Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.

Ben ,'The Killer In Me'


Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


msbelle - Feb 15, 2006 10:48:23 am PST #7384 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I have approximately 8 billion emails out and no one is getting back to me. grr.


sarameg - Feb 15, 2006 10:49:16 am PST #7385 of 10002

I solved the problem of where my cat is headed by just naming her after a diety. May not have been the wisest thing ever.

Had a surprisingly painless quarterly/annual review. Which is totally not fair, because I am a terribly lazy, unambitious but highly efficient slacker. I really should be called on it.

Also the falls are running very high. Snowmelt!


Cass - Feb 15, 2006 10:54:46 am PST #7386 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Had a surprisingly painless quarterly/annual review. Which is totally not fair, because I am a terribly lazy, unambition but highly efficient slacker. I really should be called on it.
Should not!

And congrats on the good review.


flea - Feb 15, 2006 10:55:58 am PST #7387 of 10002
information libertarian

Dear Calli, you are not fat. You may at some time in your life have been fat, but at no time since I have known you.

Interesting statistics news: HR reported (in a small committee meeting a friend of mine attended, not a press release) that 15% of Looniversity employees are on antidepressants, and treatment of depression is the largest single medical expense. Unfortunately HR did not seem to take away the message that maybe improving the work environment could help reduce this cost.


JZ - Feb 15, 2006 10:55:59 am PST #7388 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

make the plebian masses shake their fists at us with bitter class consciousness.

Are there any plebian masses at the Bellagio?

I envy Alibelle her phone pep, and also the talking lots to Robin.


brenda m - Feb 15, 2006 10:56:49 am PST #7389 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Had a surprisingly painless quarterly/annual review. Which is totally not fair, because I am a terribly lazy, unambition but highly efficient slacker. I really should be called on it.

I had that same review last week! Way better than I deserved, frankly, which is nice, considering all the other bs I'm currently dealing with at work.


sarameg - Feb 15, 2006 11:00:01 am PST #7390 of 10002

It really doesn't motivate me to maintain or develop a better work ethic. Or rather, drag my work ethic back from the islands and make it do something. Which allows for me to continue not caring about disliking the job so much my work ethic went awol and thus I continue to manage to not get out and do something I might actually like.

If that makes any sense outside my head.


§ ita § - Feb 15, 2006 11:00:41 am PST #7391 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My review shows up sometime this week. We'll see.


Calli - Feb 15, 2006 11:02:27 am PST #7392 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Thank you, flea.

HR reported (in a small committee meeting a friend of mine attended, not a press release) that 15% of Looniversity employees are on antidepressants, and treatment of depression is the largest single medical expense.

Wow. And I expect that's just for the folks who are officially diagnosed. As I understand it, there are many people who would be considered clinically depressed but never get diagnosed, and who self-medicate through over-eating, over-drinking, drug abuse, risky behaviors, etc.


Jessica - Feb 15, 2006 11:09:44 am PST #7393 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

World's Longest Dosa

Sankalp Restaurant, (from Sankalp Group of Restaurants) Andheri branch, broke its own record of making the longest dosa. This was the second time after its first record in 1997,that a restaurant, from the Sankalp group, managed to appear in the Guinness Book of World Record. This dosa worth Rs.15000 can serve 30 to 35 people.

As per its first record, a 25-feet long Dosa was prepared on a 27-feet long tawa, by a team of 10, carried by a crew of six and served, a group of 25.

This time however, the dosa was an astonishing 30- feet long, prepared on a tawa that was an astounding 32-feet long. It had 20 ‘V’ shaped burners fixed in such a way, that the heat could be spread uniformly, all over the 32-feet tawa. A group of 16 expert chefs, prepared this dosa out of 12kgs of batter and 10-12kgs of oil.