You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!  

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.


§ ita § - Jun 25, 2008 7:56:04 am PDT #4814 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Amazing news, Dana! Good on you.

I would love to like that wasabi pop, but no, looks like hell on ice to me. But if that could cleanse my palate, damn, that would cleanse my palate.

I just browsed classifieds while waiting on breakfast and I really think I need to move. It seems I could be paying significantly less in my area. But now is sucky time to move, what with incipient job change and all that. Humph.


Kat - Jun 25, 2008 8:02:45 am PDT #4815 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

But now is sucky time to move, what with incipient job change and all that. Humph.

Yep. Somewhat. Or it might be a good time to move while you still have a job and income on paper?


shrift - Jun 25, 2008 8:05:26 am PDT #4816 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

If you mailed in your bigass document, then I say yes it's time to go home.

The first draft was 77 pages! Which I guess doesn't seem like a lot? I don't even know anymore.

Anyway, the problem with going home early is that I would have to get up and walk to the subway. I'll have to get up eventually, but I'm trying to put it off for as long as possible.


§ ita § - Jun 25, 2008 8:06:56 am PDT #4817 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Or it might be a good time to move while you still have a job and income on paper?

I don't know if I want to take the hit in moving costs right now, though.

I need to step away from latimes.com. It always makes apartments seem so much more attractive than in real life.

Please send a rescue squad. Someone's inviting me to be catty and I just don't want to. That's a cry for help, isn't it?


Dana - Jun 25, 2008 8:08:26 am PDT #4818 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The first draft was 77 pages! Which I guess doesn't seem like a lot?

My professional opinion is that it's definitely a lot.


Atropa - Jun 25, 2008 8:12:11 am PDT #4819 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

The first draft was 77 pages! Which I guess doesn't seem like a lot?

Yes, that is a lot. If one of my writers sent me a 77 page document to edit, I would stare unbelievingly at the monitor. But that's because I'm not lucky enough to have shrift as one of my writers. No, my writers are people I want to smack on the nose with the style guide.

Every so often, when I'm stuck in horrible work meetings, I fantasize about what my job would be like if I had ita as a project manager, shrift as a writer, and Plei as the content build queen. Then I sigh wistfully, because I know my team, while pretty awesome, will never be that awesome.


§ ita § - Jun 25, 2008 8:12:42 am PDT #4820 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am aware of all internet traditions (with dirty language).

Perhaps the best cake ever. I mean, come on. Just the mottling alone!


shrift - Jun 25, 2008 8:14:52 am PDT #4821 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

My professional opinion is that it's definitely a lot.

Oh, good. And that didn't even include a bunch of stuff that I need to add later.

And no leaving early. Now have project I must finish by Friday afternoon in order to get full bonus.

Money money money.


§ ita § - Jun 25, 2008 8:17:48 am PDT #4822 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

serial:

I fantasize about what my job would be like if I had ita as a project manager, shrift as a writer, and Plei as the content build queen

That's so sweet! Sometimes I fantasize about what my job would be like if I had people on it who'd do their jobs, but I need to stop dreaming small, and dream Buffista. (Can you imagine I was made to look bad in front of my boss because a co-worker didn't collect his requirements because I had only asked him to do it?)


amych - Jun 25, 2008 8:17:51 am PDT #4823 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I fantasize about what my job would be like

I, in turn, fantasize about what your documentation would be like. A little judiciously distributed buffistaness might solve the RTFM problem outright.