Yep. (Bunch of awesome, too, though sometimes that's really, really hard to see.) - Jennifer Dittrich

Mostly I like people, but even awesome people are lame sometimes, and now that always brings this IT Crowd quote to mind. Somehow, it makes me feel better about the reality that everyone is a bastard at some point, and my uncanny ability to get in front of bastardizing. - Lo

I do think YOU'RE awesome, JD :) - Lo

This is pretty much my motto. - Steve C, Team Marina

You're awesome too, Lo! I love The IT Crowd so much :) - Jennifer Dittrich

GROUP HUG - Lo

If I may vent about what prompted this today, there's this girl who works upstairs from the kitchen. We're on the employee council together, and she seems cool. Sometimes I take her cupcakes & banana bread. One day I garnered my courage & asked her if we could hang out sometime. I invited her to a party I was having, gave her my phone # and address. She didn't come, but asked me to invite her to future events. I have; she never came to any. I see her OFTEN, at work & around town. I decide, being me, to be blunt. It's scary, but I outright tell her I got the vibe she wasn't really interested, and that's fine, I won't bother her more again. *every* time she has specifically indicated that she wants to be invited, wants to get out & do stuff, and it's just that Thursday nights don't work for her, etc, etc. So I was trying to throw a small surprise birthday party for her (it was last week, so she'd be surprised). Then I found out that she had an enormous birthday & invited half the town... but not me and/or my husband. I ran into her at the store WHILE SHE WAS SHOPPING FOR THE PARTY. Damn! I mean, damn! I really put myself out there, was up-front & honest about my inability to read social subtleties, and asked her to be straight with me. WTF. I've been up and down this roller coaster like 10 times, but you know what? She's never accepted any of my invitations, never gave me her number, never invited me anywhere... the evidence conflicts so badly with what she says that I just give up. What the hell is wrong with people? I get being introverted. I really am, so are the people I like the most, and so I've learned to go really far out of my way to befriend folks who seem neat to me. NEVER has it gone so badly! - Lo

Sorry about that. The good news is, I love my team to death, even if everyone else in the company is ultra-cliquish and refuses to socialize with the kitchen underclass. So maybe it's "people who aren't bakers... what a bunch of bastards!" - Lo

Aww, Lo ((hugs)). Believe me - it's her, not you. As hard as it is you are right, it's time to cut your losses and move on. It's her loss. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Thanks :-) I know it's her loss, that's part of why it's frustrating... but that's life. At least I don't have to work with her directly. - Lo

:( - edythe