COB here is entirely about when we want to stop talking to clients. We all work at least an hour past the official COB. (Because if we let them call us until the last minute, we'd all end up working an hour later than that, and there must be limits.)
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
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.
Jessica - Feb 12, 2007 8:33:21 am PST #277 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2007 8:33:43 am PST #278 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dude, you need to get better jobs. Unless your work day started later? My standard office work day has almost always been 8 to 5
I usually didn't have to be in at 8. The cliché standard is 9 to 5, right? Never worked that either. Usually till 5:30 or 6:00 unless I was exercising some job flexibility to get to krav on time.
My local branch of Bank of America is open 9 to 6 on weekdays and 9 to 2 on Saturdays, for what that's worth.
sarameg - Feb 12, 2007 8:37:09 am PST #279 of 10001
Wachovia around here is pretty much 9-5, with a few branches having extended hours ('til 6 on Friday) and weekends (9-noon saturday.)
shrift - Feb 12, 2007 8:38:18 am PST #280 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I usually didn't have to be in at 8.
Well, that makes up for staying later. Or it does if you're as anti-morning as I am.
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2007 8:52:40 am PST #281 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had one job where I had to be in at 7 something. I'm not not a morning person, so it never bothered me. Not sure when I left--around 4, I think.
Laundry question--where do you tend to wash your black and white clothes? Water as cold as possible, but with which load of laundry--whites or colours?
Which reminds me--I should totally wear black and white stripey tights today.
Allyson - Feb 12, 2007 8:54:30 am PST #282 of 10001
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
It's getting good presales from the chains and we're thinking that this book might be the "sleeper" of our fall list!
Unreal. I'm not sure what to do with myself, lately. The presales were over twice as many as expected at the big chains.
I can't believe any of this is happening, really.
I think it's because I think I'm so lame, and that mostly everyone here is a way better writer than I.
I can't imagine the thing being that successful, because it all seems so embarassingly ridonkulous.
When people ask mewhat my book is about, I still don't know how to describe it without getting redfaced.
Scrappy - Feb 12, 2007 8:54:44 am PST #283 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We do hot and clorox for white. Cold for Blacks and coloreds. Since we uee clorox--white and black goes with blacks.
amych - Feb 12, 2007 8:55:48 am PST #284 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm not sure what to do with myself, lately.
I'd start with champagne and go from there. Seriously, this is such amazing news!
shrift - Feb 12, 2007 8:58:33 am PST #285 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Allyson, I second the champagne idea! And I'll bet you can get some on sale because of Valentine's Day.
And I need to pre-order your book.
shrift - Feb 12, 2007 8:58:40 am PST #286 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
So nice I said it twice?