I would be there right now.

Simon ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

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.


msbelle - Aug 01, 2005 8:44:41 am PDT #4622 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

didn't you have an American education? It's a miracle you can even spell.

we can have you thrown out, you know. Keep it up, missy.


Jesse - Aug 01, 2005 8:44:47 am PDT #4623 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jesse, didn't you have an American education? It's a miracle you can even spell.

It's troo, its tru.

Eh, we did what my boss wanted.


§ ita § - Aug 01, 2005 8:45:53 am PDT #4624 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

we can have you thrown out, you know. Keep it up, missy.

But I'll still be in charge of the computers.


Glamcookie - Aug 01, 2005 8:48:55 am PDT #4625 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Congratulations, Kate! You, too, Kristin :) Welcome to our (hot) world!


Jesse - Aug 01, 2005 8:50:12 am PDT #4626 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But I'll still be in charge of the computers.

Dammit. Can't the president do something about securing the internets? At least the ones in this country?!?


Vortex - Aug 01, 2005 8:50:42 am PDT #4627 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I hate the folks who show up late to meetings and then ask a million questions to fill in on what they missed. I think latecomers give up their right to ask questions, or should at least preface each one with, "If this was asked already or covered before, please disregard..."

God yes! But you know what’s worse? When the person who is leading the meeting feels the need to stop and recap what’s happened for every late person or person who leaves to take a call or go pee!!

Rafael Palmeiro, who pointed his finger at a congressional committee while vigorously denying he ever took steroids, has tested positive for steroids.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Well, maybe at THAT time, he hadn’t taken them. Or he was rubbing herbal crème on his body? Or . . . .

Oh, here's a question: Is it possible to have a letter addressed to a couple, but with one paragraph that is only to one of them? (Indicated by beginning with that person's name.) Boss says no, I say yes. Why not?

I say no, not if it’s business. Oddly, I think that a PS or addendum to only one is okay. But why address a letter to both of them if it doesn’t concern both of them?

Bah. I need a professional opinion.

I’m lawyerly!


Jesse - Aug 01, 2005 8:59:36 am PDT #4628 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But why address a letter to both of them if it doesn’t concern both of them?

Here's what it is: It's a thank you letter to a board member and his wife. The check was written on a joint account, which is why the letter is addressed to both of them. But I wanted to say something to him about how he's such an awesome board member, blah blah.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 01, 2005 9:01:20 am PDT #4629 of 10002
What is even happening?

Well what do you want to say specifically, Jesse? Write it out, and maybe we can tweak it into something you're saying to both of them.


beth b - Aug 01, 2005 9:07:39 am PDT #4630 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

'In addition to thanking you for your donation we also wanted to share our appreciation for all the hard work John does as a board memeber . we espcailly apprciate his ablity to .....'

or something along that lines seems apprpriate to me.


§ ita § - Aug 01, 2005 9:10:33 am PDT #4631 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wow. I just watched (and was an inadvertent contributor) a co-worker getting pissy all over another one. It's so weird what some people will react badly to. Makes me wonder how anyone ever navigates the minefields of work life, and how some others stay employed.

Most of it might just have been that he ccs his boss on every piece of correspondence, and co-worker B wasn't aware of this and thought it was a hostile move.