I'm so very sorry, -t, for your grandmother's passing and for all you've had to endure. All sympathies and punctuation to you and your family.
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter .38 Special
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.
JZ - Sep 09, 2005 6:41:39 am PDT #5747 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2005 6:44:00 am PDT #5748 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
-t, much strength to you. Much, much strength.
Sue - Sep 09, 2005 6:50:54 am PDT #5749 of 10002
hip deep in pie
I'm very sorry, -t.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 09, 2005 6:51:26 am PDT #5750 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Try not to get bitten by stuff.
I will heed both this advice, and the example set by those before me.
Yes, don't come back a weremonkey or something. But have a great trip (when it happens later).
That Jamie Foxx story is just appalling. Brain dead doesn't even begin to express the level of stupidity involved.
Hippo birdies to Nutty!
All the best wishes for peace and strength to -t and family.
Timelies.
Cashmere - Sep 09, 2005 6:56:56 am PDT #5751 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Happy Birthday, Nutty!
sj - Sep 09, 2005 6:57:27 am PDT #5752 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Happy Birthday, Nutty!!!
Zenkitty - Sep 09, 2005 7:04:06 am PDT #5753 of 10002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
So sorry for your loss, -t. But glad you're safe.
And, happy birthday, Nutty!
Those stupid boys are lucky Jamie Foxx didn't just kick their butts into court. I wouldn't be surprised if that was actionable, considering it happened at work. (One of my co-workers always leans over to me after my boss rants and walks away, and says, "That's actionable harrassment, you know. I'll witness!")
Sophia Brooks - Sep 09, 2005 7:04:25 am PDT #5754 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Quick Question for people who work at Uni/Looniversities:
I am having an argument with the theatre department over work study students. I just feel like what we do is not the way work study is intended to work (or worked at all when I was in school).
First, let me say that we pay students incorrectly anyway. We budget a certain amount, say $500, for a student worker in a certain job (costume intern, Master Electrician, Props Master). Because students have to be paid hourly, basically we make up an hourly rate and a number of hours per week which will equal that budgeted amount.
Now, if a student has work study, HR says that the work study pays 3/4 of the hourly rate and the department pays 1/4.
So what the theatre does is pay the student $500 and then has work study pay them $1500 more. But if the student doesn't have work study they get paid $500.
This all seems wrong and vaguely unethical and unfair to me (especially since it means that some of the students now make more than I do once you multiply their pay times 3!), but I cannot for the life of me articulate why.
Am I going crazy?
Kalshane - Sep 09, 2005 7:05:08 am PDT #5755 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I'm very sorry, -t.
Yes, don't come back a weremonkey or something.
Right, knew I was forgetting something. Have a great trip, ita!
Speaking of weremonkies, has anyone heard from Gus lately?
amych - Sep 09, 2005 7:10:48 am PDT #5756 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
You're not crazy, Sophia -- that's wrong, wrong, wrong (and almost surely illegal on any number of levels). Every uni I've ever worked for pays a normal hourly rate to students (you know, for the actual hours worked!). Whether the student has work-study or not is a matter for the department budget -- one student doesn't get paid four times as much as another.