ita, who are you facing? Why do you guys need to dress up? I thought your customers were internal.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
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.
bon bon - Mar 16, 2012 7:09:47 am PDT #26779 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Ginger - Mar 16, 2012 7:15:14 am PDT #26780 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I need to be able to sit down for several hours and think without bullshit.
How can I make this happen?
Get stuck in an elevator? Hide in the stairwell? Drive to an industrial park or other unlikely destination at lunch and then call in with car trouble?
Zenkitty - Mar 16, 2012 7:20:13 am PDT #26781 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
le nubian, I have a spare bedroom in a quiet neighborhood! You could hide here. No one will ever find you.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2012 7:25:00 am PDT #26782 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sometimes when we have prospective "people" in from the field, bon, we dress up to impress them.
I have *no* idea why IT should dress up in this dog and pony show, since the guy in charge of all this is pretty convinced the outsiders never come to our floor. Said so to our faces a couple weeks ago. But the CIO says jump, we say "which tie?"
there are a ton of things I think look silly on me
There are very few things I care will look silly on me in particular, that I therefore avoid. There are things I think look silly in general, and no one should wear, and things I don't trust myself to be able to coordinate on my own, so I don't leave myself up to my own devices.
msbelle - Mar 16, 2012 7:31:03 am PDT #26783 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
hats? tons of you crazy people think you look silly/bad in hats and YOU DO NOT!
sarameg - Mar 16, 2012 7:45:49 am PDT #26784 of 30001
Working from home (went in to work, had to come meet the contractor, decided to stay home.) Cats are convinced I should be napping, not working.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2012 7:48:09 am PDT #26785 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I recently transitioned to a "Fuck you! I want a hat!" and even my sister's public denigration ain't gonna make me feel bad about it.
Allyson - Mar 16, 2012 7:49:35 am PDT #26786 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
I have been living under a rock and knew absolutely nothing at all about the Hunger Games. Zero.
I love dystopian stories, and I hear this is one, so I think I shall read it. Is there any sort of general Buffistas consensus on the quality of the stories? Are they broccoli books, broccoli with cheese sauce books, or cheetos?
Jesse - Mar 16, 2012 7:54:28 am PDT #26787 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Uh, broccoli with cheese? Heavy on the cheese. And salty, salty tears.
Protip: Make sure you have the third book on hand when you start reading the second one.
Steph L. - Mar 16, 2012 7:55:00 am PDT #26788 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The writing could be better (notably world-building), but the story is really compelling. In the last book the author beats the readers in the face with an anvil to make sure we get The Big Important Message of the story, but still -- really compelling.
Also Minear-esque in that my reaction, often was "Holy shit, I thought I knew pain, but this is a whole new undiscovered level of pain WTF?!?"