Global CFO of our Fortune 400 company was offering to show some visiting clients her cube. Nobody gets offices here.
Usually, what happens is the bigwig has a cube, but ends up spending 99% of his or her time in a conference room somewhere.
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Tom Scola - Sep 13, 2007 2:28:42 pm PDT #404 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Ginger - Sep 13, 2007 2:28:52 pm PDT #405 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's a lovely storm. It's raining! I'm so over this drought. Even the grass at Turner Field looked ratty, and it's grass that's practically watered with champagne and fertilized with caviar.
amych - Sep 13, 2007 2:31:50 pm PDT #406 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's raining!
jealousjealousjealous
SuziQ - Sep 13, 2007 2:38:16 pm PDT #407 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I wish we had a policy that if you travel over 75% of the time, you get a cube. We have so many office dwellers who are NEVER in the office. Just seems wrong.
flea - Sep 13, 2007 2:39:08 pm PDT #408 of 10001
information libertarian
Well, well - it was - um, less than 90 degrees today!
Signed, also over the drought, but it's not done with us yet.
amych - Sep 13, 2007 2:45:51 pm PDT #409 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Well, well - it was - um, less than 90 degrees today!
And as it was one of my walking home days, this was a very welcome thing indeed. Plus, walking home meant getting to meet the very adorable shark puppy of one of my students.
On the down side, there is the drought, and I find myself distractingly aware of the dryness in the air (like almost-but-not-quite-itchy clothing, that you're way too aware of feeling without it quite rising to the level of "gotta take this off right the fuck now"), and pining for a good hurricane.
(No, really. I don't wish the destruction on anyone, but they're actually an important part of the normal climate cycle for the region, and we haven't had one come inland in several years in a row. So the reservoirs and groundwater were already shot to hell before the whole less-than-a-quarter-of-the-normal-rainfall summer thing.)
Jesse - Sep 13, 2007 2:58:55 pm PDT #410 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I figured out how to fix my problem! I can't actually do it, of course, but I now get what to do -- there was a step in the setup that the cable company didn't tell me to do, and now I can't get into the "Setup Wizard," but I'll give it another try of unplugging everything. Maybe tomorrow.
Sorry for using this thread as tech support. Or tech moral support.
Glamcookie - Sep 13, 2007 2:59:41 pm PDT #411 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Nobody gets offices here.
We are moving to a new building and an "open seating plan" next month. I am not happy, especially since I have an office where I am now. I plan on working from home a lot.
ION, I haz new hair and color! Pretty!
ETA links: Hair front: [link] Hair side: [link]
tommyrot - Sep 13, 2007 3:04:55 pm PDT #412 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... huh?
Dr Who fans will flock to his church
A CARDIFF priest loves Dr Who so much he is preaching to his congregation through the Time Lord.
St Paul’s Church, in Grangetown, Cardiff, was used as a location for an episode of the first series of Doctor Who starring the ninth Doctor played by Christopher Eccleston.
And parish priest, Father Ben Andrews, 32, says he loves the cult TV show so much he thought a themed evening would go down well with the youngsters.
He said: “I love the series and it has such a great following that we couldn’t resist doing something for young people on a Dr Who theme.
“We will be looking at the idea of Jesus as a Lord of time and showing who Jesus was and the different images of him throughout time.
eta: EXTERMIKNIT!
Even the Doctor might feel differently about Daleks if faced with one of these cuddly monsters. This pattern will let you knit your very own plushy Dalek, to keep for yourself or give away. Knit a whole army and prepare for world domination!
Jesse - Sep 13, 2007 3:05:38 pm PDT #413 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Very nice, GC!