Monday, December 12
Dec. 13th, 2022 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Finding a work glove I had lost in the horse pasture. I figured it was there, but hard to see without daylight.
That I was able to get up slightly earlier than usual, giving me a smidge more daylight.
I went to town today. Mainly for pottery.
I picked up Fatty's ashes, and that same poor girl (she's a vet tech, I think) was there to give them to me. She was there when I was crying and picking up last ditch attempt medication, and there when we said good bye to Fatty, sobbing my eyes out. Today I was crying a bit again, and this poor girl had to see that again. I think it was hard for her to see me upset, though I have gotten to the point where I almost don't see crying as being that upsetting, because I have been kind of leaking all week.
I feel like in general, not just because of Fatty, I cry pretty easily. Not sobbing, just tears of emotion. It may actually be more distressing for people who see me cry than I am while I am crying. We're so not used to tears.
I went to pottery, and very much enjoyed the company of the woman who is often there. No one else seems to stay very late, even though I show up at about 5 pm, which isn't that late.
She is good to talk with, in that she is funny, but interesting, and we talk back and forth. No one dominates the conversation. This is such a rare experience for me.
She talked about a mildly strange event with the head maintenance guy. Apparently another potter likes to come in sometimes before work, and this guy walked right into the studio while she was working and made some kind of comment about her being there. It doesn't seem remarkable, but why would anyone do that in such a strange, blunt fashion?
While it may be an over-reaction, it struck me as something to be aware of. It bothered this other potter enough that she talked about it with the other people in our class, and it bothered my friend enough that she mentioned it to me.
So, I personally felt like that was enough reason for us to be aware of the potential for him to be "too interested" in what we are doing, and when we come and go. Women can't be too careful.
There is another thing about this building that I don't like. Our studio is on the third floor of a Senior's residence. During the day there are staff at the front desk, but in the evening there is no one in the lobby. We have a code to get into the building, and we have to sign in by hand to a clip board, and also write down the licence plate of our vehicle. So, not only is that clip board sitting out where anyone could see it, but it clearly lets anyone know at a glance that we are up in the pottery studio, and it is easy to tell if someone is there alone (sign in and sign out are very plain to see). With our licence plate there beside our name, anyone could see what car belongs to which woman.
For anyone with bad intentions, that sign in sheet would give them our name and our licence plate, and that is a LOT of information to have. Enough to find our address, for example.
It would be VERY easy for someone to figure out after a few weeks what our patterns were like. Who tends to come work alone, what car they drive, and when they tend to leave.
This clip board is just sitting there at the entry way.
I objected to this sign in sheet when this studio first opened last year, but I didn't have the energy to worry about it since Covid was making everything seem weird. It is supposed to be about knowing who is in the building in case of an emergency, and to make sure that the only vehicles in the parking lot are authorized. I feel like there must be a better, more private way of doing this.
I am wondering if this sign in sheet is a violation of privacy code (FOIP), and I feel like it would be pretty easy for someone like this creepy maintenance guy to follow our movements. I feel like any woman who is, say, trying to avoid a dangerous ex-husband or something would not want her movements to be recorded on a public sign in sheet, and I KNOW that it would not be allowed in a library, for example (when I worked at our small local library we were doing all kinds of things differently because of the upgrades in privacy codes).
This senior's residence is kind of an old "institution", and this sign in sheet feels like an out-dated, no longer acceptable method of doing things.
I am going to bring this up to our group leader.
Also, there are people in the pottery group collecting money to buy a nice gift for a member who has been loading and unloading the kilns. On the surface this seems nice, until you realize that there is also another woman who spends almost all of her free time doing things like making the glazes and firing the kilns, and no one is buying her a gift, nor has anyone done so in the more than ten years that she has been doing this. Why are we all of a sudden buying a gift for ONE woman, when there are a few who have done a lot of work for our group?
So, I did NOT chip in for the gift, and I will bring this up as well.
I got a tiny bit of groceries before being herded to the check out at closing time. The main thing was milk, and I got that. There was a very good deal on pomegranates, I think because last week they were outrageous and no one bought them, and now they are going bad. Serves them right.
I learned that actors with tattoos may need release forms from the tattoo artist if their work is visible on film.
https://www.actingstudiochicago.com/actors-tattoos/#:~:text=If%20you%20have%20visible%20tattoos,you%20can%20appear%20on%20camera.
Apparently there are lots of ways to commit copyright infringement, like if you get a Disney character tattoo and you have a Twitter feed and your tattoo is visible, or even if you copy a famous original tattoo like the one Mike Tyson has around his eye.
