Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
How did all this happen?
The Mizrahi thing, it's a new show, so they need people, and a friend of a friend of a friend works there, so I got a recruitment email. And they liked my "hook" of getting out of grad school and needing to get a Real Job.
The Buffett thing, see above.
I have had zero excitement in my life for months and months, but all this might be Too Much.
Warren Buffett is flying me to Nebraska.
Why, what'd you ever do to him?
Also, WHOOOOT!!!!1!
Jesse! Wow -- I hope that there will be pictures.
WOOHOO JESSE!
Do you know why he is flying people to Nebraska?
Jesse, that is so great--both bits. I'm very jealous in the happy for you way (I mean that part).
Do you know why he is flying people to Nebraska?
Um, not really? There's going to be touring of Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries, and then a Q and A. I dunno why, really. I think I'm mostly excited to stay in a hotel I'm not paying for.
Jesse the Jet-Setter! Whoo!
Seriously, I have gotten way too many good-news phone calls today. Now I'm nervous. BUT NO! It is just making up for my lame-ass summer when all I did was work at jobs I didn't like and not take any time off.
On Tuesday, I'm going to get a makeover from Isaac Mizrahi, and on Thursday, Warren Buffett is flying me to Nebraska.
Holy fuck! I'm very excited about this.
Wow, Jesse's going big-time on us.
I am pretty sure "operationalize" was a word coined by the US military. It smacks of that pedigree.
Dylan, tell 'em it's military jargon, and I bet they let you take it out.
They're curiously inventive with words. They coined "exfiltrate" off of "infiltrate," and a ton of other fun words. Including snafu!
Love exfiltrate. And I think fubar is also military.
It's not that I'm opposed to new words or new uses of old words. I just want them to be clever and catchy, and not sound like something my former boss would glom onto and use ten times in a 30-minute meeting.
So I basically want to be the descriptivist dictator. Because I'm vain, egotistical, and enjoy tilting at windmills.