Holy butt. I just got a $500 bonus for no apparent reason. Sweet!
Well what do you know? Our new experimental A.I. unit just uttered its first words: "Allyson's awesome!"
Someone give that girl a bonus!
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
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 - May 26, 2006 2:56:58 pm PDT #9181 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.
Allyson - May 26, 2006 2:57:57 pm PDT #9182 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Or, say, to do with your review?
Nope. It appears to have been put in awhile ago by my great grandboss in sympathy for the fact that two of my supervisors were out sick for three months leaving the secretaries in my group to make executive decisions on our own. We all got one.
Atropa - May 26, 2006 2:58:15 pm PDT #9183 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Holy butt. I just got a $500 bonus for no apparent reason. Sweet!
Excellent! Go buy yourself some flowers and an expensive item of makeup!
§ ita § - May 26, 2006 2:59:24 pm PDT #9184 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Buy me a cupcake!
Okay, maybe spend it on yourself.
But a bonus and a book cheque and a good review--I hope these keep you warm and fuzzy in your writing week.
Topic!Cindy - May 26, 2006 3:01:08 pm PDT #9185 of 10002
What is even happening?
Allyson - May 26, 2006 3:03:09 pm PDT #9186 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
The weird thing is that nothing about my job changed. I'm far away from the rest of the lab (read, up the hill) so no one ever is around to help me out, anyway.
Spidra Webster - May 26, 2006 3:16:38 pm PDT #9187 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
brenda m "Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?" May 25, 2006 5:25:00 pm PDT
Me too (or nineteen). I have cleverly hidden my LJ under the dashedly clever nom de plume "spidra".
Strega - May 26, 2006 3:59:55 pm PDT #9188 of 10002
I think hating the French is part of our (the nation's, I mean) British heritage. They make it seem like so much fun!
And there's the Jerry Lewis thing, too. Oo, and mimes.
Yay on bonuses & raises and suchlike.
I'm so tired I want to die. We had a meeting at 3:30 this afternoon. Bastards. And then I had to bring work home for the weekend, although that's really my own fault for being such an incredible slacker. I would have gone to bed when I got home, except then I'd have woken up at 4 AM.
brenda m - May 26, 2006 4:07:34 pm PDT #9189 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
Yay Allyson!
Isn't it a WW surrender thingy.
Y' cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys
t /Groundskeeper Willie
Sorry, can't ever resist that one. But I'm pretty sure there's more to it than that.
megan walker - May 26, 2006 4:32:15 pm PDT #9190 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Isn't it a WW surrender thingy.
Well, the short historian's answer would be that both countries have universalist aspirations (spreading Enlightment, Rights of Man, Freedom's on the March, blah blah blah) and thus are natural rivals. Plus, France makes a great "other" for US politicians because they have no real immigrant base here to protest that use.
But anti-Americanism or anti-French sentiments never really degenerate that much because, when it comes right down to it, the countries have been allies since the Revolution. I mean, the French were the first to send troups into Afghanistan, even if they disagreed about Iraq. And people, even if they hate the French, love France and go there in droves.