Not that kind; I was internally cursing the man.

Not that kind; I was internally cursing the man.

But you did it! One time here, I missed the internal deadline by 10 minutes, and didn't get paid that pay period. Note that I could have easily met the real deadline by getting the signature and walking my timesheet next door to the U payroll office, except for the fact that the internal person refused to sign it, due to my aforementioned lateness.

Its prisoners have 'disappeared,' like the victims of some dictatorships."

A particular dictatorship, she means, right? Not that I especially enjoy Pinochet. Weirdly, it's sort of a compliment to say, of a dictator, "he tortured people in secret," because doing it in secret is an admission that it could not bear the light of day.

Who wants to break this news to Dick Cheney? Dude, even the CIA does it in secret. Get with the program!

The mayor of Las Vegas proposed to amputate the thumbs of freeway graffitists. He said he was "dead serious" and added that some troublemaking kids should be whipped or caned.

The mayor of Las Vegas better pray he doesn't have any kids, and moreover that they never get caught messing around some day. This sounds like the perfect "pride goeth before a fall" type of deal. (Not even addressing the part where any supreme court in the land would laugh at him.)

You guys are familiar with the mayor of Las Vegas, right? He's not seriously proposing this, he's just a grandstander. He was a lawyer for the mob, for goodness sake.

Because we're a gov't contract, if people aren't doing their timesheets, the feds come after us with the dread audit and that makes payroll's life miserable, to say the least. So they cheerfully nag, beg, plead and cajole. The consequence for the employee are much less dire than for payroll.

ION, people are insane, I'm in denial and procrastinating.

So there's a discussion at this other board about how bad smokers smell and how sick it makes some people to be anywhere in the vicinity of a smoker because the reek is unbearable.

Now I feel like ass. Is it really that bad? Like when I'm just sitting next to someone? Should I carry barf bags?

I don't care for that smell, especially, Allyson, but that shit's just rude.

Is it really that bad? Like when I'm just sitting next to someone?

My grandmother was a pack-a-day smoker, and, well, the smell was distinctive in all her clothes and her person. Sometimes, at the library where I used to work, you could tell whether the person who had last checked out a book was a smoker just by sniffing the book's spine.

But not barfworthy.

A lit cigarette smells like somethign burning, which isn't particularly obnox for me; I do find the leftover smell of cigarettes obnox, because it stays for hours, and it gets into everything. Sometimes when I'm at a smoke-friendly bar, and come home, I take off my clothes and realize my bra smells like cigarettes. Which is annoying.

But not barfworthy.

It can be bad, Allyson. More if a person is in an enclosed space and smokes, as my parents used to do all Winter. They ALWAYS smelled like stale smoke and it was not a pleasing scent. If you smoke outside, it shouldn't be that noticable.

Every so often, like on the train, I notice myself smelling smokey, but I firmly believe it varies by what I'm wearing and the weather, since I usually smoke outside.