Jayne: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot you. Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.

'Out Of Gas'


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.


Kat - May 21, 2008 8:58:32 am PDT #8190 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

How is it that we've worked down the street from each other all year and not met for lunch once? We are so very lame.

HA! Right? And today is MY LAST DAY!!!


Susan W. - May 21, 2008 9:00:36 am PDT #8191 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I personally put curses on two different baseball teams and both of them took.

t looks at Mariners' record post-2001

We're one of them, aren't we?

t goes on quest to break curse


DavidS - May 21, 2008 9:05:37 am PDT #8192 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Man. Sometimes my job makes me feel dumb. I'm constantly surrounded by PhDs, some rock star PhDs, and just general smarty pantses.

Yeah, but you're way funnier than any of them, and a better writer.

We're one of them, aren't we?

Nope. I cursed the Dodgers so that they wouldn't appear in the World Series in the nineties. And I cursed the Yankees such that anybody who joined the team as a free agent wouldn't win a World Series with them. (This was after Clemens but before Giambi.)


Vortex - May 21, 2008 9:07:59 am PDT #8193 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

(6 pages doesn't particularly ping me -- if it's an academic CV -- just because expectations in different fields are so different when it comes to how much stuff you get to put your name on. But for a resume, it's completely cracktastic.)

it's a CV, so I expect more than a page or two. but, he doesn't even have his MASTER'S yet.


Pix - May 21, 2008 9:09:20 am PDT #8194 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

HA! Right? And today is MY LAST DAY!!!

Figures, doesn't it? We'll have to meet up for lunch in the Valley or up in Pasadena some time this summer to make up for our lameness.


Fred Pete - May 21, 2008 9:10:16 am PDT #8195 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Wait a minute -- how does he manage six pages? Did he have a career before going to grad school?

Because I can't think of any legit way for your average 23-year-old to have a six page CV. I'm 20 years out of school and can barely manage two.


Gudanov - May 21, 2008 9:11:40 am PDT #8196 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

I thought the Royals might have been one of the cursed team. Though, hey, they aren't the worst team in baseball this year, so things are looking up.


Hil R. - May 21, 2008 9:14:04 am PDT #8197 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I can usually judge pretty quickly whether I can get my carry-on into the overhead or not (the answer is usually "not"), so I'll usually just look around quickly, find a tall-looking person, and ask for help.


Kat - May 21, 2008 9:14:58 am PDT #8198 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Figures, doesn't it? We'll have to meet up for lunch in the Valley or up in Pasadena some time this summer to make up for our lameness.

Absolutely. Though I'm teaching a summer writing program in Koreatown for 4 weeks (but only 4 days a week).


Vortex - May 21, 2008 9:15:43 am PDT #8199 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Thats my point. He double spaces his affiliations, he lists his double major as two separate degrees, he indents the text two inches, and puts everything on a separate line, so that each entry is at least three lines. He has separate entries for each position, even if they were simultaneous. He has three separate sub headings "clinical training" "research training" and "administrative experience". I could get this sucker down to two pages easy.

It just makes me think he's a pompous ass. And I want to like him. This isn't helping.