I just gave my (former) minion a barely-cryptic pep talk, so that made me feel a little better.
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
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.
Jesse - Jan 11, 2010 9:56:15 am PST #757 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
SuziQ - Jan 11, 2010 9:57:31 am PST #758 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I bailed and came home to work.
Jesse - Jan 11, 2010 10:00:25 am PST #759 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Now I've moved on to thinking about drinking. Would rum be good in Lemon Zinger tea? I feel like it should be.
Kathy A - Jan 11, 2010 10:01:59 am PST #760 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
javachik - Jan 11, 2010 10:02:36 am PST #761 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I wish I could just gather y'all up and spend the afternoon slounging in front of a massive fireplace, drinking rum-infused Lemon Zinger tea.
Steph L. - Jan 11, 2010 10:09:26 am PST #762 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My ex-dissertation advisor, who is 60, told me that not only did the department have older women who typed your dissertation for you when he did his, they also fixed your grammar and spelling and stuff so you didn't have to worry about those things. I think he got his PhD in 1975.
This explains SO MANY of the articles we receive. My assumption was that they were entitled jackholes who think of editorial staff as the secretarial pool. Apparently I am not wrong.
My mom wouldn't let me take typing in high school (I believe the phrase "over my dead body" was uttered), due to some amorphous feminist principles. This has led, over the years, to my developing rapid 2-finger typing.
ION, I am in a pissy mood about everything today. For no real reason. I'm just tired of hearing everyone's effusive praise/affirmative remarks/exclamations about Every. Goddamn. Thing. Someone. Says! (In the office.)
Jessica - Jan 11, 2010 10:10:47 am PST #763 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I'm just tired of hearing everyone's effusive praise/affirmative remarks/exclamations about Every. Goddamn. Thing. Someone. Says! (In the office.)
Oh, wow!!! That's so great!!!!!!!
(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)
Gudanov - Jan 11, 2010 10:12:20 am PST #764 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I took typing in HS. I figured it would be helpful for using computers and papers and stuff. I think it was only slightly female skewed. That very well may have been the last time I used a typewriter.
Ginger - Jan 11, 2010 10:13:46 am PST #765 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I took typing because it was either that or study hall, and study hall seemed a waste. It was the single most useful thing I did in high school. At one time, I could type 65 corrected WPM on a Royal Standard. Now the idea makes my fingers hurt.
John Marsh, Margaret Mitchell's husband, was the advertising manager of Georgia Power. Rumor in the department had it that he brought the manuscript of Gone with the Wind into the office to be typed and corrected by his secretary.
Jessica - Jan 11, 2010 10:13:57 am PST #766 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I can't remember ever having learned touch typing in school, which is odd because from 7th grade on there was always at least one computer-related class, and we definitely had Mavis Beacon typing tests. But I have no idea when or where I learned concepts like "home keys."