Perplexing

I can't read my blog or any of my friends from the work computer, but I can check the East Greenbush Blog my boss writes also on blogspot.  However, I can update mine.  Yeah, ok.

I just found out I have "quota" time that gives me 10 minute increments of "bad website" time.  Yay!  I can look at my blog in 10 minute increments.  That is kind of fun.

Odd Duck Out

My work posts are beginning to relate more and more to wikipedia reading I've done. Every time I get bored and start thinking, I come up with weird thoughts.  The first one was "What happens if you bite a vampire?"  My manager goes, "Google it".  I was like "I shall".  I didn't find the answer, but I really enjoyed the wiki entry.

As Professor Sandra Silberstein observes, Roosevelt's speech followed a well-established tradition of how "through rhetorical conventions, presidents assume extraordinary powers as the commander in chief, dissent is minimized, enemies are vilified, and lives are lost in the defense of a nation once again united under God."<sup>[14]

I wonder if Professor Sandra Silberstein thought about the lives lost by NOT going to war.  Innocent people died on December 7, 1941 and more would have continued to die if we hadn't done anything.  Some of them were military people who did sign up of their own accord, this is 100% true.  Others, however, were military wives, people who just happened to live in Hawaii, etc.  These people did not deserve to die and to not go to war would have been a travesty of the worst proportions.</sup>

University of Washington Professor and author Sandra Silberstein draws direct parallels between the language used by Roosevelt and Bush, highlighting a number of similarities between the Infamy Speech and Bush's presidential address of September 11.^[14]

This I find to be sort of stupid considering that many presidents have pulled forth other presidents speeches to make a point.  Franklin Delano himself purposely tried to reference the call to war from Wilson in WWI.  This, however, was absolutely ok as he was a Democrat.  I don't understand how there are double standards.  I myself am mostly conservative, but refuse to side with a party or officially label myself because I want to leave room for growth and changing my mind.  I think it's dumb that people rip apart people they don't agree with for things that someone they agree with has done and that's ok.

Boring AMs at Work

One of the earliest recordings of vampire activity came from the region of Istria in modern Croatia, in 1672.^[73] Local reports cited the local vampire Giure Grando of the village Khring near Tinjan as the cause of panic among the villagers.^[74] A former peasant, Guire died in 1656, however, local villagers claimed he returned from the dead and began drinking blood from the people and sexually harassing his widow. The village leader ordered a stake to be driven through his heart, but when the method failed to kill him, he was subsequently beheaded with better results.<sup>[75]


What kills me is that no one bothered to think that perhaps the husband had abused his wife in life and she just needed assurance that he was DEFINITELY dead.  I just feel like number 1 they were peasants, so people are automatically inclined to think poor people are difficult and number two he was probably abusive toward his wife.  Husbands in those days often were.


*Reference: wikipedia "vampires"


P.S.  "She is Nosferatu."  "She's Italian?"  20 points to the one who gets it.</sup>

Changes

My best friend at work, K.S-C, is abandoning me in 2 weeks.  I'm not mad, she's getting a job she wants so she can be happy.  That's super important to everyone, but I'm going to miss her.  She's the only person who is not only always nice to me (L is too), but K doesn't ever talk down to me and she always helps me, unless she's with a customer (and that's understandable).  I don't know how I'm going to get anything done in 2 weeks.  I don't think that I'll technically be allowed to call K once she leaves... work-related, I mean.  We're Facebook friends, so obviously we talk, but I think my manager would freak if I called K about work.

I just don't know what to expect.  K said that technically L defaults at the new head teller once she leaves.  There's a certain amount of experience required to become head teller (so I wouldn't qualify) and I feel as though my manager doesn't trust me, and I'm not sure she should.  I still feel like I bumble from time to time, so I wouldn't want to be in charge.  I think it took K a year to be HT because I have a 1,000 cash limit until 6 months and then after that I think I still have a limit.  I'm not sure I would even want to be HT.  There are a lot of things I need to think about (and not blog here in case this should be found by work people).

Jen - any thoughts?  I am definitely requesting your advice here.