erin and quester, I'm glad you've both checked in. I doubt my parents would've been there (they never have their cell phones on, so I haven't called yet) but a dozen or more South Patrol cops are people I went to high school with.
Mal: Does.. um.. does this seem kind of tight? Kaylee: Shows off your backside.
'Shindig'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
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.
aurelia - Apr 29, 2007 3:29:48 pm PDT #4806 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Strix - Apr 29, 2007 3:32:45 pm PDT #4807 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
3 of my friends have checked in, and they weren't there. I am waiting for another friend to call me -- she and her husband live about 5 minutes away from WParkway, and the last time I saw them, I ran into them at the PetSmart there.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2007 3:52:55 pm PDT #4808 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hate the waiting to check in minutes...they drag so horribly. Hope your people aren't affected.
I am encased in ice--got a friend to work on my shoulders. As a result I can turn my head more (driving's much better this way), but I need to ice like a mo'fucker.
About ten, fifteen more minutes of this, and then uber-hot shower and stretching and then back to ice.
sarameg, sorry to hear you didn't make it. But yay lampshade!
Nora Deirdre - Apr 29, 2007 4:20:37 pm PDT #4809 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
She was actually quite accomplished at being Dean of Admissions and had raised diversity admissions by 11 percent.
Yes, she was LEGENDARY, administratively speaking. This whole thing is fucked up. It also says a lot about the question of "do you really need a college education to suceed or do you just need people to think you have one?"
It's really sad. I mean, she's ruined. No matter how well this book turns out, I don't see her getting anything from the academic community ever again. She has basically made MIT and academia look like fools.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2007 4:24:26 pm PDT #4810 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Her job was about academic credentials. Thing 1, she lied. Thing 2, she was lying about the very core of her job--accreditation.
The lying I think should get her fired alone. The slap in the face is the topic of the lie.
It's like when I worked at a customs brokerage firm. You got caught lying to customs crossing the border, you were out on your ass. I doubt any of my other jobs would care.
Nora Deirdre - Apr 29, 2007 4:26:51 pm PDT #4811 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Oh, I'm not defending her or think that she shouldn't have been fired. Hell no. I was just musing that she'd done a lot of good, and it's too bad that she fucked it up and it was all a big fat lie and it turned out this way.
Typo Boy - Apr 29, 2007 4:31:49 pm PDT #4812 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The "Making Light" site: [link] has become a must read for me. Part of it is that I enjoy the snarky take Teresa and Patrick Nielsen-Hayden have on stuff. But they are also a source of wonderful links (using wonderful in the original sense of the word - things that arouse wonder):
For example: THE FÚFUMAL (Little Bunny FuFu rendered as a Norse Edda.) [link]
Or biblical arguments that washing dishes is work for men, especially warriors:
THE FÚFUMAL [link] especially brought me a smile:
Fúfu, small rabbit, fastest of hoppers,
Works in woodland his ways of evil:
Field-mice he finds, then hammers with head-blows,
Vexing the queen of the Vanir folk.
And on topic: yeah lying on your resume is totally a firing offense. But a number of sociologists on a list I subscribe to noted this as an example of how many qualifications for jobs are social signals rather than measures of ability to do the job. Most jobs get many qualified applicants, often with no real way to guess who will perform betters. So the narrow the choices people making hiring decisions turn to measures of whether or not the people applying are "people like us".
Nora Deirdre - Apr 29, 2007 4:34:46 pm PDT #4813 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Also, I just wanted to say that this:
Her job was about academic credentials. Thing 1, she lied. Thing 2, she was lying about the very core of her job--accreditation.
Was sort of what my brain was thinking about but I didn't really get it together. (I'm trying to be somewhat neutral/mild, given that it's sort of close to home.) (I'm being paranoid) (BUT YOU NEVER KNOW)
quester - Apr 29, 2007 4:57:31 pm PDT #4814 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
erin and quester, I'm glad you've both checked in.
I'm debating about whether to call my bosses. I know they shop there regularly.
I got on the KC Star website and the TV critic was doing a play by play on the coverage. All of the local stations went to network at 6!?! But, I checked Google News and the news is already on the net in New Zealand! CNN is more up to date than any of the local stations. Sheesh!
aurelia - Apr 29, 2007 5:03:40 pm PDT #4815 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Yeah, I got it from CNN. My parents were home enjoying the weather from their back porch. Still wondering if they're going to release the name of the cop who was shot.