Bossy or Organised?
I am an only child. That should be quite obvious to you all by now considering my somewhat desperate need for attention and complete self-absorption.
I am also quite the organiser. I am excellent at cooking up soirees and making sure folk arrive at places on time and dressed correctly. You wouldn't know it to look at me, but boy would you be impressed.
Last night two people somehow mistook my genius organising skills for bossiness. How could this happen? Humour me if you will with the following points:
- Writing down all the names for Christmas Kringle on small slips of paper and carrying them around in a Nurofen Plus packet held together with an elastic hair-band. Also, poking friends forcefully in the side while they're eating dinner and shouting: 'HAVE YOU GOT YOUR KRINGLE YET?'
- Telling someone 'Shut up, I haven't finished talking.'
- Insisting that everyone arrives at the Napier at 8PM SHARP and ORDERS IMMEDIATELY as the staff are quite grumpy. In addition, texting people in advance to remind them of this 8pm deadline.
- Realising that I will not make the aforementioned 8pm deadline and arranging for Gabi to place an order for both myself and MattyB.
- Not telling MattyB what he is going to be eating for dinner because I'm such an excellent orderer I expect him to trust me and enjoy it.
- Having a laugh with someone and then, after tiring of the joke, saying quite loudly 'That's enough.'
Bossy or organised? You tell me. Either way, you totally want me having a hand in Melbourne Grogblogging. It will be a shindig to make you fizzli in your pants.
1056 days til the next election.
Comments
organised. DEFINITELY ORGANISED. because:
- tardiness is a crime punishable by death, and one should always ensure that their friends escape a bloody ending by CONSTANTLY reminding them of meeting arrangements.
- matty b obviously doesn't know what's good for him as well as you do. its only bossy if you whip him until he's cleaned his plate (although i think he might actually like this approach to dining).
- people never realise when the time limit on laughter has expired. they NEED to be told. beaten even.
- if people are going to talk over the top of you, they deserve to be disciplined. again, beaten even.
- if you are bossy, then i am bossy, and we can't have that conclusion being drawn, can we?
I vote that you are - Organised. My guess is that its only men that call you bossy as well, they don’t appreciate detail.
You’ve seen me in action Fitzy, one in the same. We are organised, planned, astute, of sound judgment.
Organised, definitely.
Me, I fear I'm bossy and DISorganised. Case in point: while arriving in Sydney for a gig, already late, realise I have been reading the map upside down for the past ten minutes, and yell "fuck this shit, you fucking read it!" before throwing the map at the guitarist.
And I used to cry when people didn't do what I wanted at my birthday parties.
Used to?
And that's organised, not bossy.
That makes me gay now doesn't it...
Organised? Bossy?
I would tell you but I'm too scared.
O oblige me with this crack at anacronymisation
R regular folk need to be beaten about the head
G getting them to perform basic functions often
A alienates one brave enough to be called bossy
N never getting appreciation so richly deserved
I in return: the getting of their shit together
S so i'd say you're the good kind of bossyboots
E everyone should now pull their bloody head in
D drop to the ground and make with genuflecting
B - Bitch tells everybody what to do!
O - Ordering people around!
S - Shouting instructions!
S - Shutting people up!
Y - You're flat out bossy!
But since somebody has to do it, it might as well be the person who's the most organiZed.
How is it that your entire continent/country spells OrganiSed and RealiSed with an "S". It's just weird. I'd rather roll around in Vegemite and go shrZimping with the CorpZe of George BurnZ before I give up my preciouZ letter Z.
Have I used up my goodwill?
Pleaze Don't smite me... sniffle sniffle.
what does dictionary.com say?
boss·y3
A cow or calf. (oh, c'mon, hardly)
boss·y1
Given to ordering others around; domineering. (sounds likely)
bossy
Ornamented with bosses; studded. (winner)
bossy
offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner
(probably not so much)
and
or·gan·ized
1.Functioning within a formal structure, as in the coordination and direction of activities.
2.Affiliated in an organization, especially a union.
3.Efficient and methodical
(formal structure? perhaps not; union, eh, leftie; need more info)
or·gan·ize
1.To put together into an orderly, functional, structured whole. (uh-huh)
2.To arrange in a coherent form; systematize: organized her thoughts before speaking. (uh-huh)
3.To arrange in a desired pattern or structure: “The painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest” (William Carlos Williams). (Huh?)
