Sophia, why does the watch need to be fixed at all? I'm assuming by "broken" you mean "has stopped" or "doesn't tell time correctly", not "has springs and bits of machinery falling out of it". As long as it looks okay, what's the problem?

Oh no-- the band broke off the watch.... It does not look OK! It in fact also does not tell time, and the watch repair people thought I was craxy because I just wanted them to fix or replace the band.

I may have signed myself up to rewrite "The Music Man" with John and Rodney.

gives new meaning to "Seventy-Six Trombones", I think

Oh no-- the band broke off the watch.... It does not look OK! It in fact also does not tell time, and the watch repair people thought I was craxy because I just wanted them to fix or replace the band.

Oh, gotcha. I thought maybe the director or the actor wanted the watch to work because it would, I don't know, help the actor stay in character or something. Which, while a laudable attitude for, say, the Lord of the Rings movies, maybe doesn't have to extend all the way down to university theatre on a tight budget.

I am also extra cranky today because I am doing data entry in a database where I have to PAGE THROUGH ALL THE RECORDS to see if I am entering a duplicate!

Also, the heat in my apartment is not working (I pay for it), so I need to clean my kitchen so I can call the landlord. I am-- it hasn't gone below 55 in the apartment, but much colder and I'll be worrying about the kitty. (although I do have to say that last night I was quite toasty with just a comforter and the cat. )

Oh, gotcha. I thought maybe the director or the actor wanted the watch to work because it would, I don't know, help the actor stay in character or something.

No, it is totally a costume thing-- like he never even is scripted to look at the watch or say something about the watch. it just makes this boy look more like The Secretary of Defense (or as he is called in this play "The Secretary of Offensive Defenestration")

Sophia, why does the watch need to be fixed at all? I'm assuming by "broken" you mean "has stopped" or "doesn't tell time correctly", not "has springs and bits of machinery falling out of it".

I'm betting it means "watch band broke, and it no longer remains on his wrist by itself."

(ETA: I of course should have realized that by the time I butted in and commented on this, the woman who is actually dealing with it directly would have long ago answered the question with more authority, so this post is, as usual, not much with the point-having.)

I like grapefruit in spinach salad, with avocado, blue cheese crumbles, and Italian dressing. Mmmmmmm.

So, headhunters. [insert your favorite cannibalism joke here]. Has anyone ever worked with one? Someone up in MA heard that my journal was likely to go under and called my favorite editor to lure her up to the land of the Red Sox. Since Favorite Editor is about two blinks from retirement she passed, but asked if the recruiter might be interested in me, giving said recruiter my basic work info. Recruiter expressed interest and gave Fav. Ed. an email address to pass along and instructions for me to send her all my info. I did so last Friday.

All well and good. And here I am, working all industriously, except for the occasional visit to my personal email where in I hope to find a response of some sort. Nothing yet.

So any idea what the turn around time is on this sort of thing? Should I just assume my cv's gonna mellow for a few months/years/decades, or should I expect an email saying, "Damn, girl, you're Mary Sue in a cheap suit! How much money do I have to throw at you to get you to move?" Or, alternatively, how long should I wait for a reply that doesn't come before I take the message of, "You suck, kthanksbi," fully to heart?

It's too quiet in here. People should talk about their weekends, or what their next vacation is going to be, or something.

eta (after they answer Calli's question, on which I got nothing.)

Em called me "mama".

And the big boss I was bitching about last week got the boot.