Don't wanna.

[Abstract]

Motivation = Zero

Has been for ages, uni's really suffering too.

Too apathetic to care.

Damn uni.

Me too. It seems as if I have felt this way for a couple of years now.

 

[crdean1]

Since all of you asked, ha, I went to work all last week from 8-4:30, then took a mini-semester at school from 5-10pm Monday through Friday, with before and after Saturdays 8-5pm....And I'm married. I didn't see my wife all week.

I came back to work yesterday, and spent most of the day on MR....Well, I guess today too....

Well...Off to lunch.

 

[efoto]

Today feels like Monday....that is, I have a case of the Mondays despite this being a Tuesday but I certainly do not want to work today.

I have been in a meeting since 7am today, scheduled to go until 230pm however I guarantee we will go over as we always do. Next week (or the one after, not sure) we have three straight days of brainstorming ALL DAY which translates to 730-530 because they want that extra time out of us for these few days. It's all BS, they just try to package it as a necessity but it's all BS.

 

[eva01]

Yeah, it is nasty outside here too, lots of discs to work on - and I do miss the office environment a little, too.

hmm its rainy outside here too.

the environment is going to drown us all. well i have done my one deed of the day. Go to the dentist, now i think it is time for lunch and watching more Naruto

 

[Nickygoat]

All you students scrounging off the state & doing nothing
Having said that I still have 21 days holiday to take before 31/12, starting tomorrow at 2.30 , so no I don't feel like working either.

That information I don't think I'll ever need to know.....

But can anyone tell me this - what caused the change from Dukes, Viscount, Marquess and Earls to regular (somewhat) individuals? I know this is OT - but its also a thread about not doing work, so I think that fits.

D

Staying off topic - the first change was the Reform Act of 1832 which changed the limits for enfranchisement (basically including a lot of house owners), followed by the Second Reform Act of 1867 which gave the right to vote to all home owners, up until the Representation of the People Act 1918 which gave the right to all men and some women. Females had to wait until 1928 for the complete right to vote.
Basically each Act let the commoners vote , until they reached the top of the tree.
And with that I'm knackered

 

[devilot]

All you students scrounging off the state & doing nothing

Nope! Not I! I don't get financial aid, well, other than the kind that comes from the parental type.

 

[dcv]

Nope, I have no desire to work.... yet I have loads to do...

Wasted a load of time this afternoon trying to troubleshoot what I originally deemed to be a problem with my Mac's internet connection... turned out to be a DNS server outage. so have fallen a little behind with work.

Just got a call from the office asking me to come in tomorrow morning to help spec out a new piece of work (i usually work from home). Aaaaaaarrrrrggggghhh! means i have to be up early and get on the tube...

 

[iSaint]

Haven't had a job in almost a year. I've gone back to school to get my Masters in Teaching, but still have been looking for work. The job situation is a sad state...overqualified for this, but underqualified for that. Some days I accomplish so much either in the way of Mr Mom and Househusband, or schoolwork, etc. But somedays the naps come too easy! However, I have no desire to go back to cubicle world.

 

[macartistkel]

We were using Heidelberg Delta Technology for years, but it was clear that Heidy was leaving it behind in favor of Prinect (no advancement in trap engine, "beyond" poor pdf support, lots of 3rd party black boxes required to export Delta List for proofing/plating). We switched to Esko-Graphics' Scope workflow last year, and find it works very well for us. The trapping is beautifully done, impo is pretty easy (quite similar to Preps), re-mapping colors is a breeze, and DLT proofing is pretty easy on folks used to checking film. We use Acrobat Pro 7 for proofing.
We also looked hard at Rampage, and could have gone either way, really.

Oh that is funny..I used Rampage for YEARS---I didn't like it though...and Preps sucked big time, but again we do mostly flat work here, no impo, so I just really hated using that program. We had numerous meetings with Eskographics (and personally if I had the final say then I would have chosen them -- I liked how everything is integrated with Adobe Ilustrator too--and the trapping was perfect. They sent me a demo one time and I loved it.) Creo Systems is really great too---kills anything Rampage and Preps did so I cannot complain after the switch! It is a total pdf workflow so we use a lot of Acrobat 7 too!

Thanks for writing back...hope the transition starts going better for you!!

 

[jsw]

I just spent almost three hours listening to a Finn with poor English skills discuss, over a phone connection, strategic plans for phone development, accompanied by poorly done slides.

I would trade my morning with almost anyone here (I say "almost" on the off chance that someone has attended a four-hour long Finn-led meeting).

I have zero desire to work now....

 

[jdechko]

I dont really feel like working today either... Ive been here for 4 hours already... my commute sucks (2 hours each way, driving, in Atlanta traffic... fun stuff). Anyway, thats what MR is for

 

[efoto]

I just spent almost three hours listening to a Finn with poor English skills discuss, over a phone connection, strategic plans for phone development, accompanied by poorly done slides.

I would trade my morning with almost anyone here (I say "almost" on the off chance that someone has attended a four-hour long Finn-led meeting).

I have zero desire to work now....

I would say I pretty much tie you for horrible mornings. The meeting I was/am in (730-230) was French-led for quite some time on video-conference, but still horrible due to both accent and difference of opinion for the project which was supposed to be sorted out already so we wouldn't waste four hours arguing on the videophone about it

 

[solvs]

try working as a temp.

