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x_staff...to address the recent tendency of staff members to lock themselves in their rooms, before it turns into an epidemic.
1) Enroll the staff member in some sort of relaxing extracurricular activity. (Yoga? Some sort of meditation? Air hockey?)
2) Declare Funny Hat Day and enforce it scrupulously. I suspect it would be very hard to brood if, say, you saw Jamie Madrox wearing a moose on his head.
3) Reinstate regular visits to Harry's. I'm beginning to think that some of us spend far too much time within these walls.
4) Have a half-dozen of the staff member's favorite students serenade the staff member. Preferably with show tunes.
5) Establish a buddy system. If you detect any danger signs, implement one of the above. If we don't keep each other sane, people, who will?
Any thoughts?
1) Enroll the staff member in some sort of relaxing extracurricular activity. (Yoga? Some sort of meditation? Air hockey?)
2) Declare Funny Hat Day and enforce it scrupulously. I suspect it would be very hard to brood if, say, you saw Jamie Madrox wearing a moose on his head.
3) Reinstate regular visits to Harry's. I'm beginning to think that some of us spend far too much time within these walls.
4) Have a half-dozen of the staff member's favorite students serenade the staff member. Preferably with show tunes.
5) Establish a buddy system. If you detect any danger signs, implement one of the above. If we don't keep each other sane, people, who will?
Any thoughts?
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Hah...
Date: 2004-07-15 03:56 pm (UTC)2) ...okay, point.
3) Hey, some of us do go to Harry's of our own accord. Right, Cain? And not just to play 'one tequila, two tequila'.
4) I thought this was about keeping us sane?
5) I have a buddy. She's red-haired and bad-tempered, with a scary addiction to bad coffee and lots of ways to distract me when I brood. And only a couple of them involve show tunes.
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Date: 2004-07-15 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-15 05:23 pm (UTC)Then again, I already do that too.
(And hiya. I'd be Alison. And you have an utterly gorgeous cat.)
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Date: 2004-07-15 05:32 pm (UTC)I think spas are vastly underused in this country.
And I think most adults know what they should be doing to take care. It's just the doing it that gets sticky. Bloody Protestant work-ethic and popular angst-culture colliding to worse possible effect.
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Date: 2004-07-15 05:37 pm (UTC)Well, not my fault if they are. I firmly believe in putting them to use.
Knowing and doing - yep, two different things. For mostly everyone really, not just adults.
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Date: 2004-07-15 05:42 pm (UTC)Any recommendations?
Agreed. But we're supposed to know better. I just startled Delphine by laughing at that. It's a nice theory.
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Date: 2004-07-15 05:53 pm (UTC)Any preferences as to the type of massage? Because Graceful Services and Haven are the first that come to mind, generally speaking. There's also Oasis and Bliss Soho. I go to D.Esse myself, most of the time.
Well, you know what they say about theory and practice. *g*
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Date: 2004-07-15 04:26 pm (UTC)But how to pick your buddy? Is this an instance where dropping names into a hat is in order?
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Date: 2004-07-15 04:36 pm (UTC)Second, the thought of a 'buddy system' fills me with a dread akin to the one I experience every time paisley threatens to return to the runways of Paris. I have the hideous vision of all of us trudging into Harry's clinging to the "safety line" usually reserved for taking pre-schoolers out for a drag.
Third, wouldn't assigned relaxation give the good people here one more thing to worry about?
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Date: 2004-07-15 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-15 04:40 pm (UTC)A doctor's prescription...
Date: 2004-07-15 04:39 pm (UTC)How about regular social things? I was thinking of suggesting beer (or chosen beverege) and pizza night sometime in the next week or so, on campus so everyone could join in without the little darlings summoning the Four Horsemen or something whilst we were gone. And Harry's sounds wonderful.
Although I really like the Silly Hat idea. Imaging Monet in one of those hats with the propellor on top is cheering me up no end.
Re: A doctor's prescription...
Date: 2004-07-15 05:21 pm (UTC)Ah, so you two are the culprits...
Date: 2004-07-15 05:31 pm (UTC)And people say my eating habits are unhealthy. *shudders* Deep fried Twinkies? Gah.
Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...
Date: 2004-07-15 05:35 pm (UTC)I know better. I like being in one unpretzelled piece, thank you very much!
Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...
Date: 2004-07-15 05:58 pm (UTC)Oh, and Hank? Love you, big fella. You know that, right? No spiking the donuts again?
Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...
Date: 2004-07-15 06:10 pm (UTC)Nyah!
Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...
Date: 2004-07-15 06:34 pm (UTC)Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...
Date: 2004-07-15 06:54 pm (UTC)No really, it is. Does most of the work for me too. >:D
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Date: 2004-07-15 05:34 pm (UTC)4) Warn me before that happens, I want to sell tickets.
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Date: 2004-07-16 11:19 am (UTC)