billytea, I meant to tell you earlier--you're not Aspergers--you're an actuary.
Hee.
How do you spot an extraverted actuary?
When he talks, he looks at the other person's shoes.
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
billytea - Jan 08, 2007 1:37:38 pm PST #9782 of 10004
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
DavidS - Jan 08, 2007 1:38:01 pm PST #9783 of 10004
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Considering DH, I'm going to go out on a limb and say there may be some overlapping ASD traits in actuaries.
Jon's pretty social.
billytea - Jan 08, 2007 1:41:11 pm PST #9784 of 10004
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Jon's pretty social.
So are ants and bees.
DavidS - Jan 08, 2007 1:43:13 pm PST #9785 of 10004
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So are ants and bees.
Jon does not make honey with his ass. He will however sneak into your house when it's raining.
billytea - Jan 08, 2007 1:44:53 pm PST #9786 of 10004
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Jon does not make honey with his ass.
No, but he has been known to shake his money-maker.
DavidS - Jan 08, 2007 1:46:45 pm PST #9787 of 10004
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
No, but he has been known to shake his money-maker.
I have also seen him do the dance to direct us to the nectar laden flowers.
Cashmere - Jan 08, 2007 1:52:32 pm PST #9788 of 10004
Now tagless for your comfort.
Jon's pretty social.
Well, DH is awesome at reading people and social cues. He's just not social or maybe he's just not that into other people. And he's a tad persnickity about things like punctuality and he's freaky-ass ritualistic about some things. Could be he's just an OCD actuary but then I think we might be heading into redundancy. Again.
Sparky1 - Jan 08, 2007 2:02:37 pm PST #9789 of 10004
Librarian Warlord
I have a question, Bitches. My going-away lunch is on Wednesday, and the reservation doesn't include the two new people to the department who started on January 2nd.
Now, I understand how it would be sort of rude to ask them to participate in buying my lunch, but I find it sort of odd to not include them at all. I suppose it's possible they were asked and said they didn't want to have lunch with the rest of us, but that would be odd, also.
So, if you were organizing this lunch for the Reference Department, what would you do about including/not including the newbies?
Connie Neil - Jan 08, 2007 2:10:22 pm PST #9790 of 10004
brillig
It is the end of the workday. I have just discovered the gaping hole in the side seam of my shirt. Joy.
-t - Jan 08, 2007 2:11:03 pm PST #9791 of 10004
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I suppose it's possible they were asked and said they didn't want to have lunch with the rest of us, but that would be odd, also.
Depends on how it was presented - if it was "we're all going to lunch", then the new people begging off would be odd, but if it was "we're taking Sparky out", nsm.
How I'd play it...
Maybe make it a farewell Sparky, welcome new people lunch and treat all three of you? Though that sounds expensive.
If someone can be all bossy at the table and announce that the veterans are covering your lunch but the newbies just pay for themselves, that word work, but it would take the right kind of bossy.