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textualdevianceVery tired, especially since I was working until 2 this morning (well, technically, yesterday morning) on the paper, and needed wind-down time after that before I could sleep. So only about six hours. I know some people can run on that, but not me. I'm zombified.
But I'm in a good mood. Spent the evening at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrdorbin's place with much of the gang, and had a spiffy time playing silly games and laughing my ass off. Good to see everyone again after so much time. I need to socialize more, dammit.
Recorded BSG and must watch that asap tomorrow, as I hear it's intense and wonderful. Then I really have to buckle down and do that site mockup, even though I'll have to do it the half-assed way until I can figure out how to make the CSS work with the host's component system.
I did find out I'm probably losing my scholarship. They wanted to require me to be full time not just for this term but for all terms this year. Uh. Yeah. Not gonna happen. Not if I want to get any sort of GPA that would allow me to ever consider grad school in this lifetime. Not that I want to do that now. I just want the option to do so later on, and don't want to fuck myself over just for a measley $1k.
The training seminar was boring and a little annoying.
The whole gray area thing makes me nervous. I really feel that it should be made more clear, from a legal standpoint, that people who are likely to be offended by any sort of remotely sexual commentary need to speak up about that. Because yes, of course full-blown discussions of anatomy and technique aren't appropriate in any workplace, but I'm not interested in coddling someone who's going to blanch at the word "vagina" if she's not going to bother saying something about that. Quid pro quo, getting grabby, leering at someone--those are all no-brainers. It's the naughty banter thing that gets dicey. And the key component of this is the whole "non-consensual" thing. Flirting in the office is legal so long as all parties involved or witness to same are ok with it. But if someone has a problem with it, honestly, she needs to say so. Reading body language only goes so far, and if you're just sitting there quietly observing, I have no idea if you're just calmly bemused or stunned and horrified. Honey, you're not entitled to everything in life being completely purified of anything having to do with sex. If you want to live in that kind of bubble, go join a convent. My responsibility in the scenario is to shut up if you ask me to. Your responsibility is to ask, instead of assuming that everyone shares your standards for moral purity. You ARE outnumbered, and your standards ARE much more strict than most people. If you can't function with that knowledge, then there's no reason you should be working in the real world--much less in a profession where adult topics come up as part of the job almost daily.
(None of this is aimed at any current co-workers, btw. It's just hypothetical. The idea of having to work with some prissy twit in a newsroom makes me gag.)
Meh. Tired and rambly, but wanted to get those thoughts out of my head so I can sleep instead of muse on them.
G'night.
zzzzzzzz.......
But I'm in a good mood. Spent the evening at
mrdorbin's place with much of the gang, and had a spiffy time playing silly games and laughing my ass off. Good to see everyone again after so much time. I need to socialize more, dammit. Recorded BSG and must watch that asap tomorrow, as I hear it's intense and wonderful. Then I really have to buckle down and do that site mockup, even though I'll have to do it the half-assed way until I can figure out how to make the CSS work with the host's component system.
I did find out I'm probably losing my scholarship. They wanted to require me to be full time not just for this term but for all terms this year. Uh. Yeah. Not gonna happen. Not if I want to get any sort of GPA that would allow me to ever consider grad school in this lifetime. Not that I want to do that now. I just want the option to do so later on, and don't want to fuck myself over just for a measley $1k.
The training seminar was boring and a little annoying.
The whole gray area thing makes me nervous. I really feel that it should be made more clear, from a legal standpoint, that people who are likely to be offended by any sort of remotely sexual commentary need to speak up about that. Because yes, of course full-blown discussions of anatomy and technique aren't appropriate in any workplace, but I'm not interested in coddling someone who's going to blanch at the word "vagina" if she's not going to bother saying something about that. Quid pro quo, getting grabby, leering at someone--those are all no-brainers. It's the naughty banter thing that gets dicey. And the key component of this is the whole "non-consensual" thing. Flirting in the office is legal so long as all parties involved or witness to same are ok with it. But if someone has a problem with it, honestly, she needs to say so. Reading body language only goes so far, and if you're just sitting there quietly observing, I have no idea if you're just calmly bemused or stunned and horrified. Honey, you're not entitled to everything in life being completely purified of anything having to do with sex. If you want to live in that kind of bubble, go join a convent. My responsibility in the scenario is to shut up if you ask me to. Your responsibility is to ask, instead of assuming that everyone shares your standards for moral purity. You ARE outnumbered, and your standards ARE much more strict than most people. If you can't function with that knowledge, then there's no reason you should be working in the real world--much less in a profession where adult topics come up as part of the job almost daily.
(None of this is aimed at any current co-workers, btw. It's just hypothetical. The idea of having to work with some prissy twit in a newsroom makes me gag.)
Meh. Tired and rambly, but wanted to get those thoughts out of my head so I can sleep instead of muse on them.
G'night.
zzzzzzzz.......
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