Random Statement:
I am not pregnant. Were I pregnant and having a girl, however, I would already have ordered this onesie:
I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.
Cordelia ,'Showtime'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - Sep 25, 2011 7:36:13 pm PDT #28292 of 30001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Scrappy - Sep 25, 2011 7:44:05 pm PDT #28293 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Allyson, when I was teaching and we had evaluations at the end of the class, my DH used to dread it. I would ignore 20 glowing reviews and fixate on the one guy who didn't like me or the class or whatever. So, I can tell you not to sweat it, but I don't actually know how to tell you HOW, since I don't know myself.
Pix - Sep 25, 2011 7:46:46 pm PDT #28294 of 30001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Allyson, when I was teaching and we had evaluations at the end of the class, my DH used to dread it. I would ignore 20 glowing reviews and fixate on the one guy who didn't like me or the class or whatever. So, I can tell you not to sweat it, but I don't actually know how to tell you HOW, since I don't know myself.
What Scrappy said. I get evaluated by my students once per semester, and it’s always so difficult for me to focus on the bigger picture. I’m dreading getting department member evals this year.
Which is to say that I don’t have any answers, but I totally understand. Also, Tim is right.
Hayden - Sep 25, 2011 8:01:33 pm PDT #28295 of 30001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Yo Allyson, please feel free to check out the hatefest following my first Simpsons article on the AV Club. [link]
I thought about replying, but there's never a benefit to engaging people who can't parse a compound sentence.
Consuela - Sep 25, 2011 8:15:08 pm PDT #28296 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The very fact that they're bothering to say anything is actually a compliment, I think. IME, if I write so carefully that I cut off arguments and negate conflict, then nobody is engaged enough to respond to me.
Whereas if someone dislikes what I say so much that they go somewhere else and sink their teeth into me (or post right on my LJ), that's some indication that I got through. Whether they liked it or not.
And, speaking as an occasional critical reviewer, I have to admit that I'm like that, too. I'm far harsher on a book that I really enjoyed but that I found flawed than I would be on something that didn't hold my attention at all. I don't waste my time writing up comments on truly bad books: but flawed good books? Oh, yeah.
Allyson - Sep 25, 2011 8:24:54 pm PDT #28297 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
In the end, I don't take all the bad stuff to heart. If I did, I wouldn't keep writing. There is some good stuff in criticism. It just takes me awhile to sort through it, discard the crazy, and work on the shit that rings true.
Allyson - Sep 25, 2011 8:27:49 pm PDT #28298 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
Like, there's a review where the person is disgusted by my "potty mouth."
Well, I'm not the writer for this person. A) You used the term "potty mouth." We're not going to see eye-to-eye on a lot of stuff, and B) this is how I speak. I'm ok with it.
billytea - Sep 25, 2011 8:50:59 pm PDT #28299 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yo Allyson, please feel free to check out the hatefest following my first Simpsons article on the AV Club. [link]
I for one will give you kudos simply for the phrase "by the transitive property of television".
billytea - Sep 25, 2011 8:56:49 pm PDT #28300 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I am not pregnant. Were I pregnant and having a girl, however, I would already have ordered this onesie:
There's a onesie I've come across that would sadly no longer fit Ryan, with the caption "iPood".
Liese S. - Sep 25, 2011 8:57:17 pm PDT #28301 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha, Hayden, that's great. The comments (never read the comments!) mostly seem to say, "we're sorry you're smart."