I delurked with a stor based on the alien body, got called out as "that green chick", and then spent years explaining ever since that while I am in fact into sustainability and recycling and whatnot, it's not actually the origin of the gchick pseud.

I did not know that!

Me neither! That's hilarious.

My grandfather was 20 when he left Sweden and 84 the first time he returned. Children liked to hear him talk becasue it was like watching the Swedish version of a victorian costume drama. He pointed out when he returned home tha, ironically, he and his childhood friends now "speak the same English but a different Swedish."

I wonder if the same thing happened to my grandpa when he went back to visit Lulea, his hometown in Sweden, some 50 years after he left in his late teens.

The "Icebox" effect is why American English has retained so many idioms and words that dropped out of English English in the 400 years since Jamestown. I remember the "that's so cool!" reaction I had the first time I saw the phrase "I guesse" in my Chaucer class and realized that what I thought was an American phrase had been around for centuries, if not a millenium.

We're such dorks.

now you know I am going to take exception.

now you know I am going to take exception.

And you know, poquito, I'm going to roll my eyes.

So there it is.

OMG, this status report and Project 2007 are killing me. Who wants status reports involving images embedded in PPTs? What circle of hell is that?

I have ten minutes before I have to go get the kids. Do I watch TV and eat jelly bellies or do the dishes?

eta: even as I typed that, I knew my choice.

Huh.

So, I have a meeting on Wednesdays to schedule larger IT projects with development and QA rescources, and with whoever the stakeholders of those projects are, so that if we can't fit it in, they can fight for it.

Once we get it scheduled, we review on Friday to make sure everything still fits and will happen when we said it would. This is 2 hours of my work week and more importantly an hour out of my FRIDAY.

Why then, have I had something slotted for 5/6 that I have just been informed in an email!?! won't happen until 5/27? Why do we even have this meeting if people are just going to switch things up all willy nilly. And of course most importantly of all WHY CAN I NOT SET PEOPLE ON FIRE WITH MY BRAIN!?!

Also, when are you going to come to Nashville again?

Hmm, good question. I'm still liking the "meet in Asheville" plan.

Shari, I'm sorry I thought you were a trollish newb trying to get a rise out of us. Somehow, we didn't intersect at WX...I think I'd remember(smile) Of course, now the danger is that you never read any of that posted stuff and you'll be upset anyway because I called it to your attention. But I think I should apologize personally...I didn't realize so many 'ffistas had talked to you before and you and I had quite a tension-filled introduction, and, well, never mind. I called it wrong, anyway and I'm sorry about that. it's not because I think you're wrong...that is constitutionally protected.

I remember amych delurking! Her green stor had no face, and it was freaky.