What, you may ask, is "Office Halloween Angst"?

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A couple weeks ago the office "Fun Committee" came to angel_renewed and I, because we're the overt freaks with can-do moxie, and asked us for ideas for a haunted house to be set up in part of the office.  Okay, sure, we kicked some out.  "Oh, wait, we can't use a lot of plywood."  we kick out other ideas.  all of which will have to be built Thursday after-hours.  volunteers may or may not show up, and if they do, may or may not be worth their weight in ziplock bags full of donkey snot. (sunday afternoon was five-plus hours of doing up wizard of oz decorations for our part of the office. . . only to learn, this morning, that there won't -be- an inter-departmental decorating contest. . . thanks, knowing that ahead of time would have been great).

the fun committee and the other half of our "team" (two sub-teams in what's ostensibly "our group" - the doers are me, sil, and shaky, the useless dead weight on our team is cat, and there are five pieces of deadweight comprising the quality team, who would be utterly without redeeming values if two or three of them weren't fun to look at) have thus far proven to be either incompetent, unresponsive, or unable to find a clue when it's stapled to their eyebrows.

so, at this point, i'm willing to get slapped with the "not a team player" label by either a) going -completely- type A when it comes time to get things done and be very direct about telling people to either do what i tell them or get the fuck out of my way so i can get it done, or b) letting the dead weights try to do it without me, and if it sucks, that's not my fucking fault. *sigh*

hopefully this weekend, things will improve.  still have the sore hammys, and that's only gonna get worse tomorrow, because i'm taking delivery of 3300 lb worth of pavers so i can have a front walkway and pseudo-driveway.  pix will be posted in the usual location.

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[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Much with angst.

I'm there Thursday until 9pm. If it ain't done by then, they can do it without me and/or do it Friday am. I'm not giving up my Thursday night for a Haunted House which *will* suck. I still haven't gotten an answer as to whether I have to double duty as a bride of Dracula *and* the Wicked Witch.

In somewhat good news, Nicole confirmed today that going forward we *are* the fun committee. Because the existing committee is not so much with the fun.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Amen, cistern.

Of course, double-duty for you just involves going from "wearing a black dress" to "wearing a black dress and green makeup." heh.

i get to be the tin vampire. "bluh, bluh, i vant to suck your oilcan."