Not to mention that my beta readers know me well enough that they can say "Look, I know what you meant to say here, but you left out about half of the words you need."
It's said nicely though.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cass - Oct 27, 2010 11:16:31 am PDT #2251 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2010 11:18:54 am PDT #2252 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I have a crush on my luggage.
Maria - Oct 27, 2010 11:31:18 am PDT #2253 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
In re my annual review--well that could have gone better, and it could have gone worse. It was fair, but I'm still miffed about one point. Someone please tell me to just let it go, because there's no way I can change it.
slayeroshadow - Oct 27, 2010 11:32:02 am PDT #2254 of 30001
And what's with all the carrots?
If the Fembot performed basic cleaning duties, I would be interested. Our robot vacuum never did work correctly.
Of course nothing compares to Buffy-bot.
We have our annual Boo at the Zoo tonight. Safe-Halloween fun at the local zoo for kids. I'm taking the boy (dressed up as a baseball player), but the daughter has come down with cold/flu that hit all of us the last two weeks and has spent the day at home with the wife.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2010 11:32:22 am PDT #2255 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Deep breathing and chocolate, MFN.
-t - Oct 27, 2010 11:35:40 am PDT #2256 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Serenity Now, Maria! Or whenever you can get to it, being a little miffed might be perfectly reasonable. Glad the review was generally fair.
Maria - Oct 27, 2010 11:42:06 am PDT #2257 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
slayer, get-better~ma to the girl sprog, and I hope the boy sprog has a fabulous time.
Thanks, ita and -t. I took on full strategic and operational responsibility for government services this year, and there were some bumps. Let them try managing a division remotely, and tell me there aren't challenges. And of course it was reflected in the merit increase. Bah.
Allyson - Oct 27, 2010 11:44:28 am PDT #2258 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I want to make a website that is just sort of, "Here's some good shit that happened today."
For those who are suffering outrage exhaustion.
Just random neato stuff like, "hey, biologists just discovered three new kinds of frogs in the amazon, today." Or, "Girls math scores are up in the US."
Random awesome news that just gets buried under outrage.
Daisy Jane - Oct 27, 2010 11:45:02 am PDT #2259 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
In snarky political news, perhaps Meg Whitman shoulda done a bit of research before basically handing Jerry Brown the best political ad this year.
erikaj - Oct 27, 2010 11:48:04 am PDT #2260 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
you should,Allyson. Apparently some nuns got donated one of the rarest baseball cards in the world this week. Olbermann must be quite torn about it.