What will you spend it on - any wish list items coming true now?
A REAL vacation!
Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you.
Buffy ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Zenkitty - Mar 17, 2011 9:22:54 am PDT #28865 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
javachik - Mar 17, 2011 9:28:10 am PDT #28866 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Sweet!!
Beverly - Mar 17, 2011 9:35:26 am PDT #28867 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
ita, I'm so glad you got a diagnosis and pain meds that work, and that you're getting help on the grocery front (thanks, Burrell!). Clear soups are good for uneasy tummy, but the colder popsicles, sorbets, applesauce things are more appealing when I have urghy tum. Bananas, and then things like rice, rice in broth. I hope reaquiring actual food goes well and smoothly for you.
WooHoo, Zen! That goes a little way toward compensating you for all the nonsense your job causes.
I know we need worst-case scenarios for contingency planning. But I do wish it wasn't what sells news.
brenda m - Mar 17, 2011 9:39:29 am PDT #28868 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That's awesome, Zen!
We just got word that my company has donated $1.25 million (100 million yen) to the Japanese Red Cross. Nice.
Sue - Mar 17, 2011 9:44:38 am PDT #28869 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Nathan Fillion is on the cover of EW: [link]
Liese S. - Mar 17, 2011 9:45:07 am PDT #28870 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
SYTYCD is online, generally, not legally and not in the context of the whole show, but still.
Sparky1 - Mar 17, 2011 9:59:58 am PDT #28871 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Yay, Zen!
I just got an email from a librarian who works in DC with the same title as I have. She's apparently about to go into salary/job description negotiations and would like me to give her my job description and my salary (or a ballpark figure).
Now, normally, I am all for revealing this kind of information and happy to help another librarian.
However, way back when, this person and I worked in the same library and there's no hint that she remembers me at all. Worse (for her chances of getting me to answer that email) her appearance at my old work place also meant that the big boss gave my office to her and my job, and changed my title and stuck me in a cubicle. (And then I quit and left for Berkeley which pissed off the old big boss because she tried so hard to sabotage my job search.)
I am so tempted to send her a fake job description and tell her I make half of what I do. eta: And cc it to her boss and the dean of her school, of course.
Polter-Cow - Mar 17, 2011 10:03:29 am PDT #28872 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
ita, at least you have a diagnosis, but ergh. You punch that liver infection in the face.
Zen, that's great! Enjoy your REAL vacation!
brenda m - Mar 17, 2011 10:03:56 am PDT #28873 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
If it didn't mean taking an implied hit at yourself, I'd bes sure to start the letter with "Wow! Based on when I saw you last I'd have thought you'd be so much farther in your career by now! And here we are at the same level again. Huh." Then tell her you make three times what you do so she gets laughed out of the office.
Amy - Mar 17, 2011 10:05:42 am PDT #28874 of 30001
Because books.
What brenda said, Sparky.