Anya ,'Storyteller'
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.
I'm glad about the proactive preparation for Gustav but man, the difference from Katrina is that much more disgusting.
ION, my in-laws are in Alabama. My MiL called and said they got a "killer deal" on a cruise. They're leaving from Mobile tomorrow.
*facepalms*
"Popeye's Chicken is the shiznit"
This reminds me that my weird-ass, highly unprofessional co-workers* have taken to calling each other "Shiz." When I heard it, I asked them where it came from, and one said, "Short for 'shiznit.'" I told them yeah, *I* know where it's from, but did they even know what "shiznit" means?
They didn't, of course, so I told them.
One was *appalled* and embarassed that she had been saying such a thing without knowing what it meant (and I thought, honey, do you just walk around saying things that you don't even comprehend? what planet are you from?), and the other one -- who started the "Shiz" thing -- said, "It doesn't mean that in South Carolina!"
To which I said, "This is *Ohio* -- you know that, right?"
They stopped the "Shiz" thing that day. I work with crazy people, who I think are literally unemployable anywhere else. It's like Big!Boss runs some kind of last-chance workplace for the unemployable.
*(The co-workers who BEAT ON THEIR DESKS in some kind of rhythmic drumming thing they've got going on, several times a day, literally every day, and yes, they've been asked to stop but apparently think that their fun is more important than disturbing the rest of the office.)
They're leaving from Mobile tomorrow.
Well, the cruise company doesn't want that expensive ship tied up and helpless, and maybe they're headed for Panama?
that their fun is more important than disturbing the rest of the office
I want the CSR girls to stop doing choral singing late in the day when they're bored. Yes, they can carry a tune, but I'm trying to work! And some of hte people in my office are working with clients on the phone!
I want the CSR girls to stop doing choral singing late in the day when they're bored. Yes, they can carry a tune, but I'm trying to work! And some of hte people in my office are working with clients on the phone!
This is our problem, too. When 3 people who are 30 feet away start pounding on their desks in some rhythmic drumbeat, I about jump out of my skin.
(My specific department was made to sign documents saying that *we* -- the 4 of us who sit near each other -- wouldn't listen to the radio or iTunes or make/receive phone calls at our desks, because "the Editorial department's needs are different from the rest of the comapny and require minimal distractions." Hand to god. And yet the continual distraction of the cretins on the other side of the glass wall who beat on their desks is allowed to continue.)
JZ-- I don't know if you saw my post in Music, but Hec was really wonderful yesterday. The bus tour was not only fascinating, it was way wicked fun. It was a perfect combination of cool rock and LA history, intriguing and funny personal anecdotes, well-chosen video (we got to listen to "On the Nickel" while actually cruising up 5th--it was magical!) cool scenery and enthusiastic geekitude. And thank you so much for the bath oil--it should make my winter baths quite luxurious!
Steph, have you ever considered the possibility that you're actually working at Dunder Mifflin?
Journalists need to develop new filters for the Internet age, and one of them is this: just because a nominally large number of people say something, doesn't mean they're important.
Yes. This could not be said enough.
A bizarre Jack Chick tract about how Jesus can protect you from vampires: [link]
All you have to do is raise your arm and say, "Jesus, please stop him," as the vampire approaches you....
It's almost like a Mad Magazine parody. Oh, and Osama Bin Laden is a member of the vampire/witch coven.
Good day at the Open. Really good matches. Mac made it just over 5 hours, but almost half of that was outside a stadium. Still, it was hot and his first experience watching tennis, so I think a win. Next year we will go to more, and hopefully we can start lessons later this year.