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Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Lee - Mar 17, 2010 5:09:56 pm PDT #16983 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Another all day meara

I hope you are feeling better Tom. You are too awesome not to.

eep. That NB piece. Such a bummer.

Serious Bummer.

Today, you are my hero.

Mine, too!

And mine!

I am wearing green, because we were told yesterday we were having a party and should wear green.

At least I got to wear green nail polish.

Boss just said he's going to fight for my conversion from contract to permanent because of the good work I've done.

AWESOME. Smart dude FTW!

Grace's appointment was good.

YAY

Barb, where's Perkins to set off FCM? I'm not so good at that, or I'd try.

Sorry. I woke up to three emails from big boss lady. First one asked if I had time to do something. Second one was to the original requestor telling her I would do it, and volunteering me to do more work than originally asked. Third one was telling me I should check in with her before I started the second part, since she had other stuff she needed me to do.

The day did not get better from there.

Today's lesson, for me, seems to be that work stress is not conducive to being on a no-buy, because I spent most of what little amount of lunch break I took buying a very large amount of polish from Nubar's sale.


Juliebird - Mar 17, 2010 5:14:39 pm PDT #16984 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

So my new Executive Director, who is the only person that I would use the c word on (not being the c word that means Cancer: Malignant, which describes a blissfully fired coworker, the only good thing the ED has done in my eyes)... Besides the four letter connotation, there is also C is for Control-freak, and Choke: what she is doing to me and my coworkers and what I would like to do to her. Constriction and Cocksucker also come to mind.

I really need advice. I am not an educator. I am a grunt. I am the dirty person. Once a season, I get to be the dreamer and let loose my tempermental creative . . . creativity, and order a bunch of plants on someone else's dime according to my own design.

ED has Glass Head Syndrome. She asks for brainstorming ideas. But that doesn't mean what she thinks it means, because apparentlyn that means playful class titles and set dates and set times and the advertisement and the extensive market research done. So she asks for the class, date, time, our cost, and student price (and still calls this brainstorming), and gets just that, and then calls it a fail.

So, Educators: when presenting potential classes, workshops, lectures, how the frick do you present it? Is it normal to do hours and days of research on a "brainstorm"? only to get it kicked back with a "do it again, only right"? She's renaming everything with pretty titles to the point that I wouldn't be able to tell what the class is even for. Ravishing Roses? Are we raping them?!


tommyrot - Mar 17, 2010 5:32:58 pm PDT #16985 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

T-Rexes on Saturn!


SuziQ - Mar 17, 2010 5:36:33 pm PDT #16986 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Tonight Mythbusters has been doing a bunch of alcohol related myths. CJ is currently watching one comparing a beer hangover to a mixed alcohol hangover. He asked me if hangovers really are that bad after one of the guys hurled. Now, I've been drunk and I've had headaches and been wiped out the next day, but I haven't had a classic hangover (that I remember).

Anyway, CJ says he will never know cause he won't ever get drunk like that. I laughed and asked if he would put that in writing.

I now have a note - "I, CJ, will never drink alcohol to excess without acceptable cause." Dated today and signed by him.

I asked about the "acceptable cause" and that is his out if he is ever "forced to do it for science". Oh, and he told me I could frame it. I just may do that. Definitely going to tuck it away for when he is a bit older.


megan walker - Mar 17, 2010 5:37:30 pm PDT #16987 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Oh, you have to frame that one.


Sue - Mar 17, 2010 5:38:38 pm PDT #16988 of 30001
hip deep in pie

And present it to him in the middle of a crushing hangover.


amych - Mar 17, 2010 5:39:57 pm PDT #16989 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

If CJ is ever one of the future Mythbusters sidekicks, and if they're still doing alcohol myths at that time (AND YOU KNOW THEY WILL BE), I think the internets will forgive him for going against his sworn statement.

Because you know we'll be around to produce the statement on the air, along with a threadsuck of this thread.


§ ita § - Mar 17, 2010 5:40:38 pm PDT #16990 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, GOD. In clearing up paperwork I just realised an appointment I thought was April 1st is tomorrow. Which means that the vendor coming in from out of town for work? I can't be there for. At the last minute. Great work, ita, great work. Oh, god. I can't fucking believe it. It's totally not an appointment I can reschedule, but an appointment to have work done on my shoulder.

Fuck.


SuziQ - Mar 17, 2010 5:41:30 pm PDT #16991 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I wish I had gotten something similar from K-Bug when she swore kissing with tongues was absolutely disgusting and there is no way she would EVER do that. I think she was around the same age he is.


lisah - Mar 17, 2010 5:41:46 pm PDT #16992 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Can I also mention that my kid is living up to his Asian-Irishness as his dinner has been corned beef over sticky rice?

This Irish girl had delicious Sichuan-style noodles for dinner!