Buffy: Where are the burgers? Riley: Yeah man, I'm starving. Cow me. Xander: I'd love to make with the moo but the fire's not cooperating.

'Lessons'


Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Pix - May 27, 2008 5:26:32 pm PDT #742 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

{{{Erin}}}

I can look at your resume, hon.


Strix - May 27, 2008 5:28:49 pm PDT #743 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, god, thank you.

I've been paging through my portfolio, and quietly freaking out.

EDIT: And insent, to profile addy. Thanks SO much. I very much appreciate it.


Pix - May 27, 2008 5:56:46 pm PDT #744 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Backflung, Erin. Impressive stuff, love. You're freaking out for nothing, I promise.


Strix - May 27, 2008 6:11:18 pm PDT #745 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, thank you! I'm glad to know that other teachers have 2 pagers; I sweated and tossed and chopped to get that damn thing down to one. I've got some good stuff that I can put back in now.

I was looking at the dates just now, and I thought, damn, when did I get so old?! I had teaching experience in 1994! Geez.

(Must go out and buy vat of Creme de la Mer. CRAP. Cannot afford de la Mer. Must buy vat of Olay. ----- Can't afford that either. Will slather self in Always Save peanut butter, creamy, smoke and attract bees. Damn. Too old to attract bees. Will curl up in dessicated ball of age, clutching sheaves of teaching resume in wrinkly hands.)


Pix - May 27, 2008 6:13:33 pm PDT #746 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I was looking at the dates just now, and I thought, damn, when did I get so old?! I had teaching experience in 1994! Geez.

The word you are looking for is "seasoned," my dear. Seasoned. (My student teaching was '97 and I had a year of writing center tutoring before in '95, so I'm not that far behind you.)


Strix - May 27, 2008 6:16:11 pm PDT #747 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

The word you are looking for is "seasoned," my dear. Seasoned.

Hee. I'm trying to decide if I am more of a curry, a jerked or a blackened.


Pix - May 27, 2008 6:22:02 pm PDT #748 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

You're HOT & SPICY. Obviously.


meara - May 27, 2008 8:16:05 pm PDT #749 of 10001

Agh. As Kristin can attest (because she met me briefly for some lifesaving food, shortly after work), today was vaguely nightmarish.

I didn't have access to the stuff I'm supposed to. Which wasn't really a huge issue, as the woman I'm training with was flittering around like a five year old with ADHD. Which is one way of doing this job (it's not that she wasn't DOING stuff, it's just...not the way I do things. So made it hard to learn from her). And then we had a midday all hands conference call. Where they changed the call in number three times. Last time five minutes before the call. While we weren't at the computer. So we finally get on the call a few minutes after it started, only to find out that I WASN"T just paranoid like she thought, but that I CAN read the signs, and they were, in fact, LAYING PEOPLE OFF. OMG. Not in my division, thank god, but JESUS CHRIST, UNIVERSE, just because I am stress laughing does NOT mean this is actually FUNNY.

Then there was the fact that she was driving back to San Diego, so wanted to work straight through lunch (she gave me half a sandwich from her bag) and left at 4pm. Luckily, Kristin got off work around then, so met me for some food before I collapsed.

Now I am not wanting to do this again tomorrow, especially. Oy. So many little details that are different from how I"m used to. The basics are the same, but the devil is in the details--and that's the part she's flitting about and I'm not getting pinned down. Good thing this isn't (fingers crossed and knock on wood) supposed to be a site I'm taking over, just one I'm going to be her backup for? Ay.


Pix - May 27, 2008 8:19:27 pm PDT #750 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Poor meara. I'm so glad I got to see you, though!


§ ita § - May 27, 2008 8:44:34 pm PDT #751 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Meara, that's appalling. I'm just trying to imagine the degree of paranoia that can thrive in a work-from-home scenario.

Great timing on your part, Pix.