Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.

'Potential'


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.


tommyrot - Oct 28, 2005 10:07:29 am PDT #9660 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.

Darn it.

That Friday-afternoon-time-slowdown thing is happening again....


Sue - Oct 28, 2005 10:09:20 am PDT #9661 of 10002
hip deep in pie

I have 21 minutes until the end of the workday.


tommyrot - Oct 28, 2005 10:10:40 am PDT #9662 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.

So! It's you who stole all the time-speed-up stuff!


P.M. Marc - Oct 28, 2005 10:11:51 am PDT #9663 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

So when faced with our least favorite Scandinavian delicacies, my sibs and I always felt free to say “kaka, this is definitely kaka.” It can be a wonderful thing to be eight years old.

That's funny.

When I work away from home, my hours are usually 10-6 or 10:30-6:30. As a result, consider a 10am meeting an early one. Sadly, due to having to match daycare hours, this will have to change next job. Paul works 8 to 5.

My whole family are night owls. I can call my mother at 11:45 and know she'll be awake. I can also call at 10am and be pretty certain of waking her up.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 28, 2005 10:13:38 am PDT #9664 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'd rather never have an image or likeness of Karl Rove in my house, no matter what the form. He or Cheny. scary, ugly things.

I'd be fine with either, though they'd necessitate me buying rum and live chickens for the voodoo ceremony.

My workday is supposed to be 9-6 with an hour for lunch. Getting in by 9 is more theoretical than practice, but the people around me know I'm not currently leaving til 10:30 or 11 pm and don't care to bring up the tardiness. When things get back to normal hours they'll be paying me to come in and sit drinking coffee in a daze for an hour, while allowing me to go home at 6 and miss the fairly productive next hour that I could be working. All so all the start times line up evenly with no odd numbers on an executive's report somewhere.


Emily - Oct 28, 2005 10:17:22 am PDT #9665 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Hey, so I've got kind of a weird question. Did Rosa Parks's arrest show up on background checks when she went to apply for jobs? I mean, obviously, if you're hiring Rosa Parks you probably already know, but still.

Officials in Detroit and Montgomery, Ala., meanwhile, said the first seats of their buses would be reserved as a tribute to Parks' legacy until her funeral next week.

Uh... okay. I mean, I get it, but there is a part of me that thinks, "So in honor of Rosa Parks, you're making sure nobody sits in the front? Interesting technique."


Sue - Oct 28, 2005 10:18:17 am PDT #9666 of 10002
hip deep in pie

So! It's you who stole all the time-speed-up stuff!

I'm on Atlantic time! My day started before yours.


tommyrot - Oct 28, 2005 10:19:24 am PDT #9667 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'm on Atlantic time! My day started before yours.

...likely story....


Nutty - Oct 28, 2005 10:21:02 am PDT #9668 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Imagine what trying to apply for a job is like when your name is Eldridge Cleaver. Somehow I think a lot of famous arrested people -- MLK himself -- are by dint of being arrested somewhat freed from the 9-5 job cycle, since they can go on lecture tours for thousands of dollars per speech. This is how disgraced apparatchiks in politics seem to make it all back, and they aren't even always arrested.


Gudanov - Oct 28, 2005 10:23:36 am PDT #9669 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Hey, so I've got kind of a weird question. Did Rosa Parks's arrest show up on background checks when she went to apply for jobs?

I believe she did lose her job as did her husband and they eventually had to move.