Watch out you don't get "Single White Femaled", bt. It's funny...one year I thought that movie was total crap...the next I had one. She cut her hair like me, got a lot of the same clothes and talked to my shrink on the phone. Of course, I lived, unlike the movie victim. It got really worrisome when she told a family vacation story of mine like it was hers.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
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.
erikaj - Aug 03, 2010 12:37:09 pm PDT #27370 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Calli - Aug 03, 2010 1:18:16 pm PDT #27371 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My department recently put together a style guide. Now there are several people in that department who believe that we can convince the other 550+ people in the organization to a) read it, b) comply with it, and c) care when we call them on failing to do a or b.
I am not one of those people. However, I will bring them cookies when their dreams are crushed under the weight of organizational indifference to the serial comma.
Miracleman - Aug 03, 2010 1:56:26 pm PDT #27372 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Now I want to go back into customer service. I would rock at tech support.
"Can you see the moon? Yes? You need an adapter."
"Ah, what we have here is an AF1022 afterburner sequencing error. You'll need three tea towels...NOT hand towels, TEA towels...a pound of butter and sixteen cat's eye marbles."
"Now, reach inside...no, no DON'T unplug it! That would make this all pointless! Now, jam your screwdriver in the big power box...which one of us is the expert here?"
"You're fucked."
Atropa - Aug 03, 2010 2:12:17 pm PDT #27373 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I am not one of those people. However, I will bring them cookies when their dreams are crushed under the weight of organizational indifference to the serial comma.
Please come to work at my office? I would like to be soothed with cookies every time one of the writers doesn't use the style guide.
Alternatively, I would like there to be no consequences when I want to go play live-action Whack A Mole with the PMs who think their specs can be used for documentation with no extra work.
smonster - Aug 03, 2010 2:22:50 pm PDT #27374 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
My work rants are all aimed at myself or vicarious at the moment.
Big cats on catnip are cute. Neither of my cats likes catnip, more's the pity.
sj - Aug 03, 2010 2:27:35 pm PDT #27375 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have no work rants because I have no work at the moment. Speaking of which, I suppose there is no nice way of saying that I want to be paid if I babysit every Friday for my friend's son? I can't really see myself getting up at 5:30 every Friday for free.
Gudanov - Aug 03, 2010 2:37:07 pm PDT #27376 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
No work rants for me at the moment, though I could do some home ones.
Cass - Aug 03, 2010 2:38:33 pm PDT #27377 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
sj, if she wants you to do that work, she needs to pay you. Seriously. It has to be a business transaction. For both of you.
smonster - Aug 03, 2010 2:39:28 pm PDT #27378 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
sj, hell yes you should get paid! That's regular work, and it is work. I can see how the conversation could get awkward, but you should mos def get paid.
Spidra Webster - Aug 03, 2010 2:41:26 pm PDT #27379 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I'm not sure if there's a *nice* way to say it but I think saying "I can't really see myself getting up at 5:30 every Friday for free" covers it.