Distracted from the world at large

[morsla]

Thanks to delphaeus:


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Hmmmm...


Things that distract me from the world are handy, right now - I'm not sure if I'd rather keep waiting to find things out, or find out that the answers are all bad. I've just sent off an email about my job status, and the fact that I have been paid around $4 an hour (before tax) for the last month, while I've been waiting for them to recognise that I'm here full time now.

I might get an answer that says "don't come in next week," or one that says "well, you've now clocked up four weeks' unpaid overtime - guess you shouldn't come in for a while." A holiday would be nice - but I'd like to get paid for the past month of work, so I can keep paying my rent, and buying food.

Humans can't live on stress alone, but everything else seems to cost something.

I've had this

Pushit

I will choke until I swallow...
Choke this infant here before me.
What is this but my reflection?
Who am I to judge and strike you down?

But you're
Pushing and shoving me.
You still love me and you pushit on me.

Rest your trigger on my finger,
bang my head upon the fault line.
Take care not to make me enter.
'cause if I do we both may disappear.

But you're pushing me,
Shoving me. Pushit on me.

Slipping back into the gap again.
I'm alive when you're touching me,
Alive when you're shoving me down.

But i'd trade it all
For just a little bit of
Piece of mind.

Put me somewhere I don't wanna be.
Seeing someplace I don't wanna see.
Never wanna see that place again.

Saw that gap again today
As you were begging me to stay.
Managed to push myself away,
And you, as well.

If, when I say I may fade like a sigh if I stay,
You minimize my movement anyway,
I must persuade you another way.

There's no love in fear.

Staring down the hole again.
Hands upon my back again.
Survival is my only friend.
Terrified of what may come.

Just remember I will always love you,
Even as I tear your fucking throat away.
But it will end no other way

in my head since I woke up this morning... I found my Salival boxed set yesterday, and lost myself in it for a few hours.


"I'd trade it all, for just a little peace of mind..."

Comments

[mousebane.livejournal.com]

$4 and hour? $#$#^! Is that for real? There's something illegal going on there.....

[morsla.livejournal.com]

'twould normally be more, but I'm only getting paid for one day a week. Pay office is veeeery slow in acknowledging that my project wants me in five days a week, despite my working full-time every summer for the last three years.

*bangs head against wall*

[mousebane.livejournal.com]

That's pretty damn slow.
Do these people have a few screws loose?

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Urgh - just spent half an hour wading through the HR system. I feel dirty...

That *is* unusually slow, even for here. Makes me wonder just how closely it is related to the other problem - that of "them" not wanting me working here.

If those in charge had their way, the entire organisation would be a call-centre in Canberra, which outsourced all work and just took a comission on all the invoices. Scientists are a surpirisingly low priority for an organisation that built itself on science.

[mousebane.livejournal.com]

Where do you work again?

distractions from times of trouble

[delphaeus.livejournal.com]

Well, I would shop for shiny things, but I won't suggest that at the moment. *sends hate vibes to morsla's HR department*

Other favourite distractions include:
vodka (I promised mousebane I'd lay off the wine *g*)
loud music played loudly, speaking of which, can I borrow some music?

Re: distractions from times of trouble

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. There may not be vodka, but there will be beer tonight... meeting tarleon & others for dinner & game, and Ong's happens to have a licensed bar.

Music? Sure. Everything on my computer is in WMA at the moment, though, which I'm not sure if you can use. I found a nice program which converts batches of files from one format to another, but discovered that it only does 75% of the file - they want money for the full version.

When I start putting things into easy-to-swap MP3, I'll burn you a cd worth.