I haven't gotten a raise since last April, when I was given what's technically on paper a raise but which actually eliminated overtime pay in favor of salary. Funny how all my motivation to work any more 70 hour weeks just mysteriously disappeared at the same time .
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 01, 2005 10:50:10 am PDT #6398 of 10001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
P.M. Marc - Jul 01, 2005 11:00:47 am PDT #6399 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
Yep. There's been some interesting gossip flying around right now, thanks to it being yearly review time.
I *am* going to ask you about this over the weekend.
Connie Neil - Jul 01, 2005 11:03:34 am PDT #6400 of 10001
brillig
What an interesting book I've discovered
Global divas : Filipino gay men in the diaspora, by Martin F. Manalansan
Here's the contents note
The borders between bakla and gay -- Speaking in transit : queer language and translated lives -- "Out there" : the topography of race and desire in the global city -- The biyuti and drama of everyday life -- "To play with the world" : the pageantry of identities -- Tita Aida : intimate geographies of suffering -- Locating the diasporic deviant/diva.
(published in 2003, ISBN 0822332175 if anyone cares that much)
Also, when I leant my hitherto-unsuspected fetishist buddy the book on alternate lifestyle etiquette that I bought because it amused me and looked neat next to Miss Manners on the bookshelf, I unexpectedly helped him with some social faux pas he'd been making when travelling in those circles. The things that one never knows will come in handy.
edit: slumbernut! Plus, how can you not love a book that discusses diasporic divas?
Lee - Jul 01, 2005 11:27:30 am PDT #6401 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I have a question for the Vegas people. If the Bellagio and Mandalay Bay end up being the same price on Travelocity, which one would you choose?
§ ita § - Jul 01, 2005 11:27:55 am PDT #6402 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
THEhotel.
Lee - Jul 01, 2005 11:29:12 am PDT #6403 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Huh?
Kristen - Jul 01, 2005 11:32:05 am PDT #6404 of 10001
THEhotel is the groovy new hotel at the Mandalay Bay.
And I'd probably go Mandalay Bay, even if I couldn't get THEhotel.
ETA: Though my favorite will always be the Four Seasons.
§ ita § - Jul 01, 2005 11:32:10 am PDT #6405 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I figured it was at Mandalay Bay -- it might be an option.
Lee - Jul 01, 2005 11:33:15 am PDT #6406 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Ah. I will look into that.
beth b - Jul 01, 2005 11:49:21 am PDT #6407 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
raises in the IT industry. as in a 3% cut 3 years ago and no raises since then. ( for DH) Honestly - in might be better for him to go to another co with a slight salary cut and get raises.
t bitter
and no it doesn't end for me and it is worse for DH who has to explain to other people on his team that yes , that is the way it is.