This is what everyone is saying on facebook. (Also hilarious: All of my coworkers posting on facebook throughout the day.) Actually, we have two in this office of ~25, and one at the other main location.
...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!
Spike ,'Selfless'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Jesse - Sep 03, 2009 11:28:34 am PDT #6796 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Liese S. - Sep 03, 2009 12:15:53 pm PDT #6797 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Liese, do you have the second feeder out of sight of the first?
Yeah, I do. One is on the window of the sunroom, south-facing. The other is at the corner of the dog's kennel, northwest corner, visible from my office window. What this has achieved is making my whole house a battle zone. We keep getting strafed by them as we come out the front door. The SO wants to add one to the north-facing porch, which would make their hummingbird overlord plan complete.
And yeah, msbelle, definitely making the preparations now is a good idea.
Kat - Sep 03, 2009 12:59:47 pm PDT #6798 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm re-doing my syllabus for work. Instead of the usual grade offerings, I contemplated these grades instead: Epic Win, Win, Meh, Fail, Epic Fail.
Good plan?
sarameg - Sep 03, 2009 1:00:51 pm PDT #6799 of 30001
They just had Tania Aebi on NPR! I read her book (Maiden Voyage) about her teenage solo sail years ago, makes these kids doing solo sails these days wimps. She had no gps, no internet, sailing by sextant.
I think of hummingbirds as fierce fighters. I think >1 hummingbird falls under the definition of war.
Polter-Cow - Sep 03, 2009 1:02:42 pm PDT #6800 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Mmm, you know what's good? M&Ms.
Sheryl - Sep 03, 2009 1:05:16 pm PDT #6801 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I know someone named Eowyn. It is her legal name, though not the name she was born with. (She changed it when she got married. I guess she figured she was changing one name, why not both)
-t - Sep 03, 2009 1:08:07 pm PDT #6802 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What this has achieved is making my whole house a battle zone. We keep getting strafed by them as we come out the front door.
I'm always kind of surprised at how scary that can be. Usually they are pretty benign towards me, but now and then they look at me like they coule, if they wanted to, drive their beaks right into my brain. I don't think the one that sits and guards the feeder in the backyard realizes there's another one in the front, though.
Liese S. - Sep 03, 2009 1:08:15 pm PDT #6803 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I think >1 hummingbird falls under the definition of war.
True. The funniest bit to me is when the male hummingbirds get so busy defending their territory that the female hummingbirds sit contentedly together on the feeder eating, and the male hummingbirds never actually get to eat.
Epic Win, Win, Meh, Fail, Epic Fail.
Love. You totally need to do this.
Lee - Sep 03, 2009 1:12:24 pm PDT #6804 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
dear people: I understand completely that you want to have conversations that others are not privy to, and I am completely fine with that. Heck, I'm happy about it, since I am trying to work and, to be perfectly honest, you are talking about things I have absolutely no interest in.
However, surely there is a better place to have those conversations than directly outside my open office door.
Also, you aren't as good at whispering as you think you are.
Liese S. - Sep 03, 2009 1:18:31 pm PDT #6805 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha. That's great. I am so glad to be out of an office because of my mad eavesdropping skills. I don't mean to hear what you think you're saying privately. It's just that you're Right There and I have ears.
Working out of the house, so not an issue.
But this is why you folks get hummingbird updates. It should morph into songbird updates once we get into fall, here. Heh. But really, there's very very little else going on here, other than, you know, actual work.