When someone was let go at my last job - and she sued, I was pretty honest. Careful - not to place all the blame in one area - but honest. As in I felt the administration had created a problem by incompletely addressing an issue,however the employee did not address the issue and seemed to very unhappy with all aspects of work. Turns out- everyone said pretty much the same thing -and management/ administration actually changed for the better. not perfect but things went from difficult to tolerable.

Aurelia, you don't need the SG-1 series box set if you have Netflix.

Kristen Schaal, from Flight of the Conchords, got a gig as a commentator on The Daily Show.

oh ita, that sounds like a bad day.

I feel like I should be doing more, but I have no desire to do it.

Kristen Schaal, from Flight of the Conchords, got a gig as a commentator on The Daily Show.

I saw her last night. I love her on Flight, but I'm not sure she has the right persona to be a fake commentator.

Yeah, I was ready to love her when I saw her sitting there, but I'm not sure the piece really worked.

I feel like I should be doing more, but I have no desire to do it.

That is my prevailing emotion right now, especially when it comes to cleaning and laundry.

Susan, that is a difficult position.

Makes me wonder (and makes me think back to JZ among others)--management knows we lie, right? I'm not talking big bucks embezzlement, or anything. Just little white lies to tidy everything over. I mean, the companies lie to us, but it seems that managerial expectation of blunt honesty doesn't fall totally in line with where I'd give it.

Okay, that wasn't clear.

Five year plans and "what's your biggest flaw?"--they know that we're going to lie here, right? And that we can't be honest about organisational flaws they way they seem to be asking because we have to protect us--because someone has to.

thanks, dcp. i restarted and it seems to be working just fine now.

ItvN, i made my sister sit down and watch the Friday Night Lights pilot with me. she pretended to not be too into it, but she was making "ack" noises when the boys were getting pummeled. i think she will fall in love with the show. she claims she has enough tv shows to watch, but really, how many is enough?

Go Schaal!

Of all the people from that Mee-ow cast, she's not the one I would have expected to have taken off (unlike Seth Meyers, who was obviously going places), but I'm really happy for her all the same. She totally deserves it.

(I so wish I could have been at the FotC concert up at NU when she opened for them with this year's Mee-ow troupe. Sometimes I really miss those guys.)

Five year plans and "what's your biggest flaw?"--they know that we're going to lie here, right?

Yeah, I think at this point they're just assuming that you should have a basic within-acceptable answer, and it's not so much what you say as having one. If you don't have a blah blah blah answer, what's wrong with you? Which is annoying, but whatever.