I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.

Dawn ,'Beneath You'


Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

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.


ChiKat - Aug 08, 2007 8:22:57 pm PDT #3506 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

It'd be teaching a) 4 preps and b) advanced classes in AutoCAD and the like.

Wow. FOUR preps? That's a lot. As for the AutoCAD classes, I'd be totally stumped, but I'm not a mathy person.


DavidS - Aug 08, 2007 8:25:45 pm PDT #3507 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Not right now.

Okay - I'll hold off on the link for the sweet capoeira bout.


Kat - Aug 08, 2007 8:26:03 pm PDT #3508 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I dressed in the rest of the clothes Kat brought (I'm pretty sure I'm wearing a camo turtle right now, but it's hard to tell from up here)

It is a camo turtle. I let Noah decide.

I screwed up the exterminator. My land lord tells me that they expected me to be here to let him between 9-12 and that the extermination company may have a fee to pay for the missed appt. Bitch, the email said, "They'll be there betwee 9-12" with nothing explicit about us waiting except you did mention the baby had to be out of the house.

GR. ARGH.

I'm having a very tear filled, hulk smash day. But little boy asleep right now is not one of the reasons why.


§ ita § - Aug 08, 2007 10:59:33 pm PDT #3509 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Huh. Might have just had an earthquake...


NoiseDesign - Aug 08, 2007 11:03:09 pm PDT #3510 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

Yikes, AutoCAD is not something to be tacked lightly. If that's not software you already have a firm grasp on it's tough to learn. I know plenty of designers that took multiple semesters of college level courses in AutoCAD before they felt they had a good grasp on it.


§ ita § - Aug 08, 2007 11:09:06 pm PDT #3511 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I use AutoCAD all the time, and I don't know how.

Which is meant to underscore the complication--I just use it to read. Using it to create is far enough beyond me that I haven't even explored it.

4.5 on the Richter scale.


lori - Aug 08, 2007 11:16:20 pm PDT #3512 of 10001

That was a pretty fun earthquake to be awake for. It swayed here for a bit.

ita, you can fill out the "Did you feel it?" questionnaire: [link] I did!


NoiseDesign - Aug 08, 2007 11:19:33 pm PDT #3513 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

I use Vectorworks for my CAD work. To me it's much more intuitive than AutoCAD and it still has a bitch of a learning curve. I'm also only using the 2D aspects of these packages. I don't even want to think about the 3D stuff. I mean, I'd love to know them all better, but I haven't had the time to invest in learning the software.


§ ita § - Aug 08, 2007 11:31:41 pm PDT #3514 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My god, there are a lot of dorks filling out that form.

Yeah, I include myself. But I should be sleeping! I wonder if it would have woken me. I just hadn't gone to bed yet.

It wobbled long enough for me to rule out truck in street, noise in next apartment.. .. .. ..ha! At which point my mother and sister start asking what's up.


Pix - Aug 09, 2007 12:37:57 am PDT #3515 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

It'd be teaching a) 4 preps and b) advanced classes in AutoCAD and the like.

Um. Wow, Emily. I agree with your wariness. I would hate to see you take this job and be as miserable as you were last year. You need a good teaching year, and that really doesn't sound like the recipe for one.

ita, very glad your home. Hope the next couple of days are at least somewhat bearable.