I have tried to watch The Boosh and just not gotten into it, but I know enough to be able to appreciate the fans' squees. It's like, I know I don't like shrimp but I think it's fun when other people at dinner order shrimp cocktail.
Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.
Oz ,'First Date'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
Laga - Jan 27, 2011 9:38:49 am PST #14073 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
beekaytee - Jan 27, 2011 9:47:35 am PST #14074 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
There are certainly parts of it that I don't like...frankly, the Crack Fox leaves me cold. But, I love Noel and Julian so much...and appreciate that they get to be so craxy and still succeed...so I lalala past the bits that don't hit for me.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jan 27, 2011 9:55:08 am PST #14075 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
"Charlie come, a Charlie come, he's bubblegum..."
But, I love Noel and Julian so much...and appreciate that they get to be so craxy and still succeed...so I lalala past the bits that don't hit for me.
I agree with this assessment.
Beverly - Jan 27, 2011 9:56:34 am PST #14076 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Happy Birthday, Laga!
I've been thinking about it, and I have to say the idea of an interview coach is a very good one. I mean, I thought I was being friendly and outgoing, you know? And for me, it was. But I failed to project. I learned to put down my pen, take my hands all the way off the keyboard, not just hover in place waiting for the interruption to finish blahblahblah and let me get on with work. I learned to swivel my chair and focus totally on the speaker, smile till I felt like a kabuki mask. I practiced in the mirror, smiling so that the outside ends of my eyebrows came down a bit, my eye corners crinkled--evidently those are "tells" of a "real smile", and you can teach them to your facial muscles.
The problem seemed to be that while I was perfectly approachable and friendly and chatty on the inside, on the outside I was perceived like Agent Cho. So although it felt extremely fake, I called on my acting background, gritted my teeth, and performed. Yes, it cut my job efficiency, by a significant amount. But the people I worked for and with felt a lot more comfortable around me, and my performance evals actually improved. It was frustrating for me, because I could accomplish more if I was allowed to focus on task. But apparently when I did that I made everyone else uncomfortable.
Laga - Jan 27, 2011 9:59:30 am PST #14077 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Wow, that is fascinating, Beverly. I really appreciate you sharing in such detail. I'm rethinking how I comport myself in an office environment. Maybe there is more to work than productivity.
amyth - Jan 27, 2011 10:03:27 am PST #14078 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Calli, I'm home early. Do you need anything?
Steph L. - Jan 27, 2011 10:13:02 am PST #14079 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Maybe there is more to work than productivity.
Unless you work alone, or with a small number of people who have agreed in advance that you can shut yourself up in your Editor's Nerd Hole and just edit (okay, I *may* be projecting there), this is almost ALWAYS true.
Jessica - Jan 27, 2011 10:23:45 am PST #14080 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Unless you work alone, or with a small number of people who have agreed in advance that you can shut yourself up in your Editor's Nerd Hole and just edit (okay, I *may* be projecting there), this is almost ALWAYS true.
Yeah, my job is about 50% Actual Work and about 50% Bullshit Office Politics.
Connie Neil - Jan 27, 2011 10:24:51 am PST #14081 of 30000
brillig
Maybe there is more to work than productivity.
Until your numbers go down . . .
Atropa - Jan 27, 2011 10:33:59 am PST #14082 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.