It’s only gotten worse in the past 20 years, Vince! This is an interesting little series from 1993 that I will begin here today. I don’t think it has ever run on the Web site; maybe you can tell me. It generated a lot of interest when it appeared in newspapers though. It seems a lot of people could identify with having a special friend at the office.
90 responses to “Over Coffee”
Often called a “Work Spouse.”
I have an all-female staff, so I can’t have a “special friend” at the office. If I did, all the others would be drawing straws to see which one got to neuter me. Figuratively. I think.
Besides, I wouldn’t do that anyway. As I once said, having an all-female staff is like having multiple wives, except that I don’t get to sleep with them. đ
Not sure if OF is building up or cooling off right now, but am going back to see.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
I don’t get today’s TIP comic:
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/
They seem to be playing a party game. If so, I’ve not been to the right party[-ies].
Peace, emb
@emb: Google f marry kill and you will be enlightened.
Chris:
How about âyour âmost valuable playersâ freedomâ? Pigeon-holing takes many forms; honors students are real people, too, not just nerds or dweebs.
Peace, emb
George: Thanks. Weird!
Peace, emb
eMb, it’s also called “Shag, Marry, Kill” for the less profanity minded, and can be quite funny sometimes. I was at one gathering of lady friends (all of us over 30) where we played using characters from Shakespeare’s plays.
If I am recalling correctly, this particular series was a “Road Not Taken” moment. As I watched events unfold, it looked like Our Bard would indeed be following another mantra of the ’90s. But at the last second, he veered away and never looked back. I am very, very grateful that he did, and it has made all the difference.
About the time this series originally ran I was working as either the secretary to the shipping manager or was the assistant manager of the shipping department, depending on how my boss was feeling on any given day. I was more or less the office wife, as I was the one to make the coffee, make sure there was milk in the mini-fridge, and dust the boss’s desk. I also had to listen to the boss complain about his wife always taking the kids to visit her parents in New York and staying for a month at a time. I drew the line at helping him with his “problems” while she was gone though.
EMB: Apparently, your TIP answer is at http://fmarrykill.net/
Before Loon became a work from home wife, I would have lunch with her assistant occassionally just to keep our calendars in sync.
Jean, might be wife was gone alot because hubby wasn’t good at ‘problem’ resolution. đ
Cosmic history has just been made: within the past hour the probe Philae has touched down on a comet. Cool!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/comet-landing-countdown/
Bryan, very cool. Temperatures below -50° C.
A good friend of me and my wife was Sr. Andre’, a Benedictine nun who taught for 15 years in the college English dept. One time Sr. and I were off to a statewide across-disciplines writing workshop at another college, and Sr. and I stopped for some reason at the hospital’s med-surg floor where wife was head nurse. Wife introduced Sr. as my ‘office wife.’ Some of the RC nurses there were scandalized. Sr. loved it.
This fits well with today’s online cartoon:. http://mashable.com/2014/11/12/cat-perspective/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-GCurrents-All-Full&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-GCurrents-All-Full&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss
Bryan – I originally read your post as ‘Comic history has just been made: within the past hour the probe Philae…” and I thought you were linking to the xkcd “live” comic. It’s a fun read, especially if you have time to go back and click through the 130+ live panels (it doesn’t really take that long.)
I think webcam is acting ~ OF is gonna blow.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
I thin my OF didn’t, but that’s a nice streak of rime on the trees of the slope to the NW
Try again: I think maybe OF didnât, but thatâs a nice streak of rime on the trees on the slope to the NW, from the geyser at the bottom of the slope. The steam was going upslope about 15 min. ago, and webcam was close up in that dir.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
When Mike was a salesman on the road all the time he spent so much time in West Texas that I always joked he had a family in Amarillo that we didn’t know about because they saw him more than I did.
Sometimes that isn’t a funny joke, of course, as it turns out to be true.
Love, Jackie
Quick explanation of sudden absence. Mike has a tumor/cancer in his thoracic spine, along with dozens of others now because his previous cancer center stopped treating him abruptly and in 90 days he is suddenly ridden with them. We have been trying to get back into treatment, get tests run.
Suddenly the pain got so severe and he was losing ability to breath. I talked to everyone I could get on phone and best advice I got was to load him in ambulance or car and get him to ER. Which I did, the ER of hospital we like and where most of his doctors are part of a group. (Except the cancer ones and somehow he was not going to the group he had asked to be sent to that was part of the hospital)
Within minutes he was in ER hooked to monitors, tested, admitted and being treated. In hours he had a new oncologist and received treatments, pain management, medications. He has now been sent home and has an entirely new oncology group, the one we’d asked for back in March. We will drive in daily for radiation and we have a meeting with chemo doctor Tuesday.
I need some sleep but I think I am angry at myself as well as the first group because my logical mind knew what they were telling him was impossible. But my emotional mind wanted to believe they had enacted a miracle, despite knowing better.
Rant over. Now we really do need a miracle or at least we have concerned and caring physicians which was what we wanted from the beginning.
Love, Jackie
Oh Jackie! What a turn of events! Try to get some rest and best wishes for Mike.
Want the Village to know I went back and read every single post and so nice to hear from so many voices. I especially want to thank our servicemen and women, their spouses, their parents, all who have served our country. When I came out of the hospital parking lot today I saw that ubiquitous “Happy Veterans’ Day” sign and asked myself, couldn’t they just say “Thank You”?
I know that having never known a father because he died before I was born in WWII it has always seemed a somber day, although I am also thankful for those who did survive and served.
JJ has always done some extremely appropriate strips in honor of veterans and I thank him for them all. Bill Mauldin was a great hero to me as a kid and growing up, and we have talked a lot about the classic strips like “Steve Canyon” that featured military personnel.
Good night and God bless, Love, Jackie
Jackie, I am truly sorry to hear about Mike’s setback. With you having been silent for over 48 hours, I was afraid that something like that might have been going on. I am, however, happy that he is now being treated by physicians in whom he and you obviously has confidence, and who just as obviously have great concern for his well-being.
Needless to say, he will continue to be in my thoughts and prayers, as will you and the rest of the family. And there is certainly no reason to be angry at yourself for having hope. Continue to do so.