I sometimes use "advice please" to indicate that I'm not sure how to handle something (i.e., someone wants a huge amount of information RIGHT NOW ... and they aren't members or anyone I've had dealings with, but my boss may have offered them info).
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
'Potential'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Toddson - Jul 30, 2008 12:07:05 pm PDT #519 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Daisy Jane - Jul 30, 2008 12:07:09 pm PDT #520 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
What was the free jewelry site?
bon bon - Jul 30, 2008 12:07:41 pm PDT #521 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Please advise is kind of p/a in that it is unnecessarily formal and unspecific, IME, but I only get it from people who I don't supervise -- people I supervise would be specific about what they want. It depends on the workplace.
Also on the lexis thing, it is easy to accidentally run 25 searches in lexis's records, so that part doesn't faze me. Why she didn't run a search on the person's name by itself is a mystery, but not surprising given she was learning the software.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 30, 2008 12:10:16 pm PDT #522 of 10003
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Re: Plants
Thanks to Bonny, Plei & Beverly for the input. I think between Devil's Ivy & Aspidistra, I'm going to have to plump for Aspidistra given that it's non-toxic for cats (though hopefully they shouldn't get anywhere near it, but still) and I'm not so sure I want to fight the Devil's Ivy for dominance of the room.
So, Plei, where should I go looking for an Aspidistra, then?
Scrappy - Jul 30, 2008 12:15:42 pm PDT #523 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Aspidistras R. Us?
SuziQ - Jul 30, 2008 12:16:55 pm PDT #524 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Jesse - Jul 30, 2008 12:20:49 pm PDT #525 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ay dios mio. Something that is really not a big deal is about to become a slightly bigger deal, made bigger by the fact that I'm going to be out of the office at meetings tomorrow and Friday. Ugh!
Daisy Jane - Jul 30, 2008 12:21:54 pm PDT #526 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Ah, thank you, Suzi!
Eeep! Jesse!
Jesse - Jul 30, 2008 12:33:34 pm PDT #527 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's just stupid. Six months ago, we did a report that I thought was inadequate, but no one came back on it. Now we're doing the same report again, but now my colleague is afraid it's inadequate this time. No one will come back on it! Let it go!
Whatever, it's fine. I'm mostly annoyed at myself for leaving it until the last minute.
Also, apparently some of the timed-release claratin I took this morning must have just kicked in, because I'm independently jittery all of a sudden.
Sue - Jul 30, 2008 12:36:38 pm PDT #528 of 10003
hip deep in pie
I've been thinking a lot about one friend who was there the night I got Pico. The last I heard of him was about 6 years ago, and he was in Dallas. He's a total non-communicator, so I just gave up in trying to keep in touch with him. But since Pico died, I just can't shake him from my mind. I've even dreamed about him twice. (The funny thing about associating him with a cat? He once told me that people who loved animals were "weak minded". Yeah, he's a ball of charm. But at the same time, he still insists on calling Pico his original name, Queequeg.) Today, I get home and there's a message from him, and he's in town. I am kind of freaking, in a good way.