And! And! To make it worse, she's all "People get more disappointed in you since you make such a good first impression."
I haven't gotten called on that since school. I'm so pissed.
I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 39 and Holding
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.
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2005 8:23:20 am PDT #2313 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 30, 2005 8:25:35 am PDT #2314 of 10002
What is even happening?
Dammit, ita. I don't think a person should ahve to hear that after high school, or maybe Freshman year of college, at the latest.
amych - Sep 30, 2005 8:26:31 am PDT #2315 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I don't think a person should ahve to hear that after high school
Seriously. She might as well send home a note that says "she's very smart, but she's not working up to her potential".
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2005 8:28:51 am PDT #2316 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The bottom line is ... I'm not as clever as I thought I was, and she's paying more attention than I thought she was.
The in-character way to address this is to knock her socks off for three weeks and then get lazy again. But obviously revealing too much of my potential is part of my problem. So I'll aim for notable (and hopefully maintainable) improvement.
I had a couple Krispy Kremes. I think they helped.
Consuela - Sep 30, 2005 8:31:34 am PDT #2317 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I had a co-worker about whom I was forced to say, "she's smarter than she's willing to be." But she made a couple of deeply stupid mistakes, showed up for work when she wanted to, and bloated several projects with bad product. I was very grateful when she left.
Her replacement, whom I hired, is far superior and works harder than I do. Eeeps.
Lee - Sep 30, 2005 8:32:10 am PDT #2318 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I think the clever but lazy may be another Buffistas trait, since I've heard it too.
Poor ita. Hopefully she'll stop paying attention soon.
msbelle - Sep 30, 2005 8:33:27 am PDT #2319 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
bon bon - you can edit your settings so that you do not show up in people's viewd profile place. I haven't been to friendster in yonks, but still.
Jesse - Sep 30, 2005 8:34:05 am PDT #2320 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think the clever but lazy may be another Buffistas trait, since I've heard it too.
It makes sense, since didn't many of us get here as a kind of nerdy way to avoid doing work?
It's a fine line between having to work hard (the horror!) and doing better than just good enough.
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2005 8:34:35 am PDT #2321 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
she made a couple of deeply stupid mistakes, showed up for work when she wanted to, and bloated several projects with bad product
Aha! I've smoothed over any mistakes (none counted as deeply stupid), I show up quite regularly (although I may leave a little willy nilly), and I never bloat projects -- my sort of laziness trims them, in fact.
Okay, right. Back to work.
Calli - Sep 30, 2005 8:36:30 am PDT #2322 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Speaking of mistakes, is "devision" a nifty new form of "division" or did a mistake on some stuff I put online make it past seven editors and merrily into print?
I'm thinking it's probably the latter.
Well, at least it's "division" on the web version now. Oy.