heh.
other than that, all i've been doing is reading/studying. fun, huh?
Posted by
Dina on 02.19.06 @ 10:19 AM EEST :: [link]
Friday, February 17th
a long time comin'
music: something dani has on the radio mood: ehh...
it's been a while since i've felt this way, but i'm pretty sure that if i don't get laid soon my body will go into some kind of shock. no, i'm not asking for volunteers. it was just a statement, which i'm sure i will be doing nothing about.
Posted by
Dina on 02.17.06 @ 12:31 PM EEST :: [link]
it's all the same
music: people yapping mood: ok
not much going on besides school and work. i try to fit other stuff in as well, but considering that i really don't do much in the way of socializing anymore, it's mostly been some downtime in front of my television. so aside from counting down the days/weeks like a moron, all i've been doing is reading. exciting, huh? the roommate situation is good so far and as long as he stays a good boy, it's going to be perfect all the way till the last day =)
other than that, i think i've managed to mostly break in my new boots (as i have been wearing them religiously since the day i got them), got some more ink done on the star wars project, am getting my septum pierced today, and possibly going to hang out with sandra and kristen later on. oh, and i decided to wear only my left contact. lol. i don't really need the right one and sometimes it even makes my vision all wonky (though not always).
...27 weeks and counting.
Posted by
Dina on 02.17.06 @ 09:27 AM EEST :: [link]
Sunday, February 12th
lazy sunday
music: silence mood: ok
teh snow is preety =)
later i think i will actually be heading over to BYTE (!!!).
Posted by
Dina on 02.12.06 @ 05:30 PM EEST :: [link]
Friday, February 10th
yea
music: in my head: lamb of god - ruin mood: tired
last night, after eight hours of work and four hours of school, i headed down to adam's onyx party to see some friends and have some drinks. while i know that things were a little out of hand (as far as our gracious organizers were concerned), i have to say that i rather enjoyed myself =)
...apparently my drunk dialing habits have now shifted overseas. on my home in the cab, i called dikla to bullshit for a few minutes. heh. it was 7:30am in the holy land and she had not yet gone to sleep. lol.
soooooooooooon it will be my turn too =)
Posted by
Dina on 02.10.06 @ 11:01 AM EEST :: [link]
Wednesday, February 8th
useless infromation
music: silence mood: i should be studying
well, i guess i was long overdue for this... i finally decided that a pair of flat shoes was something i needed. since i started wearing platforms about six years ago, i have allowed all of my non-platform shoes to die without replacing them. today after class, i made my way down to trash and vaudeville (since i really have no idea where else in the city i could have found this) to buy a pair of 20 eyelet docs. however, although they had just gotten a huge shipment of docs, they did not seem to have my size in black. meh. it wasn't that difficult to twist arm into getting the gripfast version instead.
these are going to be a bitch to break in, but i couldn't be happier with my purchase!! =)
Posted by
Dina on 02.08.06 @ 11:02 PM EEST :: [link]
Tuesday, February 7th
yesterday
music: servers mood: ehh...
ran into melora and her daughter on the subway on my way to work. at first i wasn't entirely sure it was her, but after observing the way she (and her daughter) was (were) dressed - i figured it had to be her. however, assuming that people of that sort most likely do not enjoy being harassed by the public, i said nothing. oh well. shortly thereafter, a crazy woman got on the very crowded subway car we were on and proceeded to yell obscenities in my direction cuz she thought i was 'touching' her unnecessarily. what i wanted to say was 'oh trust me, i wouldn't touch you if someone paid me to' but what i ended up doing was trying not to say anything so that she wouldn't pull a knife on me or something. i got a sympathetic 'nice way to start your day' from melora, who was standing right next to me, as i was trying to contain my rage against this woman. the rest of the day wasn't too hot either. at some point before lunch, i was about to freak out - so i had adam to come meet me for a bite to eat and to give me some perspective on things. which he did. i don't know what i would do without certain people in my life. i really wish i could have them all live in the same country so i didn't feel like i was missing something all the time (not that i really ever think that can happen, but ya know...).
speaking of which... have i mentioned that there are less than 29 weeks left? LOL.
Posted by
Dina on 02.07.06 @ 09:21 AM EEST :: [link]
Saturday, February 4th
necessary changes
music: silence mood: it's way too early to be awake on a saturday morning...
for the first time in a year and a half, i will be living with a roommate. i hardly remember what it's like to have someone else around. heh. i think i am glad at the opportunity, though - since i am helping out a friend and could probably really just use the company =P
wish me luck =D
Posted by
Dina on 02.04.06 @ 07:32 AM EEST :: [link]
Wednesday, February 1st
well...
music: server roar mood: heh
...it's not august yet, but it is now officially one month closer =D
Posted by
Dina on 02.01.06 @ 09:02 AM EEST :: [link]
