I am suddenly consumed with the urge to leap from my desk, run down the hall, and pummel my Nemesis.
Unbelievable.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
Consuela - May 24, 2011 1:24:03 pm PDT #9478 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
megan walker - May 24, 2011 1:26:33 pm PDT #9479 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Also, it calls for either burgundy wine or another dry red--any recommendations other than burgundy? I don't drink red wine at all, so don't know anything about the different varieties.
Burgundy = pinot noir, but really almost any red that is not particularly sweet or fruit-heavy would do.
le nubian - May 24, 2011 1:30:54 pm PDT #9480 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am suddenly consumed with the urge to leap from my desk, run down the hall, and pummel my Nemesis.
Unbelievable.
I'm not sure what would be helpful. Should we provide encouragement, or prayers for your sanity?
Theresa - May 24, 2011 1:34:32 pm PDT #9481 of 30001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
I don't mean to keep spamming natter but it helps me when I'm nervous. First batch through Wichita and we are still here. Lots of more serious storms to our west and more to the south.
eta: Okay, I'm gonna make myself cowboy up and log off the computer (like you are supposed to do in a storm).
hippocampus - May 24, 2011 1:38:46 pm PDT #9482 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Sox, what's the news about my cousin? Tell me!
I am sworn to secrecy for a few days more, and until the parents know.
All ~ma to the Midwest.
Consuela, I wish you could pummel.
flea - May 24, 2011 1:38:59 pm PDT #9483 of 30001
information libertarian
Theresa, I completely understand. When they had tornado day in AL (due west of me) I was spamming Natter all night.
aurelia - May 24, 2011 1:40:46 pm PDT #9484 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I appreciate the updates, Theresa.
I'm watching the press conference from Joplin. NWS changed their rating of the Joplin tornado to an EF5 after determining that there were winds over 200 MPH.
Liese S. - May 24, 2011 1:41:17 pm PDT #9485 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, it's probably smart to be off the computer, but if you can't, we're totally here for you, Theresa.
Consuela - May 24, 2011 1:41:17 pm PDT #9486 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Should we provide encouragement, or prayers for your sanity?
Well, it would be supremely unhelpful for me to pummel her. She's in her 60s and is Never Going to Change. Her methodology is basically to take on as much work as she can, do only the parts that make her look good, not tell anyone (i.e., me) what she's doing, delete all evidence that she's not doing as much as she claims she is, never save anything onto the network, and hide the hard-copy files away where nobody can find them.
Oh, and then she'll send out the occasional email making me look like an idiot because I don't know something--because she didn't tell me what she was doing.
I feel like I'm trapped in an episode of Mad Men, where the only way to get ahead is to stab your coworkers in the back. Thankfully, she's the only one here like this, but I am required to have her do a bunch of my projects, and it's like pulling teeth to get updates on anything, or in fact to get her to do the work at all. I am in this horribly passive-aggressive spiral with her.
Ascend, already!, I want to say. But she already did retire, and then came back as a consultant, because her daughter is in college. Bah.
Theresa - May 24, 2011 1:41:22 pm PDT #9487 of 30001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
AL, and MO have just prepped me to be all crazy nervous.
I'm watching the press conference from Joplin. NWS changed their rating of the Joplin tornado to an EF5 after determining that there were winds over 200 MPH.
Previously they kept saying 198 MPH, and I was rolling my eyes. Really? You're not going to give them the 2 MPH to make it an F5? Evidently, they recorded it anyway.