They should put some of your muffins aside for you!
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2012 5:40:28 am PDT #10622 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Jun 21, 2012 5:46:20 am PDT #10623 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dinosaur Comics explains why superheroes should spend more time as scientists and less as crime fighters.
Ginger - Jun 21, 2012 5:53:22 am PDT #10624 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Dear student:
le nubian is really sorry that after all she's done for you, she's going to have vote against your dissertation and comment on the inadequacies of your presentation while imagining your head on a pike.
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2012 5:55:14 am PDT #10625 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't tell anyone I said this, but it seems that the new developer on my projects is effectively inept. I spend my days calling out things she doesn't know in front of people so that she's forced to learn them, because if I just suggest it to her, she doesn't do anything.
In about a month, I'm going to look really bad, because our projects will fail. And although she's the one doing stuff, I'm sure it will be my fault, because she's been here longer than I have. And I'm sure I'm supposed to project manage her brain.
Also my head hurts, and I can't think.
And this blueberry muffin is disgusting.
le nubian - Jun 21, 2012 6:07:16 am PDT #10626 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
bad muffin. bad!
(which is worst: imagining coworkers naked, or imagining their heads on pikes, or actually seeing them naked).
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2012 6:07:33 am PDT #10627 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So we're all just sitting here in silence. Incoming developer says she has "no idea" but refuses to ask questions of the outgoing developer. I explained that I can't ask the questions for her, but she's gone silent.
Maybe she hung up.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 21, 2012 6:10:47 am PDT #10628 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
le nubian- Is it every possible for a person to NOT pass their dissertation?
Last night and today I am peeling. This is very annoying.
Also, my cat stepped all over my keyboard the day before yesterday, and now my screen doesn't work!
Amy - Jun 21, 2012 6:11:04 am PDT #10629 of 30001
Because books.
Yikes, le nubian. She sounds like an awful person.
I explained that I can't ask the questions for her, but she's gone silent.
Is that like kids pretending if they can't see you, you can't see them?
le nubian - Jun 21, 2012 6:19:55 am PDT #10630 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yes. and this person did NOT pass the proposal defense some time ago. only student in my entire career who has not passed the proposal defense.
only.student.
we had to have a second meeting to get her proposal passed and 3 big drafts.
Kat - Jun 21, 2012 6:23:34 am PDT #10631 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh my. So she's basically lost her advocate, le nubian?
Packing continues apace. Grace has decided to help us. Which is ADORABLE and yet not so helpful. Yesterday she took one thing and put it in a box then stacked that box on top of all the other boxes. Lather rinse repeat.
Today, she wants to carry things out to the car. She's wearing her eye patch and her leg brace and she's not so steady on her feet. When you add in the responsibility to carry things? Forget it.