Dear So and So

**indysteel** · 02-29-2012, 11:42 AM

Dear convoluted and thorny legal issue: You're making my head hurt. I know I get paid to sort this kind of a thing out, but could the Westlaw gods please drop a case in my lap that's directly on-point? Thanks.

**bmccasland** · 02-29-2012, 01:33 PM

Dear Landscape Architect that graced us with her presence at today's project meeting:

1. You are NOT, repeat NOT the Project Manager. So nit-picking about other department's project schedule doesn't matter.
2. The project is a ecosystem restoration project, NOT an urban landscape project. Therefore beavers and flooding could happen, get over it.

Dear Self,
Next project team meeting, sit next to the Sargent Major - his calm demeanor will keep you from throttling the Landscape Architect as mentioned above.

Dear Sargent Major,
I'm really glad that life landed you in our office.

Self again - remember to play nice in the sandbox. You can't throw the sand in someone's eyes.

**lph** · 02-29-2012, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by bmccasland

Therefore beavers and flooding could happen, get over it.

You're funny

Sounds like some of our meetings. "Yes, power plants are visible. No, it doesn't necessarily help slapping ye olde fashion panelling on the outside and grass on the roof."

**alexis_the_tiny** · 03-01-2012, 12:53 AM

Dear lovely people on this thread,

you all made me LOL big time which I really needed after my week.

Dear work,

My room has some kids with really, really high behavioral needs. And I say that after having observed classes elsewhere. Sure, my kids can read and write but some of them STILL HAVE BIG BEHAVIORAL ISSUES. I can get maybe 15 minutes of teaching in a 4 hour day and those 15 minutes are conducted trying to make myself heard over the singing, screaming, flying objects and things being pushed over in the class. "You guys are still doing pretty ok" is NOT what I expect to hear from the intervention specialists simply because there are management issues.

**lph** · 03-01-2012, 05:16 AM

Dear applicants to the position of my closest co-worker:

why, oh why are you applying for a position where you have to write - lots, coherently, and building up to a logically bombproof conclusion - if you can't even write a half-page application well? I've really tried to be nice, I know many of you are young and inexperienced, but the amount of crap I've had to wade through is just appalling. Youth is no excuse for being a pompous a**. Or writing sentences without a verb.

**Catrin** · 03-01-2012, 08:07 AM

Dear Neck/Cervical Spine,

Thank you for improving as much as you have. You are probably 85% healed from the mtb trail fall/whiplash injury last October. I've been good, though I should do more stretching - that has fallen by the wayside since I was released from PT. Time to get back to it.

Bottom line, I want to ride my mountain bike this year and NOT on the road! Please don't make make me start wondering if I sold the wrong bike, it would be a shame if I only had one lonely mountain bike season because of you.

**shootingstar** · 03-03-2012, 12:13 PM

Bloggers: Please don't put on your home page, a menu selection: "My Bucket List". Life isn't always like neat, perfect checklist.

Actually reading someone else's to do list in life...is not what I came to visit your blog. I want to read about how you are experiencing life --in the now/recent past.

**Owlie** · 03-03-2012, 12:37 PM

Dear heart (in general, not mine):
Why are you so vulnerable to toxic effects? Could you work on that, so that I don't have quite so much to memorize in two weeks?

Love,
A student

**shootingstar** · 03-03-2012, 05:40 PM

And I wish only more cycling women-bloggers could comment on my cyclewrite blog (I'll comment on yours too. But I've nearly given up...since very rare others comment on mine.)

It's very ironic: I get way more comments from other people, but it's very rare from cyclists.

Let me know what I'm doing wrong.

**Blueberry** · 03-03-2012, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by shootingstar

And I wish only more cycling women-bloggers could comment on my cyclewrite blog (I'll comment on yours too. But I've nearly given up...since very rare others comment on mine.)

It's very ironic: I get way more comments from other people, but it's very rare from cyclists.

Let me know what I'm doing wrong.

Maybe cyclists are too busy riding? Seriously, I have very little time to read blogs. I ignore lots of the new threads on TE that seem to be started "for the sake of discussion." I gate myself a lot more on the internet than I used to to preserve time for other things (I'm working tonight, and taking a break - the only reason I'm on TE now). I really don't read many cycling blogs - I'm very picky. I also tend to read what I read through an RSS feed - and commenting requires opening in a web browser - which I usually don't do.

Are you inviting comments? I tend to see blogs are one way conversations, not two way. I've never considered commenting an obligation, or a badge of honor. Why does it matter to you if people comment on your blog? Or your forum posts?

PS - I like Bucket Lists. I see them as goals - or a roadmap for how I want to live life going forward. No - life might not fit perfectly into them, but.... If you don't like that perspective, maybe read other blogs?

**shootingstar** · 03-03-2012, 06:17 PM

I like Bucket Lists. I see them as goals - or a roadmap for how I want to live life going forward. No - life might not fit perfectly into them, but.... If you don't like that perspective, maybe read other blogs?

That's what I do: I leave the blog.
I see participating in TE forums in whatever "goals" we discuss very different since it's casual conversation. Not flashing the bucket list every time one logs into the TE forums.

I guess once I leave my job (where I have to aim towards specific goals/deadlines), I tend to adopt a totally different attitude when reading other people's blogs for leisure/recreation.

No, it's not a big deal that very few cyclists (which was what I was referring specifically), comment on mine. After all, I tell other bloggers (who don't cycle), that's my 1 of my other passions -- cycling

Most likely because sometimes I write on other topics which others just aren't interested enough to comment. Oh well.

I read only 2-3 cycling-related blogs per month. Others I look and then leave. Maybe never to return again. I don't visit cycling blogs that are a person's training blog.

**Blueberry** · 03-03-2012, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by shootingstar

I guess once I leave my job (where I have to aim towards specific goals/deadlines), I tend to adopt a totally different attitude when reading other people's blogs for leisure/recreation.

This is an interesting, and I think very accurate perspective for me too.

I tend to avoid contentious topics on TE - and elsewhere - because I deal with conflict for my job. Hmmm....might require more thought

**Blueberry** · 03-03-2012, 06:43 PM

Dear TE:

Please forgive me if I'm grumpy. I don't deal well with stress, but the future plans to reduce it are causing more of it right now. And I'm not getting my bike endorphins

**alexis_the_tiny** · 03-05-2012, 04:54 AM

Dear self, remember: the potential of the person, not the paperwork. That's what you're here to achieve. Try not to let management get to your head too much these days, it can be very depressing. Kids learn skills over years, not in the space of 9 months. Now, go and ride.

**Pax** · 03-05-2012, 05:10 AM

Dear TE,

Update on my mom: she is now 2.5 weeks post op on her surgery (aortic valve replacement and triple bypass), she is at a rehab center and it is slow going. She wants more than anything, to go home and have her life back, but they're trying to control her BP and she's just tired all the time.

On a personal note, I'm exhausted and would really like my life back too.

Signed,

So, so tired TE'er

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