Husband is talking to his parents, and apparently his mother doesn't think he needs to come to the funeral. His family is very different than mine.
But they both agree that the timing would be bad, with the layoffs.
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
'Potential'
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.
Dana - Jun 21, 2012 4:45:14 pm PDT #10736 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ginger - Jun 21, 2012 4:49:57 pm PDT #10737 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm sorry, Dana. I can't imagine why they'd think it was a good idea to tell a department that small that one would be let go. Did they expect the four to arm wrestle for it or something?
Connie Neil - Jun 21, 2012 4:51:53 pm PDT #10738 of 30001
brillig
Thunderdome.
Liese S. - Jun 21, 2012 4:54:23 pm PDT #10739 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, no, Dana.
I would still go, layoffs be damned, but that's my family.
Sheryl - Jun 21, 2012 4:57:17 pm PDT #10740 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
I'm sorry, Dana.
Dana - Jun 21, 2012 4:59:43 pm PDT #10741 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I would go too, and have choice words for anyone who suggested I shouldn't go, but it's his family, so.
Atropa - Jun 21, 2012 5:00:43 pm PDT #10742 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Dana, I am so sorry.
OMG, my Batman leather jacket arrived.
I cannot WAIT to see pictures of you in it. Eeee!
Goals? I actually do have them, am working toward them, and simultaneously feel like OMG THIS IS HAAAARD and OMG I AM A SLACKER AND NOT PUTTING ENOUGH EFFORT INTO THIS, TRY HARDER.
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2012 5:00:54 pm PDT #10743 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Have you defeated Laurence Fishburne yet?
I know kung fu?
Liese S. - Jun 21, 2012 5:02:30 pm PDT #10744 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
but it's his family, so
Yeah, exactly. This is so totally up to him and them.
Steph L. - Jun 21, 2012 5:12:36 pm PDT #10745 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dana, what a sad clusterfuck. I'm so sorry.
Hey, did you hear about this copy editor who died a millionaire? [link]
My hero!