Sadly normal. But worse.
Can you imagine *not* sending out form letters to much more than 5 or 10 applicants? Who expects personal details at that point? Kee-rist.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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 § - Mar 31, 2009 6:40:52 pm PDT #13288 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2009 6:44:20 pm PDT #13289 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Special K:
My sister is being a tech flake. She suggested uninstalling and reinstalling her DVD drive drivers, went ahead and uninstalled, and then asked me where the new drivers were. And chastened me for not telling her to have had them beforehand. That's not a technical detail! That's common sense! Now it'll still be my fault if she doesn't get it working.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2009 6:55:41 pm PDT #13290 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
God, I want to scream at her! I can't believe she screwed herself like this and I can't get her out of it.
-t - Mar 31, 2009 7:10:26 pm PDT #13291 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds immensely frustrating.
Is that really Prince in a Target ad?
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2009 7:13:18 pm PDT #13292 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't find the drivers on the website, and if I do yell at her she'll just feel bad about herself which won't make me feel better.
So now I'm all paranoid that all the computers in my family are going to catch Conficker, and that'll be my fault too.
-t, YES. Very weird.
-t - Mar 31, 2009 7:15:45 pm PDT #13293 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Bewildering.
beth b - Mar 31, 2009 7:15:49 pm PDT #13294 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ita -- matt told me how to locate the drivers in tech -- he is getting his computer and should be there soon if you need help
amych - Mar 31, 2009 7:19:40 pm PDT #13295 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think I've just doubled my facebook weird - high school and college friends are one thing, but I think I just sent off a message to the dude from toddler play date days. (Or harassed some random stranger. There's always that.)
Strega - Mar 31, 2009 7:20:22 pm PDT #13296 of 30000
Anyone know what the racial demographics were for London in Dickens' time? I'm seeing some people arguing that there's no reason that Nancy couldn't be black, and I'm wondering about the stats.
Behold my google-fu:
As the 18th century drew to a close, Britain's Black population was well established, breaking free from slavery - but usually very poor, sometimes destitute. The first-generation immigrants were overwhelmingly male, supplemented by arrivals of Black sailors, plus 4,000 Black refugees who had fought for George III against the American Revolution. Black people integrated and intermarried into poor white urban populations, and entered the nineteenth century sharing in the misery and historical anonymity of the British poor.
That mentions a contemporary estimate of over 20,000 blacks just in London. I found another source which used official records & extrapolated to figure the population in the early 1800s was between 10K and 18K.
And now I've learned things and can go to bed. Whee!
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2009 7:43:45 pm PDT #13297 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Simon Baker's American accent is a bit wobbly tonight. And I suck at accents.