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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 - May 28, 2007 6:29:22 am PDT #9572 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I R dum.

I thought I was supposed to work at a downtown theatre at 9am today, but since there was no one at the building (including security) I'm guessing I had the wrong Monday. oops

I should probably spend my unexpected free day cleaning my apartment.


tommyrot - May 28, 2007 6:41:00 am PDT #9573 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Um... you know today is a holiday, right?


Megan E. - May 28, 2007 6:58:00 am PDT #9574 of 10001

Um... you know today is a holiday, right?

That's why no one is updating their websites! I'll have to find something else to distract me today.

Edited to fix stupid typo.


aurelia - May 28, 2007 7:11:46 am PDT #9575 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Yeah, but that just means there aren't shows which is the perfect time for tech work. I rarely get holidays.

Doggies!


Liese S. - May 28, 2007 7:35:43 am PDT #9576 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Whoo! We were going to drive to NM to drop off our gear today, but we slept in. Fuzzily, at 5 in the morning, we decided we'd rather do it on Wednesday. So I have today off, just like everybody else! Yay!

Of course, that means that I can do my dishes and laundry and cook and sweep and dust and, oh yeah, do heaps and heaps of paperwork. But still! I feel all optomistic about the day. And I made us breakfast in bed and it's a gorgeous day out.


sumi - May 28, 2007 7:42:39 am PDT #9577 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Woo hoo for unexpected day's off!

Also, aurelia, Scarlett and Rhett are adorable!


Scrappy - May 28, 2007 8:12:50 am PDT #9578 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Today I clean and do laundry and pull weeds. And get some writing done. Also I downloaded a jigsaw puzzle game which I am currently obsessed with, so there will be that. Yes, I sit around doing jigsaw puzzles on my computer; tremble befote my mighty coolness.


Connie Neil - May 28, 2007 8:14:32 am PDT #9579 of 10001
brillig

A friend of mine works in an IT call center. Friend is married with two children and makes $14/hour (fairly decent for Utah). The company has a Microsoft account that is being shifted to an Indian company. My friend has been offered the chance to go to India to help train the folks there. The Indian company will pay the airfare, for housing, transport to the job site and back, and two meals a day. The Indian company is even going to pay for his passport. Duration would be from 4 months to two years. My friend can't get a straight answer on several points, including type of housing, how will taxes be dealt with on his pay, food, etc. My husband believes that his "quality accomodations" will involve cinder block and tin roof and the traditional Indian workers meals, which are brought in by train from the villages. My friend thinks he's going to be put up in a hotel and he can call for his family to join him. He is not college trained.

One of the missing details is "who pays for me to get home?" It's very hard to get things in writing.

Should my friend skip this "once in a lifetime chance"?


Scrappy - May 28, 2007 8:19:21 am PDT #9580 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

A cousin trained accountants in India for her company and she stayed in a very nice hotel and was basically catered to in every way. The people she worked with were smart and motivated, and she had a lot of time off to explore temples and backstreets and suchlike. She LOVED it.


Fred Pete - May 28, 2007 8:39:25 am PDT #9581 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

((((tommyrot and Senor Sock)))) Apologies for not speaking sooner, but I've been away from the board all weekend.

And no experience with dating neighbors or the separated-but-not-divorced, but I can see a difference between the recently separated and the longtime separated.

But I haven't been away from the Net, where I've spent lots of time at ancestry.com. And I think I found my paternal great-grandparents. One of whom was born in Bohemia. Which means (1) my last name is actually Czech, instead of German as I'd thought all my life, and (2) I'm 1/8 Czech, which I never knew before. And apparently my other paternal grandfather was named William, and not Hugh, as I'd always thought -- though he was still born in Wales.