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So here's what I really want to say to people today:
I don't care if the printer doesn't work. I don't care if you can't get online. I don't care about your stupid success in clicking the mouse. Yes, I do care that you brought your class into my room. It does matter. My students don't have a place to sit. Stop giving me a play-by-play of the printer connection. I don't care. No, I don't care that you want to go to a party during school hours; I don't want to cover your class this afternoon.
Had one of these days lately? People just won't leave you alone, and everytime they come near, they're getting two seconds closer to having their heads pulled off but for some reason, you keep on listening and you just get more agitated?
I promise, I'm usually not this grouchy. It's just been a really bad couple of days.
Please feel free to share your crappy-day story. Posts: 862 | Registered: Oct 2003
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This morning the guest preacher for the second Sunday that Bob and I will be on our honeymoon called and said he can't make it that Sunday, would sometime later in the month work instead.
Like here - my sister works for a place that finds homes for foster children. They have been known to go into churches "in lieu of the sermon" and talk about foster parenting and the needs of these kids, etc.
Maybe something like that you can find for that Sunday. Or a missionary that is looking for support. THey are usually willing to speak.
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If the preacher's not there within 10 minutes after the service starts, everyone gets to go home.
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Edit: I've got various lay people leading most of the service, but they want a guest speaker for the sermon time. Several of them could do it, but they get all fidgity about not being "good enough" at it. Fear of public speaking is rampant, and the one person in the congregation who would is preaching somewhere else that week.
I teach a Sunday School class (LDS) and go through stage fright every week - since October, when I began teaching the class. I think it's getting a little better ...
So I understand the "not good enough" feeling. Good luck finding/convincing someone to fill in. Posts: 2034 | Registered: Apr 2004
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Oh, and I'll talk about my crappy evening last night (with hubby looking over my shoulder) ...
We're taking a family relations class at church - six weeks. The second and third sessions are on finances. Kent is unemployed, therefore I "control" all the money. He was angry after the class last night because he doesn't have any money to control/track/invest, whatever.
So, we had a fight in the car on the way home, resulting in him refusing to go to next week's class ... on communication.
I teach Sunday School, too, and it still makes me nervous. It shouldn't - I just spent a year teaching the Teacher Development class - but it always does. It's so much fun when it goes well, though.
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"I just spent 3 hours translating a meeting, I missed my bus home, don't get another one for another hour, so **** off, I'm not going to translate this contract for you. Not even if my boss asked me to."
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Heh. I feel like this every day at work. Not so much with the helping of the innocent supportees, but with my unbelievable employers. My boss, for instance, loves to give me not-so-subtle guilt trips about taking time off, including sick days. Since, in his masochistic world, no one is ever sick enough to warrant Missing Work!!!™. So I'm sitting here lightheaded and still a little nauseous, in my office, waiting for someone to tell me to move more tables or drag more projectors around, because otherwise all I'll hear about next week is how hard I'm making his miserable life.
Uhh... Yeah. I have a great office, though. Posts: 1681 | Registered: Jun 2004
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"Yes, I really *do* have to be home when my seven-year-old gets off the bus on this, a half-day. No, it is not an April Fool's joke. Yes, I really do have to leave at eleven a.m."
oh and:
"No, I don't care that you have a vendor coming."
I also don't care that you haven't finished your purchase orders. Do them at the cash register counter.
"No, I..." Nope, sorry. It's been a fabulous week at work, everything I have to do is fun, and if there's not enough time to do something, there's just not enough time and I'm very sweet for trying.
-- Kat on Banna's computer
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