Oh and: Last month's winning haiku from ThinkGeek:
Client with no specs.
Wants results in two weeks time.
Must. Not. Kill. Must. Not.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Volans - Aug 02, 2007 9:14:12 am PDT #9216 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Toddson - Aug 02, 2007 12:12:12 pm PDT #9217 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Along those lines ... my boss is out the door, on her way to a new job! yay! (yesterday my choices came down to homicide, suicide, or chocolate ... I chose chocolate, 'cause they get so cranky when someone gets blood on the carpet). SHE thinks marketing in the for-profit sector is going to be less time-consuming and stressful than working at a not-for-profit. (insert evil chuckle)
askye - Aug 03, 2007 6:48:28 am PDT #9218 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
There's a poll on board usage being discussed, please go here for more information - msbelle "Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job" Aug 3, 2007 7:52:20 am PDT
Deena - Aug 03, 2007 7:55:07 am PDT #9219 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Is she crazy? Dear lord. I've done both. For-profit is/was much worse.
Volans - Aug 05, 2007 4:38:12 am PDT #9220 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I have a really illustrative story about a guy who used to work in marketing for beer companies and quit to go hunt terrorists with the CIA, because it was less stressful. He said his boss (at Madison Ave company) had a heart attack at work because a proposal was 5 minutes late.
Susan W. - Aug 05, 2007 7:54:12 pm PDT #9221 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Anyone want to help me name a secondary character? Normally this isn't a problem for me, but she's stubbornly nameless.
Her bio and description: She's a Lowland Scot of good family (gentry or minor nobility), born around 1770 (she's in her 30's when we meet her). She's intelligent and wryly witty, and better educated than the average woman of her time. Extremely proper and reserved in public, reveals earthy sensuality in bed with my protagonist--one of her roles in the story is as his confidante/fuckbuddy, though I don't think they're each other's One True Love. She's taller than average, pretty but not beautiful, yellow blonde hair and brown eyes.
Names she CAN'T have to avoid duplication: Charlotte, Anna, Genevieve, Lavinia, Emma, Catherine. She'll share a lot of screen time with the first three, so it can't even be close to one of those.
Any ideas? I'm only worried about her first name for now--if I can just pin that down, it's easy enough to pick out a last name that matches and works with her background.
Scrappy - Aug 05, 2007 8:01:40 pm PDT #9222 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Julia? Marianne? Belle? Clara?
P.M. Marc - Aug 05, 2007 8:02:37 pm PDT #9223 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Elizabeth, Margeret, Elinor, Helen.
Typo Boy - Aug 05, 2007 8:14:37 pm PDT #9224 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Susan, Rose, Gwendolyn,Gail, Lynda,Loretta, Heather,Maira, Moira, Anice or Annabella,Cora
Ah just though of an easier answer. A quick google gives an a site for scottish baby names. One of them will have to work. Not that the Scots did not borrow names from the English, and Irish and French if it came to that. [link]
Laga - Aug 05, 2007 8:16:23 pm PDT #9225 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Fionnula