blowing smoke in someone's face was supposed to be the universal sign for "let's do it."

Even if it's a guy doing it to guy, like in those movies when they're trying to intimdate each other? I am so clueless about the unspoken language of the terminally hip.

Shit I didn't type to clients: "Listen you cheap twit, I know you pay the tech-for-hire by the hour, but you really shouldn't have let him go before you knew your system worked. 'Cause you're going to have to call him back, now."

People are being unusually pissy and rude today

It's not just you, shrifty. Our clients have seemed uncommonly dumb today.

What I didn't say in an interview today: "Oh my god. You are a complete freak!"

Somebody needs to tell the rude little pissypantsers that I am tired and this week has gone on approximately a million years too long, and that they'd best stop getting in my face or I'll be forced to choke a bitch.

The next person who is a nasty little jackhole in my vicinity is going to get an expletive-ridden rant on common fucking courtesy.

People are being unusually pissy and rude today

Totally not you.

Somebody needs to tell the rude little pissypantsers that I am tired and this week has gone on approximately a million years too long, and that they'd best stop getting in my face or I'll be forced to choke a bitch.

OMG yes. I had to put the jackass mentioned earlier on hold for a moment, or it wouldn't have been in the SIDS file anymore.

What is in people's "Shit I didn't say" file?

Were you raised in a barn? By wolves? By some strange religous cult with a morbid fear of phones so that you never learned it is. not. ok. to call up a business and say, "Yeah, sombody called me?"

Even if it's a guy doing it to guy, like in those movies when they're trying to intimdate each other?

I'm going to guess no.

I am so clueless about the unspoken language of the terminally hip.

Really, it was more the imagined unspoken language of the terminally dork.

Somebody needs to tell the rude little pissypantsers that I am tired and this week has gone on approximately a million years too long, and that they'd best stop getting in my face or I'll be forced to choke a bitch.

I have some time on my hands right now. Send me phone numbers, names and any specific complaints and I'd be glad to do it!

I want my ARCs. sob

Oh oh oh! Allyson, mine turned up in the mail last night! I am looking forward to reading it on the bus tonight.

Shit I Didn't Say: "It's just software. No one cares about how we formatted that block of text. NO ONE."

What is in people's "Shit I didn't say" file?

File? Oh honey, I've had to rent climate controlled, off-site archive space.