"As you can see from this description, this argument is extraordinarily [tenuous, I guess]."
convoluted?
She just... she just did the math.
Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Vortex - Feb 06, 2008 10:17:53 am PST #7950 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
megan walker - Feb 06, 2008 10:18:13 am PST #7951 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
OMG that's hilarious.
When you're the one doing the changing. Not so much.
Eventually she let me go because, and I quote:
"I consider you my peer and there are certain things I can't ask you to do because of that."
She made her cleaning lady scrub the grout between the tiles on the kitchen floor with a toothbrush.
Kat - Feb 06, 2008 10:19:30 am PST #7952 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Yeah. I saw that. If she's from an agency, I'd call to complain.
It's almost entirely probable that the cell/surf thing is a result of you being present. When I nannied, I'd often defer to the parent when they were around, because they were around.
Another friend who still nannies always tries to arrange her work so that she is not working when the parents are home because there are a ton of mixed messages.
Has she responded by stepping up when you pointed out that she is there to watch the kid so you can finish work, that you expect her to do that?
Ugh. What a nightmare. I'm sorry.
Jesse - Feb 06, 2008 10:19:40 am PST #7953 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When you're the one doing the changing. Not so much.
Well, sure, but these are the kinds of things we have to suffer through so that they can become funny later.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 06, 2008 10:19:49 am PST #7954 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
She made her cleaning lady scrub the grout between the tiles on the kitchen floor with a toothbrush.
Did she stand over her with a weapon in hand until the task was done? Because that's the only method that would work with me, and there'd only be one opportunity for it to do so.
shrift - Feb 06, 2008 10:20:50 am PST #7955 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
It is now snowing downtown. Big gross glops of snow.
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2008 10:21:14 am PST #7956 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"As you can see from this description, this argument is extraordinarily [tenuous, I guess]."
Precarious?
hippocampus - Feb 06, 2008 10:21:25 am PST #7957 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
However, I didn't refrain from doing work for myself, reading, or being on the phone if the baby was sleeping.
Of course not. Actually, it's good downtime. I encouraged that too when we had a nanny.
When mothers were there at the same time, I made sure that they were not disturbed if at all possible.
I think we went waaaaay beyond that today. thanks you guys. I needed this.
sarameg - Feb 06, 2008 10:21:27 am PST #7958 of 10001
Good grief. I remember the cottonball story which casts her a definitely a little odd, but it sounds like she was a much more all around loon.
megan walker - Feb 06, 2008 10:21:46 am PST #7959 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Let's just say that I was very happy when I switched to the woman who was an editor at Gourmet magazine.