In academia, we laugh at your COLA. Does not exist. You get your 2.75% annual "merit" raise and are supposed to be thankful.
ETA Except in years where we get no raise at all.
Hey, that's MY job! (And we're not even academia....)
Haven't you killed me enough for one day?
Mal ,'War Stories'
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.
Steph L. - Feb 05, 2009 2:56:40 pm PST #5229 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jesse - Feb 05, 2009 2:56:51 pm PST #5230 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, last year was the first in my career where I got a "standard" pay increase.
ION, I heard my grandmother say "fuck" this evening. I am traumatized. Granted, she was reporting someone else's conversation, but STILL.
§ ita § - Feb 05, 2009 3:03:17 pm PST #5231 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sophia, your cat has stretched the board.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 05, 2009 3:08:21 pm PST #5232 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think I fixed it!
But now she is eating my chicken.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 05, 2009 3:45:51 pm PST #5233 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
OK, buffalo burgers tonight were considerably better than Play-Do coonsistency cheesy rice last night.
sarameg - Feb 05, 2009 3:47:38 pm PST #5234 of 30000
I think Loki is getting fat.
msbelle - Feb 05, 2009 3:49:15 pm PST #5235 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
what is the rhyme to easy peasy ____ ______?
megan walker - Feb 05, 2009 3:53:15 pm PST #5236 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Doc and Sneezy?
Sophia Brooks - Feb 05, 2009 3:54:53 pm PST #5237 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
ham and cheesey?
Liese S. - Feb 05, 2009 3:55:34 pm PST #5238 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Pudding & pie?
Deer do not grasp the concept of lights and sirens.
Hee. There's a reason the phrase is "like a deer in the headlights."
I think somebody probably hit an elk here recently because there was something very large, very dead off a side road from the highway. We noticed because there were a) six bald eagles including a juvenile hanging out in the area, b) a bunch of ravens sitting morosely in a tree waiting for c) a coyote strolling casually around in the daytime to finish his meal and leave.