Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.

'Harm's Way'


Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.  

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.


brenda m - Jun 22, 2006 3:32:43 pm PDT #3444 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

We're not allowed to have drinks in the office anymore. There was An Incident.

But, we had clients in all day, and I raided the leftover food and came home with a big bag of artichokes, feta, and red onions, which I'm about to mix with some pasta.


sarameg - Jun 22, 2006 3:37:22 pm PDT #3445 of 10002

There are periodic booze events at work, but people pretty much behave (only charge I can level is there are a couple of europeans who get lecherous looking, but they haven't done anything I am aware of.) I'm told that in the early years, they were really wild and people would be found sleeping on the floors in the morning.


Consuela - Jun 22, 2006 3:38:34 pm PDT #3446 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

We don't have alcohol at work either, per company policy, although ISTR we had some not so long ago, sort of under the radar.

Now I have jackhammers again. Clearly it's time to go home.


brenda m - Jun 22, 2006 3:46:42 pm PDT #3447 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

We drink up a storm at our quarterly staff conferences, though, and that's all on the company dime. It's the only way we get through them.

But our one conference room staff cocktail party ended with a person one would have thought highly unlikely making ethnic and (at my firm almost worse) educational-background slurs against, and to the face of, the VP hosting the damn thing.

To give him credit, since the man is bat shit crazy and that's usually when I end up mentioning him, BigBoss cancelled his client meetings and flew in on a red eye to hold an all staff meeting explaining why this up-and-comer was being summarily fired.


Lee - Jun 22, 2006 3:50:01 pm PDT #3448 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Oh, that's awful, Brenda, though good on BigBoss.


§ ita § - Jun 22, 2006 3:52:39 pm PDT #3449 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No booze on premises. Which was a bummer because when I took the project management class, my team's project was starting a brewery--a couple of the team members were brewers and offered to bring in home made ale. I don't like beer, but that's just nifty.

I am haltered.

Last week I saw a cardiologist, and they wanted to put me on a 24 hour heart monitor. Can I exercise with it on? Of course. But I can't shower, so that's a little rude. I'm about to schedule a day working from home so I can krav and be home all stinky. Then I think to ask: "Can I be punched in the chest with it on?" Her stare was admirably blank, but her answer disappointing.

So, although I have no krav to do with this stupid thing on, I do have to go in for a meeting, and it's totally huge and obvious and irritating, and I don't want to have to explain it once, much less ten million times.


Lee - Jun 22, 2006 3:54:59 pm PDT #3450 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

That bites, ita. Can you make up fun stories about it so that you can tell different people different things, or is it obvious what it is?


§ ita § - Jun 22, 2006 3:56:18 pm PDT #3451 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I worry about people (read: people in charge) will read fragility into this. So there's no good way around it, unless I can find something bulky/shapeless to wear that doesn't roast me in the meanwhile.


Lee - Jun 22, 2006 3:57:27 pm PDT #3452 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Time for a trip to Mumus are us?


§ ita § - Jun 22, 2006 3:58:16 pm PDT #3453 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If I'd only known! My ebay binging could have been differently focussed.