Huh. It's a weird day for Toms. A former coworker just emailed me wanting to set me up on a blind date with her sister.
I'm not on the ship. I'm in the ship. I am the ship.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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 - Apr 09, 2008 11:35:58 am PDT #713 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Laga - Apr 09, 2008 11:36:23 am PDT #714 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
A while back I got an email from a girl who was one of my two best friends from third grade until we drifted apart in high school. I sent her a very newsy talky email. She sends me email forwards. One or two a day. No matter how many times I mark them as spam they still keep showing up in my inbox. Sometimes the past is better left in the past.
Vortex - Apr 09, 2008 11:40:07 am PDT #715 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I know of what you speak. I got back in touch with my BFF from 8th grade. She was on her second husband, who had spina bifida, she lived in West Virginia, and was horribly lonely. She would email or IM me several times a day. I finally blocked her on IM and then her husband started IMing me!!!! I am SO GLAD I never gave her my email address.
Scrappy - Apr 09, 2008 11:41:04 am PDT #716 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
A guy I work with is marrying a girl he went to school with from kindergarten up to 10 grade. They lost touch for many years, ran into each other at some alumni get together and now are very happily engaged.
Trudy Booth - Apr 09, 2008 11:42:16 am PDT #717 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I went to a job fair yesterday at my alma mater and am sending off a follow-up resume. This is just the email that goes with it. Any thoughts before I send it off would be appreciated:
Dear Ms. M_____,
It was a pleasure getting to speak with you yesterday at the ____ Career Fair. I very much appreciate your insights on my desire to change career paths.
Attached please see the requested electronic version of my resume.
Kindly let me know if there is any further information I can provide.
Best regards,
Trudy Booth
Thanks, guys!
megan walker - Apr 09, 2008 11:49:10 am PDT #718 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
A guy I work with is marrying a girl he went to school with from kindergarten up to 10 grade. They lost touch for many years, ran into each other at some alumni get together and now are very happily engaged.
You never know. My father was engaged to someone when he was 24 and she was 17. 50 or so years later (and after my mom died), he ran into her sister at a reunion and decided to get in touch. They married soon after.
lisah - Apr 09, 2008 11:50:34 am PDT #719 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Minor edits
It was a pleasure speaking with you yesterday at the ____ Career Fair. I appreciate your insights on my desire to change career paths. As requested, I am sending you my resume.
Glamcookie - Apr 09, 2008 11:56:37 am PDT #720 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
t slaps lisah's hand
Exactly the edits I would have made.
§ ita § - Apr 09, 2008 11:56:48 am PDT #721 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My father was engaged to someone when he was 24 and she was 17. 50 or so years later (and after my mom died), he ran into her sister at a reunion and decided to get in touch. They married soon after.
How many ladies are in this story? Miss A, engaged to your father at age 17--is this also your mom? The woman, Miss Z, that he married soon after--whose sister is she?
The head transplant reading has made my right arm tingle distractingly. Today as a workday is entirely too long.
Trudy Booth - Apr 09, 2008 12:10:16 pm PDT #722 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Thanks, guys!