Thank you! That is perfect
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.
I am still close enough to academia (and even closer to government talk) that I can come up with a ridiculous yet precise way to say things.
I do get really frustrated that everything here is written in this rather bizarre combination of immature, non-business-like prose and pedantic, jargon filled sentances that don't actually make sense. Not that I am a great writer, but I just feel like everything that is here already sounds moronic and it just takes so long to fix it. I was just rewriting a whole set of instructions for applying for a program that a) had no actually instructions except for a checklist that was not explained b) had a checklist with different names for application parts than were printed on the application and c) is written entirely in passive voice.
CNN Breaking News
-- Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame sues Vice President Cheney, his former aide, Scooter Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Writing by committee. Always a good time.
Also, it's kind of a problem that employees can't be expected to understand "no refunds" in this context. I'm just saying.
-- Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame sues Vice President Cheney, his former aide, Scooter Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Oooooh. I hope that has enough bite to drag them through the mud at least.
Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame sues Vice President Cheney, his former aide, Scooter Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Yay!
Lets hope she has good lawyers. With bazookas.
Oh brenda, I keep forgetting - I have to get that book to you. Where abouts-ish do you live? Are you near the Red Line?
eta: Ooh - sexy, evil number....
Oh- the no refunds thing is really complicated. And I am actually OK with academic-ese. Just in this particular department we have badly done academic-ese (like withdrawals are subject to tuition???). I think it might be because the nurses I work for aren't particularly academic, and a lot of the mistakes they make were trained out of me in a liberal arts college environment, while in a more clinical setting their writing wasn't the focus.
Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame sues Vice President Cheney, his former aide, Scooter Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Man, I wish the process servers had taken pictures when they handed out those summons.
There seems to be a site for the Wilsons' legal fund. But looking at it, I don't see any way to determine its veracity.