I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.

Fuffy ,'Storyteller'


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.


Steph L. - Mar 01, 2011 8:22:27 am PST #25796 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Ooh, it does on the iPad. Nifty.

Does shaking an iPad remind you of shaking an Etch-A-Sketch? Because that's what it seems like to me.

ION, 3 people in my department of 5 are out today (2 of them all week), and I have to do the jobs of 2 of them plus me. I will be as crazy as Charlie Sheen by the end of the week.

(I laughed in incompetent!boss's face -- not on purpose -- when he asked me seriously if we would be able to meet a deadline for a schedule that he created on the assumption that everyone would be here all week. Uh, yeah, dude. I can do 3 people's jobs, but I still only have 8 hours a day to do them in. Maybe you should try helping. Oh, wait. You can't. Because you don't know how to do SHIT around here.)

This is when I remember I want to keep booze in my desk.


tommyrot - Mar 01, 2011 8:26:35 am PST #25797 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.

This is when I remember I want to keep booze in my desk.

When I was a kid, I always thought it was cool in those '60s TV shows where the guy has a bar in his office.

Not actually having a bar in my (not) office is more disappointing than not having a jet-pack or flying car....


beekaytee - Mar 01, 2011 8:27:04 am PST #25798 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

crazy as Charlie Sheen

This is totes the new 'flipping out like a mammal.'

Stay strong Sistah Steph. You can do it...or at least survive it.


Daisy Jane - Mar 01, 2011 8:27:20 am PST #25799 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

George Will on the Soul Train would be AWESOME.

No.

Did I ever tell y'all about the night my husband got high and told me, among other things, to "Get up and shake it to Soul Train"?


Steph L. - Mar 01, 2011 8:30:24 am PST #25800 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

crazy as Charlie Sheen

This is totes the new 'flipping out like a mammal.'

Tim hadn't really heard about the utter bizarreness of the stuff Charlie Sheen has been saying, so I went looking for quotes last night. When I told him the "tiger blood" one, Tim said, "Martin Sheen IS A TIGER?!?"


-t - Mar 01, 2011 8:31:30 am PST #25801 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Does shaking an iPad remind you of shaking an Etch-A-Sketch?

It really really does, yes.


Toddson - Mar 01, 2011 8:31:50 am PST #25802 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

heh ... someone posted an article about Charlie Sheen in the office kitchen - basically little bits and pieces. One - the last if you read it top to bottom, left to right - is a quote from John Stamos, the gist of which was that no, he wasn't replacing Charlie Sheen on the show, but that Martin Sheen had called and asked him to be his son.


§ ita § - Mar 01, 2011 8:32:45 am PST #25803 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My sister had been ignoring Charlie Sheen, so I gave her a brief primer. I love Skype, because I got to see the look on her face.

I did read that CBS will be paying the crew, which is good.

My father used to have a bar in his office. There are perks to the diplomatic corps, even third tier.


hippocampus - Mar 01, 2011 8:37:51 am PST #25804 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

where she's said things like "this is my fault. If I'd been a better mother, you'd be a better daughter."

Last year, my mom wrote an email that said something like "my one regret is not raising my daughter to listen to differing views in a fair and balanced manner." She wrote that email to my DH. And then followed with a list of other ways in which I'm disappointing to her.

Currently, a year later, things are much, muchmuchmuch worse and overflowing with added guilt. She's told my sister I've abandoned her, and that I haven't spoken to her in weeks. Despite speaking to me on the phone last week. She's playing some money games on the side, so something she offered to pay for, then decided to only half-pay for, we've decided we could finance ourselves with less stress and scrambling - plus we figured she needed the money for something else. So we just this morning got an email telling us how horrid I am for rebuffing their gift.

I am in the crazy aisle with Vortex. I hate it.

Sparky, before you ask, yes he's talking with recruiters out of state. Oh, and apparently my parents are planning a delightful elderhostel getaway with yours. Unless the crazy is overflowing there too.

  • ******

tons of job~ma for DH Amy.


Gudanov - Mar 01, 2011 8:45:26 am PST #25805 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Lots of job~ma Amy!