some guys are really stupid. it amazes me that they can reach full-grown adulthood and still be oblivious in how they treat women. yesterday, a fellow bbd employee (who i don't know at all) added me as a contact on linkedin, then proceeded to write to me and tell me that i'm a cutie. my first reaction was to just roll my eyes and delete his email. but then i thought "no! i shouldn't just let that go, i know that by company guidelines that would be considered sexual harassment". so i wrote him back and told him that linkedin is not a dating website and that he shouldn't speak to his colleagues that way. this morning i found that he'd written me back apologizing if he'd offended me. what really strikes me odd is that someone would think comments like that are distasteful only if someone is offended. to me it's not an issue of being offended, but rather an issue of being appropriate. he's actually lucky that i only wrote him saying he crossed a line and didn't forward his email to our human resources department - they'd take that very seriously. i'm sure the guy meant no harm, but i doubt he gave any thought to how it might be perceived or received. it was completely self-indulgent. it reminded me of guys yelling out car windows at girls on the street.
brendan started working the soil yesterday at the exile. he's slowly tearing up the grass to make room for our garden. it's slow going but he's doing an awesome job. so far he's found 23 cents and 3 old-fashioned hand-tooled nails. i'm curious what else he might find.
i've been feeling pretty lethargic in the evenings these days. little desire to do anything and a short attention span. last night i passed out on the couch for about a half hour then got up feeling much better. i suspect that having a shadow at work is really draining me. i usually juice-up at work with all my alone time. thankfully, after my nap i did manage to get SOMETHING done. i've been struggling with my new computer because many of my music files were missing and i couldn't figure out why. i'm quite pleased to have figured out how to transfer files between the two profiles. it was a tedious process but thankfully one i only have to do once.
brendan started working the soil yesterday at the exile. he's slowly tearing up the grass to make room for our garden. it's slow going but he's doing an awesome job. so far he's found 23 cents and 3 old-fashioned hand-tooled nails. i'm curious what else he might find.
i've been feeling pretty lethargic in the evenings these days. little desire to do anything and a short attention span. last night i passed out on the couch for about a half hour then got up feeling much better. i suspect that having a shadow at work is really draining me. i usually juice-up at work with all my alone time. thankfully, after my nap i did manage to get SOMETHING done. i've been struggling with my new computer because many of my music files were missing and i couldn't figure out why. i'm quite pleased to have figured out how to transfer files between the two profiles. it was a tedious process but thankfully one i only have to do once.
don't stand so close to me.
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