'Objects In Space'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Are you in NC? Whereabouts? (I went to grad school in G'boro and have my brother & family are in Raleigh.)
I'm in VA (Roanoke specifically) but have people all over NC having worked at a summer camp for a few summers years ago. I tend to pop down on an as-can basis to see them
Is he the type of person that can be set straight?Whomp him with a cluestick. Might help, will definitely be fun.
For the unappreciated librarians, from James Lee Burke's latest:
"Then I used the most valuable and unlauded investigative resource in the United States, the lowly reference librarian. Their salaries are wretched and they receive credit for nothing. Their desks are usually tucked away in the stacks or in a remote corner where they have to shush noisy high school students or put up with street people blowing wine in their faces or snoring in the stuffed chairs. But their ability to find obscure information is remarkable and they persevere like Spartans."
Is he the type of person that can be set straight?
Honestly, I don't think so. Perhaps if it came from DH, but probably not from me. FIL and MIL have been bugging me to send Ellie there for a few weeks, or even one week, but there's no way I'd subject her to that.
I just don't get how, having been through so much with their daughter, they don't see the potential to hurt their granddaughter. If I ever heard someone had said something like that about Ellie, that would be her last visit.
Sophia Brooks!
I am delurking here to tell omnis that I had to laugh at his passive aggressive not signing of his contract to protest, because I do that to at the theater I work in! I thought I was the only one. I am protesting the workload expected for the crappy pay, but same difference, and they always pay me!
Me! Good to know I'm not alone in my P/A'ness. Or alone in my grrrr at theaters. Misery does love some company. why? WHY?! Why do I keep working in the field? I like it, but can't for the life of me think of what else to do. I think office work would cause a flatened forehead from repetitive banging of said on desk.
:: raises glass to Sophia, and all others overworked/underpaid, whether theater or otherwise ::
Casper's friend Ellen was visiting this summer and mr. flea was lifting her into a swing. She said to him, "I'm heavy because I'm fat." She's 4 (and squarely built, but not fat). I know her mother isn't giving her that message; it's her grandmother. So sad. FOUR.
He refers to the 3 year-old as "Gordis" which I think could best be translated as "fatty". DH asked why he called her that and FIL said, "Well, you know she's sort of heavy."
ugh. My bro and SIL call my niece "fatty" or "fattycakes", not because she's particularly heavy, it's just a bad habit they got into when she was a super chubby baby. I keep telling him (and her, who is a sociologist and should know better) that it has a good chance of giving her a complex later and they need to come up with something else. But, no one listens to me.
Casper's friend Ellen was visiting this summer and mr. flea was lifting her into a swing. She said to him, "I'm heavy because I'm fat." She's 4 (and squarely built, but not fat). I know her mother isn't giving her that message; it's her grandmother. So sad. FOUR.Where on earth is old Biff Tannen with that metal fist handled walking stick when you need him.
I nerved myself up to make some calls I'd been putting off all week. I sat down, put on my telephone headphones and was ready to interview away. There was no dial tone. I've put in a service request to ATT. The last time this happened, I had to go through the tortures of the damned to get it fixed, including the service person who swore that he had been here and I wasn't home. I was here the whole fucking day, and my office window is about 8 feet from the front door. Then they charged me for the invisible lying SOB's visit and said they couldn't reschedule for three days.
NOT. HAPPY.
Ginger! Much ATT-repairo~ma for you. Silly repairfolk lying. BAD!
As for me? I learned about this great site [link] that has refurb computers and monitors and phones and office equipment, etc at super cheap prices. At work we are in want of (3) 17" flatscreens. Don't need to be fancy with 2 ms response time or anything. They sell them for $100 each. SUPER! They, being local, are high on my list to deal with, no shipping charges, instant gratification, etc. For THREE WEEKS they've been saying "ya that order should be in [a few days from time of call]. Call us back then." Alas. No arrive. Very frustrated, but I really don't want to pay twice as much for a new flat screen when we don't need fancy bells and whistles. Much frustration. Sometimes being frugal sucks. Actually, having tight budgets is what sucks, frugality is just the result of said suckiness.