Wednesday Giggle

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Wednesday Giggle
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Wed, 05-16-2007 - 4:18pm

So, lately I've been one of those "cell phone" people that I hate so much. You know..... the ones who carry the darned thing around everywhere? It started when my uncle was sick and I wanted my aunt to be able to reach me and then I kept doing it because of some things I'm doing outside work that require immediate attention once in a while. But I keep it on vibrate during the day because I hate it when I'm in meetings and people's phones ring!

So I usually don't have pants pockets but have on a light jacket with pockets in the front because it's cold inside. The other day it was hot in here, so I stuffed the phone into my bra against my chest. It's a small KRAZR phone so you can barely see it. Then the air conditioning kicked in so I put on my jacket.

When I went to leave for lunch, I couldn't find my phone. Looked everywhere. So I'm in our lab, frantic, and my boss and coworkers are helping me look and one of them says "I'll just call you and we'll hear it ring." He dials and I started cracking up and said, "Oh, I know where it is!" and they all asked where, so while I turned beet red, I reached into my shirt and pulled it out.

My boss now says, "Is that a cell phone in your bra, or are you just happy to see me?" on a regular basis.

I'm sure someone from the outside would consider that harrassment, but I just htink it's hilarious. My faux pas turns into a company joke!

~calla~  mom to rosie and gracie

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Fri, 05-18-2007 - 8:50am
*LMAO* This is a howl. You with your biology degrees are a working chemist, and I'm putting my chemistry degree to good use as a biologist (have been for my whole career.... HATE chemistry..... but there was a single class i couldn't fit into my schedule for the bio degree..... degree in chemistry, minors in biology and micro)

~calla~  mom to rosie and gracie

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Fri, 05-18-2007 - 9:30pm

Wow Calla... is almost like we should switch... at least based on our degrees and then fields... how funny is that?

 


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Fri, 05-18-2007 - 10:21pm

It's it odd how sometimes.... someone... can make us question it all?


Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~

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Sat, 05-19-2007 - 9:05am
Hey, maybe we should start a "science women surviving divorce and separation" board. I was bio with a chem minor too, only I went the academic route. Teach at a mid-sized school and do research on the side. I teach a women in science course once in a while and it's amazing the number of women scientists who are divorced or never married. My fave was a divorced woman scientist who said (and I paraphrase because I can never find this back to get the exact quote): You cannot have it all. There just isn't time. I had my kids, my science, and my husband, and one of them had to go!
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Sat, 05-19-2007 - 10:38am
That's funny!

Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~

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Sun, 05-20-2007 - 12:26am
Too funny... so that makes at least three of us here then... we'll survive together!

 


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Sun, 05-20-2007 - 6:57pm

*LMAO*

Is that why I'M divorced???

But I'm hoping that I CAN have it all in a few years. I have the kids and the science down pat and sweetie is working out in there on the alternate weeks without kids. He's a scientist, too, so I'm hoping!

~calla~  mom to rosie and gracie

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Sun, 05-20-2007 - 7:00pm

Hmmmmmmm. Was my XH smothering? Sort of! because he couldn't really do anything alone and I had to guide everything. BUT.....

Smothering implies, to me, someone sitting on top of me, preventing me from breathing.

XH was more suffocating.... taking all the air out of the room.

~calla~  mom to rosie and gracie

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Sun, 05-20-2007 - 8:29pm
Oh, mine was definitely smothering.... He almost had a leash wrapped around my neck (and would have if he thought he could've gotten away with it!)

Karen ~ wildlucky4me


Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~

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Mon, 05-21-2007 - 12:16am

I think that someone "in the biz" is a far more potentially successful mate. It's just too weird of a life for a 9-5er to understand. That was one of my STBX's issues. That my job was a job, and I should be home at a reasonable hour every day like other wives.

Good luck with the science sweetie. :)