Finding a work glove I had lost in the horse pasture. I figured it was there, but hard to see without daylight.
That I was able to get up slightly earlier than usual, giving me a smidge more daylight.
I went to town today. Mainly for pottery.
I picked up Fatty's ashes, and that same poor girl (she's a vet tech, I think) was there to give them to me. She was there when I was crying and picking up last ditch attempt medication, and there when we said good bye to Fatty, sobbing my eyes out. Today I was crying a bit again, and this poor girl had to see that again. I think it was hard for her to see me upset, though I have gotten to the point where I almost don't see crying as being that upsetting, because I have been kind of leaking all week.
I feel like in general, not just because of Fatty, I cry pretty easily. Not sobbing, just tears of emotion. It may actually be more distressing for people who see me cry than I am while I am crying. We're so not used to tears.
I went to pottery, and very much enjoyed the company of the woman who is often there. No one else seems to stay very late, even though I show up at about 5 pm, which isn't that late.
She is good to talk with, in that she is funny, but interesting, and we talk back and forth. No one dominates the conversation. This is such a rare experience for me.
She talked about a mildly strange event with the head maintenance guy. Apparently another potter likes to come in sometimes before work, and this guy walked right into the studio while she was working and made some kind of comment about her being there. It doesn't seem remarkable, but why would anyone do that in such a strange, blunt fashion?
While it may be an over-reaction, it struck me as something to be aware of. It bothered this other potter enough that she talked about it with the other people in our class, and it bothered my friend enough that she mentioned it to me.
So, I personally felt like that was enough reason for us to be aware of the potential for him to be "too interested" in what we are doing, and when we come and go. Women can't be too careful.
There is another thing about this building that I don't like. Our studio is on the third floor of a Senior's residence. During the day there are staff at the front desk, but in the evening there is no one in the lobby. We have a code to get into the building, and we have to sign in by hand to a clip board, and also write down the licence plate of our vehicle. So, not only is that clip board sitting out where anyone could see it, but it clearly lets anyone know at a glance that we are up in the pottery studio, and it is easy to tell if someone is there alone (sign in and sign out are very plain to see). With our licence plate there beside our name, anyone could see what car belongs to which woman.
For anyone with bad intentions, that sign in sheet would give them our name and our licence plate, and that is a LOT of information to have. Enough to find our address, for example.
It would be VERY easy for someone to figure out after a few weeks what our patterns were like. Who tends to come work alone, what car they drive, and when they tend to leave.
This clip board is just sitting there at the entry way.
I objected to this sign in sheet when this studio first opened last year, but I didn't have the energy to worry about it since Covid was making everything seem weird. It is supposed to be about knowing who is in the building in case of an emergency, and to make sure that the only vehicles in the parking lot are authorized. I feel like there must be a better, more private way of doing this.
I am wondering if this sign in sheet is a violation of privacy code (FOIP), and I feel like it would be pretty easy for someone like this creepy maintenance guy to follow our movements. I feel like any woman who is, say, trying to avoid a dangerous ex-husband or something would not want her movements to be recorded on a public sign in sheet, and I KNOW that it would not be allowed in a library, for example (when I worked at our small local library we were doing all kinds of things differently because of the upgrades in privacy codes).
This senior's residence is kind of an old "institution", and this sign in sheet feels like an out-dated, no longer acceptable method of doing things.
I am going to bring this up to our group leader.
Also, there are people in the pottery group collecting money to buy a nice gift for a member who has been loading and unloading the kilns. On the surface this seems nice, until you realize that there is also another woman who spends almost all of her free time doing things like making the glazes and firing the kilns, and no one is buying her a gift, nor has anyone done so in the more than ten years that she has been doing this. Why are we all of a sudden buying a gift for ONE woman, when there are a few who have done a lot of work for our group?
So, I did NOT chip in for the gift, and I will bring this up as well.
I got a tiny bit of groceries before being herded to the check out at closing time. The main thing was milk, and I got that. There was a very good deal on pomegranates, I think because last week they were outrageous and no one bought them, and now they are going bad. Serves them right.
I learned that actors with tattoos may need release forms from the tattoo artist if their work is visible on film.
https://www.actingstudiochicago.com/actors-tattoos/#:~:text=If%20you%20have%20visible%20tattoos,you%20can%20appear%20on%20camera.
Apparently there are lots of ways to commit copyright infringement, like if you get a Disney character tattoo and you have a Twitter feed and your tattoo is visible, or even if you copy a famous original tattoo like the one Mike Tyson has around his eye.
