Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

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.


Steph L. - Dec 04, 2007 8:13:26 am PST #5375 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I'm not sure what I'm going to do this year.

I'm going to make fudge and/or truffles for my co-workers this year. Those are easy to make in big batches, so I can get them all wired on sugar in one fell swoop.


megan walker - Dec 04, 2007 8:13:36 am PST #5376 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

You can always counteroffer. He sounds like a lazy sack, so he may work with you so that he doesn't have to find a new tenant.

I did this in New York. I had no lease, and when the family that owned my brownstone sold it, the new landlords wanted to raise my rent from $900 to $1500. They agreed to knock a couple of hundred off when they came to my place and saw how I was taking care of it.


sumi - Dec 04, 2007 8:14:20 am PST #5377 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Teppy, we're supposed to get 1-3 this afternoon and 3-5 overnight. (Inches of snow, that is.)


Kat - Dec 04, 2007 8:15:25 am PST #5378 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Is that part of the crazy problem they're having out there with paying teachers?

Yep. This figure is down from the $13,000 they thought I owed in September, but up from the original $500 they said they overpaid me.

Color me irked.


tommyrot - Dec 04, 2007 8:16:49 am PST #5379 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.

Another Buffista-ish LOLCat: [link]


Steph L. - Dec 04, 2007 8:18:21 am PST #5380 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

tommyrot, that is AWESOME.

(Not as awesome as the cat wigs, though.)


Frankenbuddha - Dec 04, 2007 8:19:35 am PST #5381 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Here's a LOL!not!Cat for your amusement: [link]


Jesse - Dec 04, 2007 8:22:46 am PST #5382 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think that a gift card is an appropriate gift for a subordinate, but it needs to show that you thought about where to get it from, i.e. "I always see you with a book in your bag, so I thought you'd like Borders" or "You often bring in a latte in the morning, so here's a Starbucks card"

Right -- now, I'm not sure if the one girl never has Starbucks because she hates it or to save money, but I definitely don't think of her as a Starbucks person.


Kat - Dec 04, 2007 8:24:00 am PST #5383 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

oooh.. Jesse, I gotta ask. What's a starbucks person?


Jesse - Dec 04, 2007 8:24:46 am PST #5384 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Just a person who goes to Starbucks. No judgement!