Dadgum it…

I think my problem is that the people I complain about the most don’t read my blog. Which is why, probably, I complain about them here.

So I got told at least a dozen times today that I’ve gained some weight, and I need to watch what I eat blah blah blah.

Look. People. I. am. Perfectly. Happy. The. Way. I. Am. Get the hell over it.

I mean really… am I that huge and gross? Am I in danger of having weight related health problems? Am I seriously fat or something? Am I looking at myself and missing what everyone else is seeing? What’s wrong with me the way I am?

What’s wrong with them? Why can’t they leave me alone?

ok… Let me explain to y’all what I know, so people will stop telling me things I already know in an effort to enlighten me.

I know I’m a doormat. I know people walk on me. I realize this… and I am, believe it or not, getting better about standing up for myself. It’s not something that comes naturally to me, but I’m working on it. If I did not know that people walk on me, I would end up doing a lot more stuff for people than I do… I do not need to be told that people walk on me… if I complain to you about something, usually what I want is someone to say “Oh. That sucks.” I do not want a lecture on how I let people walk on me… I do not need to be told all the things I do wrong to get in these situations… I do not need to be told to take an assertiveness class. I just want someone to listen.

I know I’ve gained weight. I’m not especially happy about this, nor am I especially worried about it. When I sense that it is becomeing a problem, and when I have the time and energy, I’ll deal with it. End of story. If you are more overweight than I am, don’t tell me what I should and shouldn’t eat.

I know I’m in a bad mood… I’m working on that, too. I think that about 8-10 weeks of good solid sleep will cure me of that. Meanwhile, I’m sorry if I step on your toes. I’m dealling with a little more than I can handle at the moment, between my personal stress and interesting family dynamics… I don’t have time to deal with your hurt feelings. I’ll feel really bad about it later… But don’t tell me I’m in a bad mood. I know I am. You’ll only make it worse.

I’m sure there are other things I know that I could put here… but those are the ones that are bugging me the most tonight.

So David just pointed out to me that another blogger linked to my blog… which was cool, because they thought I was cool (actaully, they thought that David was cool for thinking that something I thought was cool was cool, and creating appropriate links)… It was the Penny Arcade Matrix comic, of all things. Hm. Interesting… You really should check the blog out though, it seems to be pretty cool (not that I’ve read any of it or anything. I’m at work, I have better things to do, right?)

I got another autograph… I got another autograph… This time from John Houbolt, who “championed the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous concept used to first land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth.” Yay for me! I have lots of cool stuff to hang on my walls when I get back to Starkvegas *grin*

Oh yeah….. It’s Thursday (really? Already?)… so there are two new NASAexplores stories… Orbital Space Plane—Commuting To Space, which is a look at NASA plans for another orbit vehicle… and A Matter Of Taste, which is about how things taste differnt in space.

Check out the trivia on the homepage this week… I found that

On Yesterday

ok. Sorry if I pissed anyone off yesterday…. I was dealing with some interesting personal stress, most of which doesn’t need to be blogged about (at least not here). So yeah. Sorry if I stepped on your toes. Little things were really getting to me yesterday. There… we can all play nice now.

On Yardsales

Why the crap would anyone want to run a yard sale from 0800-1700 on a friday? The only people who yardsale on Friday (generally, people, generally) are mom’s who don’t work, and old people. Mom’s who don’t work usually have to put their kids down for naps at like, 1400 or so…. and old people don’t yard sale until 1700… really… I have never never been yardsaleing after 1400.

On Family

I love my family… but they drive me nuts. Like, if i say “I can take off half of Friday and help you do Thing X” and they say “Oh, that’s great” and then you end up staying all of Friday, and either coming into work at like, 1730 and working for 4 hours (which would really stink), or just losing the 4 hours…. (It’s actually physically possible for me to make up the hours today, but I would have to work like, 17 hours. so, like, 0530-2230… definately not cool… I would fall asleep at my computer)

On Sleep

I think sleeping and eating are both bad habits. I think I’m going to give them up for Lent next year.

On Eileen Collins

She was much smaller than I had imagined her to be… and very nice to talk to. I had several other interesting observations yesterday.. but it’s like, 6am, and I have forgotten them for the moment. I might come back to that…. for the time being, you can go and see the NASAecplores team with Eileen Collins on David’s blog… when I’m not so lazy (and my sister will let me on the computer) I’ll post a copy here…

A message board discussion of the term “out of pocket.”

Use of the term “out of pocket” by a USC Professor. And another use of the term on a message board… And another…

A Texas site that uses the term…

Someone’s blog entry about being out of pocket. And another.

An article in Network Computing that uses the term “out of pocket.” Also, Network Associates.

ClicheSite.com even has it listed, the only definition listed, I might add.

Southerners don’t use the Internet my butt.

I know I’ve read that phrase in literature somewhere, too… I’ll find that one and post it sometime.

Ha ha ha… Check out this quote:

“Thanks for the total roxority that is googlism” – Greg Pallis

wow…. this early astronaut helped develop Disney’s EPCOT… how awesome is that?

I stand corrected. It isn’t a giant killer asteriod. It’s Planet X. And the poles won’t flip flop… they will shift by 90 degrees or so. Last night. All because the Earth has been slowing down, and has, in fact, by now, stopped spinning entirely (sunrise this morning is explained, I assume, by the fact that the Sun orbits the Earth). Check out the write up here (A link taken from David’s blog… and i would like to point out that he didn’t have all his facts straight either. So it’s not all my fault)

So there… my retraction