My cousin, who is in high school, if BFF with Bill Gates' daughter. That's my closest connection to serious wealth.
Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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.
Stephanie - Apr 22, 2011 1:01:37 am PDT #4653 of 30001
Trust my rage
Hil R. - Apr 22, 2011 2:04:01 am PDT #4654 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I went to nursery school with a boy who was heir to Sears Roebuck. He decided he was my boyfriend, but I didn't like him, because I thought he was bossy. I was two years old at the time, though.
Trudy Booth - Apr 22, 2011 2:23:05 am PDT #4655 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Your sister is probably STILL annoyed at you for letting him get away.
Strix - Apr 22, 2011 2:31:58 am PDT #4656 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Guys, there's been such shitty news lately that I thought I would share something pretty awesome!
My friend Shane is married to by BFF, Fran. He sent all her close girlfriends this message last night, and I woke up to it:
Hey ladies in the place I'm callin' out to ya
I wanted to start this message out right with a Beastie Boys lyric.
Frans B-Day is coming up and I wanted to get a party started. So I think she would love love love nothing more then to go hang out with all her best ladies friends. So this is a “save the date” if you will. Her birthday is on the Monday May 9th so Saturday May 7th would be a great day to hit the town.
Jude and I are a big handful and she does so much for both of us all the time so the best birthday present I can think of for her is a night to let loose away from the home. So it’s drinks and good times with her most wonderful of friends and a stay in a nice hotel for the evening. That’s the gift to her I can offer but the frosting and ice cream and cheesecake and lavender custard and big bunches of really kickass pie with the awesome flakey crust can only be provided to her by you wonderful gals, her most closest and badass of friends. So let me know if you can make it and thanks for reading my cheesy email.
Also I haven’t mentioned this to her yet so don’t let the cat out of bag. I think this weekend I will chat with her about it.
Cause I announce I like girls that bounce With the weight that pays about a pound per ounce Girls with curls and big long locks And beatnik chicks just wearing their smocks
I started with the Beastie lyrics so I thought I should end with the same.
I am SO SO lucky to have awesome friends, IRL and OL.
(Also, Spring Break starts for me -- FINALLY! -- at 4 pm. Woo to the motherfuckin' HOO.)
Jesse - Apr 22, 2011 3:00:28 am PDT #4657 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's sweet, Erin.
If I were that rich, I suspect there would be a way to live forever, like getting your head implanted on a robot body.
Yeah, I pick this one over exercizing, for sure.
Yeah, mine too. The people I've actually known who I thought were rich were just people who went to private school and summered on the Vinyard. Which is wealthy, but not super-rich, I suspect. I mean, they still needed to work.
I would like us all to remember that those people are STILL RICH! This kind of thinking is what makes multi-millionaires feel middle class. Those people described above are way richer than me, and I'm pretty fucking rich, compared to people in general. Just putting that out there.
brenda m - Apr 22, 2011 3:07:40 am PDT #4658 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
Oh good lord. Story here this morning is about a police standoff with a guy barricaded inside his house, with tons of police and the neighborhood basically shut down for hours while they negotiated with him.
Except it turns out the dude was at a bar talking to them on his cell phone and not in the house at all.
Nicely done, guys.
Jessica - Apr 22, 2011 3:34:50 am PDT #4659 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
How long does a cover letter need to be if I'm applying internally but for a different department? (It's a department adjacent to mine so I know the guy who I'd be working for, and it feels awkward to write three paragraphs of "this is who I am and what I'm good at" when we've been working semi-together for over a year.)
brenda m - Apr 22, 2011 3:46:30 am PDT #4660 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
What's the link for the alternate site? It looks like I'm now blocked from here at work via the regular channel. Hopefully I can get in through the backdoor; otherwise I'll just have to suck it up and be more productive. Do not want!
brenda m - Apr 22, 2011 3:47:21 am PDT #4661 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
Jessica, I would probably make it shorter and less formal, but even if he knows you he may not really have an idea of your background or where your interests lie.
Jesse - Apr 22, 2011 3:59:56 am PDT #4662 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I basically write any letter the same way -- a sentence or two about why I'm writing, a paragraph with the meat, a couple of sentence wrap-up. The middle paragraph varies in length depending on how much I have to say. You probably don't have to go line-by-line through your resume or the job description, but hit some highlights.
There's apparently some kind of con here this weekend -- I saw several people in various costumes...