Also a temp. Work a lot of long term temp jobs. I'm hoping to make a short about it (whever Apple releases those new G5s). After I get my car paid off and buy a new Mac, I'm outta here. I can't stand it any longer. I've been so overloaded with work lately. It's just not worth it anymore. I guess I better get back to work now, I've got another High Priority call.

Guess it's better than being unemployed... but not really.

 

[jsw]

I would say I pretty much tie you for horrible mornings. The meeting I was/am in (730-230) was French-led for quite some time on video-conference, but still horrible due to both accent and difference of opinion for the project which was supposed to be sorted out already so we wouldn't waste four hours arguing on the videophone about it

OK... you win for duration, but I'll take a French accent over a Finnish one any day. "MO-bile VEEE-pee-en sewft-vare". Etc. etc. etc. Drives me insane.

Edit: and at least you can post while in it!

 

[Chappers]

Work - today - yuk

I think I have PAASS

Pre Apple Announcement Stress Syndrome

Tomorrow I may be sucked into a vortex of anticipation.

Or maybe i just feel lazy today and tomorrow will be just another day.

 

[jsw]

Work - today - yuk

I think I have PAASS

Pre Apple Announcement Stress Syndrome

Tomorrow I may be sucked into a vortex of anticipation.

Or maybe i just feel lazy today and tomorrow will be just another day.

No... tomorrow won't be just another day. It'll either be a day of "oh, man... they call that a 'one more thing' announcement? iBook socks? geez" or a day of "well, if I consolidate these three credit cards and go sell a kidney and go without heat all winter, then..." sort of thoughts.

But it won't be just another day.

 

[efoto]

OK... you win for duration, but I'll take a French accent over a Finnish one any day. "MO-bile VEEE-pee-en sewft-vare". Etc. etc. etc. Drives me insane.

Edit: and at least you can post while in it!

Yes I can , wireless is a lovely thing. Thankfully our IT department was easily convinced that I needed this device online, just lovely.

 

[jsw]

Yes I can , wireless is a lovely thing. Thankfully our IT department was easily convinced that I needed this device online, just lovely.

I feel a mix of envy and hatred for you.

We have wireless, but they didn't want our laptops open because it would be 'distracting'. Apparently, to the Finn on the voice-only connection....

 

[Mac_Freak]

I don't feel like working today too, on the other hand, I have no stuff to work on,

I am finished with classes for today, , Wednesday and Thursday no school and on Friday easy classes . Oh and today I was offered a job as a peer tutor at a my college's ePortfolio Lab, just need to met with the head guy there and discus few things. Not bad considering that I took only few web design classes in H.S.

 

[efoto]

I feel a mix of envy and hatred for you.

We have wireless, but they didn't want our laptops open because it would be 'distracting'. Apparently, to the Finn on the voice-only connection....

I have mixed envy and hatred for myself too, so join the club.

All of the rapid clicking sounds would have made him quite paranoid....but you could have just told them off as being static in the line

 

[wongulous]

I skipped class today.

 

[killuminati]

I have no desire to go to school.

But then again, I don't have to. My teachers have been on strike the last 5 days .

 

[jelloshotsrule]

Also a temp. Work a lot of long term temp jobs. I'm hoping to make a short about it (whever Apple releases those new G5s). After I get my car paid off and buy a new Mac, I'm outta here. I can't stand it any longer. I've been so overloaded with work lately. It's just not worth it anymore. I guess I better get back to work now, I've got another High Priority call.

Guess it's better than being unemployed... but not really.

not to be too personal... but why are you a temp? and what sort of work do you do? how long has it been? etc... maybe we could collaborate??

the funny thing about my temping experiences is that i haven't had nearly enough work to stay busy... it's crazy. i can do nothing for 3 days, then do one thing that takes 10 minutes (i stretch it out for 3 hours) and get high praise.... ahh

i'm an "office" temp by the way. though i guess that was probably clear...

 

[Mike Teezie]

I'm with you, iGary.

I have 2 design assignments due tomorrow. Another test on Thursday I haven't so much as cracked a book for.

At work, I'm supposed to be starting on overhauling the entire retail side of our website. I have no ideas for that yet.

And here I sit, browsing around on MR.

 

[CanadaRAM]

I'm not working today because I have an industrial case of the trots so maybe that will make you smile (or grimace).

That would expplain the avatar...

I had a dental appointment this AM too, but it was amazing... the traditional slow injection of anesthetic, then 2 minutes of drilling, a dab of something on a stick, and a minute with a light-curing 'flashlight' that looks like a glue gun but they hold up orange plastic shields to protect their eyes, and "That's it, it's all sealed up, you can go". Let's hear it for advanced light-curing polymers, gang.

So I'm here at the office (after having booked off the whole morning) with nothing scheduled. Unfortunately, the cable company wheeled up and unscrewed their 'transformer' from the telephone pole so we were without Internet until just now.

So yippee for some unexpected free time. Unfortunately it was more than made up for with an iMac G5 over the weekend -- 5 hours on Friday setting up and transferring data and doing Software Update over a slow 'broadband' connection way the hell and gone out a rural road, and the iMac decides to pack it in -- blue screen, nothing else.

So bring it home for the weekend, reininstall Tiger, do it all over again and ... 8 Gb into a 10 Gb data transfer it does it again, blue screen, won't boot. DOA POS... DIATH anyway. Send it back, and we'll do it all again when the replacement machine arrives (Store had only one 20" iMac G5).