4.To arrange systematically for harmonious or united action: organize a strike. (uh-huh)
To establish as an organization: organize a club. (yep)To induce (employees) to form or join a labor union. (a labour union - we're close to a winner)
To induce the employees of (a business or an industry) to form or join a union: organize a factory. (organise a factory... sure)
v. intr.
To develop into or assume an organic structure. (depends if you've been paying attention during yoga)
To form or join an activist group, especially a labor union. (again with the labour union)
Based on these findings i would say "Orgaised with a splash of bossy"
I endorse you bossying the GrogBlog then, Fitz.
Both, obviously, but handy for arranging the grogblogging. Which grogblogging? Is something actually in the pipeline, or are you starting from scratch?
Hmmm. Mr Dreadnought was talking about organising it on darpism.com, but I don't know how far it's gone. If it's after the Christmas period, I may well pop down and booze up! If I'm allowed, of course. I would never assume!
Well, I for one would be delighted to attend (social calendar permitting of course).
As I said over at Darp's Blog, maybe we should see what comes of the Sydney one first. And seeing as I'm good at playing the manslave to mid-twenty-something bossy lefty women, all services are hereby offered by me to the Fitz in her quest to mimmic our northern comrades in their pissed blogging escapadery.
I'm also a sterling listmaker and good with stillettos.
Finally Fits, will you be attending this friday night?
I honestly still can't decide. I am weighing up drunken debauchery with strangers in Sydney or, um...drunken debauchery with strangers in Melbourne. One costs me $200 more.
Thoughts?
To quote Oasis...
.... BE. HERE. NOW.
(which, erm, should really say "be here in twenty four hours" but then it wouldn't be an Oasis song so okay umm I'm just going to go over here now...)
come the hell back to sydney, ms fits!
I'm voting with Krankiboy.
You're bossy.
But you're nice and self-deprecating about it, so that softens the edges a bit. It's kind of like that keychain that says "51% angel, 49% bitch, don't push it."
And Kranki, just to mess with your head,
we even call the letter zee a Zed.
(evil laugh) muahahahahahaha
why on earth are you going to a resturant where you KNOW beforehand that the staff are grumpy?
I will say however that you, my dear, are half n half - just like those yoghurts. Equally bossy as organized. Remember, you can never have too much of a certain thing!
I say embrace your bossiness. There comes a time in every woman's life when she must make peace with who she really is. When I realised that I was not a selfish cow but the entire world really should revolve around me I reached a higher state of being and was able to see just how petty and unreasonable people who wouldn't do everything I wanted really were. I reccommend it.
MS fits, I can see that you have many bitches. It is good that they are loyal to you.
But you are bossy.
If you had tried that 'That's enough' thing with me at the dinner table I would have given you a piece of my mind.
Benny:
If you are somehow implying that in proclaiming Ms Fits to be Bossy that I am not her bitch, then you are quite mistaken. I have been worn down by her charms and tenacity. I just say these things so she'll discipline me.
Maybe it's her sparkling wit, maybe it's the leather riding crop, hard to say. Both have such a sharp satisfying sting.
Bunrt Karma:
A "Z" is called a "Zed"?! You're killing me like some evil Villian with a giant slow-moiving laser.
Would it be ok if I commented Chief?
My one real-world experience with Fits struck me as the work of an exceptionally friendly and hospitable hostess. But I'm now thinking, maybe there were nuances of evil which I missed because of my stupour...
I reckon you should go to Sydney so you can report your grogblog discoveries back to Mexico City. But it's your money.
(I'm up to page 78 of The Corrections - Alfred just managed to get a sandwich into his mouth. 575 pages to go!)
who said we're strangers??!
Vote 1 Ms Fitz as Grogblogging Dictator - I mean organiser!
Hi.
Long time reader, first time poster...
I'd just like to wade in in defence of the staff at the Napier here.
They're not "grumpy", they're "sassy".
There's a big difference, like the one between being a taxi driver or a cop and a human.
I go there every Saturday night (including tonight) and have a meal with my main homepiece, and the staff are never short of amazing to us (but then, we are hot as all get out).
To be honest, the staff are the sole reason Greg and I have our Saturday night dinners together there at all.
$3.50 for a cola? Say what? Needless to say I have spent many fives of dollars at that place.
This is knifey-time.
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