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.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
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.
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.
amych - Sep 30, 2005 8:37:49 am PDT #2323 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
wrt Suela's ex-cow, something in my brain is kicking at me very hard to distinguish between coasting and actual fucking-up. I suspect this is entirely because I do so much of the former.
amych - Sep 30, 2005 8:38:33 am PDT #2324 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Calli, it's the seven editors. They were all coasting, speaking of.
tommyrot - Sep 30, 2005 8:39:31 am PDT #2325 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've been lazy at work this last year and a half (ever since I got my own office and my boss can't look through his window to see what's on my screen.)
Unfortunatly, I've proven to be very quick and efficient whenever there's a crisis to solve. And I kinda' like the crisises, as they make the day go faster.
Maybe I should be pretending my regular work is a crisis too? Except then I'd have no time for b.org.
Calli - Sep 30, 2005 8:39:45 am PDT #2326 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
it's the seven editors. They were all coasting, speaking of.
Them and me, both.
dw - Sep 30, 2005 8:40:09 am PDT #2327 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
The in-character way to address this is to knock her socks off for three weeks and then get lazy again.
Hell, I did something to knock my boss's socks off two years ago (tear down and rebuild the website) and I'm still coasting on the fumes. I got nominated for "Employee of the Year" this turn -- only to lose it to the student-worker because she was going in the Peace Corps. Though, in fairness, I did squat last year.
But that is me -- throw myself at a major project, prove just how freaking valuable I am to the organization, then it's back to three months of web surfing on the company dime.
But obviously revealing too much of my potential is part of my problem.
I'm with you. Problem is that it's a poorly-kept secret that I'm too damn smart for my position. My boss outright told me that he wants me to find a better job after the BIG HONKING RE-ACCREDITATION CYCLE is over with, and that he might fire me if that's what it takes to get me out the door. Which would be stupid, because if he fired me he'd be utterly clueless.
It's amazing that despite the fact that I don't keep his calendar or do any of that sort of "assistant" crap, if I weren't around he'd be farther up the creek than if he lost his PDA.