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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.
Now it turns out it's his actual own dog, who's looking mightly confused. And is also a girl dog, but named Sebastian because when he first got her (stray) she marked like a male dog so he just assumed. Hee.
Lucy's a total marker, too. I had a somewhat chagrinned note from the dog walker yesterday that, if marking has any real-world validity, Lucy is now the proud owner of a shiny new Vespa that was parked on the sidewalk and which she claimed before the walker could stop her.
Happy birthday, Nicole!
I have to do staff evaluations this week. Crap. Can't I just say "you're awesome!" and leave it at that? Why do I need a stupid form?
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Hi, Amy!
Oh, and because I didn't earlier: congrats, ND!
Hmm, what else can I exclamation-point today? They wouldn't let Jesse exclamation-point her staff evaluations, apparently. How grammar-ically biased of them!
Cause the captain likes dots, Jesse. (/ The Wire likes carrots.)A rebellious cop was once shoehorned on that show into a lot of paperwork by his boss who said "And put the dots(bullet points) in it. The commander likes the dots." So that is what I think of, filling out something useless.
"And put the dots(bullet points) in it. The commander likes the dots."
That's really funny. I feel like that's half of being successful with written work (for school, for your job, for whatever) -- figuring out the little tricks that the person you're submitting to will like. I had a professor in college who liked long paragraphs, so I literally just smooshed paragraphs together after I had written my paper.
Commander Burrell is like the Powerpoint King of Baltimore PD. Loves nothing like a good slideshow.
John Hodgman interview: [link]
I feel like that's half of being successful with written work (for school, for your job, for whatever) -- figuring out the little tricks that the person you're submitting to will like.
This is interesting. I feel like I'm doing that all the time with one person I work for-- she's persnickety and yet inconsistent.
I had a professor in college who liked long paragraphs, so I literally just smooshed paragraphs together after I had written my paper.
Who likes long paragraphs?!
Congrats JZ and DavidS!
What's the name?
A little late, but I've been out of town.