It's 9:30 am and I'm on my third conference call of the day. What is wrong with this picture?
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
'Potential'
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.
brenda m - Jul 30, 2007 5:31:41 am PDT #932 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Aims - Jul 30, 2007 5:40:12 am PDT #933 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It's 9:30 am and I'm on my third conference call of the day. What is wrong with this picture?
That I am in Michigan, not there distracting you.
Allyson - Jul 30, 2007 5:49:03 am PDT #934 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
Ugh, going in to work this morning is gonna blow.
Did I mention that I threw up on Saturday? Like, until there was nothing left in my stomach but intenstines?
And two people had to come up and clean up?
And the embarassment?
Yeah, I tipped the fuck out of them.
But now my whole body aches.
But hey, I scored a Shaun of the Dead t-shirt.
I did not see Colin.
JenP - Jul 30, 2007 6:06:11 am PDT #935 of 10001
Oh, dear. Sick because of nerves? Let's hope that goes away right quick as you do more signings and readings and things.
OK, so my friend sends me this article about how emoticons are becoming de rigueur in some parts of the business world these days, and can you believe it, blah, blah, blah. But the thing that stands out to me about the article is this:
~(_8^(I)
A Homer Simpson emoticon! (It looks better in the e-mail, more smooshed). Anyway, I'm sure it's, like, fifteen years old, but I'd never seen it before, and what with just having seen the Simpsons movie, it made me laugh.
Also... really? Emoticons in business correspondence? I'm taking a poll: Who here either uses or receives serious business e-mail that seriously uses emoticons? I'm fascinated by this.
amych - Jul 30, 2007 6:07:18 am PDT #936 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 taking a poll, who here either uses or receives serious business e-mail that seriously uses emoticons?
No and hell no. But the Homer one is fabulous!
tommyrot - Jul 30, 2007 6:09:32 am PDT #937 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.
Also... really? Emoticons in business correspondence? I'm taking a poll, who here either uses or receives serious business e-mail that seriously uses emoticons? I'm fascinated by this.
Most of our clients are not very internet savvy, so they'd just be confused....
JenP - Jul 30, 2007 6:10:55 am PDT #938 of 10001
But the Homer one is fabulous!
Innit?? I told him that I'm going to use that one all the time now (I'll find ways!) and that it's completely his fault.
D'oh!
t /~(_8^(I)
(OK, but I won't keep doing it here. Virtual pinky swear.)
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2007 6:18:00 am PDT #939 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have used :) in business emails, but it's to lighten the tone. Takes the place of a stupid face I might have made in a F2F encounter.
shrift - Jul 30, 2007 6:22:45 am PDT #940 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
OK, so my friend sends me this article about how emoticons are becoming de rigueur in some parts of the business world these days
Oh my Jesus. The end is extremely fucking nigh.
Sue - Jul 30, 2007 6:22:57 am PDT #941 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Also... really? Emoticons in business correspondence? I'm taking a poll: Who here either uses or receives serious business e-mail that seriously uses emoticons? I'm fascinated by this.
I might use them in email with co-workers where we're semi-joking, but never ever in email with anyone outside my pod. Part of my job is to do with Freedom of Information requests and we're always trying to educate people to be mindful of what they write in official correspondence, because "embarrassment in not an exemption." That said, I did find a memo once, written to a nun, with the sign-off "May the Force be with you." !!!