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athene1miranda: ting is shipping the peach garden brotherhood ><
lunikilo: Dude, who can NOT ship the peach garden brotherhood?
lunikilo: tell me if there's ANYTHING more shippable than that?
lunikilo: LOTR elfy-poo romances don't count, btw
athene1miranda: ..........okay so you have a point
lunikilo: the whole I SHALL DIE FOR YOU
athene1miranda: ON THE SAME DAY AS YOU
lunikilo: and the whole, "although we were not born on the same day, may we DIE on the SAME DAY" bit
lunikilo: bitch please :D
Shipwars aside; v. light day today, only a few hours at works and there was bugger-all to do (which frankly makes me twitchy; if I am not actually doing anything useful I have no opportunity to demonstrate my worth and feel at risk of having my shifts cut, aah the joys of being hourly.) I slept 11 hours last night, too. So it's almost like having a day off.
I spent most of my shift studying the tax code (DM regards this as an acceptable slack-time activity, and I am endlessly curious), and was going over the rolling-out of new rules for paid preparers. One of them is that as of next year we'll be required to have at least 15 hours per year of continuing professional education. This coupled with the fact that I wore my pinstripes today (I bought them a few years ago but this is the first time I've simultaneously had a use for them and been able to fit into them) appears to indicate that I am a professional. Cue recollections of articles about the ongoing expansion the word 'professional' until it includes a lot of people who have the aspiration of it but not the income to back it up; and I am all out of aspirations and I earn less than $15000 a year. Social aspirations are absurd - I'm not sure if they're more so in the UK (where people desperately try to avoid admitting that they're middle-class) or in the USA (where people who barely even qualify as dirt-poor ID as 'lower middle-class'). Given where I am and how much I get paid for what I do for a living, I think it most useful to state that I can't afford to be middle-class and probably never will be because the US middle-class is ceasing to exist, especially in my age-bracket, however much denial there may be from some quarters (lawyers are so schadenfreudy!) Not that this is much less true anywhere else; we are the jilted generation, worldwide.
Seasonal people are moving on from my other workplace; two of the four who I know to be leaving are doing so because they're joining the military. Now, I'm not an evil overlord (I just play one on the internet) but if I was trying to gradually shift a culture towards military rule I'd start by removing other routes to becoming/remaining middle-class.
-fyi I partly blame Caroline for this chain of thought, on that glorious Thursday last May; she complained of the increasing militarisation in the UK, even among radicals - people mentioning they'd been in the military and expecting praise for this rather than condemnation, militarised rituals at climate camps, etc. The one that rang warning bells for me was when Gordon Brown was talking about making the UK's newest bank holiday be a military one - I mean, wtf, we've got Remembrance Day to be creepy about for half of October-November, but I guess that's too much like noticing that the military is a sad place where lots of people die. The US has two military days - one for the living and one for the dead, of which 11/11 is paradoxically the former rather than the latter, so I now think that's what Gordy was aiming at (trufax, knowing me locally here in GA does indeed mean being subjected to a barrage of questions about local language and culture; I spent the whole of last year getting all my coworkers to tell me what x occasion meant and how people celebrated it and why.)
The other thing I tend to blank on (related to the praise expectation Caroline noted) is the describing of people who choose the military as a branch of employment as 'heroes' or otherwise praiseworthy - the kneejerk phrase in the US (I see this on FS surprisingly often when people mention that they're military) is 'thank you for your service' which, lolwat, thanks for making my life more dangerous by getting your ass coopted by a bunch of shitstirring Rapturists who really really want Texas oil to become profitable again and don't care how many bombs get set off in my hometown because of it? Uh, no, but I'm sure you're having a good time getting paid more than I ever will.
lunikilo: Dude, who can NOT ship the peach garden brotherhood?
lunikilo: tell me if there's ANYTHING more shippable than that?
lunikilo: LOTR elfy-poo romances don't count, btw
athene1miranda: ..........okay so you have a point
lunikilo: the whole I SHALL DIE FOR YOU
athene1miranda: ON THE SAME DAY AS YOU
lunikilo: and the whole, "although we were not born on the same day, may we DIE on the SAME DAY" bit
lunikilo: bitch please :D
Shipwars aside; v. light day today, only a few hours at works and there was bugger-all to do (which frankly makes me twitchy; if I am not actually doing anything useful I have no opportunity to demonstrate my worth and feel at risk of having my shifts cut, aah the joys of being hourly.) I slept 11 hours last night, too. So it's almost like having a day off.
I spent most of my shift studying the tax code (DM regards this as an acceptable slack-time activity, and I am endlessly curious), and was going over the rolling-out of new rules for paid preparers. One of them is that as of next year we'll be required to have at least 15 hours per year of continuing professional education. This coupled with the fact that I wore my pinstripes today (I bought them a few years ago but this is the first time I've simultaneously had a use for them and been able to fit into them) appears to indicate that I am a professional. Cue recollections of articles about the ongoing expansion the word 'professional' until it includes a lot of people who have the aspiration of it but not the income to back it up; and I am all out of aspirations and I earn less than $15000 a year. Social aspirations are absurd - I'm not sure if they're more so in the UK (where people desperately try to avoid admitting that they're middle-class) or in the USA (where people who barely even qualify as dirt-poor ID as 'lower middle-class'). Given where I am and how much I get paid for what I do for a living, I think it most useful to state that I can't afford to be middle-class and probably never will be because the US middle-class is ceasing to exist, especially in my age-bracket, however much denial there may be from some quarters (lawyers are so schadenfreudy!) Not that this is much less true anywhere else; we are the jilted generation, worldwide.
Seasonal people are moving on from my other workplace; two of the four who I know to be leaving are doing so because they're joining the military. Now, I'm not an evil overlord (I just play one on the internet) but if I was trying to gradually shift a culture towards military rule I'd start by removing other routes to becoming/remaining middle-class.
-fyi I partly blame Caroline for this chain of thought, on that glorious Thursday last May; she complained of the increasing militarisation in the UK, even among radicals - people mentioning they'd been in the military and expecting praise for this rather than condemnation, militarised rituals at climate camps, etc. The one that rang warning bells for me was when Gordon Brown was talking about making the UK's newest bank holiday be a military one - I mean, wtf, we've got Remembrance Day to be creepy about for half of October-November, but I guess that's too much like noticing that the military is a sad place where lots of people die. The US has two military days - one for the living and one for the dead, of which 11/11 is paradoxically the former rather than the latter, so I now think that's what Gordy was aiming at (trufax, knowing me locally here in GA does indeed mean being subjected to a barrage of questions about local language and culture; I spent the whole of last year getting all my coworkers to tell me what x occasion meant and how people celebrated it and why.)
The other thing I tend to blank on (related to the praise expectation Caroline noted) is the describing of people who choose the military as a branch of employment as 'heroes' or otherwise praiseworthy - the kneejerk phrase in the US (I see this on FS surprisingly often when people mention that they're military) is 'thank you for your service' which, lolwat, thanks for making my life more dangerous by getting your ass coopted by a bunch of shitstirring Rapturists who really really want Texas oil to become profitable again and don't care how many bombs get set off in my hometown because of it? Uh, no, but I'm sure you're having a good time getting paid more than I ever will.