"As you can see from this description, this argument is extraordinarily [tenuous, I guess]."
I know there's a math/comp-sci term, for not being able to gate through to the next state until all the parameters are turned to Yes, but I can't come up with the equivalent in rhetoric that fits into one word.
I might rephrase the sentence to say, "As you can see from this description, the argument's logic relies on many conditions which are yet to be proved."
That's not very stinging, I guess. What I would say in casual speech is: "That's a lot of Ifs for a single Then statement!"
new babies! so exciting!
I'm starving today. I had yummy but overpriced grilled cheese yesterday. What should I do today?
What, are you reading the latest WYPR news?
no - more of an "I'm worried about being a mom from hell and need someone who is a kick-ass friend-of-children" reality check (and I'm thinking that you worked as a nanny for a while too)... most of it is over in bitches - except for what's happening now. I'm freaking because I don't know if this is _because_ I'm working from home, or if something similar would be happening if I weren't here. In which case, I would have to hurt someone. You know the rights and wrongs of all of this - I'm hoping.
Have any of you ever shopped at Eyes Lip Face?. I ask because $1 makeup seems like a get what you pay for proposition.
Or do we get resurrected for the second coming? My knowledge is faulty there.
Yup, that's it. Second Coming = Big Finale Dance Number, everyone back on stage.
My Presidents' Day holiday just got rescinded and re-issued as a floating holiday that I can only take after April 1. The budget year is April to April. I suspect someone made a budgetting error.
Sox, what's going on? Is it the Watcher or the Kid?
What, are you reading the latest WYPR news?
I hesitate to ask...what else has happened??? (Businesses I know are pulling their sponsorship over the Steiner thing.)
Sox, I would flip out in your position. At the nanny and, especially, at her agency. And never invite her back.
Hah. Actually, I'd defer to parents.
That babysitter was insane to do that. I do think it is all to easy for a caregiver to shut down if a parent is around, especially if they are not used to those circumstances. Not right, mind you, but pretty common. Especially if they are relatively inexperienced.
I do think working at home when the kid is home is..well, my dad used to take me into his office when I was sick. Someone (not always my dad! ) always didn't get as much work done, and that was me sick & subdued. If you are used to it great! If not, it could go ferwonky.
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change verb to cellphonetalker/internetsurfer. I'm working and chasing a three year old who doesn't seem so deathly ill and who will absolutely be going to school tomorrow as long as I'm not in jail.
