Gotta love what they will do for a nice nom.
"Cecil . . . you gave away the plans, Cecil. How could you!"
"I'm sorry, Basil, they--they had noms!"
Slap my hand now!
Anya ,'Empty Places'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Connie Neil - May 10, 2010 10:14:13 am PDT #18769 of 30000
brillig
Hil R. - May 10, 2010 10:23:19 am PDT #18770 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, just got a call -- the school that's probably my first choice right now, the one that was checking my references this morning, wants me to come for a campus interview.
tommyrot - May 10, 2010 10:23:52 am PDT #18771 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yay! Good luck, Hil.
Shir - May 10, 2010 10:26:16 am PDT #18772 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Yay Hil!
Vortex - May 10, 2010 10:31:52 am PDT #18773 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
OK, just got a call -- the school that's probably my first choice right now, the one that was checking my references this morning, wants me to come for a campus interview.
Woo! Have you interviewed with them before?
Gudanov - May 10, 2010 10:33:05 am PDT #18774 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
That sounds really promising.
Hil R. - May 10, 2010 10:35:46 am PDT #18775 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Woo! Have you interviewed with them before?
Yeah, I did a phone interview. (I didn't think the phone interview went very well -- I'd gotten almost no sleep the previous night.) It's about an hour and a half drive away, with no good public transportation, so I guess I'll reserve a Zipcar for that day.
Pix - May 10, 2010 10:39:53 am PDT #18776 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
Hil, that's great news! Best luck in your interview.
Barb, I left the house at 6:15 this morning, so the commute was doable. Apparently this construction project is going to be playing the "some days no delay other days watch out" game. I have a feeling the commute home is always going to be worse than the one in, so we'll see how I feel tonight.
I emailed the new school once more letting them know that my current school has given me a Friday 2:30 deadline and asking them gently to let me know if they have either decided to go with someone else or won't have a decision by then. At this point I'm assuming the job isn't going to happen. I've decided that given our current financial situation, I can't afford to resign this year without a definite prospect, so I'm just going to have to deal with the commute (now with added 405/Sunset construction!) next year. I will look actively for a new job closer to home next year. Could be much worse. I do have a job, after all, and I love the girls. So, yeah. It will be okay.
I'm subbing practically every period I'm not already teaching this week. Brain hurts.
ChiKat - May 10, 2010 10:44:28 am PDT #18777 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I feel your pain on the commute, Pix. I have to leave home at 6:15, too. If I leave school by 3:30 or 3:45, the commute home isn't terrible, but after that? I wait till 6 to leave.
And, currently, school was supposed to be out 5 minutes ago, but we're on lockdown. Don't know why, yet.
Barb - May 10, 2010 10:59:05 am PDT #18778 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Argh, Pix-- well, I hope it's not too terrible going home, but then again, I've driven LA rush hour traffic. I'll be crossing things for you.
IOmeN, after putting it off as long as I possibly could, I just had to write a substantial check to the Publisher Who Will Not Be Named, paying them back for canceling the book that became STARS. While intellectually I know I'm in a much better place now, with a much better publisher, it still chaps my ass monumentally that I have to pay the original publisher back at all, considering I worked my ass off on that manuscript for over fifteen months, doing revision after revision at their behest, and they then decided it didn't fit what they wanted.
I had to include a copy of the termination letter with the check and it's amazing how it still fills me with HULK! SMASH! RAGE! that I had to sign a letter that claimed I'd failed to produce an acceptable manuscript.
I'm in such a terrible mood now and on the verge of tears. This is so stupid.