One of these years I'm just going to copy-paste from Bellwether and be done with it.
love this.
Ginger, I hope Kaiser fixes the scheduling issue for you fast, and then fixes it long term.
Crap Consuela, that sucks.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
hippocampus - Feb 24, 2012 11:40:46 am PST #23580 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Atropa - Feb 24, 2012 11:41:09 am PST #23581 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, I kinda don't get it. Is it a Beetlejuice thing?
Yep! "He calls himself a "freelance bio-exorcist", claims he can get rid of the living."
Steph L. - Feb 24, 2012 11:43:41 am PST #23582 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I don't mind chatty store folks. They have a thankless and mind-numbing job. If they are being genuinely friendly, that's cool. If they are being friendly because their overlords force them to, well, I usually say something like "You must get tired of saying the same thing to people all day." which often gets a genuine response.
I assume the Trader Joe's checkout people are supposed to make conversation, but it's always different, since they generally comment on stuff I'm buying, and *that's* always different. Plus, I like to talk about food, and they're so damn enthusiastic about it.
smonster - Feb 24, 2012 11:44:11 am PST #23583 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Meant to say, Consuela, I would so be ready to cut a bitch. If they hadn't taken my box cutter, too. I get antsy when other people use my hammer.
Okay, so now I've got a flip phone. No email. Excuse me for being a diva, but I effing hate texting on a flip phone. So annoyed right now. I know we're a nonprofit, I know we're hard up right now, but I would really, *really* love to know how many of the office peeps have Blackberries. Grrr.
-t - Feb 24, 2012 11:48:34 am PST #23584 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The clerks and baggers at Raley's have started asking me what I'm "doing today" as part of their conversation gambit, which I understand that's a natural chatty question to ask but it kind of flusters me because I'm generally not doing anything. I mean, I'm grocery shopping, but they know that.
Ginger - Feb 24, 2012 11:49:58 am PST #23585 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm okay chatting at check out, because I'm about to escape. I hate shopping, so my nerves are always on edge. I don't need talking.
Dana - Feb 24, 2012 12:00:29 pm PST #23586 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
"Doing anything exciting this weekend?" is crossing a line. You are not my friend. Go away.
Ugh, tech support people seem to be doing that with us lately. Just fix my internet, please. I do not want to chat with you about what the weather is like where I live.
Jesse - Feb 24, 2012 12:06:30 pm PST #23587 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh, Consuela!
I assume the Trader Joe's checkout people are supposed to make conversation, but it's always different, since they generally comment on stuff I'm buying, and *that's* always different. Plus, I like to talk about food, and they're so damn enthusiastic about it.
Yeah, at TJ's it always feels like they are taking the opportunity to make their own jobs less boring, not following corporate guidelines. Even if that is actually what they are doing!
I spent the morning with my parents, being taped for an Alzheimer's Association thing. I hope I look OK, but at least it's only for internal use. Although it occurs to me that I didn't sign a release of any kind, so... hmmm. Then I bought a coffee table, but it was late enough (and raining) that my mother didn't want to deliver it for me today. But someday! Someday I will have a new coffee table.
DavidS - Feb 24, 2012 12:11:42 pm PST #23588 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I generally chat with TJ people because (a) they always seem to welcome that they don't have to force the conversation and (b) I know they're instructed to be chatty.
So it's easier if I toss them a bone like "Why I love these pumpkin souffles so much."
Strix - Feb 24, 2012 12:15:44 pm PST #23589 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'm a talker. Big surprise. I try to read cues, though; I don't want to be rude. I'm just curious.
No one's punched me. Yet.
I finally added "Free-lance bio-exorcist" to my resume. I figure either people will get the reference and laugh, or they'll be confused and want me to explain it.
I am mad at you that I didn't get to put that on you res. I would have FRAMED that snippet!
OK. I am brain-dead. All I want to do it read a book, and go to Lowe's and get stuff to paint my hallway and start some seedlings, do some laundry and clean my office and file. I want to make some art collage thingies with some frames and mat and frame the art D got me for V Day.
And D got the new Resident Evil game with an AWESOME GUN AND KNIFE, and I want to kill some zombies.
Now, I know this doesn't perhaps SOUND relaxing, but it's what I WANT to do. And I have to finish a resume and cover letter, and perhaps work on another couple of things this weekend.
AND I DON WANNA.
Ok, I just needed to whine.