Legal question: We got a contract that said something about "24 hours." We changed it to "24 business hours." That means three days instead of one, right?
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Jesse - Jun 20, 2011 9:23:13 am PDT #13366 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Jun 20, 2011 9:24:38 am PDT #13367 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like my MBA should have prepared me for this issue. Maybe it did and I forgot.
Eta: ita's chocolate expectations, not Jesse's ambiguous time
Jessica - Jun 20, 2011 9:25:33 am PDT #13368 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
How can there be 3000 kids in the 99th percentile and only 200 slots? Maybe they need to change their percentiles...
What we need is higher property taxes so the city can afford to open more schools. I guess they could make the tests harder so fewer kids qualify, but that doesn't really solve the root problem, which is overcrowding.
Jesse - Jun 20, 2011 9:25:39 am PDT #13369 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's not really my problem, but I realized that my coworker and I were assuming it meant different things.
le nubian - Jun 20, 2011 9:25:54 am PDT #13370 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
In grad school, I met a grad student in a different department who seemed like a really charming man. When we had dinner out, he revealed to me that he thought his soulmate was his best friend's sister who was 7 years when they met (I think he met her when he was 15 or 18 so there was a 10-12 year age difference. He said he was planning to wait for her, let her grow up and experience the world, but he always thought they would end up married.
I was so creeped out by that that I never wanted to speak to him again.
Jesse - Jun 20, 2011 9:26:24 am PDT #13371 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Eta: ita's chocolate expectations, not Jesse's ambiguous time
Hee! I thought you meant mine!
Steph L. - Jun 20, 2011 9:27:41 am PDT #13372 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
he thought his soulmate was his best friend's sister who was 7 years when they met (I think he met her when he was 15 or 18 so there was a 10-12 year age difference. He said he was planning to wait for her, let her grow up and experience the world, but he always thought they would end up married.
Isn't that part of the plot of the last sparkly vampire book? Like, the werewolf falls in love with the newborn vampire? (That last question is one of the weirdest ones I've ever asked.)
tommyrot - Jun 20, 2011 9:30:13 am PDT #13373 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.
he thought his soulmate was his best friend's sister who was 7 years when they met
Yuck.
I just hate the whole idea of soulmates. I mean, the version where there's one person in the whole world for you. I think that idea can really fuck someone up.
meara - Jun 20, 2011 9:30:35 am PDT #13374 of 30001
I think an MBA should prepare you for the time question, not the chocolate question!
That said, yes, I would think 24 business hours would be 3 days. Or something. If you mean one day, you might say "next business day" or "one business day". The reports I have to write when I do travel are due by the 5th business day (except this new project they're due by the 7th calendar day. Which is usually the same, but not always--doesn't include holidays)
tommyrot - Jun 20, 2011 9:30:52 am PDT #13375 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.
(That last question is one of the weirdest ones I've ever asked.)
Heh. I suspect you've asked even weirder questions about Batman....