Yay Kristin!
And Good luck to all buffista teachers!
Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?
Spike ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Shir - Sep 01, 2009 10:52:09 pm PDT #21587 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
javachik - Sep 01, 2009 10:54:26 pm PDT #21588 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Kristin, that place looks positively gorgeous. Congrats!
omnis_audis - Sep 01, 2009 11:01:56 pm PDT #21589 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
It will be January 23rd at Ramsey's at the Club in Toluca Lake.Ooo! That is the day after opening!! I might be able to escape TX to attend! Oooo!! :: crosses fingers ::
ION - CraxyRightWingUncle has struck again. I replied with a polite e-mail saying fear mongering is bad. Research information before blindly forwarding e-mails. We'll see how he takes that. I will say, he has been pretty good for about a month now on not forwarding anti-Obama e-mails. Apparently he calls my sister and tells her to forward them to me so I get them. Thankfully, she is smart enough to see the e-mails are BS and doesn't.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 02, 2009 12:04:01 am PDT #21590 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Happy Back-To-School Day, teachers! (I miss teaching most on the first day of the school year.)
A lot of the jobs that are looking for new Ph.D.s are adjunct positions
That's the case over here too. Lots of time-limited contracts. Universities are having funding problems. Hence my struggle to find PhD funding, too...
I don't mind popping in something totally non-related. I accept the fact that sometimes my post will slip beneath the waves unnoticed, the price to pay for the freeform thread.
And me.
Talking of which posting policy: I am going abroad tomorrow. This is great, but I'm worrying about the flight. We always have extremely difficult arguments with check-in people about whether or not I'm going to get a seat near the front. There is no way to reserve in advance, our travel agent doesn't know what their seat booking policy is, and we can't get through to the airline. Nyagh.
Also, I saw myself in the photos that people took of the Greenbelt festival, and now I remember that I *really* need to lose weight. Sigh.
I replied with a polite e-mail saying fear mongering is bad.
You are a very restrained person.
Shir - Sep 02, 2009 12:14:35 am PDT #21591 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
our travel agent doesn't know what their seat booking policy is
Isn't that her job to know this kind of information, or find out for you?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 02, 2009 12:29:26 am PDT #21592 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Isn't that her job to know this kind of information, or find out for you?
Our usual one is on business away from the office. Her replacement doesn't know and can't find out, apparently. He had a vague idea about some seats possibly being held for disabled people on a first come, first served basis. Which is fine, as long as they aren't allocated to other people before we arrive. Hmph. *worry*
Seriously, the fun I've had with check-in people and flight staff over the EU flight regulations relating to disabled people. We've actually been told outright "That law is not our policy. We have a policy about disabled people and this is it," regarding sitting me where they bloody well like. If they said that about health and safety law, there'd be rather a lot of trouble...
Shir - Sep 02, 2009 12:35:18 am PDT #21593 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Seriously, Seska, this is outrageous. Is The Girl a lawyer, by any chance?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 02, 2009 2:02:03 am PDT #21594 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Heh. No, The Girl is not a lawyer, although she's recently taken some law courses because she's interested in discrimination law. It gives us just enough knowledge to tell people what the law is, but not enough to make them enforce it.
The disability law situation varies a lot across the EU. Ireland, where I travel a lot, has some infrastructure issues because of only recently becoming economically more developed, but the attitudes at Dublin airport are always overwhelmingly better than at London Heathrow. Similarly with the States - my experiences improve drastically from the moment the plane hits US soil. In this case, since I haven't been to Spain since I've been using a wheelchair, I've no idea what the situation will be. But I don't expect it to be great on this side of the world :/ Oh well - all part of the travel adventure. Sort of.
smonster - Sep 02, 2009 3:47:56 am PDT #21595 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Seska, travel~ma to you. Traveling is stressful at the best of times; sounds like you've had a lot of asshats to deal with.
Here's a non-sequiter: the other night I dreamt I was dating my HS boyfriend again, he of the alcoholism and mental issues (lovely guy, though). We've recently gotten back into touch on FB. It's been 15 yrs since I've seen or talked to him, and I still have some feelings for him. It's just the way my personality is - I know this, I've been working on accepting it, but boy is it a PITA from time to time. And HELL NO I won't be discussing any of this w/ KBD. I'd love to try and have some kind of friendship with HS BF, but I get the feeling from the time it takes him to respond to my messages that he's not really interested. And that makes me a bit sad. Which then makes me @@ at myself.
Anybody else have The Crushes That Never Die?
Aims - Sep 02, 2009 4:24:38 am PDT #21596 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The Crushes That Never Die?
Oh yeah. Guy I LOVED in 6th grade. To this day, when I run into him my heart just freaks out and I'm surprised I can even form coherent sentences. The couple of times Joe and I have run into him at the grocery store or summat, Joe laughs and laughs after.