DH leaves tomorrow morning for a week away, so we are ordering in our favorite Thai food as a going-away dinner. Leftovers should last me a couple of days, so it's also a moar laziness dinner for me!
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
Scrappy - Apr 17, 2011 4:09:24 pm PDT #3736 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
shrift - Apr 17, 2011 4:10:49 pm PDT #3737 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
What is this wonderful-sounding concoction?
I use plain greek yogurt, minced garlic, and chopped cilantro if I have it fresh, although dried works as well. You can add a bit of lemon juice. It is an extremely simplified version of stuff like tzatziki and raita, I guess?
Strix - Apr 17, 2011 4:15:55 pm PDT #3738 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Erin, how did the meeting with HR go? Smoothly I hope?
Me, Erin? I can't remember which HR. The phone call for the Shmoop consult job went great.
The meeting with the school HR awhile ago was impersonal; basically, they just told me I'd gone two days over my PTO and would get those days deducted from my pay. Nothing else. They couldn't have cared less about anything else.
Whatevs, I'm fine with it. I can't see that I'll take any days off between now and then end of summer, unless I break a leg or have some serious illness and if that happens, they can fuck themselves. I'll work till the end of summer, do my best for my students -- after these novels and research papers are done this week and piles of papers graded over SB, I'm focusing on fun, easy to grade creative writing and reading, my seniors will have only two and a half weeks left anyway -- and then I can focus on freelancing.
Woo motherfucking hoo! I made two good contacts last night actually, at the show, so I am feeling more and more confident and excited about the freelancing thing. Things are percolating and bubbling and solidifying and it's great!
Consuela - Apr 17, 2011 4:16:13 pm PDT #3739 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The TV show with the strongest online fandom is no real surprise.
What surprises me is how highly Castle ranks. I mean, I really enjoy the show, and I've read a bit of fic for it (like Shrift's), but it doesn't take up a lot of electrons in my online haunts.
Where are all these frenzied Castle fans? Where are they generating all this fanfiction and whatnot?
This morning, I went running, and then climbing, and then had a big brunch, and walked for at least two miles all over the Marina. I'm exhausted. I really just want to go to bed, but I have all sorts of tv built up on my Tivo...
Dana - Apr 17, 2011 4:19:17 pm PDT #3740 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am always suspicious of fanfic/fandom surveys anyway.
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2011 4:21:26 pm PDT #3741 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where are all these frenzied Castle fans?
I know they're very active on TWOP. Nathan Fillion is ridiculously popular, and he has a lot of Browncoats watching the show. And we know what that means. His twitter is very popular.
I am always suspicious of fanfic/fandom surveys anyway.
They didn't ask me, so how valid can it be?
Consuela - Apr 17, 2011 4:24:22 pm PDT #3742 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am always suspicious of fanfic/fandom surveys anyway.
Yeah, me too. They always end up unbalanced by someone drumming up interest in "their" corner of fandom. There really isn't a way to get a true full-spectrum look at fandom, because it's in so many places, many of them password-protected.
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2011 4:28:30 pm PDT #3743 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They always end up unbalanced by someone drumming up interest in "their" corner of fandom.
And Supernatural fandom, as evidenced by its extreme poll-winningness lately, is totally down with that shit.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2011 4:38:26 pm PDT #3744 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm kind of surprised Glee didn't rank higher, but what do I know about fandom?
javachik - Apr 17, 2011 4:38:46 pm PDT #3745 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Me, Erin? I can't remember which HR. The phone call for the Shmoop consult job went great.
School HR. Glad it went well. Also, glad you're feeling confident about the freelancing!